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Mary Harris was born on the North side of Cork to Roman Catholic parents Richard and Ellen Harris.

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Mary Harris and her family fled Ireland during the Great Famine.

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Mary Harris moved to Canada, where they were discriminated against because of their immigrant status and their Catholic faith. She got her education from the Toronto Normal School.

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Mary Harris became a school teacher at a convent in Michigan where She was paid 8 dollars a month.

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Mary Harris married George E. Jones and became Mary Harris Jones. George E. Jones was a member of the National Union of Iron Moulders.

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Mary Harris Jones's 4 children and husband died of yellow fever.

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Mary Harris Jones lost her shop, home, and all of her possessions in the Great Chicago Fire. She later helped rebuild the city. She then joined the Knights of Labor.

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The Haymarket Affair of 1886 decimated the Knights of Labor when an unknown man threw an incendiary device into an altercation between some workers on strike and the police. Mary Harris Jones then became affiliated with the United Mine Workers.

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Mary Harris Jones gets her nickname "Mother" Jones by claiming to be older than she was.

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Pennsylvania silk mill workers go on strike (Many of which were young women wanting adult wages.) Mary Harris "Mother" Jones believed that these young women were being robbed by the rich.

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Marry Harris Jones is labeled "The most dangerous woman in america" during her trial for ignoring a law that banned meetings by strikers. Reese Blizzard is the man who gave her this nickname when she walked into the court room and he said "There sits the most dangerous woman in America," he announced, "She comes into a state where peace and prosperity reign ...Crooks her finger, twenty thousand contented men lay down their tools and walk out."

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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones led the Children's Crusade where they walked from  Kensington, Philadelphia to Oyster bay, New York with banners that stated "We want to go to school and not the mines!"

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Mary Harris Jones arrives during the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in West Virginia, speaking and organizing even though a shooting war between the Union Mine Workers and the private army of the mine owners.

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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones is arrested and brought before a military court where she is tried for conspiring for murder. She was sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary. She was released 85 days later.

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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones helps organize coal miners in Colorado. They go on strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado fuel and Iron Company. She was again arrested.