page_title: Irma Theoda Jones
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Irma Theoda Jones / Career
context_page_description: Irma Theoda Andrews Jones was a philanthropist and a pioneer resident of Lansing, Michigan.
context_section_description: After teaching a year, in July 1863, Jones moved to Lansing, Michigan, where her uncle, John A. Kerr, held the position of State printer and was the publisher of the Lansing Republican.
  Jones was a contributor to various newspapers, her most influential work was in connection with the Lansing Woman's Club, of which she was one of the originators and president from 1885 to 1887, and also with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the days following the crusade movement, with the rise of the Young Women's Christian Association and with the Lansing Industrial Aid Society, of which she was the president. The Lansing Industrial Aid Society had for its object the permanent uplifting of the poor, and maintained a weekly school for teaching sewing, cooking and practical lessons in domestic economy to the children of the needy.
  She was the second president of the Michigan Federation of Women's Clubs.
  She was an early member of the Plymouth Congretional church and was one of the organizers of the Pilgrim Congregational Church.
  In 1892 she became editor of the literary club department of the "Mid Continent," a monthly magazine published in Lansing.
caption: Irma Theoda Jones, A woman of the century
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