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No special access restriction applies.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John Paul and Marie Hall Jones Papers, A&M 2856, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Papers of the Jones family of Fairmont, West Virginia, 1930-1973. Includes correspondence of Marie to family and friends in West Virginia from Malaysia, where John was a petroleum engineer in the 1930s; investment records of John Paul Jones, 1930-1965; specifications for their home in Fairmont, 1949; and papers of the West Virginia Nature Conservancy, 1960s, in which the Joneses were active.

Series include:

Series 1. Personal Correspondence from Malaysia -- Marie Hall Jones, 1930s (Boxes 1-2)
Series 2. Investment Records -- John Paul Jones, 1930–1965 (box 2)
Series 3. Specifications for Fairmont Home, 1949 (box 2)
Series 4. Plans for Jones-Hall Forest, 1973 (box 2)
Series 5. West Virginia Nature Conservancy Files, 1960s (box 3)

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Engineering
• Environmentalism.
• Fairmont.
• Jones, John Paul.
• Jones, Marie Hall.
• Jones-Hall Forest.
• Malaysia
• Petroleum industry and trade
• Wallace, Marie Hall Jones.
• West Virginia Nature Conservancy