Canton Monitor History FROM HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY, OHIO
May/June 1955
WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN
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Henry Vander Heida of Algona, Wis., by his Gaar-Scott before it was cleaned and painted. Pride seems to be written on his face before it is cleaned.
Lorin E. Bixler
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Published in 1881, Courtesy of LORIN E. BIXLER
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'The opening of this historical sketch takes us back to the
year 1848, when in the little rural borough of Greentown, a village
of some 300 souls, situated about nine miles north of Canton, Mr.
Cornelius Aultman, who had learned the machinist trade, made the
patterns and built on his own account five of the old Hussey
reapers the first machines of the kind ever made in Ohio, with the
exception of a few made at Martin's Ferry, opposite Wheeling in
the year previous. Mr. Michael Dillman, a progressive farmer with
amp1e means, living near Greensburg, Summit County, had purchased
and used one of these machines during the season, and was so well
pleased with its work that he proposed joining Mr. Aultman in his
new undertaking, and accordingly they both moved to Plainfield,
Will County, Illinois, where they constructed these machines for
two seasons-some thirty-seven in all -and the neighboring farmers
came to their shop and bought them readily. The hussey was a
one-wheeled machine, adapted only for reaping purposes. In the
spring of 1850, Mr. Hussey, of Baltimore, Md., the inventor of the
machine, but who had done very little toward manufacturing and
introducing it, learning that it was being successfully produced in
the west, concluded that it was worth looking after, journeyed to
Illinois and informed the makers that he held patents on the
machine and claimed royalty on all that had been turned out. They
finally settled the matter by paying him $15 on each machine.'
pp. 321-322.
'The needs of a thresherman for a better engine than had
ever been built had long been pressed upon the attention of, the
manufacturers of the Buckeye machines. Forced by these requirements
upon them, in the centennial year they commenced the construction
of the 'Monitor' engine. The best skilled advice; and the
ripest experience of the most practical threshers and mechanics
were brought into requisition to aid them in making the portable
engine which would be pronounced nearest perfect. After fully
consulting every plan presented, they made the choice of the
vertical engine and boiler of the model upon which the Monitor is
built. It was exactly adapted to a special field of operations, and
the satisfactions rendered by it has been so perfect that it cannot
be overstated, and its decided advantages over other engines are
attested by the emphatic and unsolicited approbation of all who
have used it. Every year, so far, the number required of them is in
excess of the manufacturing capacity of the works, and this has
compelled them to make a large addition to their shops, which will
double their facilities for turning out these universally approved
engines.