DANIEL O. AULT, a prominent factor in Republican politics in Jefferson County, Ohio, and formerly city clerk of Toronto, was born at Jeddo, now the southern part of Toronto, January 6, 1866, and is a son of William W. and Sarah Jane (Carnahan) Ault. William W. Ault was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and was a son of Daniel Ault, who, for a long period was a well known river pilot. William W. Ault enlisted for services in the Civil War, from this county, becoming a member of Company E, 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He suffered so severly while enduring imprisonment at Andersonville and Libby Prisons, that he contracted consumption, from which he died in 1870. Daniel O. Ault was only four years old when he lost his father. He attended school for a short time but had not passed his boyhood years before he felt it his duty to to to work in order to help his widowed mother support the family. While an employee of the John Porter Clay Manufacturing Company, when he was twenty-one years of age, he met with an accident which resulted in the loss of his left arm. After he had recovered from the shock of this injury, he began to work for the C & P Railroad, as a lamp tender, in the meanwhile applying himself to the study of telegraphy and after becoming proficient in that art, has made telegraph operating his main business since. He has always been an active and interested citizen. He served the city of Toronto in the office of city clerk for nine years and in 1910 was candidate at primary for county auditor. Mr. Ault married Miss Florence Willison, a daughter of J. M. Willison, a former farmer near Woodsfield, O., who now resides at Eat Liverpool. Mr. and Mrs. Ault have one daughter, Olive May. Mr. Ault is identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Red Men, the W. O. W. and the M. W. A.
Source: The 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio by Joseph B. Doyle