Walter Dickson Jones

WD as he was known, was the father of Rhoda Black. He was born in 1878 and died in Calgary in 1963. He and his wife Rhoda (Granny Rho) are buried in the Pine Hills Cemetery in Toronto (Section 5 Lot 385). WD was the son of Charles Goode Jones of Montreal and a direct decendent of Montreal's first child of British parents. The earliest Jones have been recorded.

From Who’s Who In Canada 1949-1950

Walter Dickson Jones
Chairman of the Board, International Business Machines (Canada) Ltd. est. 1917. Electrical accounting machines, time clocks and recorders, electromagnetic typewriters. 36 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario. Born, Montreal Que. April 1, 1878, son of Charles Goode Jones of Montreal and Maria (Barker) Jones of Selby, Yorks, England. Educated Cote Ste. Anne and Westmount Academy, Montreal, Que.

• Clerk, Metropolitan Rolling Mills, Montreal 1893-95,
• student of art, Montreal 1895-97,
• clerk, town hall, Westmount Que 1897-1900.
• Superintendent of Labour, Algoma Steel Mill, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario 1900 - 1903,
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation Pittsburgh 1904,
• US Steel Corporation, Cleveland Ohio 1905 - 1912,
• Salesman, later Assistant Treasurer Tabulating Machine Co. Cleveland and New York 1912 - 1918.
• Manager, Canton Steel and Foundry Co. Alliance, Ohio 1918 -1922.
• Manager, International Business Machines Ltd. Cleveland 1922 and subsequently with the same firm in New York,
• District Manager 1923-1924.
• Assistant Comptroller and Treasurer, International Business Machines Ltd 1925 - 1928,
• Director 1928 - 1929. European General Manager, International Business Machines Ltd with headquarters in Paris 1930 - 1935.
• Vice President, International Business Machines Ltd 1935 and Chairman of the Board, 1938 to present.
• Married Rhoda Wallace Haskell daughter of Peter Haskell of Montreal, June 24, 1911.

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