William T. Jones
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 111
Pg. 367 & 368


William T. Jones, of Omar, Logan County, is general manager of large and
important coal-mining properties in this district and, though he is still a
young man, he has had exceptional wide and varied experience in connection
with the coal-producing industry.


Mr. Jones was born in the City of Washington, D.C., on the 14th of May,
1889, and is a son of Richard and Josephine (McAuliffe) Jones, the former a
native of the State of Maryland and the latter of the District of Columbia,
the father having become a successful and representative wholesale grocery
merchant in the national capital.


William T. Jones is indebted to the parochial and public schools of his
native city for his early education, which was supplemented by his attending
Mount St. Joseph College in the City of Baltimore, Maryland.  After leaving
this institution he entered the employ of the Union Mining Company at Mount
Savage, Maryland, where, as a mining engineer, he assisted in track
construction, bedsides serving as assistant mine boss.  He continued three
years in the employ of this company and thereafter was for a time assistant
foreman with the Davis Colliery Company.  He next became assistant to A.J.
King, who was in the consulting engineering business in Charleston, West
Virginia, for 3-1/2 years.  He then came to Omar, Logan County, in the
capacity of mine inspector and engineer for the Main Island Creek Coal
Company.  His efficiency led to his advancement of the Coast of
superintendent, and in 1919 he was made general manager of all the company's
properties and productive activities in the district, where he is now
manager of the Proctor Coal Company, the five Block Coal Company, the
Superior Eagle Coal Company, the Middle Fork Mining Company, the Omar Coal
Company and the Madison coal Company, in all thirty-one mines, besides which
he is vice president of the Chafin, Jones & Heatherman Coal Company of Peach
Creek, this county, an operating corporation which made its first shipment
of coal (eight cars) on the 1st of March, 1922.  Don Chafin is president of
this company, and Dr. K.J. Heatherman, secretary, treasurer and general
manager.  Fidelity as well as ability and effective service have brought
about the advancement of Mr. Jones, and he has made and is making a splendid
record as one of the world's productive workers.  He and his wife are
communicants of the Catholic Church, and he is affiliated with the Knights
of Columbus and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.


At Charleston, in the year 1817, was solemnized the  marriage of Mr. Jones
and Miss Rose Crump, daughter of James and Mary Crump, both natives of West
Virginia.  Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two daughters: Josephine and Mary Jane.