HARRIET B. JONES
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National Votes for Women Trail
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- 79 S River Ave, Weston, WV 26452, USA
- 39.03768, -80.470362
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National Collaborative for Women's History Sites
HARRIET B. JONES
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HARRIET B. JONESASST. SUPERINTENDENT OF
THIS ASYLUM 1887-1892.
ACTIVE IN STATE ORGANIZATIONS,
ADVOCATED FOR WOMEN’S
SUFFRAGE 1896-1920.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021
Harriet B. Jones grew up in Terra Alta, West Virginia. She pursued a medical degree at the Women’s Medical College of Baltimore, graduating in 1884. In 1886, she opened a medical office in Wheeling making her the first licensed female physician in West Virginia. In 1888 she left private practice to be the assistant superintendent of the West Virginia State Hospital in Weston, a state-of-the-art mental institution promoting humane treatment for the insane. She returned to Wheeling in 1892 where she established a hospital specifically for women that operated for the next twenty years. Dr. Jones was also a fierce and indefatigable advocate for women’s suffrage. For more than 30 years she was an outspoken leader of the West Virginia suffrage movement eventually serving as President of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1906.
