Women / Persons ~ P24520
Verina Morton Jones
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Alternate Names:
- Verina H. Morton Jones
- Verina Harris Morton Jones
- Verina H. Morton M.D.
Gender: Female
Life Dates: 28 January 1865 - 3 February 1943
Types:
- Activist
- Activist, Civil Rights
- American, African
- American (US)
- Educational founder, schoolmistress
- Medicine, doctor
- Member of committee or club
- Suffragette
- Widow
Note: Born Cleveland, Ohio, died Brooklyn, New York. First woman who was licensed to practice medicine in Mississippi. Co-founder of Lincoln Settlement House in NYC. Elected to the board of the NAACP. Remarried after her first husband died.