![]() The rich and the well-to-do fled the city. Its victims were mainly among the poor and the workers. My husband was an iron moulder and a member of the Iron Moulders’ Union. However, I went back to teaching again, this time in Memphis, Tennessee. I preferred sewing to bossing little children. Later, I came to Chicago and opened a dress-making establishment. ![]() My first position was teaching in a convent in Monroe, Michigan. ![]() Of that citizenship I have ever been proud.Īfter finishing the common schools, I attended the Normal school with the intention of becoming a teacher. Here I was brought up but always as the child of an American citizen. His work as a laborer with railway construction crews took him to Toronto, Canada. My father, Richard Harris, came to America in 1835, and as soon as he had become an American citizen he sent for his family. Many of my folks have died in that struggle. ![]() For generations they had fought for Ireland’s freedom. I was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, in 1830. The Autobiography of Mother Jones Chapter I – Early Years ![]()
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