Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones

Mary Cadwalader Rawle Jones (December 12, 1850 – September 22, 1935) was an American author, socialite, and social leader during the Gilded Age. She had one younger brother, who died young of diphtheria was a prominent attorney in Philadelphia with Rawle & Henderson, a firm founded by her great-grandfather in 1783. When she was eighteen years old, her father remarried to Emily Cadwalader, the daughter of Thomas McCall Cadwalader, her mother's cousin and Mary's own cousin twice removed.

Her paternal grandparents were William Rawle Jr. and Mary Anna (née Tilghman) Rawle, the granddaughter of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew. Her great-grandfather was William Rawle, the U.S. District Attorney in Pennsylvania who was a founder, and first president, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, a president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania for 40 years. Her mother was the eldest daughter of John Cadwalader, a U.S. Representative and Federal Judge, and his first wife, Mary (née Binney) Cadwalader, a daughter of Horace Binney, also a U.S. Representative who was known for his public speeches as well as the founding of the Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard.

Society life In 1892, both Mary and her daughter were listed as "Mrs. F.R. Jones" and "Miss Beatrix Jones" in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. In her New York Times obituary, it stated: Jones was the elder son of George Frederic Jones, a joint owner of the family-owned Chemical Bank and a prominent figure in New York real estate, and his wife Lucretia Rhinelander (née Stevens) Jones. His younger sister was famed Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edith Newbold (née Jones) Wharton, known for her novel The Age of Innocence. a prominent landscape architect who in 1913 married Dr. Max Farrand (1869–1945), a Stanford and Yale University historian who served as the first director of the Huntington Library. Max was the brother of Cornell University President Livingston Farrand.

Minnie and Freddy began living apart in 1891, five years before divorcing in 1896, and thereafter was known as Mrs. Cadawalader Jones. Edith coordinated the funeral arrangements and she was buried at St John the Baptist Churchyard in Aldbury, Hertfordshire, England, next to fellow writer Mary Augusta Ward.

Published works A Book About Fans; The History Of Fans and Fan-Painting (with M. A. Flory), Macmillan & Co., New York, 1895. European Travel for Women: Notes and Suggestions, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1900. Lantern Slides, Merrymount Press, Boston, 1937.