Walter Dickson Jones (1878-1963)


 

Walter Dickson Jones (born 1878) entered the employ of the CTR Company in 1912 as a salesman of tabulating machines in Cleveland. In 1917 he was made Assistant-Treasurer of the Tabulating Machine Company, the Chief Subsidiary of the IBM Corporation. In February 1922 he was made manager of the Cleveland office of the Tabulating Machine Company and was promoted in 1923 to be IBM Manager for the Eastern District, having charge of all subsidiary companies - including the Tabulating Machine Company, The International Time Recording Company and the Dayton Scale Company. Mr. Jones was made Assistant Comptroller of the IBM Company in 1924 and in 1927 became Treasurer and Comptroller as well as Director of the corporation. In 1930 he was made Manager for Europe with headquarters in Paris in which position he remained until 1934. In 1934 he assumed the Vice Presidency of the Canadian organization of the IBM Company. In 1938 he was made Chairman of the Board of Directors of IBM Canada. He passed away in 1963.

Personal Observations and Comments Concerning the History and Development of IBM; W.D. Jones (August, 1944).

 

 

Family Photos - W.D. Jones

 

 

Walter Dickson Jones ca. 1920

Rhoda, Muriel, and Francis Jones in 1916

W.D's bride - Rhoda Wallace Haskell (1897-1960)

 

The Jones girls and their mother ca. 1937: from left, Rhoda, Francis, Rhoda, Muriel and Catherine.

 

Breconridge - W.D. Jones' farm just north of Toronto. Early 1950's.