Steam Power Water Power Grist Mills
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March/April 1998
Jack C. Norbeck,
Walker's Aultman-Taylor was built in Mansfield, Ohio, and
Cornelius Aultman established the C. Aultman Company in 1851. Then
he established the Aultman-Taylor Machinery Company. He was a
native of the Buckeye State. He was born on a farm in Osnaburg
Township, Stark County, Ohio, just two miles east of the city of
Canton, on March 10, 1827. His parents were Jacob and Elizabeth
Aultman who migrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Soon after the
birth of Cornelius they moved to Uniontown, Stark County, and
within a year the father died, leaving his wife and two-year old
son.
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As was the custom of that day, the education which C. Aultman
received was meager indeed, particularly when compared with present
day educational standards. He spent, altogether, about eight months
in the village school. Thereafter, he was thrown largely upon his
own resources.
When he was about 14 years of age, he went to work with his
uncle at the millwright trade. After spending a few months at this
work, he returned to live with his mother who, in the meantime, had
married John Miller, a farmer living near Greentown, Ohio.
Soon after his return to Greentown, he engaged in learning to
manufacture spinning wheels and grain cradles. Following the
mastery of his business, he entered the machine shop of Wise and
Ball in the spring of 1848 and worked there for a period of two
years. Later he was to marry the daughter of Mr. Wise. In this
small shop he learned the trade of wheelwright and general machine
work. The output of this shop consisted of wheels for
transportation purposes, plows, mill construction and spinning.
The Aultman-Taylor Machinery Company stopped building steam
traction engines about 1924. They built about 5,870 engines.
The Aultman Company made the following steam traction engines
(types): Star traction for coal or wood, the Mogul return flue
engine, the compound Mogul engine, the upright-boiler Canton
Monitor and the Double Star road locomotive. The Aultman Company
made the Monitor semi-portable engine and steam traction engine,
Phoenix.
The company also made the Star water tanks, Low-Down force pump,
American thresher with folding stacker, a wind stacker, sawmills
and horse powers.
The Aultman-Taylor Machinery Company made the following: steam
traction engines; Bevel Gear wood and coal burners that used the
Woolf patent valve gear; spur gear tractions mounted on the John
Abell patent boiler; straw, coal or wood burners mounted on the
celebrated A & T high pressure, water bottom fire box boiler
and portable steam traction engines.
They also made the New Century separator, with blower and
self-feeder, the New Century rice threshers, Aultman-Taylor
matchless clover and alfalfa hullers, plus water tanks. They made
farm and plantation saw mills, plus horse powers.
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