Notable Preston Countian
Harriet B. Jones
1856–1943
A physician, suffragist, and public-health advocate whose work helped establish state care institutions. Her Preston County story includes the campaign for the tuberculosis sanitarium later known as Hopemont.
Preston County connection
Grew up in Terra Alta, Preston County, after being born in Pennsylvania.
Also recorded as: Dr. Harriet B. Jones
A life through the timeline
3 linked entries. Each entry retains its own research status.
September 1885 · Verified to source
Terra Alta-raised Harriet B. Jones begins practicing medicine in Wheeling
After growing up in Terra Alta and graduating with honors from the Woman’s Medical College of Baltimore in 1884, Harriet B. Jones began practicing medicine in Wheeling in September 1885. She became the first woman licensed as a physician in West Virginia and later specialized in gynecology and abdominal surgery.
Read event and sources →February 11, 1911 · Verified to source
West Virginia authorizes the tuberculosis sanitarium later known as Hopemont
The West Virginia Legislature passed an act authorizing a state tuberculosis sanitarium on February 11; the governor approved it on February 18. The authorization followed years of campaigning by the Anti-Tuberculosis League of West Virginia and its executive secretary, Dr. Harriet B. Jones, who had grown up in Terra Alta. The selected farm near Terra Alta belonged to Jones’s brother-in-law, W. T. White. White and his wife, Harriet’s sister Adaline Jones White, executed a deed conveying the property to the state on November 11, 1911. The institution became West Virginia’s first state tuberculosis sanitarium and was later known as Hopemont.
Read event and sources →November 1924 · Verified to source
Harriet B. Jones is elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates
Harriet B. Jones, who had grown up in Terra Alta, was elected as a Republican to represent Marshall County in the West Virginia House of Delegates. She was one of two women elected to the House that November and later won reelection to a second term.
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