Jones, Amanda Theodosia (1835–1914)

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Jones, Amanda Theodosia (1835–1914)

American author and inventor. Born Oct 19, 1835, in East Bloomfield, NY; died of influenza, Mar 31, 1914, in Brooklyn, NY (some sources cite Junction City, Kansas); dau. of Henry Jones (master weaver) and Mary Alma (Mott) Jones; attended East Aurora Academy in NY.

Published works, including Ulah, and Other Poems (1861), Poems (1867), A Prairie Idyl (1882), Flowers and a Weed (1899), and A Psychic Autobiography (1910); edited periodicals; converted to spiritualism and regarded herself as a medium; held patents for food-preserving process and liquid fuel burner for furnaces and boilers; organized Woman's Canning and Preserving Company to make use of her canning process (1890).