Nellie Kedzie Jones, extension home economist (1858-1956)

Nellie Kedzie Jones's favorite saying, "As the stream can flow no higher than its fountain, so no country can be better than its home," demonstrates her belief in the importance of improving the homemaking skills of rural women for the sake of the health and happiness of the young women, their families, and society. It was her faith in the ability of science-based home economics to improve people's lives that guided her long and remarkably successful career as a home economics educator, fifteen years of which she served as State Leader for Home Economics Extension in Wisconsin.