Rosalie Gardiner Jones

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Jones, with fellow suffragettes Jessie Stubbs and Ida Craft, circa 1912-1913
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Jones, circa 1910-1915

Rosalie Gardiner Jones (February 24, 1883 - February 1978) was an Oyster Bay socialite and suffragist known as "General Jones".[1] She took part in the 1913 Suffrage Hike.[2]

Biography

Jones was born in 1883 to Mary and Oliver Livingston Jones. She graduated from Adelphi College, then a women's school in Brooklyn, and later graduated from Brooklyn Law School.[1] Jones married Washington Senator Clarence Dill, who sought a divorce from her in 1936; Dill claimed that Jones told his friends that he was "a political coward" for not seeking re-election in 1934, and that she buried dogs and garbage in the backyard.[3]

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References

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  3. Time, "Milestones," April 13, 1936