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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Jacob Luther Aull Papers #4241, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. W. B. Aull of Landis, N.C., in June 1980.

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Original finding aid is filed in folder 1a.

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Processed by: F. Gamel, December 1980

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• Advertising--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Aull family.
• Aull, Jacob Luther, 1835-1923.
• Businessmen--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Edgefield County (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Family--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Flour mills--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Gristmills--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• Haltiwanger family.
• Newberry County (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Sawmills--South Carolina--History--19th century.
• South Carolina--History--19th century.

Jacob Luther Aull (1835-1923) of Newberry County, S.C., was the son of Reverend Herman Aull and Eve Riser Werts Aull. Between 1851 and 1854, he worked as a ginwright in the shop of his brother-in-law, Nathan A. Hunter, in Newberry, S.C. In 1854, Aull established a steam sawmill on the Saluda River in Newberry County. In 1856, he moved to Aull Hills, S.C., where he established a flour and gristmill. Aull operated the mill for the Confederate government during the Civil War. In 1872, he moved to Dyson, Edgefield County (later Greenfield County), S.C., where he operated saw, grist, and flour mills.

Aull married Julia Ann Haltiwanger of Saluda, Edgefield County (later Saluda County), S.C., in 1856, and with her had six children: Elbert Herman, Rowena, Nathan E., Eva, William Bowman, and Luther Bachman. Jacob Luther Aull died in 1923.

The collection consists chiefly of business correspondence and advertisements, 1854-1900, relating to Jacob Luther Aull (1835-1923), who owned sawmills, gristmills, and flour mills in Newberry County, S.C., 1854-1871, and in Dyson, Edgefield County, S.C., 1872-1923. The letters and advertising materials, including circulars, price lists, and trade cards, provide information about machinery and machine products. There are a few family letters from J. E. Blackwelder, Aull's brother-in-law, Isaiah Haltiwanger, and nephew, P. H. Haltiwanger. Other items are a photograph of Jacob Aull, circa 1900, and legal and financial documents, including court summonses, receipts, bills of sale, promissory notes, and statements of accounts.

• Pictures (PF-4241/1)
• Oversize papers (XOPF-4241/1)