Emily M. J. Cooley
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November 1, 1831
Emily M. J. Cooley | |
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| Born | Emily Maria Jones November 1, 1831 Lima, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 26, 1917 Blair, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Aurora Academy (later Wells College |
| Occupation(s) | religious and temperance leader |
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Rufus Cooley
(m. 1851; died 1894) |
Emily M. J. Cooley (née Jones; 1831–1917) was an American religious and temperance leader affiliated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) and the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.[1][2]
Emily Maria Jones was born in Lima, New York, November 1, 1831. Her parents were Henry W. Jones (1798–1854) and Mary Alma (Mott) Jones (1813–1870).[3] Her maternal ancestry was of the French nobility who came to New Jersey and found a place where they could practice their religion peacefully. Many of the descendants became distinguished soldiers during the American Revolutionary War. On her father's side, she was descended from the Puritans of 1636. They settled in North Adams, Massachusetts.[1] Emily's siblings included Harriet, Porter, Amanda, William, Benjamin, John, Sarah, Porter, Helen, Marion, and Mary.[3]
Till the age of 16, she attended the public schools, and then was a student for a year each in Buffalo, New York, in Rochester, New York, and at Aurora Academy, later Wells College, in Aurora, New York.[1]
