History of Aultman & Taylor, Part III

By Dr. Lorin E. Bixler
Published on March 1, 2001
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N.R. Darling of Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio, and the Pioneer, an agitator type, the first thresher built by the Aultman & Taylor Manufacturing Company and sold to Darling in 1868; it was destroyed in the first of 1896.
N.R. Darling of Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio, and the Pioneer, an agitator type, the first thresher built by the Aultman & Taylor Manufacturing Company and sold to Darling in 1868; it was destroyed in the first of 1896.
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House in which N. R. Darling lived.
House in which N. R. Darling lived.
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Blacksmith shop of Aultman & Taylor thresher department.
Blacksmith shop of Aultman & Taylor thresher department.

In this issue of the Album appears the third installment of Dr. Bixler’s history of the Aultman & Taylor Company, as edited by Dr. Robert T. Rhode. The Album is serializing Dr. Bixler’s book. Dr. Bixler, a professor at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, passed away before he could publish the manuscript on which he had labored. His well-researched book affords rare glimpses into the lives of key figures who established Aultman & Taylor’s reputation for excellence. Manuscripts belonging to Dr. Bixler are in the Sherman Room of the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library in Mansfield, Ohio.

To read the first installment, click here.
To read the second installment, click here.

CHAPTER 3

The Original Personnel and Organization of the Aultman & Taylor Company

The first board of directors of the [Aultman & Taylor Company, founded in 1867,] was composed of the following members: Cornelius Aultman, Canton, Ohio; Elizabeth Aultman Harter, Canton, Ohio; John Tonner, Canton, Ohio; Henry H. Taylor, Chicago, Illinois; H. Chatfield Taylor, Chicago, Illinois, and J. C. Wiggle, Mansfield, Ohio.

Three of the original directors came from Canton having been associated with Aultman in his enterprise in that city. John Tonner was the secretary of C. Aultman & Co. for a number of years and was a competent businessman. It should be observed that H. Chatfield Taylor was the son of Henry H. Taylor and one of the original directors. Elizabeth, the daughter of Cornelius Aultman, at the age of nineteen was also one of the original directors.

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