| 词条 | Willard F. Jones |
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| name = Willard F. Jones | image = Willard F. Jones portrait.jpg | image_size = | caption = Jones in 1957 | birth_name = William Francis Jones II | birth_date = February 27, 1890 | birth_place = New York City, New York | death_date = August 18, 1967 (aged 77) | death_place = White Plains, New York, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = Cooper Union, Columbia University, Harvard Business School | employer = Gulf Oil | occupation = Naval Architect, Businessman | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Ruth Black (m. 1916-1964; her death) | children = {{Plainlist|
}} | parents = | relatives = }}Willard F. Jones I (February 27, 1890 – August 18, 1967) was an American naval architect, business executive, and philanthropist. He served as a General Manager and Vice President of the Gulf Oil corporation during the late 1930s, 40's and 50's. Jones was one of the instrumental figures in establishing effective transport of crude oil from Venezuela, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the United States.[1][2][3] Early life and educationJones was born to William F. Jones I and Mary Ellen Jones on February 27, 1890 in New York. His father was a shipping agent of Anglo-Welsh descent, and his mother was of Irish descent.[4] Jones began his career as deck boy aboard the Northeastern, a tanker under charter to the J.M. Guffey Petroleum Company, which was a forerunner to Gulf Oil.[5] By the age of 20, he had ascended up the hierarchy of the company and was employed as an oil transport purchasing agent.[6] Jones graduated from the Cooper Union with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and went on to receive additional graduate education at both Columbia School of Mines and Harvard Business School.[5] CareerJones was as a prominent marine engineer and naval architect who designed large scale oil tankers for the Gulf Oil corporation over several decades. He worked for Gulf Oil for fifty-two years in total, the longest service of any employee in the company's history. He became General Manager of Gulf Oil in 1936 and a Vice President in 1949. Jones retired from this latter position in 1955.[5][7][8] While serving as General Manager and Vice President of Gulf Oil, Jones facilitated the expansion of crude oil import from Kuwait, a nation that was - at the time - a yet incipient supply region to the United States. This expansion program implemented by Robert E. Garret and Jones consisted of construction of a fleet of supertankers and was meant to "result in a sharp increase in the processing of crude oil and various petroleum products at a time when the domestic demand for (such) products (was) at an unprecedented peak."[9] Jones held other numerous ancillary leadership positions apart from his Gulf Oil concern. During World War II, he served as chairman of the American Committee of Lloyd's Register of Shipping.[10] Jones was also the General Chairman of the National Safety Council's Marine Section of 1947-1948, chairman of the tanker committee of the American Petroleum Institute, a director of the American Merchant Marine Institute, and was elected president of the Propeller Club in 1955.[7] Personal life, death and legacyJones married Ruth Black in 1916; Black was a scion of both the famous Perry and Rodgers naval family dynasties.[11][12] With his wife Ruth, he had two sons: Willard E. Jones and Lloyd P. Jones. They resided in Clearwater, Florida, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, respectively.[5] Jones was a personal friend of Gulf Oil's founder William Larimer Mellon Sr., and the two maintained a direct correspondence until the latter's death in 1949. Jones died on August 18, 1967 at the White Plains Hospital in Westchester County, New York.[5] His Requiem Mass was held at St. Anselm's Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn.[13] Jones was interred in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery alongside his wife's grave, and amidst her family. See also{{Portal|Biography|Business and economics|Engineering|}}
References1. ^Craig Thompson, Since Spindletop: A Human Story of Gulf's First Half-Century (Pittsburgh: Gulf Oil, 1951) {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Willard F.}}2. ^Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991). 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Maguire|first1=Bassett|last2=Reynolds |first2=Charles|date=January 1955|title=Cerro de la Neblina, Amazonas, Venezuela|journal=Geographical Review|volume=45|issue= 1|pages=27–51|doi=10.2307/211728|jstor=211728}} 4. ^Year: 1900; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 10, Kings, New York; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0137 5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|title=WILLARD F. JONES, 77, GULF OIL EXECUTIVE|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/20/archives/willard-f-jones-77-gulf-oil-executive.html||work=The New York Times|date=August 20, 1967}} 6. ^Year: 1910; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 6, Kings, New York; Roll: T624_957; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0075; FHL microfilm: 1374970 7. ^1 {{cite news| title = Ending 52 Year with Gulf Oil Concern| newspaper = The New York Times| date = 26 May 1955}} 8. ^{{Citation| title = W.F. Jones, Gulf Official, to Retire| pages = 32| newspaper = Pittsburgh Post Gazette| date = 26 May 1955}} 9. ^{{cite news| title = Gulf Oil Company Will Spend Forty Millions to Expand Philadelphia Plant| pages = 12| newspaper = Times Herald| date = 13 Dec 1948}} 10. ^{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/06/13/archives/heads-the-us-committee-of-lloyds-ship-register.html | title=Heads the U.S. Committee of Lloyd's Ship Register| newspaper=The New York Times| date=1943-06-13}} 11. ^{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/05/deaths.html | title=Deaths| newspaper=The New York Times| date=1964-09-05}} 12. ^{{Citation| title = Mrs. A.P.R. Black, 73, Dies at Home| pages = 13| newspaper = The Brooklyn Daily Eagle| date = 22 May 1933}} 13. ^{{Citation| title = Obituaries: Jones, Willard F.| pages = 83| newspaper = New York Daily News| date = 20 Aug 1967}} 14 : 1890 births|1967 deaths|Naval architects|American energy industry businesspeople|American businesspeople in the oil industry|American people of Welsh descent|American people of English descent|American people of Irish descent|Cooper Union alumni|Harvard Business School alumni|20th-century businesspeople by nationality|20th-century American people by occupation|Gulf Oil|American philanthropists |
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