![]() ![]() In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed her city and her business. Mother Jones moved to Chicago and started a successful dressmaking business in which she made dresses for the wives and daughters of some of the richest men in Chicago. George and all four of their children died in the outbreak. ![]() They had four children before a yellow fever epidemic raged through the city in 1867. Mother Jones came to the United States and taught school for a few years in Monroe, Michigan during a time when immigration numbers were growing dramatically and sweatshop conditions, crowded housing, and the absence of child labor laws made life hard for working families.Īfter moving to Memphis for a new teaching position, she met and married a skilled laborer and union activist, George Jones, in 1860. Her family left during the days of the Great Hunger, known as the Potato Famine of the 1850s. Mary Harris “Mother Jones'' was born to Roman Catholic parents in Cork, Ireland in 1837. Written by Joann Condellone, Vice President of the Friends of the Mother Jones Museum ![]()
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