BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Pages 689-690.

MICHAEL AULT, JR.
 
One of the conspicuous names in the history of Belmont county is that of
Michael Ault, Jr. His father, a native of Washington county, Penn., in 1814,
accompanied by his wife and seven children, emigrated to Richland township,
Belmont county, settling where Glencoe now is. There he erected a grist-mill,
and conducted the same u~til within a few years of his death, which occurred
in 1848. The seven children born to them were as follows: Elizabeth, John,
Adam, Mary, Sarah, Michael and Daniel. Three of these are still living: Mary,
aged eighty-seven; Michael, aged eighty-two, and David, aged seventy-eight.
Michael Ault is now one of the venerable citizens of the township. He was
born in the first decade of the century. His life has been devoted to farming,
milling and shipping of various merchandise. Before the death of his father,
he built a large frame mill to take the place of the log building which had
been fitted up by his father many years before, with mill-stones brought down
the river in a flat-boat from his old mill in Pennsylvania. The second mill
is still running. Michael Ault, Jr., did a very large business with this mill,
having between October, 1847, and May, 1848, made, packed and shipped 10,000
barrels of flour, besides grinding country grists, shipping flour to the east
and down the Ohio, and also dealt in live stock, making trips to Baltimore.
In 1869, he sold the mill, but still resides on the old home farm with his two
daughters and his brother, Daniel (his wife having died in 1880), and is still
active and able to attend to business. Michael Ault was married March 10, 1831,
to Catharine Ijams, daughter of Thomas and Catharine Ijams, and five sons and
five daughters have peen born to them, of whom eight are livil1g. Thomas Ijams
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving seven years under George
Washington. He was a native of Maryland, moved from there to Washington county,
Penn., and finally made his home near Glencoe, where he died. Mr. Ault is a
member of the Presbyterian church, and is one of the township's most esteemed
citizens.