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Amanda Theodosia Jones was born on October 19, 1835 in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, fourth of the twelve children of Henry and Mary Alma (Mott) Jones. Her father was of Welsh-English and Scotch-Irish stock, long settled in western Massachusetts; her mother was of Huguenot, English, and "North River Dutch" descent.
Amanda attended the district public schools and then the State Normal School at East Aurora, graduating about 1850.
At an early age Amanda Jones began to write verse, though she published nothing until after she had begun to teach. Probably the first of her poems to appear in print was published in the Methodist Ladies' Repository of 1854. After this success she gave up teaching to devote her whole time to writing.
Poems and dissertations on various subjects appeared thereafter in the Repository for fully ten years. A collection, Ulah and Other Poems, was issued in 1861 and six years later another volume, Poems (1867), appeared. Meantime, during the Civil War she wrote a series of war songs, published from 1861 to 1865 in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly. Between 1869 and 1873 she was successively editor of the Universe (Chicago), a reform journal; literary editor of the Western Rural (Chicago); editor of the Bright Side, a juvenile periodical; and chief contributor to the juvenile department of the Interior.
She later wrote for Scribner's Monthly, the Continent, the Century, the Outlook, and the Youth's Companion. During the sixties, while living in western New York she became gradually more and more interested in Spiritualism as a result of her own psychic experiences. In the course of one of these, a visit from her "Dr. Andrews, " in August 1869, she was told that she was about to undertake a great work, but its nature was not then revealed to her.
Four years later this work took shape in a patented process for preserving food in a vacuum without cooking, which process was applied also to canning foods in vacuo with cooking, and to desiccating foods in vacuo. In perfecting her invention she had the assistance of a cousin, L. C. Cooley of Albany, N. Y. On June 3, 1873, Cooley obtained a patent (No. 139, 547), which he assigned to her, for an apparatus for preserving fruit. On the same day a second patent (No. 139, 581) was issued jointly to Cooley and Jones for a method of preserving fruit, and two more patents (No. 139, 580, June 3, 1873; No. 140, 508, July 1, 1873) were granted to Miss Jones alone for an improved form of fruit jar, best adapted to use in her preserving process.
On June 24, 1873, Cooley obtained a patent (No. 140, 247) on an apparatus to exhaust air from fruit cans. This group of five patents constituted the Jones Preserving Process by which fruit was placed in a vessel, the air exhausted with an exhaust apparatus, and at the same time the vessel filled with fruit juices at a temperature of 100" to 120" Fahrenheit.
Encouraged by her friends, Miss Jones, with extremely limited funds, labored for the succeeding five or six years to improve the process and to interest capital in her invention. Eventually there was organized in Chicago the U. S. Women's Pure Food Vacuum Preserving Company, in which as far as possible all of the officers and employees were women. Preserving of fruits and meats was begun in 1879.
After a few years' operation, however, Miss Jones sold the rights in her patents to the packing interests and gave up active participation in the enterprise. In 1880 she perfected a liquid fuel burner (patent No. 225, 839, March 23, 1880) which, although designed especially for glass furnaces, was satisfactorily used under steam boilers, and she devised several types of valves and a canopener, having, all told, six patents issued to her. In the early eighties she settled in Junction City, Kansas, and again took up her writing, publishing A Prairie Idyl (1882), Flowers and a Weed (1899), Rub iy t of Solomon and Other Poems (1905), Poems, 1854 - 1906 (1906), A Mother of Pioneers (1908), and A Psychic Autobiography (1910), which she dedicated to William James. To Steam Engineering (Chicago), beginning August 10, 1903, she contributed a series of articles on the use of liquid fuel; and for the Engineer (Chicago), she prepared another series, which began in the issue of March 1, 1904.
In 1914 Jones died of influenza.
Amanda Theodosia Jones was a multi-talented woman who was a prolific inventor and a frequently published writer. Her inventions were in two very different fields - food preservation/canning, and the use of oil as a fuel for furnaces. Her other great achievement came in 1890, while still working toward improvements in the canning industry, Jones opened a business called the Women’s Canning and Preserving Company. In 1905 she published her a new book of poetry, and in 1910 she wrote and published her autobiography, A Psychic Autobiography, which focused more on her spiritual journey. Throughout much of her career she was driven by a philanthropic motive, her particular interest lying in the reform of unhappy women and the protection of girls. Early in her business life she was instrumental in founding near Buffalo one of the first homes for working women.
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In the 1850s, Americans were very taken with spiritualism, a religious belief that spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, generally through a medium. Jones became very committed to this philosophy and came to believe that she was a medium. Though a very practical woman in many ways, some of her actions were undertaken because she believed it was the will of the spirits around her.
The spirit of her dead brother indicated to her that there was a better way to preserve fruit. This inspired her to begin experimenting. The result became well-known as the “Jones Process, ” which involved a device that permitted fresh fruit to be vacuum-packed.
Quotations: In starting the business, she wrote: “This is a woman’s industry. No man will vote our stock, transact our business, pronounce on women’s wages, [or] supervise our factories. Give men whatever work is suitable, but keep the governing power… Here is a mission, let it be fulfilled. ”
Most of her life Amanda Jones suffered from poor health, since it had been fragile after she contracted tuberculosis in 1859.
Amanda Theodosia Jones never married and resided in Junction City, Kansas, at the time of her death.
