User:AJaDaK/John Newton Kailor

Kailor, John Newton, inventor, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, September 2, 1849, son of David Franklin and Rebecca(Bowers) Kailer.

He was educated in the public schools of Frederick County, and at an early age became an apprentice in the manufacture of woolens under the direction of his father, who was associated with the textile industry in a small woolen mill in Western Maryland.

At nineteen, he went to the Hagerstown, Maryland, Agricultural Implement Company, to learn the trade of machinist, and upon completing his apprenticeship became superintendent of the wood working department of the company.

In 1880, the plant was removed to Newark, Ohio and the business reorganized as the Newark Machine Company.

In 1890, he became identified with the firm of Reeves & Co., manufacturers of agricultural implements, and appointed superintendent of the Reeves plant. He had much to do with nearly all of the inventions that were utilizied by the concern in the manufacture of woolen machinery. He assisted in developing the clover huller; he designed the company's separator; invented a feeder and stacker; and from time to time added improvements to the company's big line of machines. At the time of his death he was completing plans for an "all-steel separator" of his own invention.

When Reeves & Co. was sold to Emerson-Brantingham Co., Mr. Kailor was continued in his old position by the new proprietors.

He was a communicant of the Presbyterian Church, and his political affiliation was with the Republican Party.

Married: December 5, 1872 (23 years old)

Wife: Mary E. (b. 11-22-1838) (33 years old)

4 children: Sally R., Nora M., Joseph P. and James D.

Died: Columbus, Indiana, July 14, 1914 (64 years old)

Reference
The National Cyclopedia of American Biography

Vol. 17, p. 131 *R-APK 1975