United States. In 1889, she won the right for women to attend West Virginia's state colleges and universities. She was active in many organizations, including the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association, the State Medical Association, the Ohio County Medical Society, The American Medical Association, the League of Women Voters, and the West Virginia chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,. Women's suffrage was very important to Jones, and she was very involved in encouraging women to vote. She was heavily involved in the League of Women Voters. She was the only woman from West Virginia to be honored on a commemorative tablet by the League of Women Voters. The tablet was meant to honor the leaders of the movement, and was established in 1930 in Washington, D.C. Jones was also a successful lobbyist. She also held an interest in improving the lives of delinquent girls, and lobbied to establish state legislature that would establish a school for them. This lobbying process took six years. In 1897, she finally won this battle, and The West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls was established in Salem, West Virginia 1899. She remained on the board of this institution for 12 years. As secretary of the West Virginia Anti-Tuberculosis League, Jones also gave lectures on tuberculosis to thousands throughout West Virginia, advocated for better knowledge of the disease. Jones also entered the field of politics, once the right to vote was established in 1920. She became the first woman to serve in the West Virginia House of Delegates. (Incorrect, check source, Anna Johnson Gates was the first woman in the state government.) She was elected as a Republican, representing Marshall County. She went on to be re-elected, and served a second term. Works Registration, Primary, and General Election Law. Facts that Every Intelligent Voter Should Know About the Government of West Virginia The Health Laws of West Virginia The Prevalence of Tuberculosis and the Danger of Infection Introductory Parliamentary Law References 1856 births 1943 deaths American women's rights activists Physicians from West Virginia Republican Party members of the West Virginia House of Delegates Homelessness activists Activists from West Virginia 20th-century American politicians People from Ebensburg, Pennsylvania People from Preston County, West Virginia Politicians from Wheeling, West Virginia West Virginia suffrage