Granville Milling Co

Mr. Harold Attebery and two associates opened the Granville Milling Company in Granville, Ohio, on May 4, 1953. Mr. Attebery worked as a sales representative for several companies that manufactured mill and grain elevator equipment, and this new business seemed a natural extension of his current occupation. In 1958 he moved from his home in Delaware, Ohio, to Granville in order to be closer to his new venture. Between 1955 and 1959 Mr. Attebery bought out the two other stockholders in the company, and it became a one-man enterprise. In 1959 Granville Milling Company became a certified Purina dealer; company sales that year were $162,000 and they operated in the black for the first time since conception. In 1959 and 1960 they added a 400-bushel grain dryer and two 9,000-bushel grain bins. In 1962 they built a chicken house that held 4,000 laying hens.