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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 285 items) |
Abstract | Jacob Luther Aull (1835-1923) of Aull Hills, Newberry County, S.C., owned sawmills, flour mills, and gristmills in Newberry County, S.C., 1854-1871, and in Dyson, Edgefield County, S.C., 1872-1923. The collection consists chiefly of business correspondence and advertisements, 1854-1900, relating to Jacob Luther Aull. 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 his 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. |
Creator | Aull, Jacob Luther, 1835-1923. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: F. Gamel, December 1980
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, November 2005
Revised by: Dawne Howard Lucas, January 2022
Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the encoding of this finding aid.
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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.
Back to TopThe 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.
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