Background
Jones, Wayne Van Leer was born on June 18, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Frank Edgar and Josephine Louella (Van Leer) Jones.
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Jacob Woodward Colladay and his Descendants
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The Rieke family of Bavenhausen and America
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Wayne Van Leer Jones
Edit Profilepetroleum industry executive private investor
Wayne Van Leer Jones, private investor, retired petroleum industry executive. Donor Wayne V. Jones II Chair in Geology, Northwestern University, 1986. Member American Association Petroleum Geologists, genealogical societies Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Houston Geological Society, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Society Genealogists (London), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Education
AB, Northwestern University, 1923.
Career
Accountant, then chief auditor Mission Oil Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, 1923-1928. Member firm F. E. Jones & Son, oil operators, Wichita, Kansas, 1928-1929. Assistant manager Exchange Petroleum Company, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1930-1934.
Geologist Midcontinent division, Tidewater Associate Oil Corporation, Houston, 1934-1941, chief geologist, 1941-1953. Vice president, charge exploration Union Texas Natural Gas Corporation (formerly Union Sulphur & Oil Corporation, Union Oil & Gas Corporation of Louisiana), Houston, 1953-1959, senior vice president, 1959-1962, Union Texas Petroleum division Allied Chemical Corporation, 1962-1963. Private investor, since 1963.
Member American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature, 1947-1953. Alumni regent for Texas, Northwestern University, 1965-1975, life regent, since 1975, donor Wayne V. and Elizabeth R. Jones Fine and Performing Arts Residential College, Northwestern University, 1980.
Achievements
Works
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- The Rieke family of Bavenhausen and America : including chapters on the German families of Stapperfenne, Heger, Linneweber, Wehrman, LehmeFyer, SandmeFyer, MeFyer, Bunte, Brockhausen, LFudeke-Saak, FreFytag, PrFussner, and Kluckhohn, with extensive accoun
- Jacob Woodward Colladay and his Descendants
- The Rieke family of Bavenhausen and America
Membership
Donor Wayne V. Jones II Chair in Geology, Northwestern University, 1986. Member American Association Petroleum Geologists, genealogical societies Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Houston Geological Society, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Society Genealogists (London), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clubs: Houston (Houston).
Connections
Married Elizabeth Rieke, January 14, 1926. 1 son, Wayne Van Leer World War II.
