Harriet B. Jones (3 June 1856 – 28 June 1943) was the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia. She was also one of the first women to be elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates.
Life
In 1856, Harriet B. Jones was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania to John P. Jones and Hanna Rodgers Jones. When she was 6 years old, her family moved to Terra Alta, West Virginia in Preston County, which was at the time called Cranberry Summit. Her father John was born in 1832 in Cardiganshire, Wales and immigrated to the United States in 1838.