Who was this Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who helped coordinate major strikes and was detained in Mother Jones' Prison?
Mother Jones' Prison Mother Jones' Prison, also known as Mrs. Carney's Boarding House, was a National Historic Landmark located at Pratt, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was a large two-story structure constructed by the Willis Brothers and used mostly as a boarding house. It was the "prison" in which labor organizer and agitator Mary Harris "Mother Jones" was detained during the 1912–1913 mine wars.
Mary E.L. Butler Mary E. L. Butler (1874-1920) (Irish: Máire de Buitléir ) was an Irish writer and Irish-language activist.