Bones, Marietta M
philanthropist, social reformer, was born May 4, 1842, in Clarion county, Pa. Mrs. Bones was elected vice-president of the National Woman's Suffrage association, and annually re-elected for nine years, when Susan B.
Anthony with thirty of her friends voted the organization into another. In 1882 she made her first appearance as a public speaker in Webster, S. D., where she now resides. She is an active temperance worker, and was secretary of the first Non-Partisan National Woman's Chris- Woman's Christian Temperance union in 1889; and she has taken great interest in all reform and charitable institutions. She is the wife of Hon. Thomas A. Bones, the president of the board of commissioners that built the Soldiers' Home at Hot Springs, S. D.