Elizabeth TowneElizabeth Jones Towne was an important writer, editor, and publisher in the New Thought and self-help groups. She lived from May 11, 1865, to June 1, 1960. John Halsey Jones's daughter, Elizabeth Jones, was born in Oregon. She got married for the firt time when she was 14 years old. Catherine and Chester were their children. In 1900, they split up. She got married to William E. Towne that same year and moved to Holyoke, Massachusetts. Towne started and ran Nautilus Magazine, a New Thought Movement magazine that ran from 1898 to 1953, when she shut it down because she was getting too old (she was 88 at the time). She also ran the Elizabeth Towne Company, which published many New Thought, metaphysical, self-help, and self-improvement books by herself and other authors like William Walker Atkinson, Kate Atkinson Boehme, Paul Ellsworth, Orison Swett Marden, Edwin Markham, Clara Chamberlain McLean, Helen Rhodes-Wallace, William Towne, and Wallace Wattles. Read More Read Less