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JONES, Louise Caldwell (Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones), 222 Madison Av., N.Y. City. Born Buffalo, N.Y.; dau. Stephen Dickman and Mary (Bassett) Caldwell; ed. in Europe; m. St. Thomas' Church, N.Y. City, Feb. 2, 1882, Gilbert E. Jones (son of George Jones, founder N.Y. Times); children: George, Gilbert E. Jr. Inter- ested in religious, social, philanthropic, educa- tional and musical activities. Founder and pres. the National League for the Civic Education of Women; active speaker and writer against woman suffrage. Author of two-act plays: Isola (drama); The Weaker Sex (comedy); also of short pamphlets: Taxation Without Representa- tion; Woman Suffrage and the Wage Earner; Defeats of Woman Suffrage; Government and Woman Suffrage. Mem. N.Y. State Federation and N.Y. City Federation of Women's Clubs, Colony, Barnard and 20th Century Clubs of N.Y. City. Episcopalian. Recreation: European travel.

JONES, Mabel Cronise (Mrs. Thomas Mac Dowell Jones), 105 Locust St., Harrisburg, Pa. Writer; b. June 18, 1860; dau. Charles and Martha Maria (Lyttle) Cronise; ed. high school, Toledo, Ohio (valedictorian), highest grades; Lake Erie Coll. (Painesville, Ohio); m. Toledo, Ohio, June 4, 1890, Thomas MacDowell Jones; one daughter: Dorothea, b. June 2, 1892. Officer in the Civic Club; served on the State World's Fair Board; only woman regularly appointed on that board. Regent of U.S. Daughters of 1812; mem. D.A.R. and Colonial Dames. Interested in Sunday-school and church work, etc. Favors woman suffrage; pres. Central Pa. Woman Suf- frage Ass'n; active in press suffrage work and on State Legislative Com. Author: Dolly's Col- lege Experiences; Acheah; Six of Them; In Days of Old; Gettysburg; also stories and special arti- cles in Smart Set, Argosy, Delineator, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazar and Leslie's Weekly, at different times; editor for two years of children's page of Philadelphia Record, Pittsburgh Gazette, Pittsburgh Times, and special articles for news- papers everywhere. Presbyterian. Mem. Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Associated Charities, Home and Foreign Missionary Socie- ties, U.S. Daughters of 1812, D.A.R., Colonial Dames, Hospital Aid, etc. Mem. Wednesday Club (musical), Civic Club. In 1891 had a legis- lative correspondent's desk at the extra session of the Pa. Senate and did the legislative work for N.Y. City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other papers-the only woman in the State who ever did such work. Evolved a system for edu- cation of her daughter by which, though always in -perfect health, the child could read any news- paper or ordinary book when she was three years old, entered Dickinson College at 13, grad- uated from Univ. of Mich. when just 17 (June, 1909) with A.B. degree and A.M. the next year.

JONES, Marian Hastings, 722 Asylum Av., Hartford, Conn. Congregational minister; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. 97; student of pedagogy, N.Y. Univ., 1898- 99. Teacher girls' boarding school, Ossining-on- Hudson, N.Y., 1898-1900; private school, Hartford, Conn., 1900-02; lady principal, 1902-04; mission- ary in N.Y. City, 1904-09; pastor Staffordville Congregational Church since 1910. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnæ Ass'n'.

JONES, Mary Elizabeth, 8 James St., Boston, Mass. Physician; b. Boston; ed. in Boston schools and Vassar Coll., A.B. '82, A.M. '88; medical student in Woman's Med. School, Philadelphia, 1885-88, and Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, 1889-90, M.D. '90; student in European hospitals, 1890-92. Since 1892 engaged in practice of medicine in Boston.

JONES, Mary Lee Bufkin (Mrs. Wilmot Rufus Jones), Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Mass. Born Illinois; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '90; stu- dent of English literature, Univ. of Chicago, '95; m. Oct. 9, 1900, Wilmot Rufus Jones; one son: Wilmot Rufus Jr., b. May 5, 1902. Teacher of English and Latin, Aurora (Ill.) High School, 1890-91; English history, Lyons Township High School, La Grange, Ill., 1891-93, 1894-95; prof. English literature, Milwaukee-Downer Coll.. Collegiate Alumnæ, Smith Coll. Alumnæ Ass'n. 1895-1900. Mem. Nat. Educational Ass'n, Ass'n

JONES, Mary Noyes Tyler (Mrs. Frederick Hall Jones), 71 Central St., Andover, Mass. Born Haddam, Conn., July 6, 1868; dau. Alpheus W. and Melissa (Usher) Tyler; ed. Hart- ford (Conn.) public school, 1885, Wellesley Coll., A.B. '90; mem. Tau Zeta Epsilon; m. Haddam, Conn., June 22, 1893, Frederick Hall Jones. In- terested in church work and social settlement work. Against woman suffrage. Congregation- alist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ, Col- lege Settlement Ass'n. Mem. November Club, Andover, Mass.; Boston Wellesley Club, College Club, Boston, Mass.

JONES, Maude Emily, Congress Hotel, and 5748 Calumet Av., Chicago. Good roads advocate; b. Sanford, Me., Aug. 28, 1884; dau. H. W. and Frances May (Roberts) Jones; ed. Alfred, Me.; Boston, Mass. Active in Good Roads Movement since 1909; elected sec. IH. State Good Roads Ass'n, 1911; Nat. Good Roads Ass'n, 1911; reëlected 1912; sec. Inter- national Good Roads and Automobile Ass'n, 1912; sec. International Longfellow Soc., 1912. Assistant sec. Fourth International Good Roads Congress, Chicago, Sept. 18 to Oct. 1, 1911; sec. First Ill. State Women's Good Roads Conven- tion, Chicago, April 3-4, 1913; sec. Fifth Nat. Good Roads Congress, New Orleans, May 12, 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Baptist.

JONES, May Florence Van Akin (Mrs. Egbert Arthur Jones), 3231 Blaiddell Av., Minne- apolis, Minn. Musician, State commander Ladies of the Maccabees, etc.; b. Kildare, Wis., Feb. 26, 1866; dau. William B. and Mary Elizabeth (Dunning) Van Akin; ed. high school, Sparta, Wis.; studied piano music with Prof. Gustavus Johnson, Min- neapolis, Minn.; Prof. H. S. Woodruff on pipe organ, Prof. Warren Andrews on pipe organ; m. in Wis., Mar. 1, 1883, Egbert Arthur Jones (died Minneapolis, Minn., Mar. 28, 1908. Church or- ganist First Congregational Church, Sparta, Wis., 1893-99; Lyndale Congregational Church, Min- neapolis, Minn., 1899-1904; Wesley M.E. Church, Minneapolis, Minn., 1905; Lyndale Church, 1906- 09; appointed State commander Ladies of the Maccabees of the World, July 1, 1909. Interested in women's study clubs and fraternal work. Favors woman suffrage. Recites German dialect and writes own selections. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. D.A.R., Woman's Relief Corps, Order Eastern Star, Order Amaranth, Daughters of Rebekah, Royal Ladies, Women's Auxillary of the Railway Mail Ass'n, Twin City Commanders' Ass'n, Ladies of the Maccabees of the World, Knights and Ladies of Security. Recreations: Drama, reading, study. Mem. Thursday Study Club, Tuesday Club (study), Twin City Commanders' Club (parliamentary law), Minneapolis Women's Auxiliary of Railway Mall Ass'n. Has been three times pres. of Thursday Club, once Tuesday Club; sec. and treas. of D.A.R. and chairman of Program Com.; three times delegate to State Fed. of Women's Clubs; Nat. pres. of Women's Auxiliary Railway Mail Ass'n; promoting State organizations of women's fraternities in Minnesota, and at present in charge of work in State of Maine, with head- quarters at Falmouth Hotel, Portland, Me.

JONES, May L. (Mrs. A. F. Jones), 1218 Mont- gomery St., Oroville, Cal. Born Marysville, Cal.; dau. O. M. and Jane H. (Baldwin) Evans; ed. San José State Normal School; m. Oakland, Cal., Dec. 21, 1881, Hon. A. F. Jones; children: George Foster Irving (de- ceased), Grace G., Leslee. Mem. the Monday Club of Oroville, Cal. Republican.

JONES, Mollie E. J. (Mrs. Elijah P. Jones), 313 E. Sandusky St., Findlay, O. Born Piqua, O., Oct. 31, 1830; dau. John Shaw and Margaret (Bercaw) Johnston; ed. Ohio Wes- leyan Univ. (regular collegiate course, also mu- sic, vocal and instrumental); mem. Coll. Vocal Soc.; m. Piqua, O., Jan. 15, 1863, Elijah P. Jones; children: Cornelia, Gertrude, George P. Always active in everything pertaining to town where living, and to the advancement of women in par-