Amanda Theodosia Jones | |
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| Born | October 19, 1835 East Bloomfield, New York, US |
| Died | March 31, 1914 (aged 78) Brooklyn, New York, US |
| Resting place | Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, US |
| Nationality | American |
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Amanda Theodosia Jones (October 19, 1835 – March 31, 1914) was an American author and inventor, most noted for inventing a vacuum method of canning called the Jones Process.
Jones was descended from Puritan, Huguenot, Quaker and Methodist ancestors. Her forefathers were among the patriots of the American Revolution. She wrote a number of war poems during the Civil War. These were published, with others, in book form. Ill health for a number of years made it impossible for her to keep up her literary work. Some of her poems appeared in Scribner's Magazine while others were published in the Century, Our Continent, and other journals. She published a volume of verse entitled A Prairie Idyl and Other Poems. She made her home in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "Amanda T. Jones". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. pp. 424–.