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Anna Jonas Stose (August 17th, 1881 - October 27th, 1974) worked for the United States Geological Survey and is best known for her work mapping the Appalachian Mountain Range and documenting the structure of and exposure to the rock formations.

Early Life
Anna Jonas Stose (August 17th, 1881 - October 27th, 1974) was the only child to George and Mary Hughes Gilbert Jonas and grew up in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Her parents ran a family-owned business called the Williamstown Glass Company where she worked during World War l as a cashier. Anna was known to be fond of her ancestry who included relatives that emigrated from New England to Cape May in the 1690s; her lineage is made of relatives who were plantation owners in Cape May, whalers, and Delaware River Pilots. In 1938, Anna married George Willis Stose who worked as a U.S. G.S. stratigrapher and would end up working by her side on the Appalachian Mountains.

Education
Anna received formal education from Bryn Mawr College and earned her A.D in 1904, A.M in 1905, and her Ph.D in 1912. Throughout her college career, Anna had many opportunities to work with famous female geologists and upcoming ones who she would continue to work closely with after college. She was an assistant curator at the Geology Museum and worked extensively in the geology laboratories in college, she was classmates to Eleanora Knopf and Julia Gardner, and mentored under Florence Bascom, one of the pioneer women of geology.

Between 1916 and 1917, she became a staff member of the Department of Geology and worked at the American Museum of Natural History.