J-W Power Company Revenue and Competitors

J-W Operating Company was founded on November 10, 1960 by Thomas Jeffrey and Howard G. Westerman. Howard George Westerman was born in Cincinnati, OH on October 11, 1928. He attended the University of Oklahoma and graduated in 1950 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering. L to R: Tom Jeffrey, Ralph Connell, Howard Westerman Howard enlisted in the Army Corp of Engineers and served as a first lieutenant. In 1951 at a USO event in Lake Charles, LA he met Laura "Jane" David, and on January 22, 1952 Howard and Jane were married in Lake Charles, LA. The couple took up residence in Germany where they soon started a family that would eventually grow to seven children. In 1954, after an honorable military discharge, Howard Westerman, Sr. found employment with Bethlehem Steel in Tulsa, OK. At Bethlehem Steel, Mr. Westerman was designing equipment for water-flood units and selling parts when he met a geologist named Thomas J. Jeffery.