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Show ertr' 1 In the fsre bf violent prejudice wis ! brctijfht Sbout by her. I" Mrs. Jones hal the Bern-mal frlenMp Of many fiotable figures of tha last century. It la raiS to have been partly btnon of her ap- 1 peaia that Gen. Grant wrote hit memoir. , HDS. 'JONES IS ; DEAD III CHICAGO Pioneer Women, of the AVmCy City Dies After Useful Career. . i tlUCAOO, bee. i.-Mn. Fernanda Jones, A Chicago pioneer, filed last night at thi family residence. Death was caused by heart fallorc, induced by Jaundice. Mr. Jones (Jans Graharae) was bom la Dfablln. Ireland. In 1835. a member of the 8cotch-Ir!afi branch of the Grahams family, which l)ad as its chief James Graham, DukS of Montrese. lilJW she was married to Fer-t Fer-t Sndo Jones of Cntcaco. For more than fifty years Mrs". Jones was actively Identified with profcressirs movements for the city. She was the founder of the Twentieth Century club, and the establishment establish-ment of the Women's an8 Children's hospital more than a generation ago was due partly to her efforts. The passage of the woman' prop-" |