Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Aylsworth, Jonas C. 1831 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Jonas C. Aylsworth, president of the Attica Mills Company, Attica, was born
in Columbia county, New York, in 1831. He was the youngest child of Asahel and
Harriet (Conkling) Aylsworth. In 1839 the family removed to Granville, Licking
county, Ohio. His father was a farmer, and he was reared a tiller of the soil.
His education was obtained at Granville College, now Dennison University. In
1858 he went to Nebraska, where he lived five years; a part of this time he was
a clerk in the United States land office. In the spring of 1863 he came to
Attica and took an interest with Fallis & Plowman in the gristmill. It was then
run by water and had but two sets of burrs. They increased the capacity by the
addition of two more run of stones and put in a boiler and an engine, and it was
henceforth a steam mill. This firm sold out to Brown & Telford, of La Fayette,
and Mr. Aylsworth superintended it for the new company until July, 1874, when he
was appointed special agent of the pension bureau. During most of the time he
was in this service he was traveling in the east and the west on business for
the government. In October, 1877, he resigned and returned to Attica, and
immediately the Attica Mills Company - a joint stock association incorporated
under the general laws of the state, of which Mr. Aylsworth is president - was
organized, and the mill, which had been standing idle a year or more, was again
put to running. Since that time it has undergone a thorough refitting; the old
machinery has been entirely replaced with new, comprising all the latest
improvements in mill fixtures, and the capacity which was reduced to 100 barrels
per day last year, has been increased to 150, while a further extension and
improvement of the grades are now being made. They manufacture the "new process"
and the "patent" flour altogether, and are doing a very large business. Their
mill is one of the best in the state. Mr. Aylsworth was married to Miss Mary W.
Atkinson, of Pataskala, Ohio, daughter of Samuel Atkinson, at one time warden of
the Ohio penitentiary. She died in 1877. By this union were born five children:
Harry S., Mary Harriet, Edwin H., William A. and Walter J. Edwin died in 1878.
Mr. Aylsworth married again, in April 1880, Lura F. Aylesworth, of East
Clarence, Erie county, New York. She is a communicant in the Baptist church. He
has been a Mason twenty-seven years, and secretary of Attica lodge since 1868,
except the period that he was in government employ. He is now a member and
secretary of the board of education of Attica, having been elected the current
year. He has served three terms as councilman of the city. He is more or less
independent in politics, but the preponderance of his voting is with the
republicans.

Additional Comments:
Logan Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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