Frederick McKinley Jones was born on the 17th of May ... By nine, his father passed away and he remained in the care of the priest until he left school after the sixth grade.

Until Frederick McKinley Jones came along ... Frederick’s mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father struggled to raise him alone. When no orphanage would accept the seven-year ...

Frederick McKinley Jones was orphaned by age 8 and raised by a Catholic priest before he dropped out of high school. That didn’t stop him from pursuing his calling as an inventor whose work ...

In 1939, Frederick McKinley Jones patented the world’s first successful refrigerated transportation system. At the time, he was working for the Minneapolis-based company U.S. Thermo Control.

A black and white photograph of Frederick McKinley Jones, taken around 1950 with his invention, a refrigerated truck.