Rosalie Gardiner Jones was an Oyster Bay socialite and suffragist known as "General Jones". She took part in the 1913 Suffrage Hike

Suffrage hike

The Suffrage Hikes of 1912 to 1914 were to bring attention to issue of women's suffrage. Rosalie Gardiner Jones organized the first one which left from Manhattan to Albany, New York...

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Biography

She was born in 1883 to Mary and Oliver Livingston Jones. She graduated from Adelphi College, then a women's school in Brooklyn, and later graduated from Brooklyn Law School

Brooklyn Law School

Brooklyn Law School is a law school located in Brooklyn Heights, in Downtown Brooklyn, New York.-History:Founded in 1901 by William Payson Richardson and Norman P. Heffley, Brooklyn Law School was the first law school on Long Island. Using space provided by Heffley’s business school, the law...

. Jones married Washington Senator Clarence Dill

Clarence Dill

Clarence Cleveland Dill was an American politician from the state of Washington. He was a Democrat.Dill was born in Knox County, Ohio. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi....

, who sought a divorce from her in 1936; Dill claimed that Jones told his friends that he was "a political coward" for not seeking re-election in 1934, and that she buried dogs and garbage in the backyard.