SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mary Harris Jones

1837 - 1930

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Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the Labor unionist trade union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Harris Jones has received more than 930,076 page views. Her biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Mary Harris Jones is the 412th most popular social activist (down from 373rd in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Ireland (down from 150th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Social Activist.

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  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mary Harris Jones ranks 412 out of 840. Before her are Mathew Brady, Borys Romanchenko, Louise Bryant, Yagan, Muthulakshmi Reddy, and Miroslav Tyrš. After her are Mahmoud Taleghani, Shireen Abu Akleh, Mary Edwards Walker, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Mary Dyer, and Samantha Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Mary Harris Jones ranks 79. Before her are Ignatz Kolisch, Francis Marrash, Wilhelm Kühne, Jorge Isaacs, Charles Yerkes, and Tigran Chukhajian. After her are Elizabeth Jane Gardner, Wilhelm Lexis, Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar, Alphonse Legros, Paul Gordan, and Artur Grottger. Among people deceased in 1930, Mary Harris Jones ranks 83. Before her are Alexander Bogomazov, Herbert Hall Turner, Glenn Curtiss, Joseph Achille Le Bel, Valeriano Weyler, and Anna Lea Merritt. After her are Enrico Forlanini, Albert von Le Coq, Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Prosper-René Blondlot, Max Valier, and Aleksandr Golovin.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Mary Harris Jones ranks 161 out of 549. Before her are Ronnie Drew (1934), Edward Sabine (1788), Herbert Brenon (1880), William Orpen (1878), John de Robeck (1862), and George Browne (1698). After her are John Ellis (1710), Dorothea Jordan (1761), Veronica Guerin (1958), George Allman (1812), Ronan Keating (1977), and Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ireland

Among social activists born in Ireland, Mary Harris Jones ranks 2. Before her are William Howard Russell (1820). After her are Wolfe Tone (1763), Eoin O'Duffy (1890), Robert Emmet (1778), and William Smith O'Brien (1803).

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