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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 3,000 items) |
Abstract | William Davis Jones II (1894-1977) was born in Belton, Mo. After World War I, he worked with various agricultural organizations, chiefly in North Carolina. He was a warehouse examiner for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1936-1950. In 1951, he became director of the Storage and Distribution Division, United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, from which he retired in 1961. The collection includes personal and family correspondence and writings of William Davis Jones II. Included is correspondence between Jones and his son, William Davis Jones III, in Raleigh, N.C.; personal and family history materials relating to the Jones family and the Kitchen family; job applications and employment data; volumes containing essays, diary entries, and copies of outgoing letters; and family photographs. |
Creator | Jones, William Davis, 1894-1977. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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William Davis Jones II (1894-1977) was born in Belton, Mo., to William Davis and Mary Stella Jones. He attended the United States Naval Academy, 1913-1916, and served with the United States Army, 1917-1918. After World War I, he worked with various agricultural organizations, chiefly in North Carolina and in 1935 was appointed junior agricultural statistician with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. He was a warehouse examiner for the United States Department of Agriculture, 1936-1950. In 1951, he became director of the Storage and Distribution Division, United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, from which he retired in 1961. He was married to Ruth Culbreth Jones and they had a son, William Davis "Dave" Jones III, an advertising executive and newspaper man.
Back to TopThe collection incldues personal and family correspondence and writings of William Davis Jones II. Included is correspondence between Jones and his son, William Davis Jones III, in Raleigh, N.C.; personal and family history materials relating to the Jones and Kitchen families; job applications and employment data; volumes containing essays, diary entries, and copies of outgoing letters; and family photographs.
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Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.
Folder 103 |
Astral Travel Agency |
Folder 104 |
Board of Education |
Folder 105 |
Books to read |
Folder 106 |
Civil Service and federal employment applications |
Folder 107 |
Deeds |
Folder 108 |
Dinner Bell Inn |
Folder 109 |
Dixie Readers Service |
Folder 110 |
Fort Pierce |
Folder 111 |
Forty Plus |
Folder 112 |
H. A. Callahan, Inc. |
Folder 113 |
Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of |
Folder 114-119
Folder 114Folder 115Folder 116Folder 117Folder 118Folder 119 |
Letters to William Davis Jones III and others |
Folder 120 |
Income tax |
Folder 121 |
M and M Associates |
Folder 122 |
National Research Council |
Folder 123 |
Newspaper clippings |
Folder 124 |
Quality Inn Carolinian |
Folder 125 |
Unanswered mail |
Folder 126 |
Wachovia Bank |
Folder 127 |
Genealogical materials |
Image Folder PF-4015/1-2
PF-4015/1PF-4015/2 |
Photographs of William Davis Jones II, his family, and extended relations, circa 1840-1974 |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4015/18 |
Photograph of Peter Fite Jones and family, 1907 |
Folder 128 |
Volume 1: Notebook, 1973-1974 |
Folder 129 |
Volume 2: Notebook, 1974 |
Photographs (PF-4015/1-2, OP-PF-4015/18)
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