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BIOGRAPHICAL
CATALOG

OF THE

PoRTRAIT GALLERY

OF THE

SADDLE AND
SIRLOIN CLUB

BY

EDWARD N. WENTWORTH

8

UNION STOCK YARDS :: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

1920

PREFACE

The compiler of these brief biographies wishes to acknowledge
his indebtedness for material and inspiration in a number of
the stories told, to the files of The Breeder’s Gazette and to books
of Mr. Sanvers (12) and “The Druid.” The American worthies
here portrayed have had their tales infinitely better told in such
volumes as “At the Sign of the Stock Yard Inn,” “Shorthorn
Cattle,” and the “Story of the Herefords” by Mr. Sanpers, and
he who would delve farther into their romance, can gain much
of interest and inspiration by a study of their pages. To the
many friends of those whose portraits hang on these walls,
another debt is due, as their acquaintanceship and intimacy have
been freely drawn upon, but the list is far too long to enumerate.
The richness of association of Mr. OciLvie (6) and Mr. LEoNARD
(64) with these heroes of a day gone by has also been liberally
tapped, and heartiest appreciation of their unfailing good nature
and cordial support is hereby expressed.

Epwarp N. WENTWORTH.

Saddle and Sirloin Club,
Chicago, Ill, August 25, 1920.

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

No. or

PortRAIT
Adams, Hon. Henry C............ sees ee eee eee ener 25
Alexander: Robert: Ave sccseasessersg sas 63:58 + a aeeracnelorernete ds 82
Allen, Louis: Peiccsciaccce cc ce teas cea neeeeewedawccess 96
Allerton, Samuel W., Jr....... ccc cece cece eee eee eee 67
Armour, Philip D...... 0... cece ee ee eee eeeee 70
Armour; ‘Philip D., Irises ec0is ewetuwagecncnaeees 6 123
Armour,.J: Ogden sci suiceidnies 92 cose car peittewacewes 69
Babcock: Dr: S: Mes scancsascuircee ee ss Pes se aarelheieatecs 23
Bakewell, Robert cis ioscceig-oecenwusles ee vo ies 54 sextdaw eee 78
Barclay, ‘Capt: ive <cosesvessinieicisiscdsacarcincdia oiea os owes Soca seca eres 80

Bates, Thomas
Bellows, George
Booth, Thomas
Booth;.“Ts Giese ev i cea vereeuveanesn es
Bracelets occ ssa aasc teense eee e3 ws
Brown; He Fics ais s05 cacaseaGas corse oes

Brown, James 3-2, 5-0 cesaistscassarevdus bed. endo oe avecatvapseavens

Bunn; John W sc. vcisccranewses tian cos ves ae eeeene
Carlyle; We Dos ccc 65 ccsceaayesie Sec aeiases 60.8% Has 3 RA MeO
Carpenter, Reid
Clark, Thomas
Clarke Ny Pisses sites Reccsaiehiaioeederereied so Sew as eon
Cobb; Emery i 3 6 is ee iiss antaursmaivagnaive a3 sos oats
Coburn; Fo Dike esis oss ceescieusunsewars o64 4s nee
Colling, Charles and Robert............0cecccceecees 94
Cooper, Col. John S........ ccc eee cece cece eee eees 48

Crouch: :Jis 22. dass ssavs meiuewaoen eat nak coeveeesmeaiene 42
Cruickshank, Amos
Gurtiss, (6. ooesass vance aieoaniceseneecke-c cues gases
Davenport, Eugene
Davidson, James I.............0cescecesceacee
Davison, G. Howard
Detmers, Dr. H. J........... 0000

Duggan, Charles Bsa eiteracsengsacecaineies vedas Gon ueaioes
Dunham; Mark. Wore ie:55 essceecauiiae s¥ sess ese scages
Durham: (Ox: sse22 45055 o05 wee ckieeciedesaane <c8 weeeeee
Bairfax; Henry: ¢203544aasieeenGasiees 538s 38 baiiocccn
Fairholme Footprint .............0. sec eeeccceeeceees 145
Favill, Dre He Bis dose. acda at bserewretbee nab an sab are taierdace 17
Francis’ Johns 2'sset-s.c0 saw sictine siemens ve pees hacaistne 50
Franklin, Benjamin ............ ccc cceeecsceeceeceee 93
Funk; Isaac: x 3icc vasa seaereenmrnaeeu desk saeentes 101

ALPHABETICAL INDEX—Continued

No. oF

PortrRaIT

Funk, ‘Lafayette. 2<ccaneahwur ss sss sawrndeaea tere eus 103
Fyvie Baron ........... ccc cece eee c eect e cece eeenens 144
Gentry, NoHo io5 2:3 cc acate.t sacs dane bestwieliensSuie-e anrelaiea 111
Gibson, Richard .......... 0.0 .c cece cece cee ceeteeenee 113
Gilbey;..Sir Walter seis cicasueiua vss coaweee 2 4's 3 or oeeee 81
Gillett, John Diiceis oseseacsus 6503 soeaawwene ie haan 100
Goodwins: Wee Rios iics goiecdiesiged eaaes aisssnaaeeGisias eauued 3
Grant, William J........ ccc cece cece eect eee eeeeee 124
Grant, ‘Ulysses: Sich csieaeneeia's <2 et onan dares soca V7
Groves; John: Wess. sscacnes ice sean orsemae ses aia sadea 118
Haggin,. James: Bois. iecocscss a. stro cmniecaniale ee ooalaesaaiel eve 68
Hamilton, Alexander ............::ccececeeeeeeceecee 90
Harding; Krank...) 703 .cenasis tec gemcaenwseexaa seas 108
Harding, George <i siscisaes cess 06s eaieaee b6 08 se eens 115
Harris; Gols We Aisiicccs seas cnacs nia ch.oe avavasace aternve boo Siete arate 109
Harviestoun Baroness ............++ Sanonicer ssl
Hatch, Hon. Wm. H..... .. 27
Henry, Dean W. A........ ccc e cece eee cee eens .. 20
ORMNES 6A incase Sing cacelaeuenenananweaiecneddmas cee wicewaly 141
PV ORD eB sore caesar cys cave eekesevaceg avait aeaetavaliene Me ar esatalorerees 58
Hoard, Wi. Disccieceicenigatodcuevesis ceieiomtis sits Wie etnars 7
Holloway, Robert «3 cassecwcivsies os neaseme ce eens eeewe 44
Hutchinson. Be ois siceecscsesacece veces ete tiene ache so oe eeesek 65
Ingwersen, Charles H..............0. se eeeeeeenceeeee 56
Ingwersen, Henry. ©). tssevsacees os tentonswe vias s viea eects 57
Jefferson; Thomas: «ss 4 <cessacc seuss ansinseece sa ces ens 88
Judy; Ue -Wesisiacns occ casteina sys cameos sh tance 104
Keeton OX sciscsgietsscsreatiarseassiese bb as seamnsceneieinceee ere nob aeeint 129
Keefer, Louis: sissies osecsencacgescovese aigcetuienclerccainiel doea ccna Beeler 54
Kohrs,' Conrad. sssceiscaiaccan ce ones aiiehses 6 ora Gas ne 53
Law; Dr: Jamesivs scc.c sx sscacex'e bo-0 aie eerie bean ues 122
Leonard) Ax Grice cc stos cerned gt ee intveenice 6 See Yee 64
Leonard, ‘Charles: Bie <...osccescssecee six Seesnleissaieeicee a Obes 107
Levering; Mortimer: :oecciesa eae tacssvidvewnae ees ovata 40
Lincoln, Abraham: 4 s.02.ccse08.0 40% 6 Ssanareeinnd sete s aais 15
Lockridge: S: Bivecsccsaaaee sees ssiietnenss sca eens 112
Weord. Bamit aise ioe esa; dare cudesvessyelir-¥.gceskcaseseracereraraiaads bore Oh. sesta 135
Lovejoys As. Jivcite sce svicscesoan Gen ewoielelna te ccuee cots 55
Marshall, Duncan: 2: sccsieusces vss eeeeakeeaeess sec eae 9
Marshall, Jobin: is .-écsscescinew eo s0u 58 See eee vac awa’ 91
Martin, Georee eicsaceccs.ncacarscesira 00s aise dbched axaeds a ood ie 121
Maxwalton Commander ............seeeseeeceeecens 130
Mackenzie, Murdo .............eceeeeeeceeneeeeceees 49
Melvin; Dr. A. Ds os ccc sksuacess oss eweereeue chase an 34
Miller;. JOH sicsiierec-eco ok aisiesisiels he OA Cicero eh RT SAATS 114
Miller, William: io s.0seeee cies bose sieeeedien evens eae 116
Mohler: Dr). J. Resse s os asacsaxnes Se eatin dates nave eae 35
Montgomery, Andrew ...........ceeecceccececccecees 16
Morrill, Senator J. S......... 2c cece cece eee cece ee aee 28

Morria;; Edward) scssc0sc:sosieiinceaeco ota scooter eave 72

ALPHABETICAL INDEX—Continued

PortRAIT

Morris, Nelson: accessed aad sods wad da dieosesintsiwe die 8 71
Morris: Sheep assesses as ste atiie i ara wtatnanocresaavarsieise ait ate 137
Morris: ‘Six. ssnscoecerecisiadiens ? axe oe ss sardine erieiterr si 139
Morton, Secretary J. Sterling..............seeeeeeeee 16
Ogilvie: Ri Biss tviic es 3 ccs dace sa eaeeaaew eee eae 6
Pabst, Captain Fred..............c cee eeceeceeeeeeeee 47
Pickrell j= Henry is.c:.52 20 bec. b caves rccuaresiadnnae aha 95
Pierces Be. Ress ccaiicetes + cei tsscsve ark Seaieiteieacorerotecavanianoctieese-d:% 59
Pearson; (Dri Leonard ¢.6-46saikie--01s aatnsreicus a nareina ls aioe ear 1
Penny: Willian 22 os oc6 eeasnesewennsiea ee MiG wae wa 125
Pink: Brillante: .ccicc2s< ie <ssaceas Oeeminee vedo peee es 131
Pratheér,.J. \Wrank ss, 6 c0¢ os024 ceciiceeneteaeeeesest3s4 119
Remi ches (Peis: 5as sccesecas oes gea:5. 5 och 3:3 Heche Succayace daca van dec esaueea ®- Osco 92
Rosenbaum, Joseph .........-... cece cece reece sence 51
Roundup on Bear Creek Ranch...............eeee005 52
Roberta: 2caicsamena ved nese seces seme snuiens 28 eee sd 140
Rusk, Secretary Jeremiah........... 0.00: cee eeeeeeee 18
Ruthérford: Dr: J -Gse 6 veccc a4 eeee tieeeainceee ia sened 2
Ryan, Jc Bis Geccigishers ale cre troaae ave elciobesieio Gs ax eats bier
Salmon, Dr. D. E
Sanders; sAy isco, siesis 55-5. sean seared ales Meee SWS
Sanders, J. H
Sherman, John
Skinner, Dean J. H.... 0... cece ccc cece eee ee ceeenee ll
Skinners: We Bivicjass) aicceca da tw a aecealeeoeeciesesansone. 8 see a-d5, rare 39
Spencer Ox ives stot hoeceansivenuhoaveierne ee eon newts 132
St. Valentine cnsc-3 i sews pa viateaira senses eee as cu oeee 136
Swift, Gustavus Franklin.............c sees eee e ee eeee 62
Thomson, Robert B............ccce ccc cee ceeteeeeees 22
Tilden, edward. 3.2 ée5-cc.2.0.8.cneneieasedvianavde Gece sea eoee 63

omson, John Ross........s.ceceeceseeccetececceece 126
Torry. Wome. desecgooseees Saas pan Sa Ge Se eee oe haa 84
Truimianss Jsc esses eats. cve 38's eras resist omerwlnat x boa Seales
Van. Meter; B... Bese sce os 2a4 scwcrnmeeeience Sass oe 5a EES
Van Natta. Wi Sisctnaccwies ciataies evib tee aes Ree
Victory, Winged .......... ccc ccc ec cece ec ceteeeceeees
Vilas, Senator Wm. F............ cece cece cette ee eeees
Washington, General George
Waters, Henry Jackson............-.-ceeeeeeeeeceeee
Webb, Jonas: scsacsccaaiee 3.62 055 Re esas eteneeeee 8 esses
Webster, Daniel ............ cece cece eee cee e ee eeees
Wetherell, William ........ 0... ccc ccc eee cece eens eee
Whitehall Marshal ............. cece cece ec eceeeceees
White Heifer that Traveled. 2
Wilson, Secretary James...........cceceeceeceeceeeee

Wilson,. Thomas: Bisssicse sven os os sane eieasde tad ena

aNTO NIOTYIS GNV WIGGVS AHL Ad da TIVISNI LYIdVL AZNOUE

THE MISSION OF THE CLUB

The clanking whir of the nineteenth century in industrial
America, the reddened glow of her furnaces, the webbed weave
of her rails, and the crackling luminescence of her electrical
achievements; all by their spectacular novelties have diverted
the national attention from the artisanship and artistry of those
who, from farm and flock, grassland and granary, market and
menu, have builded an unsurpassed husbandry and cradled its
distribution. Today the crowding world has sounded its food
cry, its pitch shrilled by war, and public attention is gradually
focussing on food sources. Against such contingency the live-
stock industries have builded, but the squirming consumer looks
not behind the price barrier, and dreams not of the masterly
achievements of yardman and packer, showman and rancher,
breeder and producer, that lie hidden behind the veil. The marvel
is not that prices have been unprecedentedly high, it is that there
has been so complete a production and distribution that the food
gaps in the friendly areas of the world have been successfully
stopped.

Heroes of production have there been, heroes of husbandry,
heroes of industry, each contributing his share toward the ulti-
mate fillment of the public maw. Yet where lives the urbanite
who can tell of them, or who can recognize the broad service and
ideals that have led to the perpetuation of their memories upon
the walls of this inner shrine? Here are portrayed in oils and
pigments, the loved features of those who have wrought their
works to the cohesion, advancement and prestige of the livestock
industry. What if the passing crowd forget, in here, revivified,
the eyes of those who gave look down, their souls still sing their
sagas to the mellowed memories of those who would commune,
or fling their challenge to the youth who sets his foot to travel in
their paths. The swarded pasture, the stir of market and the
tensities of tanbark take on new luster under their beatitudes, in-
spiring emulation of their achievements.

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Many there be who can ride the flood of an energized idea,
stealing from its latencies powers for their own emolumence.
Such by the hundred receive popular acknowledgment, urban and
rural alike, but all too frequently the man who can originate such
an idea is little known and only locally recognized. He who
unseals the fount from which the flood springs, too often is
washed up on the shore, short yards from where he started, while
the public eye ignores the bruised battler to watch the crest of
his liberated wave. Or, if his sacrifice be seen, gives approbative
glance, and forgets, in seeking new sensations in the whirl of
modern progress. Today is only temporarily discriminative, its
heroes are short-lived and its memories shorter. He who does
and gives sooner finds obscurity than he who dazzles and takes.
This reconstructive period finds America taking too much for
granted. The stream of meats which has plenished the food table
of this country has been so long enjoyed that it is a matter of
commonplace, to be admired for its volume, but to be credited to
no one. I]l-advised agitators and shortsighted economists through
influencing executive and legislative powers have tinkered with
meat supplies to the permanent injury of the producers of this
generation. The achievements of men who look upon us from
these walls are ignored and unknown, and the labor for which
they stand, unrecognized. Their perpetuation furnishes the justi-
fication of this gallery; the broadening acquaintance with them,
its mission. To the petty jealousies and frictions of an agricul-
ture developed from so many provincial angles, it brings a court
of authority. SADDLE anp SirLorn emblematic of the field of
their jurisdiction, christens the club walls on which the portraits
hang, and the organization of active workers in husbandry and
industry who uphold them.

The permanent housing of the International Livestock Expo-
sition at the Union Stock Yards in 1900 made Chicago as firmly
the pivot of the improved livestock industry as it had previously

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been the pivot of livestock marketing. By that act the scattered
offices of the numerous pedigree associations found a logical loca-
tion, and a common center for the vast ramifications of the live-
stock industry was established. Chicago became the contact point
for those who breed and those who feed, those who sell and those
who buy, those who kill and those who cure; all that mighty array
of stockmen, shippers, commission men, packers, breeders, vet-
erinarians, manufacturers of stock feeds, medicine and serums,
harness and saddlery men, fertilizer makers, builders of farm
machinery, and the journalists of the growing agriculture. So
varied, a constituency early created the need for quarters suitable
for the fraternal discussion of the important affairs pertaining
to the interests they represented.

Appreciation of this need called into existence the SADDLE AND
SirLoin CLus. The germ of the idea unfolded in the mutual
minds of RoBert B. OciLvie (6), ARTHUR G. LEONARD (64), and
Autvin H. SanpEeRS (12) in June, 1903, as a corollary to Mr.
LEonarp’s achievement in building the purebred Livestock Record
Building, while the name was suggested by RicHarp Gipson from
“The Druid’s” tales of that title. Mr. LEonaRp’s acquaintanceship
as general manager of the Union Stock Yards, Mr. SAnpERs’ life-
time relation with the growth of livestock journalism, pedigree
values and breed history, and Mr. Ocitvie’s personal intimacy
with the gentlemen breeders and sportsmen of Britain and
America, the show and breeding veterans of a half century, all
furnished viewpoints assuring the broadest foundations in club
ideals. In the days of the old Lake Side Stock Show the necessary
social and business center was provided in the old Grand Pacific
hostelry, but the retirement of Messrs. DRaKE and PARKER in 1894
scattered the clans. Hence from its inception the SADDLE AND
SrRLoin CLus was foredestined to a broader function than the
refreshment of those whose business and financial interests
located them at the Stock Yards. Here numberless meetings

10 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

fraught with bovine, equine, porcine or ovine significance have
been held. Here college students have first made contact with
the broad sweep of breeding’s artistry. Here visiting friends
from the two hemispheres have found the inspiration and atmos-
phere that has led our stockmen to ultimate accomplishment.

The functioning of the club as a unit in cohering husbandry
and commerce initiated several clearly defined club activities.
First and foremost it has made itself the ally of the International
Livestock Show, being perpetual host to the latter’s guests. Sec-
ondly, and with the aid of the International, it attracts each
year, and in ever increasing numbers, men of education, wealth
and high business ability to the ranks of modern agriculture,
especially livestock breeding. Thirdly, through admitting to
membership staff workers of the agricultural colleges and
through offering gold medals in essay contests to agricultural
students, it has stimulated the formation of the SADDLE AND
SIRLOIN and BLock AND BRIDLE Cuss of the colleges, and has
led many a noteworthy novice into the ranks of the constructive
initiate. Fourthly, it has committed itself to the perpetual com-
memoration of those worthies who have bequeathed to mankind
the improved animals and the organized industries that have
made modern production and distribution possible. Fifthly, it
has formed the nucleus of what it some day hopes will become
the leading livestock library of the world.

To Rosert OciLvie (6) the club owes the idea of the gallery,
and it is to him and H. F. Brown (105) that the indebtedness
for the first portraits is due. Largely through the individual
efforts of Mr. OciLvie the atmosphere and the spirit of the club
has developed. While club officials have changed he has labored
unremittingly and unceasingly on the gallery, striving constantly
for improved artistic standards and for worthy recipients of the
club’s honors. It will ever be a memorial to his taste and a
tribute to his knowledge of the makers of the livestock industry.

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A BATTLER AGAINST THE WHITE PLAGUE

1. One of the foremost forces in the upbuilding of the vet-
erinary profession in the eastern United States was Dr. LEONARD
Pearson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pearson was born in Evans-
ville, Ind., August 17, 1868. Much of his early education came
from the home instruction of his mother, and in 1888 he received
the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at Cornell
University. Two years later he earned his D. V. M. from the
University of Pennsylvania, and then went abroad to attend
lectures in the veterinary schools of Berlin and Dresden. He
studied bacteriology in Koch’s Laboratory where he became inter-
ested in tuberculosis, and was permitted the facilities of the
laboratory of the veterinary division of the German Army. On
his return he was made assistant professor of medicine in the
veterinary department of the University of Pennsylvania, and
three years later he was promoted to full professor. In 1897
he was elected Dean of the school.

Dr. PEARSON was appointed state veterinarian in 1896 and
served continuously in that capacity until his death. It was
through his efforts that the Livestock Sanitary Board of Penn-
sylvania was organized. He reorganized the veterinary school
at the University of Pennsylvania and secured the new buildings
and equipment, which are undoubtedly the best in the country.
In addition, he procured a farm for experimental work in con-
nection with animal diseases.

Dr. PEARSON was a recognized leader in the control of in-
fectious diseases. He was the first in America to use tuberculin
for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle. His investigations
on bovine tuberculosis were extensive and most valuable, and

12 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

at the time of his death he was endeavoring to find an immuniz-
ing agent against this disease. So eminent had he become in
state veterinary work that in 1895 SecreTary Morton offered
him the position of Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry.
His interest in veterinary education and his loyalty to Pennsyl-
vania led him to decline the offer. He was a prominent writer
on veterinary subjects. For years he conducted the veterinary
magazine through which he gave to his profession much of the
best in the languages of other countries, as well as many valuable
contributions of his own. In 1908 the University of Pennsyl-
vania conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Medi-
cine.

Dr. PEARSON was a member of the Seventh International
Congress of Hygiene and Dermography held in London in 1891,
and of the Third International Congress for the Study of Tuber-
culosis held in Paris in 1898. He was Secretary and President
of the American Veterinary Medical Association, for two years
was president of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical
Association, and for a similar period headed the Keystone Vet-
erinary Medical Society. Dr. PEARSON was an active member of
the Guernsey Cattle Club at Philadelphia, of the Pennsylvania
Livestock Breeders’ Association and of the State Grange. While
not a cattle showman, Dr. Pearson did a great deal toward in-
teresting men of wealth and discrimination in the cause of the
Guernsey, and was an instrumental factor in their dissemination
throughout the state. Professionally, Dr. Pearson held mem-
berships in the American Public Health Association, the City
Board of Health in Philadelphia, the State Board of Health, and
was Veterinarian to the State Board of Agriculture.

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The reorganization of the veterinary school and the Pennsy]-
vania State Livestock Sanitary Board are the results of his
efforts that stand out in bold relief above much else of great
value that he did. While these will be known to the historian,
the sterling qualities of the man will abide with those who knew
him. He was a manly man with a sweetness of disposition rarely
found among men. His deep interest in the advancement and
betterment of his profession caused him “to burn the candle of
life at both ends.” As a result, he died a premature death while

on a vacation at Spruce Brook, Newfoundland, September 20,
1909.

14 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

A VETERINARIAN WHO NURSED A YOUNG AGRICULTURE

2. One of the broadest executive careers vouchsafed to a
Canadian agriculturist has fallen to the lot of Dr. Joun Gunion
RUTHERFORD, horse breeder, veterinarian, agricultural official,
army officer and railroad executive. Dr. RUTHERFORD was born
at Mountain Cross, Peebleshire, Scotland, December 25, 1857.
He was “a son of the Manse,” his father being the Rev. Rost.
RUTHERFORD, a Presbyterian minister at Peebles. He was edu-
cated at the Glasgow high school, at Edinburgh, and by means
of a private tutor. As a young man he came to Canada where
he attended the Ontario Agricultural College and the Ontario
Veterinary College at Guelph. Following graduation he entered
upon veterinary practice, being located at various points in
Canada, the United States and Mexico. In 1884 he settled at
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, and undertook horse breeding and
production as a side operation to his practice. From 1887 to
1892 he was veterinary inspector for the provincial government,
being elected in the latter year to the Lakeside (Manitoba) Legis-
lature. He remained a legislator for four years, and was then

elected to the Canadian House of Commons, as a member from
MacDonald.

One of his earliest duties in an official way for Canadian agri-
culture was to represent the Dominion at the International Insti-
tute of Agriculture at Rome. In 1908 he was a delegate to
the International Congress on Tuberculosis at Washington, and
was elected the same year to a term as president of the American
Veterinary Medical Association. In 1909 he became president
of the Civil Service Association of Canada, chairman of the
International Commission on the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis,
and president of the Western Canada Livestock Union. For
many years previous he had been president of the Horse Breeders’
Association of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. He
gained early military experience in the northwest, having served

OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 15

under Gen. MIDDLETON as veterinary officer to the northwest field
force, during the Riel Rebellion in 1885. Dr. RUTHERFORD has
published a number of monographs on veterinary subjects as
well as on horse breeding and the care of horses. His chief
recreations are riding and driving, and he is a notable fisher-
man in the mountain waters of the northwest. He has supported
the chase most heartily and is an officer and member of the
Rideau Hunt Club, and the Ranchman’s Club of Calgary.

From 1902 to 1912 he was veterinary director general of
Canada, and from 1906 to 1912, livestock commissioner for the
Dominion. At the close of the latter year, he resigned his posi-
tion to assume the superintendency of agriculture and animal
industry with the department of natural resources of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. After six years of this duty he was appointed
member of the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners, with
headquarters at the Canadian capital at Ottawa. The variety of
interests which he has so successfully maintained throughout his
life has served to give him an optimism of viewpoint and a for-
ward tendency in thinking that have been of real service to Cana-
dian citizenship.

16 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

A WORD PAINTER OF LIVESTOCK MASTERPIECES

3. The dean of American showyard reporters was WILLIAM
RANSDELL Goopwin. Never was the story of a live stock exhi-
bition fully told to a North American breeder until he had
opportunity to read Mr. Goopwin’s virile comment, and never
could he visualize clearly the incidents of the big ring battles
until his forceful pen had touched up the higher lights. Mr.
Goopwin’s indomitable energy and his extraordinary facility
made a name for him that is almost immortal. He possessed a
perennial potentiality to find in each new show an added luster
in the animals on review, and from one season to another was
able to classify each detail in which the exhibit of that day had
surpassed its predecessor. His reports of the World’s Columbian
Exposition, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Alaska-
Yukon Exposition, the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the Iowa and
Illinois State Fairs, the American Royals and the Internationals
were classic, no matter what the breed nor how unusual the feature
he discussed. He was one of the most forceful personalities
known to the field of agricultural journalism.

Mr. Goopwin was born at Brookville, Indiana, August 19,
1863. His father, WILLIAM RANSDELL Goopwin, Sr., was a Meth-
odist divine, then president of a college at Brookville. His early
education was in the public schools of Danville, Quincy and De-
catur, I1l., and he spent three years at the Illinois Wesleyan Uni-
versity. In 1883 he completed his college course at DePauw
University, receiving his A. B. degree. Three years later his
A. M. was conferred by the same school. He was a member of
Beta Theta Pi in college, and for years was joint host with his
brother, JupcE Joun B. Goopwin, to the Chicago Alumni Asso-
ciation of the fraternity, either at Heatherton, his brother’s Naper-
ville home, or at Oakhurst, his own estate near the same town.

Following his graduation in 1883, he allied himself with his
brother in the breeding of Aberdeen-Angus cattle at Beloit,

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Kans., a breed with which his brother secured a lifelong success.
“WILL” GoopwiNn was not destined for this long, however, as he
was a born writer, and his facility of expression coupled with
his love for livestock opened for him a future in agricultural
journalism which did not terminate until he had become one of
its most forceful figures. In the summer of 1885 he joined The
Breeder’s Gazette, then in its third year of life. His first duties
were in the business department, looking after the interests of
the holders of public sales and aiding breeders in the purchase
of desirable animals. After a few years, however, he entered
the editorial department, first as assistant editor and later as
managing editor. Mr. Goopwin succeeded to the last position
when the editor of the Gazette, Mr. ALVIN SANDERS (12), was
appointed on the wool commission by PRESIDENT TaFT.

In 1899 Mr. Goopwin acquired an interest in the stock of the
Sanders Publishing Co., and became its vice-president. In 1902
he proceeded to England and Scotland as staff representative of
The Breeder’s Gazette at the English Royal and Highland and
Agricultural Shows. During this trip he made many warm
friends and broadened his livestock views perceptibly. From
the opening of the International he was entrusted with the hos-
pitality extended the foreign judges, and secreted them at Oak-
hurst, far from overzealous friends and designing exhibitors, until
the show actually opened.

On his farm at Oakhurst he bred Berkshire swine, Buff Leg-
horn fowls and Indian Runner ducks. He was very fond of pet
stock and reared Scotch Collies and Angora cats. For several
years he was president of the American Cat Association. He was
a member of the Aberdeen-Angus Association, a director and
whilom vice-president of the American Saddle Horse Associa-
tion, a judge of the breed, and a staunch friend of GENERAL JoHN
B. CASTLEMAN, its chief promoter. His description of the saddle
horse gaits in The Breeder’s Gazette of two decades ago is a rare

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bit of technical writing. Through the columns of this paper he
became a powerful promoter of the dairy interests and a strong
supporter of the National Dairy Council. He was a member of
the National Dairy Association and first president of the National
Society of Record Associations. He was an early backer of the
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB, and a life member of the Interna-
tional Livestock Exposition.

Mr. Goopwin was an ardent automobile enthusiast and a mem-
ber of the Chicago Automobile Club. As a public speaker he
was in great demand at breed conventions, association meetings,
and livestock banquets. His delivery was forceful, his logic
sound; at the 1914 International he was credited with making
the speech to the National Swine Growers that launched the
National Swine Show. He was a program fixture for both Jersey
and Berkshire breeders, often being called across the continent
by the Jersey men for his evening talk.

Editorially his shillaly swung sturdily, and he never hesitated to
wield it when the occasion demanded. He was possessed of strong
convictions, always ready to give battle for sound principles, and
always willing to back to the limit in an editorial way those whose
cause he championed. He stamped his manhood and forceful in-
tegrity on every undertaking upon which he entered. His editorials
were meaty and pregnant with truths. A writer of an obituary
said of him, “He was as rugged and strong as a block of granite
and could be swerved from his ideals for right and justice neither
by threats nor entreaties, neither for self nor affection. He knew
but one code of ethics—do right as it is given you to know what
right is. He never harmed a human being nor allowed one to
harm him a second time.”

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His spirit was patriarchal and his conscience guided his
thoughts. He was one of the most distinguished Congregational
laymen in the country, and was honored by being selected to
serve as moderator at an Illinois conference. His prayer on that
occasion remains a classic to those who heard it. He was buried
Tuesday afternoon, April 8, 1919, in the village cemetery at
Naperville, his shaft within sight of Oakhurst’s pillars. No stone
can ever symbolize the imperishable monument he holds in the
hearts and minds of American breeders.

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DIRECTOR OF THE CLASSIC COLUMBIAN

4. It has not been the fortune of many Americans to rise from
the ranks of agriculture to highest influence in the diplomatic
world, but in recent years this was indeed the achievement of the
Hon. W. I. Bucuanan. Born on an Jowa farm, he was grounded
firmly in the fundamental cycle of the corn belt, “to grow more
corn, to feed more hogs, to buy more land,” and so on, ad infini-
tum. Mr. BucHANan’s experience particularly stressed the corn
item, and after becoming connected with the banking business in
Sioux City, he organized and staged the first purely corn show
ever held. This was founded in the early nineties and was held
in a “corn palace” especially constructed for the purpose. His
success here led to his being appointed chief of agriculture at the
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Numerous important
acquaintanceships originated here, and stress was brought to bear
on President Cleveland to secure the secretaryship of agriculture
in the new cabinet. But previous political promises prevented
this, and he was appointed Minister to the Argentine. His service
here was so eminently satisfactory that in spite of repeated
attempts to resign, PRESIDENT McKINLEy forced him to continue
in office under the republican administration. Mr. BucHANAN
rendered an invaluable service in the establishment of broader
trade relations with the South American republic, and developed
such a degree of confidence among Latin-Americans that he was
selected to establish definitely the Venezuelan border line after
The Hague had completed its arbitration of the border claims.

On his return from Buenos Aires, he was appointed Director
General of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and con-

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tributed largely to the agricultural success of the show. MR.
BUCHANAN was first American Minister to the Republic of Pan-
ama and was High Commissioner representing the United States
during the Venezuelan dispute. His death occurred from apo-
plexy in London, October 12, 1909, while returning to his apart-
ments from a dinner. He was a man of deepest integrity and
sterling judgment, and he rendered a noteworthy service to the
livestock industry in years when public recognition was vitally
needed.

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A PROPONENT OF LIVESTOCK SCIENCE

5. Foremost among the men who have studied the needs of the
animal in birth, growth and preparation for market, is HENRY
Jackson Waters. Dr. Waters has had a career far more varied
than becomes the lot of the average college professor and investi-
gator. By the force of his personality, by his driving ambition
to get at the elemental subjects the livestock man must meet, and
by his continually open and inquisitive mind, he has wrought
for himself a niche in agricultural progress that no other per-
sonality will fill. Dr. WaTers was born at Center, Mo., Novem-
ber 23, 1865, and received his B. S. A. at the University of
Missouri in 1886. In 1904 and 1905 he studied in the animal
nutrition laboratories of the Universities of Leipsic and Zurich.
In 1913 the New Hampshire State College conferred on him the
degree of Doctor of Laws, and three years later the University
of Missouri honored him similarly.

His public activities began upon college graduation. He was
Assistant Secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture
from 1886 to 1888; assistant agriculturist of the Missouri Experi-
ment Station from 1886 to 1891; professor of agriculture and
agriculturist in the experiment station at the Pennsylvania Agri-
cultural College from 1892 to 1895. In 1895 he was returned
to the University of Missouri as professor of agriculture, Dean
of the College of Agriculture and director of the experiment
station, a position he retained until 1909. The sessions of the
Graduate School of Agriculture at the University of Ohio in 1902
and the University of Illinois in 1906, saw him as lecturer in
animal nutrition, while he was appointed director of the Missouri
State Agricultural Exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
tion in 1903-1904. During his last year in Missouri, he was
president of the State Board of Agriculture, and in 1909 was
called to the Kansas State Agricultural College as President.
While in this last position he was made commissioner from the

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United States to the Philippine Islands to report on the agri-
cultural and educational development, and had opportunity to
visit Japan and China at the same time. In 1909 he was made
a member of the Kansas State Board of Education and in 1913
a member of the State School Book Commission for Kansas.
His interest in the direction of general education led to his elec-
tion as president of the Kansas State Teachers’ Association in
1911-1912. During the year 1913-1914 he presided over the
International Dry Farming Congress. In 1914 and 1915 he was
president of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Sci-
ence, and during these years brought out the most complete high
school text book on agriculture yet published, entitled “The
Essentials of Agriculture.” During his years of research in the
University of Missouri, Dr. Waters published several papers
on the maintenance requirements of calves, growing cattle and
mature animals, but his particularly chosen field of research was
the influence of the plane of nutrition on the type and body form
of the animal. In 1918 the weekly Kansas City Star offered him
so broad an opportunity to reach the farmers and cattlemen of
the southwest that he resigned iis presidency at Manhattan and
entered into the editorial field. During the war Dr. WaTERs acted
as chairman of the Kansas National Council of Defense, Food
Administrator, Chairman of the Regional Board of War Industry,
and Member of the 1917 Commission to fix the Price of Wheat.
In 1920 he was appointed a member of the Industrial Commis-
sion authorized by PRESIDENT WILSON. His appreciation of the
problems of the practical farmer and small stockbreeder have
made his work of almost classic importance to the students of
animal husbandry and to the cattlemen of the shortgrass country.
Dr. WATERS’ portrait was presented to the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN
Cus by the students of the University of Missouri and friends.

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ARCHITECT OF OUR TEMPLE

6. Richest in associations with those noble husbandmen of the
half-century agone lives RoBERT Burns OciLviE, master of Blair-
gowrie, and spiritual progenitor of the gallery whose tales these
pages bear. Since first he glimpsed the concept of the stockman’s
shrine, his pulses have daily quickened to its service and upbuild-
ing. He it is, of all the throng with pastoral ideals, whose memo-
ries have fruited full; his dearest wish has been to find horizons
which the romance of the husbandman has not yet reached, and
through the message of these worthy souls give vision of the
artistry of herds and flocks. From Scottish forebears he has
gained the flavor of the land, the wind-swept slopes of pastured
hills have given him command of herder thought. Idyl of pedi-
gree and blood, of show yard stress, find lodgment in his heart,
and day by day, inspire anew fresh goals for rural youth.

The blood of Forfarshire and Fife runs in his veins. Before
his birth his parents crossed to Whitby, Canada, and settled near
the site of modern Ashburne. From every viewpoint the family
was pioneer, and the common school instead of giving him the
training for his busy life, opened new fields of thought wherein
the world’s masters had traveled, the realm of books. He has
been a voluminous and careful reader, and though necessity early
forced him into the mercantile world, the stored knowledge of
nearly six decades finds ready access to his tongue, and faultless
memory can trace it to its source. While still in his teens he
crossed from Ontario to Wisconsin, and in 1867 settled in Madi-
son. Employment was found in a dry goods store, and three
years later the foreclosers of a mortgage on the business placed
him in charge. One year proved him sufficiently a master to
cause the creditors of his first employer to sell the business to
him. Five years more saw him the owner of one of the leading
dry goods stores in Wisconsin.

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But the Scottish heritage stirred in his blood, and the love of
livestock led him to supplemental fields. In 1867 he made his
first shipment of Clydesdales from Canada to Wisconsin and
entered the showring for the first time that year. As yet he had
no land and his animals were stabled in town. In the early
seventies his equine interests had developed to such a degree that
he deemed it best to secure a farm, and enter the draft horse
game in a more permanent manner. He was very fortunate in
obtaining Courtney Hall, lying five miles east from Madison.
Courtney Hall had been founded by an English nobleman, and
had a most pretentious castle and fine outbuildings. Here he
expanded his Clydesdale interests and for a short period engaged
in the breeding of Shorthorns, long enough to develop a herd
of really top rank, as far as showyard honors were concerned.
In 1883 an opportunity came to dispose of Courtney Hall at a
profit, and he secured Blairgowrie in the township of Vienna in
Dane County.

The female stock that ultimately founded his greatest successes
was obtained very shortly after Blairgowrie was established.
Rosert Bruce had selected for JaMEs J. HILt the finest bred and
highest priced importation of Clydesdale mares ever sent to Amer-
ica. Thirteen head were included in the lot and the prices ranged
from 500 to 800 guineas in Scotland. The original price quoted did
not meet Mr. OciLvie’s purse, and it was not until he had made
four trips to North Oaks, that a satisfactory bargain was struck.
Mr. Hitt had had an ambition to become a second Sir WM. STER-
LING-MAXWELL, breeder of Darnley, and wished North Oaks to be
an American Keir. However, he was unfortunate in the groom
selected to come to America with them, and after ineffectual
attempts to replace him, decided to abandon the project and sold
his entire importation to Mr. Ocitvie. The possession of such a
fine mare stock necessitated a suitable stallion, and_ this
animal Mr. Ocitvie found in the “Matchless” MacQueen,

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son of MacGregor by Darnley, and imported to Can-
ada by Grauam Bros. MacQueen reached Blairgowrie in 1887,
and for the next few years a new era in Clydesdale breeding was
developed in America. MacQueen put tops and middles on Blair-
gowrie Clydesdales, at the same time he gave them proper under-
pinning. Mr. Ocitvie was enabled to show young stock in a
bloom never before attempted in Clydesdale arenas on this side
of the water. Previously it was not thought possible to put any
flesh at all on a young animal before growth was obtained with-
out ruining it both for work and for breeding. Showyard suc-
cesses for Blairgowrie were phenomenal. In the late 80’s in an
interbreed contest, MacQueen and progeny defeated Mr. Dun-
HAM’s (43) great Brilliant, with more mature offspring. At the
World’s Columbian Exposition, the Lasses o’ Gowrie were invinc-
ible, MacQueen won the aged stallion class and Mr. OcILvie
unquestionably demonstrated the supremacy of the Darnley blood
as compared to that of Prince of Wales. Most notable among the
sons of MacQueen was the stallion Young MacQueen, sold to
the GRAHAM BRos., as a two-year old. He won the championship
at the 1897 Chicago show, and came back to the International of
1903 to win breed supremacy once more, again testifying to the
durability of the MacQueen kind. Untoward financial conditions
following the panic of 1893, forced him to disperse his stud and
to sell Blairgowrie in 1897, MacQueen going back to the GRAHAMS.

In 1900 he came to Chicago as Secretary of the American
Clydesdale Association, a position he has held ever since. This
year was also the first year of the International, and Mr. Oci.vie
was elected Superintendent of the Horse Department. Under his
constructive efforts the International Horse Department was a
success from the beginning. There has seldom been a show with
less than 400 horse entries, while on some occasions the number
has been nearly doubled. Mr. Ocritvie has laid especial emphasis
on the draft gelding show, and the shows of single animals, pairs,

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fours and sixes have become historic. In connection with his
relations at the International he has been appointed buyer of the
draft horses for the Union Stock Yard Co. and so successful have
been his purchases, that the six-horse team that won in 1913 was
of his selection, and individual animals from the yards have won
high class honors at subsequent shows.

As judge he has been very popular. He placed the ribbons
on the Continental Draft and Coach breeds at the Columbian
Exposition and has officiated at numerous fairs since. He was
selected as one of the three judges to represent America in 1916
in the International exchange with the Argentine but circumstances
arose at the last moment that prevented his taking the trip. Mr.
OcILviE rendered a great service to the teaching of animal hus-
bandry through his conceiving of the students’ livestock judging
contest. In the early 90’s he suggested the idea to PROFESSOR
Craic, (24) and contributed the prizes for a contest conducted
at Madison, the entrants being Wisconsin boys in attendance at
the University. When the International opened he worked unceas-
ingly for staging a contest between representative teams from
the different agricultural colleges, and finally accomplished it
through the generosity of Mr. CHaries Rosinson, of C1ay,
Rosinson & Co., whose firm contributed $1,000 annually to
finance the necessary expense and the prizes.

Under Mr. Ocitvie’s administration of the Clydesdale Asso-
ciation there have been attracted to its standard a number of men
throughout New England and the Middle States, who have become
ardent advocates and aggressive breeders of Clydesdales, men
whose tastes, dispositions and wealth are such as to secure for
the breed a most prosperous future. These men have purchased
the very best blood of the breed in Scotland, at long prices, and
are building on these foundations in America to newer and
greater breeding triumphs.

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His greatest service to livestock men in general, however, is his
founding of the portrait gallery in the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB.
While at Blairgowrie he had made the beginnings of such a gal-
lery by securing mezzotints, etchings, engravings and oil paint-
ings of the principal contributors to the art of breeding in
Britain throughout the early part of the last century, and the oils
were loaned to the CLusp as a nucleus from which the present
gallery has grown. The idea has been copied since by the Uni-
versity of Illinois in its Hall of Fame, in which portraits of
notable contributors to the agriculture of the state are hung, but
as yet there is no real rival to the gallery of this Cius, both
because of the extent of the interests affected and the breadth of
appeal in the achievements of the different men honored. Nowhere
in America does there exist any rival for inspirational value to
rural youth, to the portraits hung here.

Mr. OGciLviE is an inspiration himself to every young lover of
purebred livestock. He possesses a wealth of memories and asso-
ciations with the men of the last generation rivalled only by
Witiiam MILLER (116), and RicHarp Greson (113). This kin-
ship was felt strongly by the three, and resulted in an intimate
relationship whose sentiment and charm has been rarely equalled.
Each possessed a love for high thoughts well expressed, and each
was a master in his own way of this art. So it came that in the
fall of 1905 there was an almost prophetic quality in the words
of Mr. MILLER, as he sat on the veranda of the old Transit House
in the cool of the evening, during his last return to his Iowa
home after visiting in Canada:

“RoBERrT, I shall never see you again. This is my last trip. I
must say goodbye. I feel sorry for you. All of us whom you
have loved are passing on and you will be left here alone, the
solitary oak in the tilled field, whose leaves drop one by one, and
lonely waits the day when he too shall fall beside them.”

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THE PIONEER IN DAIRY JOURNALISM

7. Wittiam DempsTER Hoarp, patriarch of dairy husbandry,
was born in Stockbridge, New York, October 10, 1836, and died
at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, November 22, 1918. His boyhood
days were spent on his grandfather’s farm, where he gained a
wealth of information that served him well in his later years.
At sixteen he was hired by Waterman Simons, a York State dairy-
man, who taught him the rudiments of making butter and cheese,
and the feeding and care of cattle. In 1857 the lure of the west
brought him to Lowell, Wisconsin. His life ideals were as yet
uncrystallized and for several years he taught singing school, gave
instruction on the violin, and at odd moments pursued studies to
prepare him as a minister of the gospel. He received a license
to exhort, but owing to vital differences of opinion with the pre-
siding elder over some of the fundamental church doctrines, he
burned his license and went to cutting wood.

The Civil War found him in Company D of the Fourth Wis-
consin Volunteers, and he was under GENERAL BUTLER at the
capture of New Orleans. II] health forced him to leave the army,
and he returned to his parental home in New York, but with
recuperation, he again enlisted, this time in Battery A of the
New York Artillery, and served until the end of the war. Upon
discharge he returned to Wisconsin, where he entered the nursery
and hop growing business. He made some money in the former
branch, but lost an even greater sum on his hops, leaving him
a debt that required twenty years’ work to meet. In 1870 he
started the Jefferson County Union at Lake Mills, and in 1872
removed to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where this paper has since
been published. Hoarp’s Dairyman was launched in 1885. In
1871 he founded the Wisconsin State Dairyman’s Association, of
which he was made the Secretary. This was among the first
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so potent an influence that today Wisconsin is without a peer in
dairy production.

In the early 70’s Mr. Hoarp glimpsed the vision of what dairy-
ing in the west might become. At that time Wisconsin’s total
production of cheese annually was less than a million pounds,
but in the absence of marketing facilities this seemed an enor.
mous amount to the people of his time. The Liverpool market
laid the price foundations for cheese, and the bulk of American
product was shipped there. New York and the Western Reserve
in Ohio were the great cheese producing sections, but Mr. Hoarp
realized that suitable freight rates would increase Wisconsin’s
cheese production by leaps and bounds. At that time it cost two
and one-half cents a pound to ship cheese by ordinary freight to
the port of New York. Interviews with representatives of the
different freight lines in Chicago proved fruitless, but as a last
resort he broached his scheme to W. W. CHANDLER, agent of the
Star Union Line, the first refrigerator line in America. Mr.
CHANDLER’s “What do you want, sir?”, snapped at him from a
wheeled chair, seemed none too promising. Mr. Hoarp replied,
“I represent a million pounds of Wisconsin cheese, seeking an
outlet on the Atlantic seaboard . . . I want you to make
a rate of one cent a pound from Wisconsin to the Atlantic in
refrigerated cars, and I also want you to send a refrigerator car
to Watertown, Wisconsin, to a meeting of our Dairy Board next
week, and come yourself to explain its advantages and workings.”
The audacity of the request turned Mr. CHANDLER breathless,
and to his feeble inquiry, “Is there anything else you want?”,
Mr. Hoarp responded, “Not yet.” The project was successful,
and the rate continued for approximately thirty-five years. In
the year 1913, Wisconsin cheese products exceeded one hundred
and ninety million pounds, while over one hundred and thirty-
three million pounds of butter were produced.

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Hoarv’s Dairyman has grown from a small four page paper
to a thirty or forty page weekly edition, and has an international
circulation of over seventy-five thousand.

In 1888 he was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In this posi-
tion he succeeded in establishing a law to create a Dairy and Food
Commission. He championed honest food products, and thus
came into violent conflict with the then fraudulent traffic in oleo-
margarine, compelling it to sell on its own merits, and not under
the name of butter. He sponsored the Bennett Law, requiring
the teaching of English in all schools in Wisconsin. So violent
an opposition was raised by the proponents of the German paro-
chial school that he was defeated for re-election on this issue in
1890. Governor Hoarp’s concept of American Citizenship was
perhaps ahead of its time, but it contained the elements for
which we have so recently fought. He was a delightful com-
panion, and welcome to the friendship of the poorest workman,
or the wealthiest capitalist; appreciated by both the ignorant and
the most highly educated. He was intensely practical, and yet
a voracious student of the rural sciences. He has been compared
for his humor, his political honesty, his rugged character, and
his many sided personality to ABRAHAM LiNcoLN (75). His
recognition of the specialized dairy cow as the foster mother of
the human race made him, if not the originator, at least the
world’s greatest evangel, of the doctrine of specialized dairying.
His favorite expression was “Treat the cow as a mother, and her
calf as a baby.” In 1915 Governor Hoarp was officially honored
by the state government as Wisconsin’s most distinguished citizen.

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AN AMERICAN WHO INVADED SHROPSHIRE

8. Probably the pioneer Shropshire breeder of the United
States from a constructive standpoint was Dr. G. Howarp Davison.
His foundations for the Altamont flock at Millbrook, N. Y., were
laid in the best blood to be secured in Britain during the 90’s,
his purchases being from the TANNER, BowEN-JoNEs and MINTON
flocks. American breeders of those days leaned very strongly
toward a big-framed, slower maturing, open fleeced kind, but
Dr. Davison from the start advocated a compact, thickly meated,
early finishing type that would fit more strongly into the niceties
of consumer demand. His first sheep were brought over in 1893
under the care of his first shepherd, HERBERT Fox. Ambitious
to equal the productions of the Shrewsbury district, he sent to
England the second year thereafter a flock of his own breeding
for exhibition and competition at the English Royal. So suc-
cessful did this mission prove that Dr. Davison was paid high
tribute by the British agricultural journals of the day and was
elected a member of the Royal Agricultural Society. In the same
year, 1895, he secured Dan TayLor as shepherd, thereby bringing
to America one of the master Shropshire fitters of the last quarter
century. Two years later he secured FRED Fox and in 1898,
Tom BRADBURNE, who remained with him for over twelve years.
Tom possessed the genius for developing through his ovine arti-
sanship what Dr. Davison sought in his capacity as breeder. The
Altamont or Davison type became a distinct stamp in the show-
yard, arousing violent arguments on more than one occasion. In
season and out, Dr. Davison fought and fought for the short-
legged, well-sprung type with thickness of back and plumpness
of quarters. In his campaign he sent rams to nearly all of the
agricultural colleges and experiment stations, to spread the
knowledge of, and demand for, his sheep. If the college was
unable to pay for them, as frequently happened, he gave them
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of sheep that ultimately has won the day in American Shropshire
breeding circles. Altamont rams have had a profound effect in
unifying Shropshire standards and in coordinating types through-
out all sections of the country. Rams tracing to Borough Magis-
trate, British Yeoman, or other stock sires in his flock, had a
pedigree value in addition to their individual merit, no matter
to whom the sale might be. Dr. Davison believed thoroughly
that the longer a flock was bred under the same conditions; that
is, on the same farm, under the same management, fed by the
same feeder, and bred according to the same system, the greater
would be the resulting prepotence and uniformity. The lambs
of his last show flocks traced back five generations on the sire’s
side and four on the dam’s side to animals of his own breeding,
and proved exceptionally strong breeders in other flocks. Alta-
mont sheep were dispersed in 1911, and Dr. Davison has since
been busied in other fields of agricultural activity.

In 1892, he was elected a director of the Dutchess County Fair,
New York, and thus opened a broad career in connection with
agricultural exhibitions. During the years that the New York
State Fair was held under the auspices of the State Agricultural
Society, he was both a member of the Board and secretary and
general manager of the show. The last position was held in
1893, while the directorship lasted from 1893 to 1903. When
the National Association of Exhibitors of Livestock was organized
in 1894, he was elected its secretary, and the following year he
was made president of the National Livestock Show at Madison
Square Garden, New York. From 1898 to 1914 he was an execu-
tive of the American National Livestock Association, while in
1899 he became a member of the new association that guaranteed
the International Livestock Exposition. He was made a member
of the latter’s executive committee and was its president for the
shows of 1917 and 1918. In 1915 he was made a director of the

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National Horse Show Association of America and the following
year a director of the Association of American Horse Shows Inc.

Dr. Davison’s permanence of agricultural endeavor is indi-
cated by the variety of organizations for the promotion of live-
stock and allied interests with which he has been identified. He
holds life memberships in the New York State Agricultural
Society, the American Hackney Horse Society, and the American
Guernsey Cattle Club. For twelve years he was a member of the
executive committee of the American Shropshire Registry Asso-
ciation, and for three consecutive years was its president. When
the American Dairy Shorthorn Association was organized in 1912,
Dr. Davison was elected president and served in this capacity for
a period of two years. He was a member of the executive com-
mittee of the National Wool Growers’ Association for eight years,
and under Governor Levi P. Morton of New York, was a mem-
ber of the Board of Control of the New York State Experiment
Station at Geneva.

This variety of positions furnished him an opportunity to form
an acquaintanceship of national extent, which has caused him to
drift rather naturally into the journalistic field. He has acted
as president of the Advanced Agricultural Publishing Company
which publishes The Field Illustrated; president of the American
International Publishers Inc., which publishes El Campo Inter-
national; and until February 1, 1918, president of the Agricul-
tural Press Inc., which published the Agricultural Digest. In
1916 he was made chairman of the Executive Committee of the
National Agricultural Society, which backed the last named pub-
lication.

Dr. Davison was born with instincts that made him a lover of
the soil and a connoisseur of its products. He graduated from
Yale University in 1888 and received his bachelor’s degree from
Cornell in agriculture one year later. He thereupon entered a
course at the American Veterinary College where he received his

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D. V. S. in 1890. His technical training, however, was designed
to fit him for a livestock breeder rather than veterinary practice,
as he had showed in his boyhood, even as early as the shows of
1879, a tendency toward breeding mastery. His subjects at this
time were guinea pigs, and he succeeded in developing squareness
of quarters, and carriage of head and crest that made his pigs
invincible at the pet stock shows.

The extent and degree of service which Dr. Davison has ren-
dered to American agriculture is difficult to estimate. An ardent
sportsman, he has lent his influence at all times to the upbuilding
and preservation of the sports of rural England, coaching, cours-
ing and the chase. As superintendent of the sheep department
of the International, he built up a strong organization that pos-
sessed a character fully equivalent to the best of the mutton shows
abroad. His example in doing permanent American breeding
has served to guide a number of the best sheep breeders since,
and so constructive have been their efforts that it has been
possible for them to maintain the standards of their respective
breeds even when sources of new blood have been denied them
through foot-and-mouth quarantine or other handicap.

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PROPHET OF THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES

9. HonoraBLe Duncan McLEAn MarsHALt, Minister for Agri-
culture in the province of Alberta, was born in a one-room log
shanty in the township of Elderslie, Bruce Co., Ontario, Sept. 24,
1873. His father, John Marshall, was one of the pioneers of the
region. The public school on an adjoining farm provided his
first education, but he was later sent to the Walkerton High
School, and the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute. On Jan. 1,
1890, he embarked on a career of public school teaching in his
native township. The years preceding and following this period
were ones of very great depression for Ontario farmers, and he,
like a number of other farm boys, found teaching school a
quicker way of earning a little cash than any other available.
Nevertheless he was continuously engaged in farm work on Sat-
urdays and holidays, devoting especial attention to the livestock
of his father’s farm. JoHN MarsHAL_ had early entered into the
cattle business, both as feeder and as drover, selling on the
Buffalo and Toronto markets, hence it was natural that his son
should display something of the same bent. At fourteen years
he acquired his first interest in purebred Shorthorns, purchasing
several on his own account. Hence when the lean years of
farming arrived, Mr. MARSHALL never lost his determination to
be a breeder of highest class livestock.

During his term of service as a teacher he did organization
work for a farmers’ association and political party in eastern
Canada known as the Patrons of Industry. He proved to be the
most successful agent in spreading the influence of this farmers’
movement throughout Ontario, although then but a youth of
sixteen years. F'rom this initial adventure in political campaign-
ing up to the present, he has proved to be a powerful influence
in Dominion affairs, and has received invitations to deliver poli-
tical addresses both in Canada and the United States.

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After a few years of teaching he moved to Toronto where he
engaged in daily newspaper work, later acquiring farm paper
interests. At one time he owned several weekly papers in Ontario,
and became a sufficiently prominent figure to stand for Parlia-
ment in one election, but was unsuccessful. In 1905 circum-
stances seemed ripe for him to locate on a farm, an ambition he
had cherished throughout the years, hence he removed with his
family to Alberta. Unusual conditions prevented his immediate
realization of his ideal, however, and for three years he acted as
managing editor of the Edmonton Daily Bulletin. During this
period he completed the purchase of a farm near Olds that is
now his family home, and he built up on the raw prairie a most
attractive homestead, with thoroughly modern improvements, an
exceptionally strong herd of Shorthorn cattle and a notable stud
of Clydesdales.

Four years after his arrival in Alberta he was offered the nomi-
nation to the Alberta legislature for the constituency of Olds, but
was no sooner elected than he was asked by the Prime Minister
of the province to become Minister for Agriculture in his gov-
ernment. This position he has held ever since, his work being
of a most aggressive nature, both as regards the building up of
the livestock industry and the spread of agricultural education.
In the latter he has founded something entirely different from
the conventional scheme of agricultural schools by establishing
separate institutions at different points in the province, for the
education of farmers’ sons and daughters. These schools are
capable of handling about 150 students, and the six thus far
established have been a signal success.

His work has surpassed that of any Minister of Agriculture in
the Canadian provinces, Joun Drypen (14) only excepted. Dur-
ing his term of office he has promoted the introduction of pure-
bred sires to Alberta, and has formed a large number of coop-
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the United States and Great Britain. He has founded an exten-
sive system of Farmers’ Institutes and has organized district,
township and county fairs that give each farm boy a chance to
contest his skill as herdsman or shepherd against the other boys
of his community.

Mr. MARSHALL has very naturally occupied many positions in
connection with livestock associations, among them a directorship
in the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders’ Association, and the presi-
dency of the Western Canada Shorthorn Association. He has
been a frequent visitor to the United States, attending and
addressing livestock meetings and conventions over regions as
dispersed as Portland, Oregon, and Columbus, Ohio. One of
his greatest services has been to promote the settlement of western
Canada agriculturally, and he has drawn freely on his acquain-
tances throughout the eastern provinces and the States for this
purpose.

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CULTURIST AND AGRICULTURIST

10. HonoraBLe Henry Farrrax was a high type of cultured
Virginian gentleman. He bore himself with a dignity of manner
that was at all times democratic, and he deservedly became one
of the most popular men of his county and state, as well as the
leading proponent in America of that breed of horses he so ener-
getically fathered. Born in Alexandria, Virginia, May 4, 1850,
he had not sufficient age to participate in the internecine conflict
which occurred during his teens. His family emigrated from
England in 1767, locating first in Maryland, but after fourteen
years of struggle removed to Virginia. In 1852, his father, Cot.
Joun W. Farrrax, bought the famous estate in Loudoun county
known as Oak Hill, long the residence of PRESIDENT JAMES
Monroe. Except for a few years when owned by Dr. Quinsy,
during the reconstructive period of the south, the estate has ever
since been in the hands of the Fairfax family. In 1867, Mr.
FarrFax entered the Virginia Military Institute where he gradu-
ated in 1871. He thereupon entered his first work as chainman
with an engineering party in Pennsylvania, and worked in New
York, New Jersey, Colorado and Idaho. In 1879 he took railroad
contracts in Tennessee and continued in such work until 1887,
building a considerable portion of the Norfolk and Western,
Shenandoah Valley, Ohio River and East Tennessee & North
Carolina railroads. He was engineer in charge of Machinery
Hall at the Centennial Exposition in 1876.

In the early 80’s, Mr. FatrFax maintained his office in Roanoke,
Virginia, where he was elected to the town council, his first ven-
ture in politics. From 1890 to 1900 he was a member of the
state senate from Loudoun and Fauquier counties, and the follow-
ing two years was a member of the state constitutional conven-
tion, at which he was chairman of the Finance and Taxation
Committee. From 1902 to 1905 he was a member of the Cor-
poration Commission. His fitness for this latter position had

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been developed through his experience as a director of two
national banks.

SENATOR FarrFax had an inborn love of fine horses, and with
his acquisition of Oak Hill in 1885 he entered, extensively into
the breeding and showing of Hackneys. His animals were taken
into the prize ring of every large horse exhibition in America,
and two of his best were practically undisputed champions of
the Hackney breed. Mr. Farrrax was the first man in America
deliberately and skillfully to breed for horses genuinely fitted in
form and action for show arena and park or boulevard. His
foundation stock was secured in the well-bred Kentucky and
Virginia mares, while a thorough scouring of Europe for a sire
led to his choice of the Hackney stallion, Matchless of Londes-
boro. Throughout a series of years, his progeny, bred and fitted
at Oak Hill for harness use brought an average at public and
private sale of nearly $900. For many years eastern Hackney
breeders sent their mares to the cover of Oak Hill stallions, and
the care of mature and young stock from other studs formed a
substantial part of the work on the 1,700-acre estate.

Henry Fairrax was for many years president of the Hackney
Breeders’ Association of America, and at the time of his death,
July 11, 1916, was president of the Virginia State Fair Associa-
tion. His spiritual life was deep and wholesome, and for many

years he was vestryman in the Protestant Episcopal Church of
Aldie.

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WHO’S WHO IN HOOSIERDOM

11. Dean of the School of Agriculture and Chief of Animal
Husbandry in Purdue University is JoHN Harrison SKINNER. A
native Indianan, he has been a notable factor in the upbuilding
of the purebred livestock interests of the Hoosier state and in
disseminating among its smaller breeders and farmers, first class
animals for sires and matrons. He has set a notable example to
them by his development of small herds of Shorthorns, Herefords
and Aberdeen-Angus at the University Farm. From a limited
investment in only two or three cows of each breed and a good
bull, he has developed three International grand champion steers.
The first of these, Fyvie Knight, the Aberdeen-Angus champion
of 1908, was only fed at the farm, but Merry Monarch, Short-
horn champion of 1917, and Fyvie Knight 2d, Aberdeen-Angus
champion of 1918, were both bred and fed at Lafayette.

Dean SKINNER was born at Romney, Ind., March 10, 1874, and
was reared on a farm. He attended the local district schools and
in 1893 entered Purdue University, receiving his B. S. in 1897,
and being an honor student and member of Sigma Xi. He served
his full rural apprenticeship in the fields and among the herds
and flocks of his father’s farm, and for a period of two and one-
half years after graduation busied himself as farm manager
at home, sifting the chaff from the wheat of his college learning.

In 1899 he was assigned to duties as assistant agriculturist at
the Purdue Station, but in 1901 was called to the University of
Illinois as instructor in animal husbandry. The following year
he returned to Purdue as associate professor of his subject and
chief of his department. His professorship came in 1906 and
one year later he was made dean of the School of Agriculture,
which position he still holds.

He was elected secretary of the Indiana Livestock Breeders’
Association in 1905 and at later periods served in the same
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Indiana Draft Horse Breeders’ Association, both of which he
aided in organizing. He was a judge of sheep at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in 1904 and of Rambouillets at the 1906
and 1907 Internationals. At the latter show he also officiated in
the Aberdeen-Angus rings.

Under his deanship, the School of Agriculture has more than
quadrupled in size, now having an attendance of well over 800.
He has organized a poultry department, and has added numerous
buildings to the school. As head of his department he has
directed a great burden of research into the question of silage
for fattening cattle and sheep, and has done much to introduce
silos to Indiana farms.

DEAN SKINNER’s efforts at agricultural improvement have been
confined largely to his native state. His methods are unas-
suming and his successes quiet, but he has builded a foundation
in his herds and set a record in the showyard most difficult for
other colleges to equal. His portrait is hung on the walls of the
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLup at the instance of hundreds of Purdue
students, and was paid for by subscriptions among them.

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THE PSALMIST OF HUSBANDRY

12. The dean of American livestock journalists is ALVIN
Howarp SANDERS, editor of The Breeder’s Gazette. To Mr. San-
DERS more than to any other man is due the literary standards
which have been set up in agricultural publications, and the dig-
nified development in a magazine of quality of the interests and
ideals of the progressive livestock farmer. Bred in the atmos-
phere of journalistic service, Mr. SANDERS has carried forward
the great achievement of his father’s life to realms of higher and
more varied usefulness. He has taken upon his shoulders the
burden of bridging the gap between the present generation of
American husbandry and the preceding one. In the growing
volumes of breed histories and biographical sketches of the live-
stock masters, he has conferred a service rivalled only by the
peerless Druid of last century England.

Atvin H. SanpERs was born Sept. 8, 1860, in Keokuk Co.,
Iowa. He was reared on the farm, but received his education
in law at Northwestern University, graduating in 1881. Through-
out his college years a desk was set aside for him in the office of
the National Livestock Journal, where he began his apprentice-
ship at a weekly wage of ten dollars. Here he checked the proofs
of the many herd and sale catalogs printed by the Journal for
the leading western Shorthorn breeders. Most painstaking efforts
were necessary in order to prevent error in names or herd book
numbers. By careful attention to the duties here bestowed upon
him, Mr. SANDERS acquired a voluminous information of the fash-
ionableness or unfashionableness of pedigrees. The grind of
such details naturally drove his preferences to the practice of
law, and during the years before graduation his career as lawyer
or newspaper man trembled in the balance. The straw that
turned his footsteps forever to journalism came unexpectedly
in 1881 with a failure on the part of the editor of the Journal to
review the recently compiled catalog of the herd of Hon. WILLIAM

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N. Smiru, Lexington, Ill. Mr. SANDERS came to the rescue in
the pinch, and was so successful that his permanence as a live-
stock writer was assured. With the launching of The Breeder’s
Gazette in December, 1881, Mr. SANDERS took most active steps
toward the upbuilding of the new undertaking. He personally
made a trip to Colorado to secure for $1,500 the invaluable
collection of old sale catalogs and herd documents belonging to
GeorcE Rusk that gave almost the week to week story of Short-
horn beginnings in America. In 1883 he was first charged with
the entire responsibility of editing and publishing the paper, a
position he has held unremittingly ever since.

The national prestige of The Breeder’s Gazette has led Mr.
SANDERS into many public undertakings. He was one of the
guarantors of the International Livestock Exposition and one
of the founders of the SADDLE AND SiRLOIN CLuB. In 1900 he
was a member of the United States Commission to the Paris
Exposition, and under PREsIDENT TaFT’s administration was Vice
Chairman of the U. S. Tariff Board, with personal attention to
the wool tariff and the wool growing situation. For a number
of years he was president and vice-president of the International
Livestock Exposition and for his broad agricultural service was
made a Chevalier of the Order of Leopold by the King of
Belgium.

Mr. SANDERS’ personal acquaintance and intimacy with the
rapidly vanishing pioneers of the Booth and Bates tribes, and
his hearty co-operation with the builders of the Scottish power,
brought him in the closing years of the last century to prepare a
“History of Shorthorn Cattle” which came off the press in 1900.
For the next dozen years he was so occupied that he did not
pursue his success there won. Following his release from the
Tariff Board, however, he again took up his pen, and in 1914
“The Story of the Herefords” was put forth by the Sanders
Publishing Company. In 1915 “At the Sign of the Stock Yard

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Inn” told the tales in a broad sympathetic way of the beginning
of this Club and the lives of many whose faces now adorn its
walls. The following year his first book of sketches, “The Road
to Dumbiedykes” appeared, and in 1917, in collaboration with
SECRETARY Dinsmore of the Percheron Horse Society of America
and Joun AsHTOoN, a European staff correspondent to the Gazette,
he produced a “History of the Percheron Horse.” In 1918 his
second volume of sketches, “The Black Swans” appeared while
the following year his “Idle Hour Trilogy” was completed with
“In Winter Quarters.”

In 1906 the University of Illinois conferred on him the Doc-
torate of Agriculture, while Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1910 gave
him an LL.D. The wealth of Mr. SANDERS’ service to agricul-
ture is impossible to guage, one never can discover the multitude
of breeders who have been inspired to better things by learning
of the romances of the cattle and horses of a bygone day, and the
ideals of the breeders who have builded so strongly for the future
of husbandry. His knowledge of Shorthorn pedigree, his famili-
arity with the early facts of breed history, and his fearlessness
in denouncing various abuses in livestock breeding practice and
pedigree fashions, have made him a commanding figure in the
ranks of the lovers of the red, white and roan throughout the last
quarter century.

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A JOHN THE BAPTIST OF ALFALFA

13. The introduction and widespread growth of alfalfa in the
middle west and southwest gave new life to the gradually waning
industry of the cattle range in the early nineties. The man behind
this movement who is almost wholly responsible for the great
success following the introduction of this plant is Foster DwicHt
Cogurn, for twenty-one years secretary of the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture at Topeka.

Mr. Cosurn was born in Jefferson Co., Wisconsin, May 7, 1846,
and grew to manhood on a Badger farm. Although only a boy
in his teens he volunteered for service in the Union Army and
served the last two years of the War. He was a corporal in
Co. F, 135th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and upon reenlistment
was made sergeant-major of the 62d Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
In 1867 he settled in Franklin Co., Kansas where he secured
employment as a farm laborer. In 1869 he married and began
farming and improved stock raising for himself.

In July, 1880, he was appointed assistant to SecreTARY J. K.
Hunson in the office of the State Board of Agriculture at Topeka,
and on September 13, 1881, he was unanimously elected to succeed
Mr. Hupson, who had resigned. On January 11, 1882, he was dis-
placed on a technicality, and became president of the Indicator
Publishing Co., and editor in chief of the Livestock Indicator
of Kansas City. This position was retained until 1887, when
he returned to his farming operations and acted as regent of the
State Agricultural College, following appointment by GoveRNoR
G. W. Gricx. In this capacity he was twice elected president of
the State Board of Regents.

Mr. Coburn’s early interests were with swine, and in 1877 he
published a volume on swine husbandry which was particularly
widely disseminated. In 1884 he was appointed sole judge of
swine at the Cotton States Universal Exposition at New Orleans,

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while at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, he was sole
judge of three breeds and a member of the judging committee
of the other breeds. This experience was gathered together in
1915 and published in a very comprehensive volume entitled
“Swine in America.”

On January 12, 1894 he was again elected secretary of the
Kansas State Board of Agriculture, to succeed Martin MoHLER,
and was reelected by acclamation each biennium thereafter until
his resignation June 30, 1914. Under his direction the quarterly
and biennial publications assumed a unique and forceful char-
acter, since they dealt largely with the agricultural resources and
possibilities of Kansas. Among his best known quarterly publi-
cations were: “The Beef Steer and His Sister,” “The Helpful
Hen,” “The Horse Useful,” “Pork Production,” “Cow Culture,”
“Modern Dairying,” “The Modern Sheep,” “Feeding Wheat to
Farm Animals,” “Shorthorn Cattle,” “Hereford Cattle,” ‘“Polled
Catile,” “Corn and the Sorghums,” “Silos and Silage,” and
“Forage and Fodders.” He actively promoted the introduction
and extension of alfalfa and the cane and sorghum crops. While
serving as secretary he became an editorial correspondent of the
Kansas Farmer, the Mississippi Valley Farmer, and The Farmer’s
Mail and Breeze. In 1903 he published a book on alfalfa, and
in 1910 another volume on the same subject entitled “The Book
of Alfalfa.”

He was unanimously elected president of the first American
Corn Congress held in Chicago in 1898 and was made chief of
the department of livestock at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
of 1904 at St. Louis. This was the largest livestock show ever
organized up to that time, but he unfortunately lacked the phy-
sical strength to carry it through. He was obliged to resign
before the show was in actual progress. In June 1909 he was
given the honorary degree of Master of Arts by Baker University
and on November 11th of the same year was accorded the degree

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of LL. D. by the Kansas Agricultural College. He was chairman
of the Kansas State Dairy Commission in 1907-08 and was also
chairman of the State Entomological Commission 1909-14. He
was elected an honorary life member of the Kansas State Horti-
cultural Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the
Kansas State Editorial Association. Mr. CosBurn was tentatively
offered the presidency of the Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma
Agricultural Colleges.

Political honors were not uncommon. He refused the nomi-
nation as candidate for governor from the Republican Party in
1898 at the Kansas City meeting of the State Editorial Associa-
tion, but polled some eighty-odd votes at the state convention
despite his refusal. He was appointed by Governor E. W. Hocu
to fill the senatorial vacancy caused by the resignation of J. R.
Burton in 1906, but declined to leave his agricultural post. He
was considered by two different presidents for the national secre-
taryship of agriculture, but blocked local booms tending to aid,
him in such an undertaking. In 1908-09-10 he was a member of
the joint Kansas-Oklahoma committee to investigate the Kansas
penitentiary, being appointed by Governor Hoc and reap-
pointed by Governor Stupps. On Nov. 8, 1916, he was
appointed by Gov. Capper a trustee of the “Industrial and Edu-
cational Institute of Topeka” (colored), and one week later was
made its president. Four times he was unanimously elected presi-
dent of the Kansas State Temperance Union, and on declining
reelection was made its treasurer. He was chairman of its execu-
tive committee for ten years. In 1917 he was appointed by
PRESIDENT WILSON a member of one of the two Exemption Appeal
Boards for Kansas, and served as chairman until his resignation.

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Following his resignation from the secretaryship of the State
Board of Agriculture, Mr. Copurn entered into a number of
financial undertakings. He was made vice-president of the Pru-
dential Trust Co., of Topeka, a director of the Prudential State
Bank, a director of the Bank of Topeka, and a director and vice-
president of the Capitol Building and Loan Association of
Topeka. He has been permanent treasurer of the funds raised by
the state of Kansas for the relief of Indian famine sufferers, and
prominent in a number of other charitable movements.

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MASTER MINISTER OF DOMINION AGRICULTURE

14. One of the most aggressive and successful farmers known
to the Dominion of Canada was the Hon. Joun Drypen, Minister
of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario from 1890 to 1906.
Mr. DrypEn was Canadian-bred, but of English blood, his father,
JAMEs DRYDEN, having come out from Sunderland, England, in
1820. The taste for the soil that so permeates the inherent instincts
of the Britisher led him to rural pursuits, and JoHN DRYDEN was
born, twenty years later, on the broad acres of Maple Shade in
the well tilled region to the east of Toronto.

Shorthorn cattle and Shropshire sheep were Mr. Drypen’s first
and permanent love. Even when the Duchess way was acknowl-
edgedly the only way of fashionable breeding, the foundations of
a Scotch herd were gathered at his farm, and the first importation
of SHaw & DrypeEn included the famous Mimulus, dam of the
Cruickshank (89) pride, Royal Duke of Gloster. Her calf in Mr.
DrypbeEn’s hands was Barmpton Hero, for many years in the herd
of the Messrs. WATT; a notable show bull and a creative breeder.
More importations of the Cruickshank kinds were made in 1873,
1880, 1882 and 1883. Many animals that played stellar roles in
the Dominion or in the herds of Harris, Potts, or Kissinger across
the border, came in these lots (Royal Barmpton, Violet Bud,
Baron Surmise and Lord Glamis), but the climax came in 1887
when Mr. DrypeEn purchased and brought across the entire herd
of Epwarp CRUICKSHANK, which contained some outcrosses sup-
posed to reinvigorate the Sittyton blood.

Joun DRYDEN was a particularly stablizing influence in the
troubled days of the Bates decadence and the Scotch ascendancy.
He sought ever to restrain speculation and to keep open the
trade doors of Britain, Canada and the States to pedigreed stock.
During his later years his duties as Minister of Agriculture
restricted his operations with his own herd, but he found time
to be president of the American Shropshire Registry Association

HON. JOHN DRYDEN

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for many years, and director of the American Clydesdale Asso-
ciation. For one term he also acted as head of the Dominion
Shorthorn Breeders’ Association. In 1906 he was selected by
the British Government to act upon a Royal Commission
appointed to investigate conditions of agriculture in Ireland.
This was the first appointment ever made by the British Govern-
ment of any one outside the British Isles to act as a Royal Com-
missioner. In each capacity he was revered and trusted, his
courtesy being unfailing, his intelligence keen and his mind open
and progressive. His contribution to international cordiality
was immeasurable and his death in 1909 untimely. His pet cause
was the promotion and support of the Ontario Agricultural Col-
lege at Guelph, his own farm being a model for its emulation.
The wide influence of the Guelph men in the early teaching of
animal husbandry in the United States was perhaps his best testi-
monial south of the border line.

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A VETERAN OF THREE CABINETS

15. The awakening of agricultural interests and the establish-
ment of a firm market for farm products, have been matters of
accomplishment of the last quarter century. The definition of
the phases of agriculture as an industry and the attacking of its
problems in a thorough and scientific way have been functions
of the United States Department of Agriculture. Although the
Department’s beginnings were merely a sop, thrown out by poli-
ticians to their rural interests, the strong hand of the HONORABLE
James WILson, grasping the foundations laid by SEcRETARY
Rusk (18), shaped their development so as to yield firm federal
support to the industries of the land.

Secretary of Agriculture in the successive cabinets of PREst-
DENTS McKINLEY, ROOSEVELT and Tarr, Mr. WILson not only
holds the record for length of service in a cabinet position, but
also saw develop from a department of a few hundred employees,
an institution whose workers run up inte five figures. SECRETARY
Witson was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, August 16, 1835, and
came to America at the age of sixteen. His parents first settled
in Connecticut but afterward emigrated to Tama Co., Iowa, where
he entered the public schools in 1855. His collegiate education
was obtained at Iowa College, Grinnell. In 1851, he engaged in
farming for himself, but being a man of broadest sympathies
and inspired with the ideals of public duty, he was elected a
member of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth Iowa Assem-
blies. He was Speaker of the last Assembly, and as such took
sO prominent an interest in educational matters that he was made
Regent of the State University of Iowa during the years 1870 to
1874. In 1873 he was elected to the forty-third Congress, a
position he retained during the subsequent session. In 1877 he
was made a member of the Iowa State Railway Commission,
where he remained for six years until returned to Congress.
Unfortunately his right was contested, but with the delays of

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law his contestant was not seated until the last hour of Congress.
In 1890 he was appointed Director of the Agricultural Experiment
Station and Professor of Agriculture at the Iowa Agricultural
College at Ames, a position he retained until called upon March
5, 1897, by PRresipenT McKin.ey to take his place as spokesman
for agriculture in the newly formed cabinet.

“Tama Jim” as he was fondly called by his loyal Iowa sup-
porters, recognized the need for a strong organization to unify
and catalyze rural interests. Improved market conditions result-
ing from the financial prosperity of the country furnished the
farmer a degree of independence he had hitherto not known;
hence, SECRETARY WILSON found willing material to support him
in his efforts in placing agriculture on the permanent construc-
tive basis it now enjoys. It was during this period of service
that the multitudinous activities of the Bureau of Animal Industry
developed. He sponsored particularly legislation and propa-
ganda that would build up the agricultural export trade, and at
the same time encouraged the search for new plants and animals
suitable to the arid conditions that had to be met in the unorgan-
ized land areas of the continent. PresipENT ROOSEVELT’S con-
servation policies received able support under his constructive
genius and the national forest policy of America was firmly

established.

Rich in years, he retired from public duty with the change of
administration in 1913. His headquarters were established at his
early home at Traer, Iowa, where he participated in a number
of notable movements aiming towards the dissemination of agri-
cultural knowledge. So prominent were his services that numerous
institutions conferred honorary degrees upon him. Both the
University of Wisconsin and Cornell College, Iowa, gave him an
LL. D. in 1904, while McGill University at Montreal, Canada,
honored him with a similar title in 1909. His death occurred

August 26, 1920.

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THE FOUNDER OF ARBOR DAY

16. The second Secretary of Agriculture was J. STERLING Mor-
TON, Nebraska City, Nebr. A practical farmer throughout the
major portion of his life, he was a man of deep idealism and
powerful instincts. His conception of “Arbor Day,” which ulti-
mately became a national institution, resulted in the beautifica-
tion of thousands of rural and urban homes, and tens of thou-
sands of flourishing groves where once only the woodless prairies
spread.

SECRETARY Morton was born April 22, 1832, in Adams, N. Y.,
from a line of paternal ancestors whose Americanization dated
back to the “Little Ann,” first ship to land after the Mayflower.
When two years old, his parents emigrated to Monroe, Mich., at
which place he received his common school education. In 1846
he was sent to a Methodist seminary at Albion, Mich., to prepare
for the state university, but while he spent most of his time at
Ann Arbor, he ultimately received his degree at Union College
in 1854. The following fall he married CaRoLINnE Joy FRENcH
of Detroit and removed with her to Bellevue in the then territory
of Nebraska. The situation did not prove successful, however,
and after a few months he located near the site of what is now
Nebraska City. He became a member of the town company, and
took up a claim of a quarter section bordering on the townsite.
Arbor Lodge, as the estate was called, was his home continuously
thereafter.

Mr. Morton was an original member of the Nebraska Terri-
torial Board of Agriculture, and of the Territorial Horticultural
Society. He was a charter member of the Nebraska State His-
torical Society and at one time its president. In 1889 he was
one of the American Commissioners to the Paris Exposition,
and was always prominent in Nebraska political life. He was
appointed secretary of the Nebraska Territory in 1858 and
under the law became its acting governor on the resignation of

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Governor Ricuarpson. Without solicitation on his part, he was
four times made candidate for Governor of Nebraska on the
Democratic ticket, missing the election as first governor of the
state by only 145 votes. He was twice nominated for congress
in a similar manner, and had sufficient supporters to make him
an almost perpetual candidate for Senator. He was a member
of the state legislature for many years and was extremely active
in his opposition to the “wildcat” banks that contributed to so
many Nebraska failures in early Cornhusker days. During the
turbulent times of Populism, forty-five Republican state legis-
lators, in caucus, declared their support for him in preference to
any populistic candidate. But the nation had more immediate
use for him, and he was appointed Secretary of Agriculture in
the cabinet of PRESIDENT CLEVELAND in 1893. His service here
met with some hostile criticism on the part of the agricultural
interests, but anyone serving during those days of financial
upheaval was bound to find much of his efforts negated and many
of his accomplishments unpopular. He died from a stroke of
apoplexy, April 27, 1902.

SECRETARY Morton’s love and devotion for his wife were con-
spicuous. At the time of her death in 1881, he erected a granite
shaft to her in the private burying ground on the home acres.
Calling his sons together on its completion, he announced, “A
spot for each of you is situated within the compass of the shadow
of that shaft, but if one of you at any time dishonors the mother
that lies here, his body must find other resting place.” Fortu-
nately his sons arose to almost equal position in the world, and
Pau, was not only Secretary of the Navy under PRESIDENT
RoosEVELT in 1904-05, but resigned to become president of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York City. SECRETARY
Morron’s statue by RANDOLPH Evans stands in the public square
of Nebraska City, a gift of the citizens of the state.

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HONORED CHIEFTAIN OF THE DAIRYMEN’S POW-WOWS

17. The story of mid-west civilization, of agricultural and
industrial progress, would indeed be colorless if the contri-
butions of the Wisconsin pioneers were forgotten. The primal
position of the Badger state was established with the coming of
the French fur traders, the natural waterway of the Great Lakes
giving accessibility to the front rank fighters of a spreading
American civilization. In Wisconsin the fusion of the ideals
and principles of the French trader, the Indian aborigine, and the
English settler, formed that virile impulse that has builded so
eminent a position for this state.

Exponent of the robust Badger virtues was Dr. Henry Barrp
Favitt. Dr. Favitt was born in Madison, August 14, 1860,
descended on his father’s side from JoHN FAvILL, who came to
America from Britain a few years prior to the Revolution, and
who fought strenuously for the new republic during its period of
struggle for independence. Following the peace settlement, JoHN
FavILu established in Herkimer Co., New York, and his descend-
ents became part and parcel of that notable band who proceeded
across the lakes to build up the rising civilization of Wisconsin.
Through his mother, Louise Sopuia Barr, he inherited the up-
right, robust physique of an Indian ancestor, the great-great-
grandmother of his mother. This maternal forebear was a daugh-
ter of the Ottawa chieftain Kewinoquot (Returning Cloud), and
was educated in white civilization through the good offices of the
early French missionairies. Dr. FAVILL’s father was a physician,
a graduate of Harvard University, a member of the first State
Board of Health, and President of the Wisconsin State Medical
Society.

Dr. FAviLu’s educational life was thorough. After graduating
from the Madison Public Schools, he entered the University of
Wisconsin where he received his A. B. degree in 1880. He then
proceeded to Rush Medical College where he received his M. D.

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in 1883. While a student he served his interneship in the Cook
County Hospital and upon graduation returned to Madison to
enter practice in association with his father. In 1894 he accepted
simultaneous calls to the Chair of Medicine at the Chicago Poly-
clinic, and the adjunct professorship of Medicine at Rush. His
private practice grew to be the largest in the city. In 1898 he was
appointed Ingalls Professor of Preventive Medicine and Thera-
peutics at Rush and eight years later was made professor of
Clinical Medicine. He became consultant and attending physician
at several hospitals and at the time of his death was President
of the Medical Board of St. Luke’s. For several years he was
president of the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute and because of
his keen technical ability, ranked among the foremost physicians
of the country. Dr. FavitL was a big thinker and an astute
reasoner, and he found time to devote himself enthusiastically
to problems of civic and political purity. From 1907 to 1910 he
was president of the Municipal Voters’ League, an organization
strongly and fearlessly opposing corrupt politics. He was presi-
dent of the City Club of Chicago from 1910 to 1912, having been
a director since 1905. For many years he was trustee of the
Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency, and a director of the United
Charities. His membership in the professional societies of medi-
cine embraced all the leading organizations and he was the only
man without commercial connections ever elected to the Chicago
Commercial Club. In 1908 he dignified the new Medical Reserve
Corps movement in the U. S. Army by accepting a commission
as First Lieutenant. In 1915 the University of Wisconsin con-
ferred on him the degree of LL.D.

In 1908 Dr. Favit extended his interests to agriculture, and
gave freely of his tireless energy to the upbuilding of Holstein-
Friesian cattle and the dairy industry. Until his death, most of
his spare time was devoted to the improvement of his dairy farm,
Milford Meadows, at Lake Mills, Wis. His professional train-

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ing enabled him to apply new ideas to his agricultural and
breeding problems, and led to the preparation of numerous
articles and lectures on subjects of economic importance. He was
elected vice-president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of
America and was first president of the National Dairy Council.
During the meeting of this Council at Springfield, Mass., in 1916
he contracted pneumonia, and passed away February 20.

At his funeral Dr. F. W. Gunsautus, his warm personal friend,
said, “The personality of Dr. FavitL exalted the work and
achievements of the physician as well as the practical reformer
in the city of Chicago. No man more sanely or nobly incarnated
the ideals which are higher than any calling and as great as any
enthusiasm.” The Chicago Evening Post said, “Dr. FaviLu was
a man who held in a city of over two million inhabitants the posi-
tion of love, dignity and influence held by many a lesser known
‘country doctor’ in the villages of America.”

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FIRST IN THE PORTFOLIO OF AGRICULTURE

18. In the village cemetery of Viroqua, Wisconsin, sleeps
GENERAL JEREMIAH McLain Rusk, first Secretary of Agriculture
and former Governor of Wisconsin. SECRETARY Rusk’s death
was as widely lamented and drew as notable a circle of promi-
nent citizens to pay homage as has been the lot of any public
servant of recent years. Chief among the mourners was Ex-PREsI-
DENT BENJAMIN HARRISON, under whose administration SECRE-
TARY Rusk had been given charge of agriculture. To other
friends, PRESIDENT HaRRIson is quoted as having said, “SECRE-
TARY Rusk was perhaps the least educated of the members of my
cabinet, but he possessed the shrewdest native judgment. He
could not prepare a state paper, but he was the keenest and best
informed critic of such a paper, once prepared, that I could
secure.”

JEREMIAH M. Rusk was of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather
James Rusk, was born near Londonderry in the north of Ireland,
and fled to America after knocking down the insulting agent of
his absent landlord. His father was born and brought up near
Pittsburgh but moved to Deerfield, Morgan Co., Ohio, shortly
after the war of 1812. It was here on June 17, 1830 that JERE-
MIAH was born, the youngest of eleven children. His schooling
was most limited and at sixteen years of age, due to his father’s
death, he became the sole reliance of his mother. Already he
was a practical and skilled farmer, marketing his produce con-
sisting of a variety of wheat, grains, vegetables, apples, cider,
peaches, feathers, eggs, butter and hops at Zanesville, some
twenty miles away. The young man was a giant in strength, a
powerful wrestler and a fine horseman. It is related that he was
the champion cradler of his entire countryside. As a very young
man he was employed to drive the four horse stage coach between
Zanesville and Newark on the national turnpike, a distance of
thirty miles. At this time he became acquainted with James A.

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GARFIELD, then driving a canal mule. After his stage-coaching
days he was employed for a short period as a foreman of graders
on the Zanesville and Wilmington railroad, later the Muskingum
Valley. About 1852 he became a cooper, making large numbers
of barrels in the old log house on his mother’s farm, these barrels
being sold to the salt industry then conducted along the Muskin-
gum. In 1853 with his wife and two children, he migrated to
Viroqua, Wis., where there were numerous settlers from Morgan
and Perry counties, Ohio. Here he became a tavern keeper, a
thresherman, and stage driver, owning the line between Prairie
du Chien and Black River Falls. In 1855 he was elected sheriff,
in 1857 coroner, and in 1861 a member of the state assembly.

In 1862 he recruited the 25th Wisconsin infantry and was com-
missioned as its Major, later becoming Lieutenant Colonel. He
participated in the siege of Vicksburg, June 7th to July 4th, 1863,
and in fourteen major actions thereafter, the 25th Regiment being
a part of General Sherman’s army. After dismissal from the
service he was brevetted a Brigadier General for conspicuous
gallantry in crossing the Salkehatchie River, South Carolina, in
February, 1865. His regiment participated in the review of
Sherman’s army, May 24, 1865, at Washington, was mustered out
June 7th, and disbanded at Madison, June 11th. The mortality
record of the 25th was the largest of any Wisconsin regiment,
and much of its conspicuous gallantry was due to the dash and
zealous activity of Cot. Rusk.. In 1865 he was elected State Bank
Comptroller, an office to which he was re-elected in 1867. In
1870 he was elected to Congress and served for a period of seven
years. He then returned to his farm, organizing a bank and pro-
curing the extension of a railway from Sparta to Viroqua. While
in Congress, SENATOR RusK was a member of the committee on
agriculture and at the Republican national convention of 1880 he
was largely instrumental in causing the break that nominated
GARFIELD for president. Later he was offered several missions by

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PRESIDENT GARFIELD, but he declined in order to be elected Gov-
ernor of Wisconsin in 1880. He was twice re-elected, serving
seven years in all. In 1886 he took the firm stand that quelled
the Milwaukee riot by ordering the militia to “fire on the mob.”
A single volley “blew the backbone out of anarchy” teaching a
permanent lesson to the Wisconsin “reds.” In other states the
situation was not handled so successfully, and that very night,
May 4, 1886, dozens of Chicago police lay stiffening, or writhing
in gore, victims of the bomb throwers of Haymarket. On the
strength of this record he was at once renominated for Governor,
and re-elected without competition. He declined a fourth term.

In 1888 GoveRNoR Rusk was Wisconsin’s candidate for repub-
lican presidential nomination, and early the next year was ap-
pointed by Presipenr Harrison to the newly created Secretary-
ship of Agriculture. SrcrRETARY RUSK at once recognized the
myriad services that could be performed in marketing America’s
surplus crops, and immediately set about extending the disposal
channels for the great staple crops and the vast animal products.
He made strenuous efforts to secure the substitution of home grown
for imported products and to bring the department into close rela-
tionship with the farmers. The beginnings of the control of con-
tagious disease among cattle were laid under his oversight, thus
permitting the markets of the world to be opened to our meat
products. He established propaganda for the introduction of
Indian corn to Europe as a cheap and economical food substitute
for the other cereals. He succeeded in placing sugar production
upon a stronger foundation, promoted irrigation in the arid west,
and sponsored laws to check the ravages of insect enemies to
plant and animal life. During his administration the well-known
special reports on “Diseases of Cattle” and “Diseases of the
Horse” were first published.

On March 8, 1893, he returned to his beautiful four hundred
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years. The following fall, however, he contracted malaria while
inspecting land in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois; complications
ensued and on November 21st, while apparently improving from
an operation, he suddenly passed away. GENERAL RuSK was one
of the strongest and most characteristic figures in the political
and agricultural life of America, during the reconstruction period
following the Civil War. He was an unswerving servant of the
public weal, and having set his hand to the plow, never deviated
until the end of the furrow was reached.

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FATHER OF THE FARMERS’ SHORT COURSE

19. Few of the earliest statesmen of American history have
recognized the constructive possibilities of agricultural education
and the dissemination of agricultural information. Fewer still
have there been whose keenness of vision and clarity of foresight
have made it possible to crystallize the need of the industry into
constructive and beneficent laws. Of this pioneer coterie was
SENATOR WILLIAM FREEMAN VILAS.

Born in Chelsea, Vermont, July, 1840, he gained the instinct of
public service from his father, the Hon. Levi B. Vinas. In June,
1851, the family settled at Madison, Wis., and at eighteen years of
age, the future statesman was graduated from the University of
Wisconsin. Two years later he finished at the Albany (New
York) Law School, and established himself in practice at Madi-
son. The Civil War interrupted his efforts as a barrister and in
July, 1862, he recruited Company A of the 23rd Wisconsin Volun-
teers, proceeding into the season’s campaign as its Captain. Pro-
moted to Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded his regiment during
the siege of Vicksburg, after which he resigned from the army
and returned to his practice. He was a Regent and Law Professor
of the University of Wisconsin, and in this position instituted the
first winter course in agriculture for farmer’s sons held in the
United States, contributing his idea to DEAN Henry (20), and
was later a member of a commission to revise the Wisconsin
Statutes, during which time he gained his first insight into the
need of constructive agricultural legislation for the state.

In 1878, his political career proper began. For eight years
he was a member of the Democratic National Committee, being
made permanent chairman at the National Democratic Convention
in 1884. In 1885 he was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature, and
after PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’s inauguration was made successively
Postmaster General and Secretary of the Interior. In the latter
capacity he introduced some reforms in the occupancy of Govern-

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ment lands and in improved conditions for the Indians that again
betokened his agricultural vision. From 1891 to 1897 he was
United States Senator and head of the committee that built the
present Congressional Library. He was at the same time member
of the commission which built the Wisconsin State Historical
Library, and was responsible for the efforts which brought to this
institution the interesting first documents of Wisconsin’s agricul-
tural history. Of sound conservative ideas, he was chairman of
the committee on resolutions at the National Democratic (Gold
Standard) Convention at Indianapolis in 1896. He was a mem-
ber in 1906 of the Commission empowered to build the new Wis-
consin capital, the artistic triumph of American state houses.
This duty was foremost in his interests until his death at Madison,
August 27, 1908.

SENATOR VILAS was possessed of a keen patriotic sense and for
years was a member of the Society of the Army of Tennessee.
Numerous of his addresses bearing on the issues, outcome and
rewards of the Civil War, were delivered by him during the cru-
cial political period of the two decades following the war. To
his advanced ideas and energetic efforts much of the prominent
agricultural position of Wisconsin is at present due. Everything
that SENATOR ViLas did he did well. His words were as carefully
chosen in ordinary conversation as they were when he spoke to
tens of thousands. He was one of the earliest advocates of special
education for rural citizenship, and by his legislative foresight,
laid the foundation of the rural coherence found in his state today.

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DEAN OF THE DEANS

20. The Nineteenth Century developed a new type of service in
agriculture. Hitherto the steps in progress could be catalogued
as a breeder presented to a voracious world his triumphs of arti-
sanship, or as a horticulturist or crop grower put forth the pro-
ducts of his soil. The latter half of the century just closed made
the need for organization and dissemination of agricultural infor-
mation more and more apparent, and the arrival of agricultural
colleges almost simultaneously with the financial independence of
the American farmer, raised up the profession of agricultural
evangel in the land. Dean of the patriarchs of rural progress is
Witiiam Arnon Henry of the University of Wisconsin.

Dean Henry was born at Norwalk, Huron Co., Ohio, June 16,
1850. His early life was spent in the country and he received
his first collegiate training in the Ohio Wesleyan University. The
next five years he acted as principal of the high schools of New
Haven, Indiana, and Boulder, Colorado. At twenty-six years of
age he entered Cornell University, graduating in 1880 with the
degree of Bachelor of Agriculture. During his last two years in
college he became particularly interested in botany, and held a
slightly compensative position as student instructor in that de-
partment. Upon graduation he was elected professor of Botany
and Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin. His first class-
room and office consisted of one room in a dwelling house on
University Farm. For the next few years he conducted extensive
research on the ensiling of corn and amber cane. In 1883-85 he
secured the services of Joun Goutp of Ohio to do institute work
on silage, and to this one influence can be traced Wisconsin’s
leadership in the use of ensilage today. So pertinent was his
work that in 1883 GoverNor Rusk recommended that an Agri-
cultural Experiment Station be created under W. A. HEnry’s
direction. With the adoption of this plan Dean Henry became
professor of Agriculture, and in 1885 at the suggestion of SENA-

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TOR ViLas (19) he conducted the first short course with an
attendance of nineteen students. In 1887 he was officially chris-
tened director of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, and three
years later he opened Wisconsin’s first dairy course for two
students. In 1891 he was appointed Dean of the College of Agri-
culture, and during the same year made his first contribution to
the subject on which he later became America’s foremost author-
ity, “The Feeding of Cattle.” This brochure appeared as Part II
of SEcreTARY Rusk’s treatise on “Diseases of Cattle and Cattle
Feeding.” In February, 1898, the first edition of his masterpiece,
“Feeds and Feeding,” was published. It consisted of 670 pages
and has thus far passed through nine editions with a total of thirty
thousand copies.

Dean Henry gathered under his leadership the greatest agri-
cultural faculty assembled by the early institutions. Practically
everyone of them became a national leader in his subject, Bas-
cock (23) in dairy chemistry and physics, RUSSELL in bacteriol-
ogy, Kinc in soils, Cratc (24) in animal husbandry, WaucH in
horticulture, FARRINGTON in dairy manufactures, Hart and Mc-
CoLLom in nutrition, Moore in agronomy, JONEs in plant dis-
eases and TAYLOR in agricultural economics. His greatest pride
lay in this faculty and to it he attributed the success he enjoyed.

In 1902 he was chosen special lecturer on agriculture and
animal nutrition at the Summer School of the University of Cali-
fornia. So appreciative were his Pacific coast students that this
University conferred on him the honorary Degree of Doctor of
Agriculture in 1904. In July of the same year the University of
Vermont honored him with the doctorate of science. The modern
farmer’s course was established under his direction at the Wiscon-
sin College of Agriculture that winter with an initial attendance of
175. In May, 1907, the Michigan Agricultural College granted
him the degree of Doctor of Science and at the close of the fiscal
year he resigned his college position, being made emeritus profes-

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sor of agriculture. In September, 1909, he was given a Carnegie
pension.

His later years have been spent on his son’s farm in Connecti-
cut, or at Sarasota, Florida. His devotion to the tiller of the soil,
his progressive viewpoint, his broad appreciation of all agricul-
ture, and his boundless enthusiasm make him a permanent figure
in the upbuilding of rural Wisconsin and the standardizing of
feeding methods in this country. Dran Henry played a most
prominent part in securing the parcel post law, and as a staff
correspondent of The Breeder’s Gazette and Hoarp’s Dairyman,
contributed largely to the solution of the farm problems of the
middle west. On account of his achievements and success among
college men he has popularly been styled the “Dean of the
Deans.”

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THE PROPHET OF A NATION’S HUSBANDRY

21. The pioneer in the general field of livestock journalism was
James Harvey Sanpers, a banker and railway contractor of
southeastern Iowa. Mr. SANDERS was born in Ohio in the Scioto
Valley, his parents being native Virginians. In 1868 he had
attained sufficient financial independence to indulge an inherent
fondness for improved livestock, and he secured at a good price
a seven-eighths Percheron horse named Victor Hugo, in Central
Ohio. This horse was shipped to Jowa and was the second animal
of heavy type to be brought into the state. Mr. SANDERS followed
him with the imported horse Dieppe, and the American-bred Dili-
gence, both of DiLLon ownership, the former stallion bringing
$3,000 and the latter $2,500. At the same time he introduced a
high type of Clydesdale, the $5,000 stallion, Donald Dinnie.

The extension of good breeding stock throughout the Missis-
sippi Valley states suggested to Mr. SaNDERs the publication of a
periodical to be devoted to the interests of blooded stock. Chris-
tened the “Western Stock Journal,” and printed on a hand power
press with its pages stitched together by the members of the
editor’s family, it received instant approval in Iowa and the neigh-
boring states, and was the first purely livestock periodical ever
issued in the world. About this time Mr. SANpERs purchased the
first purebred Shorthorn to be introduced into this country. One
more step in the building of a local agriculture remained for him
to take, and in the late 60’s he brought out from Ohio one of
the early Poland-Chinas of Magie breeding. Following this he
bought a pair of Essex which were unsuccessful, and then some
heavy boned Cheshires.

The panic of 1873 spread ruin in J. H. Sanpers’ path. The
railroad in which he was interested was wrecked, and the accumu-
lations of some twenty years entirely absorbed. Hence when
Grorce W. Rust and Joun P. Reynotps of Chicago called Mr.
SANDERS to the monthly “National Livestock Journal,” a con-

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solidation with his own paper was effected, and he became asso-
ciate editor. During all these years, Mr. SANDERS cherished a
partially gratified taste for the American trotter, and after some
excellent reports on grand circuit races, was offered the editor-
ship of Mr. Georce WILKEs’ “Spirit of the Times.” The Iowa
home was given up and the livestock sold, the family removing
to New York. A straight salary proposition failed to interest
Mr. SANDERS, however, and after twelve months he acquired a
financial interest in the National Livestock Journal and became
managing editor.

In the years just prior to 1880 there was a rapid distribution
of improved blood throughout the central states, and nearly
all of the breeds formed associations for their own promotion
and the registration of their animals. Mr. SANDERS was par-
ticularly active in advice and cooperation in such organizations
and himself prepared the initial volume of records of the French
draft horse, then called the Norman. He was one of the first
to point out the absurdity of this name and succeeded ultimately
in getting the name of Percheron adopted.

In 1881 Mr. Sanpers’ influence and circle of friends had
broadened to a sufficient extent to make it possible for him to
embark in a weekly livestock journal of his own. He had been
president of the Chicago Fair Association which held great live-
stock shows in Garfield Park in 1880 and 1881, was also presi-
dent of the Chicago Jockey and Trotting Club, and was secretary
of the American Trotting and Pacing Horse Breeders’ Associa-
tion. Building on these relationships, he established in the fall
of 1881, The Breeder’s Gazette, financed largely by the pioneer
farm implement maker, Jerome I. Case, of Racine, Wisconsin.
After some severe financial struggles, the future of the paper
was assured and it has grown in scope and influence until at the
present day it numbers a permanent circulation of approximately
95,000. The succeeding year, Mr. SANDERS, in company with

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Dr. James Law (122) and the Secretary of the Treasury, was
made a member of the commission authorized by Congress to
locate lands adjacent to certain Atlantic seaports, suitable for
quarantine stations for the detention of imported cattle. In 1883
he went abroad to examine horse breeding in France, and there
assisted in the organization and foundation of the stud book for
the breed in its native district. He also was specially commis-
sioned on this trip by the Secretary of Agriculture to report on
certain European conditions surrounding the American export
trade of live cattle and meats. In addition to his journalistic
duties, Mr. Sanpers found time in 1885 to write a book on
“Horse Breeding” that had widespread usage as a college text
in the latter part of the last century, as well as having a big sale
among breeders. In 1888 he published a companion book on
“Breeds of Livestock.” His death Dec. 22, 1899, was peculiarly
untimely, as his reward from American agriculture was by no
means complete.

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A WIZARD OF WOOL

22. Possibly as wide an acquaintance as was ever enjoyed
among the sheepmen of America was held by Roserr B.
THomson. Mr. THOMSON was a man untrained in husbandry
and previous to 1905 was unheard of in the wool trade. Never-
theless, in the last years of his life he became one of the most
widely quoted authorities on wool market conditions and his
amiable spirit won him hundreds of friends, both in the east
and west. Mr. THomson was charged with the organization of
the National Wool Warehouse and Storage Co., and in spite of
intrigue, conspiracy and other troubles carried it to a successful
realization. When the undertaking was first launched, many
severe and unjust criticisms were made by the short-sighted and
partisan men who had been attempting to back the wool industry
previously, but nothing of criticism was directed toward the per-
sonality that effected the organization.

Rosert Boyp THomson was born in Chicago, April 21, 1869,
of Scottish descent. At the close of his school training he
entered the employ of the Union Stock Yard & Transit Co.,
remaining with them until his death. In 1889 he took up his
residence in Morgan Park, and was actively identified with its
development. He was one of the founders of the Morgan Park
Presbyterian Church and became an elder in it at the age of 21.
For many years he was a trustee of the Village Board and acted
as trustee of the Morgan Park Academy during the troublous
period of its financing. Mr. THomson was a stockyards man
to the core, and was intimately concerned in its growth and
development. During his later years he acted as treasurer of
the Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., and of the Chicago Junction
Railway Co. He was one of the organizers and first president
of the Calumet Trust & Savings Bank in 1904, but resigned later
when the burdens of the Wool Warehouse began to absorb his
time.

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When the Stock Yard Company first took up the cooperative en-
terprise with the wool growers of the west, Mr. THOMSON was
selected by Messrs. Spoor and Leonard to represent their inter-
ests. The obstacles at first appeared insurmountable, and at
times the lack of support and cooperation would have troubled
the soul of many with more sturdy frames, but Mr. THomson
never faltered, and continually pushed forward the plans for
the wool growers’ cooperative movement. The opening cam-
paign of the winter of 1908-1909 was directed toward marketing
the western wool clip to better advantage for the producer. At
that time no other agricultural product had been sent to the
manufacturer under more adverse conditions. The gap between
the producer of wool and the mill men was so wide that the
average shepherd had no idea many of his practices such as
tying his fleeces with binder twine and overproducing fleeces of
the blanket and carpet type, were matters objectionable to the
mill owner. Largely through the efforts of Mr. THOMSON in
his position as secretary of the new organization this gap was
bridged. He conceived and carried out the educational schemes
of the movement, personally preparing a series of unique
pamphlets and circulars which told the sheep men of the per-
manent injury done by breeding from animals with black fleece,
or using insoluble paints, sisal twine and indiscriminate pack-
ing. Wool samples were sent by him to flock owners, giving
information on market grades and illustrating the effect of qual-
ity and length of fiber on fleece values. Market letters were
issued at intervals indicating the trend of prices and a wool
exhibit full of helpful points for the shipper was prepared for
exhibition at the International, at Wool Growers’ Conventions
and other meetings. When the preliminary educational work
was over and the market and trade terms well understood, he
began the fight for cooperative warehouses. These were strongly
opposed by the wool trade, but his spirit never quailed, and his

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calmly temperate, yet firm, attitude won the respect and admira-
tion of both friends and opponents. His organization and
inspiration finally made the warehouse an established fact. From
this vantage point it was easy to initiate the grading of fleeces
at the cooperative warehouses and the big shearing plants. When
the organization was firmly established he resigned as secretary
and became vice president and treasurer of the association.

For many years Mr. THomson was a sufferer from heart
trouble and the strenuous years of the wool organizing sapped
his vitality tremendously. The night of July 13, 1916, he peace-
fully passed away as he slept, occasioning an almost irreparable
loss to the industry he had so well served. No one with the fine-
ness of nature and clearly conceived duties that so dominated
Mr. THomson’s life, could fail to accomplish his earthly mis-
sion, and his business associates and personal circle of friends
felt keenly their deprivation of the sustaining power of his rare
and warm friendship.

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DOCTOR OF DAIRYING

23. STEPHEN MouLton Bascock was born at Bridgewater,
New York, in 1842. His education was of a type to prepare him
for permanent research in scientific subjects. In 1866 he
received his A. B. from Tufts College. From 1872 to 1875 he
attended Cornell University, following which he became an
instructor in chemistry at this institution. In 1877 he was
granted a leave of absence to study chemistry abroad and in
1879 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on him
by the University of Goettingen. He returned to Cornell but in
1882 became chemist at the New York Experiment Station at
Geneva, there initiating the series of scientific discoveries which
have done so much toward the upbuilding of the dairy industry.
Here he invented an apparatus for determining the viscosity of
liquids, and in 1883 worked out a gravimetric method of ana-
lyzing milk which is still in use. In 1885 he perfected a simple
method for determining the size and number of fat globules
in milk, and as a result of his achievements, in 1888 received
a call to the chemistry department of the Experiment Station at
the University of Wisconsin. Immediately upon his arrival in
Madison he began to work on a method for the determination
of the percentage of butter fat in milk, and in July, 1890, in
collaboration with Dean Henry (20) he published the first
bulletin announcing the discovery of the centrifugal test for
butter fat. So unusual were the demands for this bulletin, that
60,000 copies were distributed through the Wisconsin Experi-
ment Station alone. The news of the discovery travelled to all
parts of the world, and since Dr. Bascock refused to patent it
for his own personal gain, its benefits have spread everywhere.

While the Bascock Test was undoubtedly his greatest contri-
bution to the dairy industry, his research work on dairy products
was by no means terminated. In 1895 he established a method
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constituents of milk, thereby originating a mathematical form-
ula permitting the computation of the yield of cheese from a
given lot of milk. In 1896 as an associate of Dr. H. L. Russext,
he established the cause of the lessened consistency of pasteur-
ized milk, and in 1897 discovered the ferment galactase which
causes newly made cheese to break down to a digestible condi-
tion. Hitherto this had been believed to be due to bacteria.
Soon after this the Wisconsin Curd Test, an ingenious method
to detect tainted milk at creameries and cheese factories, was
annnounced by BaBcock, RUSSELL and DEcKER. In June, 1900)
he was appointed professor of agricultural chemistry, assistant
director, and chief chemist at the Experiment Station. During
the same year he received the honorary Degree of LL. D. at
Tufts College. Australian and New Zealand dairymen presented
him during this year with an oil painting and a beautifully illus-
trated album of their countries, in recognition of his most impor-
tant discoveries. Although he was no exhibitor, he was awarded
the grand prize of honor at the Paris Exposition. On March
27th, 1901, the legislature of Wisconsin before an assembly of
state officials, presented him with a large golden bronze medal
in recognition of his contribution to dairy progress. In 1913
he was made professor emeritus and retired from his most active
work.

In spite of the fundamental nature of Dr. Bascock’s contribu-
tion he is a man of broadest humanities. Each young investi-
gator at Madison has only to call to get the benefit of his
seasoned advice and his original viewpoints. For the solving of
physical difficulties in investigation Dr. BaBcock is undoubt-
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had. He is an ardent lover of sport and a constant attendant
at baseball, basketball and football games. At one time he was
the guest of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. The forenoon
was spent in an inspection of the plant, and on the parting at
noon, Mr. Lronarp (64) told Dr. Bascock that he had arranged
for an extensive automobile trip through the park and boulevard
system of Chicago for the afternoon. His surprise was unfeigned
when Dr. Bascock replied, “If you don’t mind, I believe I shall
go out to see the White Sox.”

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THE STOCKMAN’S SCHOOLMASTER

24. “A gentle soul full of modest stillness and humility, with
a vision and taste of the wonder, beauty and meaning of life,
may not pass this way without leaving indelible tracks, even in

the shifting sands...... And so the life of PRoressor Craic
may move to its appreciation the pens and lips and hearts of
many folk who did not know the man...... When he was

returned to Mother Earth it was too late for him to see the monu-
ments that hundreds of unknown friends had erected in their
own hearts to his patient, suffering, simple life.’ Thus DeEWitT
C. Wine paid tribute to a man who was as sincerely mourned in
his death as any who had ever donated his life to agriculture.

The passing of Joun A. Craic marked the close of an eventful
career in livestock husbandry. PRoFEssor Cratic was born
December 25, 1868, at Russell, Ontario, and was reared among
Canadian stockmen. He possessed an innate love for animal
life and a patient gentleness of spirit that is won only by those
who live in perfect communion with nature. He sprang from
Scotch stock, his home being in that section of Ontario that has
given so largely of its sons to quicken our agricultural progress,
CaRLYLE (32), MarsHaLi, FeRcuson, KENNEDY, RUTHERFORD,
McLean and Curisti£E. His elemental subjects were learned in
the rural schools, but he gained his science at the Ontario Agri-
cultural College and the University of Toronto.

His first influence on agriculture was exerted in 1889 through
his connection with the “Canadian Livestock Journal,” but in 1890
he was called by Dean Henry (20) to Madison to become the first
head of a purely livestock department in an educational institu-
tion. His work was that of a pioneer, but he builded broadly
in establishing methods of research and outlining systems of
teaching. He based his theory on the principle that accurate
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a study of the animals themselves. In 1896 he went to Iowa
where he organized the material for and published a 200-page
book on “Judging Livestock,” still the classic on this subject.
It has gone through seventeen editions and many thousands of
volumes, but its story is not yet fully told. In 1899 he arranged
the first interstate student’s livestock judging contest at the Trans-
Mississippi Exposition at Omaha.

Proressor Craic felt seriously the handicap of failing hear-
ing and a permanent lameness in one leg, and in 1901 he
deemed it best to retire from college life. As soon as this
decision became known he was offered the managing editorship
of the Iowa Homestead, in Des Moines. Here the quaint sim-
plicity of the pastoral genius that introduced his utterances in
his text book, received a fuller rein, but his editorial life was
too short. Failing health could not stand the confinement and
the following year he practiced farming in Barron Co., Wiscon-
sin. The season was too severe, however, and he found relief
at San Antonio, Texas, where he established Oakmore Farm.
Here he did some of his best work as a writer, and spent the
happiest and most hopeful period of his life.

As his health was improving, he accepted in 1903 the position
of dean and director of the Texas Agricultural College and
Experiment Station, but the play of politics was too much for a
man who never sold his manhood nor sacrificed a principle. He
returned to Oakmore in 1906 only to be called two years later
to Oklahoma. A factional political fight dealt illy with him
here and he resigned at the end of the 1909-10 school year. At
a tremendous sacrifice of energy, he had given these institutions
new direction and new life, and he had blazed a way that has
made it easy for his successors to follow. He returned from
Stillwater to Oakmore and after a brief illness passed beyond
on August 9, 1910.

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At the time of his resignation from Oklahoma, Dean HENRY
wrote a friend: “The thing that pleased me more than words
can express, was the showing in Pror. Craic’s letters that he
was a matured, advanced thinker along agricultural lines, both
educationally and experimentally . . . In himI saw a leader,
one who was making good and leaving his mark. I felt that
under his guidance Oklahoma would soon have an agricultural
development that would serve as a model for the whole south-
western United States, if not for a much larger region
Does Oklahoma realize that she is losing in the passing of
PRoFEssoR Craic one of the all too few really intellectually
mature, unselfish leaders in agricultural education and research.
Does she realize that to replace such a man she cannot find half
a dozen in the whole United States, and they are fixtures and
not seeking positions. Men in agricultural teaching and research
who have the right makeup in intellect, spirit and training are
oh! so rare.”

Not long before his death, PROFESSOR CRAIG sent to some of
his friends the following beautiful sentiment, a sentiment he
had lived more significantly than he knew:

“Lord, make me respect my material so much that I dare not
slight my work. Help me to deal very honestly with words and
with people, because they are both alive. Show me that as in a
river, so in a writing, clearness is the best quality, and a little
that is pure is worth more than much that is mired. Teach me
to see the local color without being blind to the inner light.
Give me an ideal that will stand the strain of weaving into
human stuff on the loom of the real. Keep me from caring
more for books than for folks, for art more than for life. Steady
me to do my full stint of work as well as I can, and when that
is done, stop me, pay what wages Thou wilt, and help me to say
from a quiet heart, a grateful Amen.”

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A SPONSOR FOR AGRICULTURAL INVESTIGATION

25. Legislation for the founding of the agricultural college
and experiment station system in America may be credited to
three men, SENATOR Morritit (28), ConcrEssmAN Hatcu (27),
and ConcressMAN ApamMs. Frailest physically, but most zealous
intellectually, was the last named of the three, a man who burned
the candle of life freely when he fought for his beloved agricul-
tural interests. He claimed no laurels as an originator of rural
legislation, but he found universal recognition in his framing
of the meat inspection and pure food bills, his championship of
the oleomargarine legislation and his supplementing of the
appropriation for the agricultural experiment stations.

Hon. Henry Cutten ApaAms was born September 28, 1850, at
Verona, N. Y. His father was a professor of Greek and Latin
at Hamilton College, but while he was still in his mother’s arms
the family proceeded to Wisconsin. His early years were spent
at Beaver Dam and Liberty Prairie, and he ultimately moved to
a farm in the vicinity of Madison. His education was obtained
in the rural and city schools and in the Albion Academy, while
he spent three years at the University of Wisconsin. His career
here was terminated due to ill health, and after an unsuccessful
attempt to study law, he engaged in dairy and fruit farming.
This was his chief occupation until the last five years of his life,
when he devoted much of his time to real estate. As a farmer
he entered into a variety of activities tending toward rural bet-
terment. He was an institute worker in connection with the state
university, secretary of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society,
member of the State Board of Agriculture, and President of the
State Dairymen’s Association.

In politics he was equally prominent. For two terms he was
a member of the state legislature, Superintendent of Public
Property for six years, and Dairy and Food Commissioner for
eight years. He was elected representative from the 2d Wiscon-

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sin Congressional District to the 58th and 59th Congresses, where
he was a member of the committee on agriculture. Here he
performed the services previously enumerated and on his way
home from the last Congress passed away at the Auditorium
Hotel, Chicago, July 9, 1906.

Mr. ADAMS was a man of extreme honesty and faithfulness.
His judgment was of the highest order and his cordial friendli-
ness won him a host of supporters. No public servant was ever
more worthy of his trust, and the rural interests of America can
well laud him as one of their heroes.

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A PROFESSOR WHO PRACTISED HIS OWN PREACHMENTS

26. Towering head and shoulders above his colleagues in the
collegiate profession as a moulder of the destinies of the Ameri-
can livestock industry, is CHartes F. Curtiss, dean and director
of the Division of Agriculture of the Iowa State College, Ames,
Ta. DEaNn Curtiss possesses the happy combination of a mind
and instincts firmly grounded in livestock fundamentals, and is
able to impress the student of agriculture, the farmer, the young
breeder and the most seasoned man of business with the dignity
and the desirability of rural callings. DrEsn Curtiss gained a
vision of the relations between agriculture and public service
through his years as an understudy of “Tama Jim” Witson (15)
when the latter was professor of agriculture and director of the
experiment station at the Iowa State College. He was born at
Boral, Ill., December 12, 1863, the son of FRANKLIN CuRTISS,
a sturdy and progressive pioneer farmer. His early years were
spent on the farm and at twenty years of age he entered Iowa
State College. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in 1887 and
seven years later was awarded his M. S. In recognition of his
broad services to American husbandry he was given the doctorate
of science in 1907 by the Michigan Agricultural College.

It is in Dean Curtiss’ public life, however, that his greatest
contributions to agriculture have been made. With his first sav-
ings he secured the tract of land south of Iowa State College
that is today known as Rookwood Farm, and with an eye to the
achievements of the constructive leaders of the preceding gen-
eration, selected high class Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep
and Berkshire swine with which to stock it. Recognizing the
profitableness of using purebred draft animals to provide farm
power, a few years after establishing his farm, he purchased a
few Percheron mares and at present has a capital bunch of
breeding animals and young stock. DEAN CURTISS is a con-
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brought his farm to a higher stage of fertility than it possessed
at his purchase, but he has achieved most successful results in
show and sale ring with his Shorthorns and Berkshires. As a
young calf in the herd of CaRPENTER & Ross (106), he selected
Count Avon, a son of Avondale, and at the International of
1912 as a two-year-old, this bull achieved the grand champion-
ship. His Berkshires have won prizes at the three greatest swine
shows in America, the Iowa State Fair, the National Swine
Show, and the International Exposition. At the college his
efforts have been equally successful. Four times the grand
championship at the International on steers has gone to Ames,
and draft horses, swine and sheep have been prominent winners,
the college having had grand champion barrow three times. The
college bred the champion gelding of the 1917 and 1918 Inter-
nationals shown by Witson & Co.

Dean Curtiss has been a prominent factor in Iowa agricul-
ture as a director of the State Board of Agriculture and super-
intendent of the horse department at the Iowa State Fair. He
is a life member of the International Livestock Association and
from the beginning has been connected as a director, official and
judge, now being its president. He has been President of the
American Berkshire Association, and of the American Shrop-
shire Association, director of the Percheron Society of America
and a director and member of the executive committee of the
National Society of Livestock Record Associations. He was a
member of the horse breeding and meat investigation committee
of the United States Department of Agriculture and special inves-
tigator for Great Britain and Mexico. He has been con-
sulting editor of the Agricultural Digest and staff correspondent
of practically all the leading farm journals, notably The Breeder’s
Gazette and Wallace’s Farmer.

Dean Curtiss is one of the foremost judges of livestock of all
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in draft horse, beef cattle, harness horse, swine and sheep rings,
at state fairs, the American Royal, Madison Square Garden and
the International. He was one of a group of three judges chosen
to represent America in the first international exchange of judges
with the Argentine. He there tied the ribbons on the Short-
horns, and the bull he selected for champion established the
price record for an animal of Argentinian breeding at that date.
DEAN CurTISs more than anyone else has demonstrated to the
breeder and practical farmer, the ultimate worth of an agricul-
tural college education. His portrait was given to the SADDLE
AND SIRLOIN CLuB by the students of Iowa State College.

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FOUNDER OF THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATIONS

27. The man who first appreciated in a concrete and con-
structive way the effect of local conditions in the application
of agricultural knowledge, was WiLLiam Henry Hatcu, origina-
tor and proponent of the act that founded the agricultural experi-
ment stations. He was a man of varied interests and many-sided
personality, but through it all ran a warm sympathy that turned
him to rural interests always, in spite of an eventful public life.

Mr. Hatcu was born in Georgetown, Ky., Sept. 11, 1833, of
New England parentage. During his early years he displayed
a pastoral disposition, and was vitally concerned with all things
connected with farm and animal life. For forty years his inter-
ests were grounded in his own acres, and his public career was
characterized by a constructive insight into the rural, social,
and economic structure. His school life at Georgetown and
Lexington, Ky., was very brief, and he early went to Richmond,
Ky., where he secured employment in a drug store and studied
law in the office of Jupce Turner. At the age of twenty-one,
he was admitted to the bar, but soon removed to Missouri, where
four vears later he was made attorney in the circuit court of
the sixteenth judicial district for two terms.

His second term was interrupted by his commission as captain
in the Confederate army in 1862. The following year he was
appointed commissioner in charge of the exchange of prisoners.
He was stationed at Richmond, Virginia, and was so considerate
in the discharge of his duty that he was endeared by friend and
foe alike. About this time he was promoted to a lieutenant-
colonelcy.

In 1878, Cot. HatcH was elected to Congress, where he served
for sixteen years. He was here the author of numerous bills
of agricultural importance. In addition to the experiment sta-
tion bill already mentioned, he fathered the oleomargarine law

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and the anti-option bills. He died December 23, 1896, near

Hannibal, Mo., two years after leaving Congress.

The Massachusetts experiment station was first established as
the Hatch experiment station, being named in his honor. His
life was characterized by integrity, firm conviction and a gen-
erous lovable disposition, and his contribution to agricultural
progress under the HaTcH act is immeasurable in its worth.

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CREATOR OF THE LAND-GRANT COLLEGES

28. The founder of American agricultural education was the
Hon. Justin S. Morriczt of Vermont. Born at Stratford in that
state on April 14, 1810, his early opportunities were somewhat
limited. His education was obtained in the common schools
and academies of the immediate vicinity and at the age of fifteen
he was forced to begin work as a clerk in a store. In 1828 he
entered the employ of a West India merchant at Portland, Me.,
and three years later launched a partnership in merchandise
with JEDEDIAH Harris of that city. This business was main-
tained until the death of Mr. Harris in 1855.

As a young man, SENATOR MorRILL evinced a studious dispo-
sition, reading continuously to supplement the deficiencies of
his education. His topics were varied, and he mastered even
“Blackstone’s Commentaries” while a clerk in the Stratford
store. His memory was singularly retentive and his intellect
powerful; in 1850, he had become one of the best equipped men
in Vermont to hold a position requiring sagacity and training.

He held no political aspirations as a young man, and although
elected a justice of peace, refused to serve. Hence it was a
distinct surprise and tribute to him when he was unanimously
nominated to succeed CoNncRESSMAN ANDREW TRACY in 1854.
Mr. Morritu was seated in the 34th congress in 1855, on the
Whig ticket. He participated actively in the foundation of the
new Republican party. In Congress his influence increased
rapidly and he was a member of many important committees
during his six terms of service. His tastes soon led him to
questions of agriculture and financial importance, and as a
result he was an early advocate of a strong protective tariff.

In 1858 ConcressMAN MorriLu added lustre to the fame he
had already gained in opposing the tariff bill in 1857, by intro-
ducing and pushing to a successful issue the first anti-polygamy
bill to affect the Utah Mormons. During the same year he intro-

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duced the Land-Grant college bill, providing for the setting aside
of public lands to found agricultural, industrial and scientific
institutions in the newly settled districts. Although this
passed both branches of Congress it was vetoed by PRESIDENT
BucHANAN, and it did not become a law until re-passed in 1862
and signed by PREsipeNT Lincotn. Under the provisions of
this law more than fifty institutions were established over the
country with facilities for 500 or more students and instructors
in each. A later act fathered by Mr. Morritt supplemented
the college support.

In the troublous times just before the War of Secession Mr.
MoRrRILL was a most prominent figure on the floor of the house.
He delivered the speech credited with defeating the admission
of Kansas as a state under a pro-slavery constitution. He was
placed in charge of all tariff, tax and revenue bills throughout
the war and in 1861 devised the Morrizti Tariff Act that
remained in force until replaced by the McKintey bill of the
51st Congress. His bill was the first to change the ad valorem
basis to that of specific duties.

His election to the Senate occurred in 1867, as a successor to
Luke P. Poxanp of Vermont. Here he was five times elected
to succeed himself and served a total of over forty years in both
houses. As chairman of the committees on finance and public
buildings and grounds, he was a highly important figure, while
his counsel as a member of the committees on education and
labor, census, revolutionary claims and additional accommoda-
tions to the Congressional Library was eagerly sought.

He was an author of no mean repute, contributing copiously
to the magazines and journals of the day. In 1886 a book by

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him, entitled “The Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons,”
appeared from a Boston press. This was a collection of self
appreciative expressions made by a number of distinguished
figures. Dartmouth College conferred an M. A. on him in 1857,
the University of Vermont an LL. D. in 1874, and the University
of Pennsylvania a similar degree in 1884. His honorable career
in Congress constitutes one of its brightest bits of service and
established a record whose length is yet unequalled.

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A CONSTRUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL THINKER

29. Among the sturdy apostles of a new American agriculture
that flocked so abundantly from the halls of the little Michigan
Agricultural College in the 80’s was Dean Eucene Davenport.
Born at Woodland, Michigan, June 20, 1856, he grew to young
manhood on a Michigan farm. Of sternest stuff, he earned his
own way through the agricultural college, receiving the degrees
of Bachelor of Science in 1878, Master of Science in 1884, and
Master of Agriculture in 1885. During these years he had
taught both public and private schools, and interspersed his
teaching seasons with vigorous wrestling with soil and crop on
the home farm. The exigencies of his early career grounded
his viewpoint firmly upon the soil, and he has never failed in
after years to hold to that as fundamental. The social and
economic problems of the rural community have always been
the ones next to his heart. From 1889 to 1891, he was professor
of agriculture at the Michigan college, but in the summer of
that year was called to found and organize a government school
at Sao Paulo, Brazil. The record he had established at his
own Alma Mater of successfully measuring himself against odds
and difficulties was continued in Brazil, but the effort proved
premature on the part of this South American government. He
consequently returned to America, but proceeding by way of
England, made a thorough study of the English methods of
agricultural education and the English practices of husbandry.
He was particularly impressed by the fertility maintenance
experiments of Lawes and GILBERT at Rothamstead, just out of
London, and he returned to college work with a broadened out-
look and a new enthusiasm.

In January, 1895, he became dean and director of agriculture
at the University of Illinois, a position he has held ever since.
Under his supervision the Illinois college has grown to be one
of the largest in the matter of equipment, faculty and attend-

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ance, that has been produced in America. DEAN DaveNPoRT
has particularly emphasized the need for research, at the same
time seeking a balanced development on the practical side of
agriculture. He has gathered around him a most notable faculty,
and has secured the greatest appropriations any agricultural
school in America has enjoyed.

Dean DAVENPORT has written abundantly for the agricultural
press, and has himself prepared numerous reports and bulletins.
In 1907 he published through Ginn & Co., his volume on the
“Principles of Breeding,” a book on which he had labored for
well over ten years. In 1909 his treatise on “Education for
Efficiency” left the press and in 1910 his high school text on
“Domesticated Animals and Plants” appeared. He has been a
popular speaker on agricultural topics, a most thoughtful writer,
and an original thinker. DEaN DAvENPoRT’S greatest genius has
laid in his ability to organize and direct others, and in this
capacity he has achieved the largest results from an educational
standpoint. Honors for him have been frequent and distin-
guished. He is widely recognized on public programs, has been
chairman of the agricultural section of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, and has held numerous
other offices of distinction. In 1907 his Alma Mater conferred
upon him the honorary degree of LL. D., and in 1913 the honor
was repeated by the University of Kentucky. While in England,
Dean DAVENPORT was elected a member of the Author’s Club
in London, and his writings have been watched quite carefully
by British readers.

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A SERUM SAVIOR OF SWINE

30. During the last forty years the loss due to hog cholera
in the United States has averaged about fifty million dollars
annually, four percent interest on an investment of a billion
and a quarter dollars. During this period the total loss has
been nearly two billion dollars, or approximately twice as much
as the theoretical investment. In 1913, a year when the scourge
flourished, a toll of seventy-five million dollars was exacted,
while in 1918, it had been reduced sixty percent, or a total of
thirty-two million dollars. In Iowa in 1913, nearly three million
hogs died with the cholera, while in 1917 the loss was less than
a hundred and eighty-nine thousand. The man to whom this
phenomenal saving may be credited is Dr. Marion Dorset, dis-
coverer of the anti-hog cholera serum.

Dr. Dorset was born in Columbia, Tennessee, December 14,
1872, and was graduated from the University of Tennessee with
a B.S. degree in 1893. He immediately proceeded to Columbian
(now George Washington) University at Georgetown, where
he received his M. D., and later took up veterinary studies at
the University of Pennsylvania. He specialized in bacteriology
and pathology, and from the first engaged in research work on
the bacterial toxins. In 1905 in collaboration with Dr. NiLes
of Iowa he published his first bulletin on the method of pre-
paring anti-hog cholera serum. Of recent years he has par-
ticularly studied tuberculosis, but has given some attention to
the etiology and prevention of other animal diseases. He is
chief of the biochemic division, Bureau of Animal Industry, and
is a member of the American Public Health Association, Ameri-

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can Chemical Society, Society of American Bacteriologists, and
is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science.

Dr. Dorset’s work has been almost entirely of a research
nature, and he has taken only a minor part in the development
of the great organization that has succeeded in so cutting down
the toll of this terrible disease. His purely scientific interest
prevented him from taking any personal advantage of his dis-
covery with regard to patents and today numerous serum com-
panies conduct enormous businesses based on his methods.

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AN ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR

31. Cuartes E. Ducean is the first breeder from the Argen-
tine to visit the International as a judge, and one of the leading
figures in the effort to promote an entente cordiale between the
Shorthorn promoters of the northern and southern continents.
Of British parentage, his father Irish and his mother English,
he was born native of Argentina in the late 60’s. His start in
the Shorthorn industry was most auspicious, as his father had
acquired the CRUICKSHANK Argentine importation, bought by
Tuomas NELson, CHARLES Duccan’s maternal grandfather. As
head of the firm of Duccan Bros., he operates estancias totaling
one million acres, one of the largest holdings in the Argentine.
The Duccans have persistently held to the female descendants
of the original CRUICKSHANK importation, and although the ani-
mals are kept in rough outdoor condition, some noteworthy sires
and show animals in other hands have been sold from the herd.
Ducean bulls have the singular habit of breeding better than
they appear and so firmly entrenched has his position become
to Argentine breeders that he has for many years been treasurer
of the Shorthorn Association in Argentina. In 1916 Mr. Duccan
came to the International to judge the bullocks and at the same
time he assisted on the Shorthorn breeding cattle. In the name
of the family he has presented to the American Shorthorn Asso-
ciation a cup for the best bull and female bred by exhibitor,
permanent possession being obtained when one exhibitor has
won it three times, or at two Internationals in succession.

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FROM PROFESSOR’S CHAIR TO PRINCE’S PADDOCK

32. Foremost among the contingent of students of animal
husbandry to leave the gates of the Ontario Agricultural College,
and carry the message of modern livestock practice to America,
is WiLLiam Levi CARLYLE. PROFESSOR CARLYLE was instructor
in the Ontario Agricultural College for the school year 1892-93,
and was so successful that he was called to the University of
Minnesota for the next three years as an extension lecturer in
Animal Husbandry. Here his acquaintance among American
livestock men was rapidly broadened, and in 1896 he was elected
to the University of Wisconsin as Professor of Animal Hus-
bandry, to succeed the lamented Craic (24). For seven years
he pursued a series of practical investigations in the feeding
and management of livestock, cooperating with DEan Henry
(20) in his studies on the food requirements of cattle and sheep
under midwest systems of handling. While at Madison he
inspired numerous young men with the vision of improved live-
stock, and numbers of his students went back to the farm to
succeed as breeders, or went to other institutions to carry on the
message of a better husbandry. Prominent among the latter are

’TruE of California, TRowsRipceE of Missouri, RicHARDS of
North Dakota, Morton of Colorado, DopcE of Hood Farm and
SCHROEDER of the Wisconsin Agriculturist. In 1903 he was
made professor of agriculture at the Colorado Agricultural
College, and two years later was elected dean. In 1909 due to
an unusual political situation he resigned his post, and the fol-
lowing year was made director of the experiment station and
dean of agriculture at the University of Idaho. Here his suc-
cess was instantaneous, and he made strenuous efforts to upbuild
the herds of cattle and sheep at the college and to introduce
purebred sires of both races into the state. In 1915 DEAN Car-
LYLE was made dean and director of agriculture at the Okla-
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efforts to advertise the work of the institution and to increase
its prestige. During his years at Stillwater he turned out several
champion and prize winning steers at the southwest fat stock
shows, induced numerous feeders and cattle men of the state
to embark in the production of purebred cattle, and was respon-
sible for the enactment of an effective stallion law. In 1919
he resigned his position to enter commercial pursuits, and was
appointed manager of the large Percheron holdings of GEORGE
Lang, Calgary, Alberta, being in direct charge of one 14,000 acre
farm. During the visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada in
1919, the Prince was the guest of Mr. Lane at the Bar U
ranches, and became extremely interested in farm lands. While
on a chicken shooting party in which both the Prince and Mr.
CARLYLE were included, the Prince determined on purchasing
a farm adjoining Bar U ranch and appointed Mr. CaRLYLE
agent and manager with Mr. Lane as advisor for the property.
On the return of the Prince to Britain, Mr. CARLYLE selected
Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep and Thoroughbred horses
from the English estate of His Royal Highness with which to
stock the Alberta acreage. The new farm is christened the E. P.
ranch, based on the custom of the owner to sign himself Epwarp
PRINCE.

Dean CARLYLE was born in Ontario, September 22, 1870, and
became a citizen of the United States in 1904. He received his
Bachelor’s degree at the Ontario Agricultural College in 1892,
and his M. S. at the Colorado Agricultural College in 1905.

His chief influence has been exerted for the introduction and
dissemination of purebred animals, and he has made a careful
study of feeding and development under range conditions. So

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enthusiastic has been his work that one daughter, HELEN, grad-
uated in animal husbandry from the Kansas State Agricultural
College. Dran CARLYLE’s portrait was presented to the club
while he was executive at the Colorado Agricultural College.
It was subscribed to by several hundred students in the college
and friends throughout the state.

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THE FIRST CHIEF OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY

33. An act of congress in 1884 established the Bureau of
Animal Industry with Dr. Dante, ELMER Samon as chief. Dr.
SALMON’S attention was first directed to the protection of the
American livestock industry from the plagues which occasionally
enter from outside the borders of the country, as well as to the
extermination of those diseases that had already gained a foot-
hold. He established a system of policing to prevent the
entrance of the two most destructive diseases found in foreign
countries, the foot and mouth disease and rinderpest. So suc-
cessful has been this precaution, that rinderpest has never gained
an entrance and foot and mouth disease appeared only thrice.

Dr. SALMON was born at Mount Olive, Morris Co., New Jer-
sey, July 23, 1850. His early life was passed partly on a farm
and partly as a clerk in a country store. His pre-collegiate
training was received at the Mount Olive district school at
Chester Institute, and at the East Business College. He entered
Cornell University as a member of its first freshman class, and
almost immediately came under the stimulating influence of
Pror. James Law (122). Circumstances developed which per-
mitted him to attend the Alfort Veterinary School near Paris
during the last six months of his course, when he came under the
influence of the great PasTEuR. He was given credit for this
work at Cornell, and in 1876 received the degree of Veterinary
Surgeon. He immediately entered upon practice in Newark, New
Jersey, and was so successful and original in his methods, that
in 1876 his Alma Mater granted him the advanced degree of
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. In 1877 he was invited to
deliver a course of lectures on Veterinary Science in the Uni-
versity of Georgia, but continued his practice until his appoint-
ment as first Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry.

In 1879 he was appointed inspector of the state of New York
to serve on the staff of Dr. Law in an effort to stamp out con-

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tagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle. Later he accepted a _posi-
tion under Commissioner LeDuc, of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, to investigate animal diseases in the South-
ern States. In 1883, he was recalled to Washington to establish
a veterinary division in the Department. About this time, con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia became a serious menace, and he
recognized the necessity of central authority and organization
to protect our cattle. He conceived the plan of a Federal Bureau
of Animal Industry and through his efforts it was established
in 1884. As Chief of that Bureau his work was two-fold;
research and the enforcement of regulatory laws. It was with
feelings of deep regret that he was gradually forced from
researches on animal diseases into the turmoils of administra-
tive life. However, it was for him to recognize the greater prob-
lems in the sanitary control of food-producing animals and to
initiate the means for their solution.

During the twenty-one years he occupied this position, Dr.
SALMON accomplished notable results in ridding the country of
livestock plagues. Under his administration the Bureau grew
from an original staff of a chief, one clerk, and a force of twenty
persons, to a department having approximately five thousand
employees. Its activities were developed in all phases of live-
stock production and the related industries, and nineteen divi-
sions and offices were established, the ramifications of whose
work extend into nearly every state of the Union and into foreign
countries.

Among the benefits to the livestock interests which the Bureau
of Animal Industry gave to our people during his administra-
tion should be mentioned the eradication from America of con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle; the federal inspection of
exported animals and the ships to carry them; improvement in
the quarantine regulations against imported animals; the dis-
covery of the cause of Texas fever and methods for the control

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of that disease; the establishment of the federal meat inspection
service; and many important investigations into the nature of
several serious infectious maladies of animals.

As Chief of the Bureau, Dr. SALMON stood firm against polit-
ical interference with research and other scientific work. He
was equally careful to protect the breeders and those engaged
in animal trafic. To him, more than to any other, we are
indebted for an efficient organization to combat animal plagues
and a meat inspection service which has protected our commerce
in animal products and safeguarded the people against the dis-
eases communicable to them through dumb creation. In these
protections our country is not excelled.

In 1906 Dr. SaLmon was placed in charge of the veterinary
department of the University of Montevideo in Uraguay at a
salary far in excess of that offered by our own Government. For
five years he remained in this country, but due to climatic diff-
culties he returned to the United States, giving his attention
during the closing months of his life to the preparation of hog
cholera virus. He failed rapidly, however, and died at Butte,
Mont., August 30, 1914.

Dr. SALMon was an Honorary Associate of the Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeons of Great Britain; a Fellow of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science; chairman of
the committee on animal diseases and animal food of the Ameri-
can Public Health Association, president and member of the
executive committee of the American Veterinary Association, and
an active worker in the Washington Academy of Science.

Dr. SALMON was a prominent writer on veterinary subjects,
especially those pertaining to the infectious diseases. Many of

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his publications have appeared in other languages. He was a
clear and convincing speaker, and was a member of many scien-
tific societies. With all his greatness he was a modest and kindly
man, retiring in nature, of studious habits, just in his delibera-
tions but firm when his decision was reached. His constructive
vision and untiring zeal make him one of the most prominent
figures in the professions allied to livestock production.

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A PREVENTER OF PESTILENCE

34. Upon the resignation of Dr. Satmon (33), as Chief of the
Bureau of Animal Industry in 1905, Dr. ALonzo D. MELVIN was
appointed chief, a position he retained until his death, Decem-
ber 7, 1917. Dr. Metvin was born at Sterling, Ill., October
28, 1862, and was educated in the grammar school and business
college of that city. He then spent four years in practical
experience on a good livestock farm, and in 1883 entered the
Chicago Veterinary College. After three years of study he
received his degree of Doctor of Veterinary Surgery, and imme-
diately entered the service of the newly organized Bureau of
Animal Industry. In 1887 he was transferred to Baltimore and
three years later was sent to Liverpool to inspect animals and
vessels from the United States. In 1892 he was recalled, and
placed in charge of meat inspection in Packingtown, Chicago.
Here he remained for four years, building up and extending
the system of safeguarding human food products. In 1899 he
was made Assistant Chief of Animal Industry, and succeeded to
the head of it on Dr. SALmon’s resignation in 1905. He was a
member of the Advisory Board to the Hygienic Laboratory of
the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service,
was president of the American Veterinary Medical Association,
1909 to 1910, and was honorary associate of the Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeons.

Under Dr. MELVIN some of the most important campaigns of
the Bureau of Animal Industry were executed. In 1906 the
first appropriations for the quarantine eradication of the Texas
fever tick were granted, and at the time of his death, six of
the fifteen states, originally quarantined, were pronounced free
of the tick, while several of the others had only a few counties
remaining to clean up. Originally the territory attacked included
730,000 square miles, and considerably over half of it had been
made tick free in 1917. Under his guidance, the nation wide

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attacks on hog cholera and tuberculosis were begun, and it was
due to his support that the system of herds accredited free of
tuberculosis was adopted. He was active in promoting the dip-
ping system all over the range country for the reduction of
scabies and manges in cattle and sheep, and while he was in
charge of the Bureau, measures for the restriction of dourine
and contagious abortion were instituted. In 1914 he demanded
and secured the enforcement of the rigid quarantine that ulti-
mately permitted the reduction of foot and mouth disease.

To him fell the laborious task and the responsibility of devel-
oping the enterprises that had already been initiated. In the
twenty-one years during which the Bureau had operated it had
undertaken a multiplicity of services for the benefit of the
breeders, packers and consumers. To carry such beginnings to
a successful conclusion is often more trying than to inaugurate
them. With a keen sense of justice and a long suffering patience,
Dr. MELvin advanced the work in hand and met the ever-chang-
ing conditions due to new knowledge. Broad and comprehen-
sive as were the purposes of the Bureau, they had to be modified
and extended, as well as to be correlated with the work of indi-
vidual states and institutions. Like his predecessor, Dr. SALMON,
he stood firm against the intrusion of political interference with
scientific work, and bravely met the misguided efforts of live-
stock owners who from time to time came to believe that science
and natural laws could be disregarded in the control of animal
plagues. His ability as an administrator, his sterling qualities
as a man, his nobility of character, his gentle and sympathetic
nature and his loyalty to the purposes of the Bureau endeared
him to all. He died suddenly in Washington, D. C., December
7, 1917.
~ His twelve years in the Bureau of Animal Industry were indeed
years of big undertakings, and his constructive recognition of
the nation’s problems contributed largely to the present rela-
tively healthy status of American livestock.

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A GUARDIAN OF ANIMAL HEALTH

35. The present Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry is
Dr. Joun Roppins MonLer. Dr. Mox.er was born in Phila-
delphia, May 9, 1875, graduating from the Central High school
in 1892. The following year he attended Temple University
and in 1896 received his V. M. D. from the University of Penn-
sylvania. For one year following his graduation he was in
veterinary practice, but from 1897 to 1899 he found a larger
service in the medical department of the Marquette University
and as an assistant inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry.
His progress in the Bureau was rapid, and in 1899 he was made
assistant pathologist; in 1901 zoologist; and in 1902, chief of
the Pathological Division. After twelve years in this depart-
ment, he was made assistant chief of the Bureau, and on the
death of Dr. MELvin, he succeeded him as chief. Dr. MoHLER
has held numerous positions of national and international
importance. In 1908 he was secretary of the Veterinary section
of the International Tuberculosis Congress; in 1909 and 1910
he was vice president of the United States Livestock Sanitary
Association, and in 1912 and 1913 president of the Veterinary
Medical Association. The following year he was vice president
of the International Veterinary Congress, and from 1914 to 1917
was president of the Veterinary Examining Board in the District
of Columbia.

Dr. Monter has been an active contributor to the programs
of the Society of American Bacteriologists and the Society of
Experimental Biology and Medicine. He is a voluminous pub-
lisher in the fields of pathology, bacteriology and meat inspec-
tion, and has contributed largely to Government publications,
medical journals, and encyclopedias. Dr. MoHLER has been an
active translator, bringing out Ostertag’s Hand Book of Meat
Inspection in 1904, Edelmann’s Meat Hygiene in 1908, Hutyra

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and Marck’s Special Pathology and Therapeutics of Domestic
Animals in 1911, and Ernst’s Milk Hygiene in 1914.

Dr. MOHLER is prosecuting successfully most of the economic
undertakings instituted by Dr. Mervin. He is doing much
toward building up a scientific and research spirit among his’
personnel, and is at present fighting for stronger individual sup-
port and larger salaries for the men who are responsible for the
health and sanitation of the nation’s ten billion dollar livestock
industry. Like his predecessors, he is spending his life in the
promotion and protection of the livestock interests of America.

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WIELDER OF THE GOLDEN PEN

36. The pioneer publicity man of the early Internationals was
JosepH Epwarp GuINnaNneE Ryan, native born Irishman and genial
interpreter of those spirits who labored so strenuously on the
foundations of the Exposition. He was born in County Clare
in July, 1869, was educated in Dublin and graduated from Trin-
ity College. As a student he was a renowned athlete, and won
a long string of medals for excellence in track, tennis and golf
events.

In 1889 he came to America, being first employed at the Stock-
yards, but after a few months he became associated with the
Schufeldt Distillery Co. His entrance into journalism occurred
in 1898 when he began writing as a free lance on golf subjects.
He was the author of the Golfer’s Green Book. Two years later
he was appointed to the staff of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, as auto-
mobile editor, and manager of automobile advertising.

While holding the latter position he became interested in the
publicity promotion of numerous enterprises, among them the
International Livestock Exposition, and became its press rep-
resentative. This position he held until the time of his death.
The interest in livestock he developed here and the acquaintance-
ships he formed made it possible for him to handle the contract
for the publicity for the New York Horse Show and the Chicago
Automobile Show. His death occurred January 1, 1912.

Among visitors to the early Internationals, Mr. RYAN was a
familiar figure, never tiring in displaying the points of interest
and delivering himself of good natured Irish comments.
Although an unremittingly busy man he always found time to
pass a word of good cheer or a bit of real Hibernian wit to
friend or stranger alike. To him more than to anyone is due
the interest developed by the natives of Chicago and other city
dwellers in the livestock show.

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THE DAVID HARUM OF DEXTER PARK

37. The veritable dean in length of service among the habitues
of the stockyard district and the Chicago horse market, is SAMUEL
CozzeEns. Born in Providence, R. I., in 1848, he came to Chicago
at the age of eighteen. His first work was at the Yards where
he was placed in charge of the Dexter Park horse market for the
Stockyard Company. As the volume of business increased, he was
appointed superintendent of this branch of the market and was
placed in charge of the stables. From the very beginning Mr.
CozzENs was recognized by Mr. SHERMAN (66), as a man of
latent possibilities, and he turned a number of business and
investment opportunities in his direction that served Mr. Coz-
ZENS well from a financial standpoint. This so broadened his
acquaintance among the men of the livestock industry of Chi-
cago, that when he went into the coach and saddle horse business
for himself in 1898, he was successful from the start.

Mr. Cozzens has been a director of the Livestock Exchange
Bank for thirty-five years, having been identified with it when
it was opened as the Union Stockyard Bank. Upon its reorgani-
zation as the Livestock Bank he retained his position, and for a
period of ten years he has been a director of the Stock Yards Sav-
ings Bank. Mr. Cozzens has done an enormous business in the
lighter types of horses, but with the changing market demands
he has extended his operations to animals of the draft type. His
business has been phenomenally successful, and at one time he
handled more horses than any other man in the Yards.

In return for the interest and kindliness which Mr. SHERMAN
showed him as a young man, Mr. Cozzens has been one of the

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most liberal and sympathetic men in the aiding of other young
men to get a start. He has taken longer chances with men in
more serious straits than almost any other benefactor of youth.
Among the well known firms that received their impetus from
Mr. Cozzens is that of ELtswortH & McNair. These men came
to the horse market without capital but their character and
upright methods were early recognized by Mr. Cozzens and he
backed them without limit. Today this firm counts its capital
in millions and has the largest equine sale business in America.
Mr. Cozzens’ gratefulness to Mr. SHERMAN has made him feel
in duty bound to pass on kindness to everyone he can find, and
his generosity has been a big factor in many business lives.

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A PATRIARCH OF THE CATTLE MART

38. One of the real veterans of the livestock commission busi-
ness is Monson PaRKER BUEL of the EvaANns-SNIDER-BUEL Co.,
of Chicago. Mr. BUEL was born at Croton, Licking Co., Ohio,
October 14, 1845. He was educated in public schools and
attended Granville College, Granville, Ohio, for one term. Mr.
BUEL was reared on his father’s farm and for four years was a
clerk in a general merchandise store at Croton. In 1865 he
went west to California and Nevada where he was cashier in
the National Bank at Austin, Nevada, for two and a half years.
The confinement proved too much for him and his health was
seriously affected. He therefore severed his connection with the
bank and removed to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he engaged
in the buying and handling of livestock.

On May 1, 1876, he became a member of the livestock com-
mission firm of Hunter, Evans & Co. at St. Louis, Mo., and
nine years later removed to Chicago to continue the commis-
sion game under the same firm name. Two years later the
business was incorporated as the EvaNns-SNIDER-BUEL Co., and
he was elected vice president of the corporation. In 1894 he
was made president, and has retained that position ever
since, a period of over a quarter century. Under his experi-
enced direction, the firm has grown rapidly and now has offices
in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Fort Worth and Oklahoma
City. During his years in Chicago he has become identified
with a number of firms throughout the southwest, engaging in
buying and feeding cattle. Most of the stock handled has been
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Oklahoma and Missouri. In 1886 he became a member of the
Chicago Livestock Exchange and for a number of years was
director and vice president. In 1905 and 1906 he served two
terms as president of this organization.

Mr. BUEL is a former president of the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN
Cup and has been an important figure in the development of
its resident membership. His years of experience in the handling
of livestock have given him an almost unmatched acquaintance
among the buyers and feeders of midwestern and western United
States.

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FULFILLER OF SHOWYARD DREAMS

39. The court of ultimate resort in the affairs of animal indus-
try has, since the first of the present century, been located in
the International Livestock Exposition held at Chicago each
year. The burden of developing this institution was laid on
the shoulders of Mr. WiLuiam E. SKINNER, in the spring of 1898.
In company with Messrs. Ropert B. OciLvie (6), MorTIMER
LevEriING (40), and G. Howarp Davison (8), at one of the
Toronto Livestock Expositions, the idea of the International
was generated, and on Mr. SKINNER was conferred the title of
General Manager of the exposition, a title that became obsolete
with his departure as a compliment to the wealth of his service.

Mr. SKINNER is a native Canadian, his birthplace being Water-
town, Ontario, on June 24, 1864. His father was a physician,
but various circumstances prevented his receiving the customary
public school education, and at twenty years of age, he crossed
the border to become a citizen of the United States, a fact accom-
plished in 1886. His first work was with the Erie & Western
Railway, afterward a part of the Erie System. In 1884 he came
to the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, and entered into duty
with the Stock Yard Company, the beginning of an experience
with the livestock market that has occupied the major years of
his life. After three months in Chicago he transferred his alle-
giance to the Street Stable Car Line, and personally conducted
the first stable car across the Missouri river to Cheyenne.
During his three years with this company his headquarters were
at Cheyenne, and he lived an integral part of the boom days of
the cattle country. In 1887 he entered the service of the Omaha
Stock Yards Co. and so intimate did he grow into the market
interests of the early cattle barons, that today he is known by
his first name and wholesomely loved wherever cattle graze
between Omaha and Cheyenne. The year prior to the Colum-
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old Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. and to build the livestock
market. This duty accomplished, he was called to Chicago in
the spring of 1898 by those who had seen the vision of the Inter-
national Livestock Exposition. It was planned originally to
hold the first show in 1899, but due to the extensive nature of
the preparations it was deemed impossible, and the opening year
was set for 1900. At the Toronto Show of 1899, Mr. SKINNER
personally pledged not only to equal, but actually to distance
the old Lake Front Show in establishing the new International
Exposition. His enthusiasm and acumen won the support of
the Hon. Joun Drypen (14) and the Canadian breeders and
exhibitors. From that date forward the international character
of the show was assured.

After the 1906 show, Mr. SKINNER resigned as General Man-
ager of the Exposition to go to Denver as assistant to EDWARD
TILDEN (63), president of the Denver Stock Yards Co. During
this period he was president of the Chamber of Commerce for
Colorado, but in 1911, on the request of his old International
associates, he returned to Chicago to become General Manager
of the National Dairy Show. Following the first successful
Dairy Show of 1912 Mr. SKINNER organized the National Dairy
Council with Dr. H. B. Favitzt (17) as President and himself
as Secretary. The National Dairy Council has become the guid-
ing spirit in the promotion of the dairy industry, and all of
the allied dairy interests have become members except the con-
densed milk manufacturers and the refrigerator transportation
lines. Under the guidance of the national council most of the
dairy states have organized or are at present organizing state
dairy councils. Manufacturers and breeders whose businesses

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are sufficiently large to be interstate in scope, are members of
the National Council, while those whose operations are more
limited geographically, are members of the state bodies. As a
result a strong and constructive force has been introduced into
an industry whose need was more than apparent, and Mr. SKIN-
NER is credited with the accomplishment of the first of what may
become a series of special industry organizations in American

agriculture.

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A PROMOTER OF BREED ORGANIZATION

40. Mortimer LEveRING brought to agricultural industry as
broad a range of tastes, as great a degree of varied skill, and
as high a perfection of subject mastery as modern America
has known. Born of a sturdy stock of Quaker origin he com-
bined with its simplicity of style the chivalrous viewpoint of
cavaliers, and the artistic and literary perceptions of the Latin.
Although his native home was Philadelphia, he early moved to
Lafayette, Ind., and there became established as private banker
and manager of farm property. At one time he had over twenty
farms under his direction, but found time so to devote himself
to his banking affairs, that it was his boast that he had never
been forced to foreclose on a security. At his country home,
Richmond Hill, with its sloping pastures bordering the Wabash,
he for years maintained Jerseys, Shropshires, Shetlands and
standard-bred poultry. He was one of the organizers of the
American Shropshire Registry Association, early in 1881, and
was its secretary until the day of his death. Under his regime
it developed a larger membership than any sheep society in the
world. He was also the secretary of the National Wool Grow-
ers’ Association for many years, and its eastern vice president
thereafter. He took charge of the American Shetland Pony
Club records in its feeble childhood, and as its secretary,
builded it a perpetuating structure. The American Saddle Horse
Breeders’ Association made him a director and listened long to
his seasoned counsel. He was a founder of the International
and the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUvB, being secretary of the latter
in its days of organization and early equipment.

Mr. LEVERING was an enthusiastic sportsman and a seasoned
judge of livestock. He was secretary of the Chicago Horse Show
Association which not only revived the brilliancies of the old
Lake Front Show, but actually outdazzled them at the Coliseum.
At Kansas City when challenged by Wittiam R. NELSON as to

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his qualifications to adjudge an obstacle-driving class for coach-
man, he displaced one driver from his box and performed so
much more brilliantly than any contestant that his critic was
subdued. He was a lover and appreciative critic of art, music
and literature, and a notable gentleman athlete. He trained his
son in his private gymnasium in the foundations that made him
a brilliant star at Yale. It is related that he disarmed a French
fencing master in a bout with the foils at Lafayette.

In his later years, Mr. LEVERING undertook additional respon-
sibilities. He became president of the Columbia National Bank
at Indianapolis, Manager of the Hoxie Estate and Mattory
Commission Co. of Chicago, and director and advisor of the
Indian Refining Co., of which his son was president. His death
occurred December 1, 1909, at sixty and one-half years of age.
He was the personal friend of every employee, an unostenta-
tious philanthropist, and a sympathetic friend. His early death
left a serious gap in all of his social and business connections.

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A CREATOR OF CART HORSE CHARACTER

41. JonatHan Hatt TRUMAN possesses the singular honor of
being an English citizen who has contributed in the broadest
and most constructive way to the upbuilding of improved Ameri-
can agriculture. Mr. Truman was born in Whittlesea, Cam-
bridgeshire, England, November 26, 1842. He was educated
at the Oundle Grammar School where he gained the highest
honors, and upon graduation, he took over the cattle and sheep
business of his father, GEORGE TRUMAN.

Mr. TRUMAN was invited to purchase the first shipment of live
fat cattle shipped from the United States to London. Being of
adventurous nature, and noting their superiority he purchased
forty head and shipped them inland to the market town of
Peterborough. These cattle were a great attraction, but caused
considerable trouble among the butchers and feeders who were
his customers. The butchers, indeed, refused to buy them at
any price and with John Bull conservatism, advised him not
to bring any more Yankee cattle to their market. Unable to
sell them he took them home to his farm, and retailed them
individually to small country butchers, being firmly determined
to gain his point and to establish a market for the American
export trade. He invited two of the largest butchers in Peter-
borough to look at some fat sheep he had on the farm, and pur-
chased a chine roast of grade Angus beef from one of them
for the dinner he intended to serve them when they inspected
his muttons. For the same dinner he also had a chine from
one of the Yankee bullocks. Placing both joints on the table,
he asked his guests to try a piece of the American beef. Both
refused, so were supposedly served with the grade Angus. After
acclaiming the farmer who fed the grade Angus as the best
feeder in the country, their surprise was overwhelming when

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he told them they had partaken of the American beef. Thence-
forward, he had no difficulty in disposing of American cattle,
and became one of the leading factors in the British end of the
export cattle trade.

In 1877 the French firm of T. M. Ducue & Sons, commis-
sioned him to proceed to Chicago and buy them a cargo of
American cattle as an experiment. So successful was this pro-
cedure that the early part of 1878 found him again at the
Union Stock Yards, buying and shipping fat cattle and sheep
to Britain. For several years he spent about nine months out
of each twelve at the Chicago market and during this period
he studied carefully the horse breeding interests of the Missis-
sippi valley. He saw a notable opportunity to introduce a few
Shire horses, himself being a breeder of the Cart horse in Eng-
land. So successful was his first importation that he quit com-
pletely the cattle export trade and devoted his entire time to
the introduction and promotion of the Shire horse. As a base
for his operations he founded Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm at
Bushnell, Ill., and became its president. Never having given
up his residence in England, he returned to his home after the
firm establishment of his American business, leaving its opera-
tion in the hands of his sons, J. G., W. E., and H. W. Truman.
Thenceforward he handled the English end of his export trade,
and purchased and shipped to America numbers of high class
winners in the International Shire and Hackney Rings. In addi-
tion he has exported many noteworthy Shires, Suffolks and
Hackneys to the Argentine.

In appreciation of his work in the cattle trade, Joun B. Suer-
MAN (66) named one of the Union Stock Yards fat bullocks

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J. H. TRUMAN, in recognition of Mr. TRUMAN’S services as the
first English resident buyer of export cattle at the Union Stock
Yards. Mr.. SHERMAN also invited him to exhibit an importa-
tion of Shire horses at the livestock show held in the old Lake
Front exposition building in 1882. In his later years, Mr.
TRUMAN is hale and hearty, and takes a personal active interest
in the feeding and grazing of cattle and the breeding of high
class horses on his British acres.

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A HORSEMAN WHO RODE IN FLANDERS FIELDS

42. One of the pioneer supporters of purebred livestock in
Indiana and perhaps her most important promoter of draft
horses, is JAMES CroucH of Lafayette, Indiana. Mr. Croucu
is of English birth, and came to this country with his parents
in childhood. They early settled in the state of Indiana and
Mr. Croucy became identified with the group of breeders of
purebred livestock that centered around the little town of Lafay-
ette. In 1888 he made his first importation of Belgian horses,
but his sales were small for several years. The stallions were
mated to the rather gangling first cross Percheron mares that
occurred so frequently in his vicinity, with very excellent effect
on the conformation and draftiness of the resulting colts. The
efforts of the Belgian government about this time to subsidize
draft breeding and to build up their native stock, forced Mr.
CroucH to pay higher prices than the demand for the breed in
America had hitherto warranted. This seriously hampered his
work for a number of years, but he never faltered in his sup-
port of the breed of his choice. In the showyards of the 90’s
his exhibits made considerable headway in winning popularity
for this type of horse. When his son GeorcE became a partner
in the business, Percherons and German Coachers were added,
and later other stock, but the elder Mr. CroucH has always
maintained his loyalty to the breed he originally chose.

Practically all the Belgian championships of the International
in the early years were won by this firm and such animals as
Richelieu and Mon Gros have wielded a broad and substantial
influence in breed betterment. In 1912, 1913 and 1916 he
showed a six horse team in which Belgians shared the honors
with Percherons, and first prize on this hitch was received in
1912 and 1916. About 1912 he and his son extended their
interests to Herefords and their herd has been prominent at the
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of the animals came from the famous Van Natta herd which
was purchased in its entirety on the retirement of Mr. Franx
Van Natta.

Mr. Croucu is a pioneer of precious pattern. He has main-
tained an interest throughout his entire career in the promotion
of agricultural knowledge, and has on many occasions coop-
erated with Purdue University in breeding demonstration and
experimental ventures. His efforts have done much to popular-
ize draft horse breeding and his exhibits at the International and
other large fairs have builded him a lasting reputation. _

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OVERLORD OF OAKLAWN

43. The breaking of the boundless acres of the virgin prairies
of the midwest, the hauling to market of its fertile rewards and
the crowding traffic of the youthful cities of nineteenth century
America developed a need for draft forces that eastern agricul-
turists and eastern industries had failed to realize. The hardy
light-boned horse that hitherto had served for labor, road and
track, lacked the latent qualities to meet the situation, and in
the early 50’s progressive American agriculturists brought from
the older hemisphere the fundaments of a type more definitely
adapted to the immediate necessity.

Clearest visioned among the caterers to the new need was
Mark WENtTworTH DunHamM of Oaklawn Farm some five miles
south of Elgin, Illinois. Born June 22, 1842, he early saw the
success of old Louis NAPoLEon and others of the pioneer French
blood to reach this country, so in 1870 he acquired the mas-
sively spread gray stallion with whitish mane, whose name Suc-
cess was fortunate omen of his service to Oaklawn, and the sur-
rounding country side. From this simple beginning, a rapidly
growing business developed. The old brick house that had been
pioneer home was transformed into an office and clerks busily
clicked away at typewriters the year round in maintaining the
records of the horses that passed through Oaklawn.

Mr. DuNHaAM was a keen judge of equine needs and a student
of equine type. A personal investigation extended over a num-
ber of years convinced him that of all the horses of Frankish
origin that came to his stables, those that came from the district
of the old Perche were by all odds the best. The blood seemed
to mix particularly well when crossed upon the light limbed
mares spread over the corn country, and so successful were the
half bloods that wherever a stallion once went another was
demanded in its place. Mr. Dunuam’s keenness of judgment
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and in the prime of their breeding age, the animals that were
to contribute to the ultimate perfection of the Percheron ideal,
and by fearless investment he secured for America the very best
of the Percheron blood. Of the record of his successes with
Brilliant 1271, Brilliant 3d, Seducteur and Marathon, all of
most potent heritage, of Villers, Theudis, and a host of others,
one can tell much, and under his shrewd judgment and careful
selection, Oaklawn not only rivalled but for many years excelled
the best of the French breeders in contributing to the advance
of the Percheron type.

Mr. DunHAM was a man of real democracy and possessed a
persuasive ability to awaken interest in others. He was at home
in palace or hovel and had the unconscious knack of putting
every one at ease. In the late 90’s when importation was dith-
cult Mr. DunHam visited Ricuarp WoLrF at Streator to seek
young horses bred from an Oaklawn foundation. Until after
midnight he visited, talking endlessly of horse and draft. Tem-
porary emergencies forced him to sleep in the hired man’s bed,
and he drove through the bottomless IJlinois mud to town leav-
ing Mr. Wor with the impression that kings could not have
done better. It was this happy adaptability and cheerful facing
of disagreeable situations that laid the foundation of his suc-
cess. He was the greatest salesman ever in the stallion business,
selling four or five horses to separate buyers at once, and divin-
ing with uncanny accuracy just the price his buyer wanted to
pay and just the type of horse he wanted to be shown.

Mr. DuNHAM’s untimely death in 1899 came at the prime of
his career. It occurred as a result of blood poisoning brought
on by the examination of an infected hoof. His achievements
in founding and upbuilding the Percheron industry have been
passed to the future in the able hands of his son WirTu, the
present master of Oaklawn.

DUNHAM

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A FASHIONER OF CLYDESDALES

44. Cot. Ropert HoLtLoway wrought a work in agriculture
and livestock breeding such as has fallen to the lot of few men.
For years he was a commanding figure in both the Shorthorn
and Clydesdale trade, a man whose natural endowments placed
him considerably above the average of his fellows. He pos-
sessed a most steadfast yet varied personality. The obituary
published at the time of his death characterized him as a humani-
tarian, sociologist and Christian gentleman, but that only told
of his qualities in part.

Cot. HoLLoway was born in Bourbon Co., Kentucky, of Vir-
ginian descent. He was educated at the Kentucky Military Insti-
tute and following his graduation was given the chair of Mathe-
matics at that institution. In 1851 he graduated with honors
in law from the Transylvania University, beginning his practice
the same year at Monmouth, III. His inherent love of the land
soon led him to the acquisition and development of the rich
prairies of Warren county. At one time he owned more than
7,000 acres which completely monopolized his time. He founded
the town of Alexis near one of his farms, and in early years
was largely interested in city property. Once his land was
acquired, he became obsessed with his livestock. The Shorthorn
first claimed his attention and in honor of the breed he christ-
ened his estate Durham Lawn. In 1876 he held one of the
really historic sales of the breed in Chicago, securing an average
of $1,087 on over sixty head.

His imperishable contribution to husbandry, however, was
through his Clydesdales. The foundations of his stud were
obtained in 1873. He proceeded to Scotland where he made a
thorough personal study of Clydesdale types and acquired as
keen an understanding of the excellencies of the Scotch draft
horse as has been the opportunity of any American. His col-
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maintained the largest Clydesdale stud on either continent. His
Scotch studies led him to pin his faith first of all to the foot,
ankle and limb, and in Cedric, son of the famous Prince of
Wales, he obtained his ideal type of sustaining figure, prepo-
tence, and longevity. He placed wearing qualities before all
other things in a draft horse.

His successful attainment of his ideals attracted the attention
of both continents, and stallions and mares bred at Durham
Lawn were exported to Scotland to exert a marked influence on
the course of breeding and showyard history in the native
haunts of the breed. Few breeders have been able more fully
to realize their ideal in the production of animal types. Mr.
Hot.oway held pronounced opinions on the development of
his animals. His young stuff habitually appeared in the show
ring in the lightest of flesh, his maxim being to grow his horses
before he fattened them. Such procedure doubtless added
years to the length of service of the animals he produced, but
he ultimately carried it to an extreme that permitted his rivals
in breed promotion, R. B. OciLviE (6), and N. P. CLarke (45),
to gain advantage of him during his later years in the show yard.
His death April 17, 1906, marked the close of a long career,
characterized by a loyal and strict adherence to the draft
standard.

Co. HoLLoway was personally a most lovable man. He pos-
sessed an ardent intensity of nature, and a courageous, yet
tender, chivalry that marked him a knight of the latter day. He
was an intellectual giant among the figures connected with live-
stock breeding. Few could equal him in elegant diction, whether
used in speech or manuscript. Unfortunately during his later
years, he developed a distaste for writing that prevented his con-
veying to paper the vast stores of draft lore he had acquired
throughout his long experience. Through the columns of The
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on the Clydesdale horse in reply to a vigorous attack made by
an English correspondent, that have become classics of livestock
literature. He lived a deep religious life and was an ardent
student of modern sociological thought. Cot. HoLLoway was
one of the most remarkable men in his depth of nature and his
completeness of idealism that has existed in American agricul-
ture.

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MASTER OF MEADOWLAWN

45. The founder of the purebred livestock industry in Minne-
sota was NEHEMIAH PARKER CLARKE. His birthplace was Hub-
bardstown, Mass., April 8, 1836, and a part of his boyhood was
spent in Kentucky, but in 1853 he set his face to the west, and
for three years lived in Fond-du-lac, Wis., learning the methods
of western business and acquiring a small cash surplus to per-
mit him to make the beginnings for himself. At twenty years
of age he established at St. Cloud, Minn., the retail hardware
business, which grew into a general store and then a general
business predominantly devoted to lumbering.

He was fortunate in securing a number of very profitable
contracts from the government, and based on these he developed
a string of stores and outfitting plants, a series of real estate
centers and a wealth of minor enterprises. Mr. CLARKE was
one of the “star routers,” that coterie of men who secured the
contract to carry the government mails by stage. He himself
was the first man to drive a coach out of St. Cloud, with an
ultimate destination west of the Missouri River. For a term
of years he operated large ox trains to handle freight from St.
Paul to the Black Hills district of the Dakotas. Furthermore
he was one of the first men ever to drive beef on the hoof from
the southwest ranges to the government lands of the northwest.
Through these various activities and by unerring selection in
the choice of lieutenants, Mr. CLARKE developed a very large
business. In the late 80’s his annual lumber sales ran above
$150,000,000 a year, greater than that of any rival.

Meanwhile his agricultural interests were developing. In the
vicinity of St. Cloud he took advantage of every opportunity
to secure parcels of land, and he equipped his principal hold-
ing, Meadow Lawn Farm, with a splendid stud of Clydesdales,
a champion herd of Shorthorns, and, later an unexcelled herd
of Galloways. He became the greatest breeder of his period

CLARKE

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in all three breeds, while for America he is perhaps the greatest
Galloway breeder of all time. For many years he was presi-
dent of the Clydesdale Association and devoted largely of his
energies to its promotion. He was president of the Minnesota
Board of Agriculture, and under his administration secured the
presentation of the Minnesota State Fair Grounds by Ramsey
county and a state appropriation of $150,000 to equip it. When
the development of the program resulted in a $110,000 shortage
he used his own personal check to carry the indebtedness until
the legislature reimbursed him.

Mr. CLARKE was chairman of the committee of eighteen on
the livestock interests at the Columbian Exposition, and was the
first man to make its wants known in Washington. His Clydes-
dales were high in the monies, rivalling the entries of Mr. OciL-
viE (6) and Cot. Hottoway (44). He imported large numbers
of this breed to furnish the breeders of the state with purebred
stallions. Many of his horses were sold on ten years’ time, and
the ruinous years of the mid-nineties left him with much unne-
gotiable paper. Like Mr. OciLvie, Mr. CLarxKeE believed in the
ultimate supremacy of the Darnley stock, and while he lived to
see its ascendancy, he failed to know of its almost complete
dominance of the Scots’ draft world. His Shorthorns were
superb. For a period of twenty years scarcely a herd of promi-
nence was found in the north and central west that did not boast
one or two animals of Meadow Lawn blood, while the names of
Justice, Ringmaster, Dorothea 2d and Snowbird (dam of Fair
Acres Sultan) are writ large on the Shorthorn showyard scroll.
His Galloways completely dominated the gatherings of the late
years of the last and the opening years of this century, and the
Welcomes and Claras of Meadow Lawn provided a blood foun-
dation for more than one Galloway pioneer. Much credit for
his success in the field of breeding must be given to his herds-
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much of the foresight in purchase and genius in matings that
brought Meadow Lawn to the fore.

The panic of 1893 robbed Mr. CLarKE of most of the fruits of
his labor, only a few cutover lands and his herds being saved.
Out of these, however, he once more builded himself a property.
Mr. CLARKE was a man of great reticence and few knew his inner-
most soul and secrets. He shrank from publicity and the thou-
sand-and-one acts of charity he performed were seldom credited
to him. His death on June 29, 1912, robbed his state of a public
benefactor and an indefatigable citizen.

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THE LAIRD OF NETHERHALL

46. The shrewdest practitioner in animal types and bloodlines
since the earliest masters, perhaps the shrewdest of all because
his material already had passed the refiner’s fire, was the Laird
of Netherhall, ANDREw Montcomery. Born in the late forties of
the last century, he was attaining manhood when the superlative
Prince of Wales (673) was foaled, and grew into his indepen-
dence in husbandry as this founder of bloodlines developed his
prestige in showyard and breeding paddock. But even as he
shaped his career as a breeder of Clydesdales, the star of Darnley
shone on his firmament, and he was called to make the decision
the master must always make—what materials, what blood he
should use. In spite of the enormous prices and popularity of the
Prince of Wales’ sons, he allied himself with the Darnley blood.
Rightly had he interpreted the brood successes of Darnley’s
daughters to the cover of Prince of Wales, rightly did he reason
that some son of Darnley must transmit the same merits that the
daughters had bequeathed. As a yearling he acquired Macgregor,
bluntly declaring at the outset that he had found what he sought.
And he builded well. A new type of draught economy arose in
the Macgregor progeny, and a new supreme justice of the Clydes-
dale court arose in the land. The genius of NETHERHALL’s laird
overshadowed the pronouncements of those noble veterans, Davip
RIDDELL and LAWRENCE DREw.

MontTcomMeEryY’s ultimate triumph was founded in the acquiring
of Baron’s Pride. This latter horse, foaled May 8, 1890, sprang
from the loins of Darnley’s rugged grandson, Sir Everard, leading
showyard sire of his generation. Darnley fathered three notable
sons, Macgregor, already mentioned, Flashwood and Topgallant.
Although of powerful make, the last named was the least known
of these in his day, but through his son Sir Everard and ANDREW
Montcome_ry’s skillful booking of Baron’s Pride, he was the
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Almost immediately Baron’s Pride became the sire par excel-
lence, his progeny sweeping show after show. Only twice was his
supremacy threatened, once by his son and once by that peerless
grandson of the Prince of Wales, Hiawatha. In his twenty-three
years of life his blood made contacts that six years after his death
link him to ninety percent of the living registered animals of his
breed. During his career he earned upwards of $150,000 in ser-
vice fees and showyard monies, and through the leasing of his
sons, ANDREW MONTGOMERY not only nearly monopolized the stal-
lion industry of Scotland, but by his genius so concentrated, so
focussed the excellencies of the Darnley-Prince of Wales heritage,
that it breeds on and on to the permanent and increasing improve-
ment of the breed as a whole.

Through his countless leases of Baron’s Pride’s sons, through
his personal extension and visitation of America, Canada and the
European continent, he has done more to further the breed’s
development than any single figure since its establishment. He
has visited the International and been breed arbiter at Toronto
and St. Paul. His will was indomitable, his wit and judgment
keen. To ANDREw MonTcOMERY more than to any individual
living or dead is due the great constructive progress in Clydesdale
type since the middle 70’s, and the crystallizing of the bloodlines
that make Clydesdale breeding a work of almost scientific preci-
sion. His death in 1912, separated only a few months from the
demise of Baron’s Pride, abruptly sundered personal bonds that
linked Clydesdale lovers of every land to Netherhall. '

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BREWER AND BREEDER

47. A real contributor to the science of livestock husbandry
was CAPT. FREDERICK Pagpst of Milwaukee, Wis., prominent
brewer and head of the Pabst Brewing Co. Capt. PaBsT was one
of the first men in the west to utilize brewers’ grains as the major
portion of the ration fed to the several hundred steers annually
fattened on his farm, and thus became a pioneer in an industry
which has reached rather large proportions in brewing centers.
Having effectively demonstrated the value of these byproduct
grains for beef production, he built up a herd of purebred
Jerseys, and demonstrated its value to produce milk.

Capt. PaBst was born March 28, 1836, at Nicolausreith in the
Thueringen Forest of Germany. When but twelve years of age
his family emigrated to America, coming first to Milwaukee, but
settling shortly afterwards in Chicago. Here financial reverses
to his father and the death of his mother (1849) forced him to
earn his own living. His first position was that of bellboy in a
hotel, on a salary of $5.00 per month and board. Here he worked
for.three years, and then became a cabin boy on the Goodrich
line on the Great Lakes. His services were so faithful and his
progress so energetic that at the age of twenty-one years he
became captain of the steamer Sunbeam.

In 1862 Capt. Passt married Miss Marte Best, daughter of
Purr Best of Milwaukee, and shortly thereafter renounced his
sailor’s life to invest all his savings in the brewery of his father-
in-law, in which place he took up active work. Three years
later the firm was christened Puitip Best & Co., and Capt.
Parst became both leader and manager. In 1873, when incor-
poration occurred, the yearly production totalled 100,000 barrels
of beer.

Capt. Passt was an incessant laborer. In 1888 his partner,
Emi, SCHANDEIN, died, leaving the entire management of the
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were they, however, that one year later, the annual capacity of
the brewery passed the 500,000 barrel mark, and the stockhold-
ers of the company by unanimous vote changed the name from
the Puitip Brest BREWERY to the Passt BREwinc Co., electing
CapT. Papst president. From this position Capt. Past
branched out in several lines, being made president of the Wis-
consin National Bank, and a director of the Milwaukee Mechan-
ic’s Insurance Co.

About 1870 he purchased a farm of 200 acres near the village
of Wauwatosa, three miles west of Milwaukee. Here he indulged
himself to the limit in his love for livestock, agriculture and
outdoor life. Many of the horses used at the Brewery were
bred and raised on the farm, and he made several large impor-
tations of Percheron breeding stock from France. His first
importation was made in 1884 and he entered the showring
immediately to become a most successful breeder and competi-
tor. He was immeasurably fond of his trotting and saddle
horses, and he drove and rode considerably, both at his farm
and in Milwaukee.

Capt. PaBsT was a man of spontaneous generosity, filled with
civic pride and a helpful interest in public affairs. In 1889
the G. A. R. held its annual reunion at Milwaukee, and rather
than permit the veterans to pay any admission to the Lake Front
grandstand, in order to view the mock naval battle there staged,
he subscribed an enormous sum of money, above $10,000, rather
than see even one old soldier pay a penny admission. His death
occurred in 1907.

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A HERCULES OF THE HORSE BLOCK

48. Perhaps the most commanding figure in the Chicago horse
market during its most prosperous years was that of Cor. JoHn
Sipney Cooper. Cot. Cooper was born in Chicago in March,
1842, of combined English and Irish parentage. He was edu-
cated in the Wilder School in Chicago and began his business
career at fifteen years of age with the railroads, working first
as a brakeman for the Illinois Central and afterward as a pas-
senger conductor on the Chicago & Alton, the latter relation
continuing fourteen years. In 1871 he took a contract for street
cleaning in Chicago and established stables in the square
enclosed by Michigan and Indiana avenues, and Adams and
Monroe streets. Here he conducted a general teaming business,
working in the vicinity of 150 horses. He also became inter-
ested in the boarding and sale of horses, the latter feature grow-
ing to such a degree that in 1885 he came to the Union Stock-
yards and engaged in a strictly commission business for the
sale of horses and mules.

Cot. Cooper was the first to inaugurate the vending of horses
by auctioneering methods on the Chicago market, a device which
vastly increased the volume of business possible for him to
handle. In 1894, when the horse exchange was organized, he
was elected president, and retained that position until his death
in 1917. His business prospered in Chicago to such a degree
that he found it possible to open a branch sales stable in the
Union Stockyards in South Omaha where he did a large busi-
ness in the sale of range horses. One of his most interesting
undertakings consisted in securing suitable mounts for the Chi-
cago mounted police force. Cox. Cooper not only chose a
beautiful yet serviceable type, but he also devoted the latter
years of his life to the constant improvement and replacement
of the animals thus selected.

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Cot. Cooper was a director of the International from the
date of its inception until his death, and was appointed by Mr.
OcILViE as assistant superintendent of the horse department, an
appointment later confirmed by election of the directors. He
was especially interested in the light horse show, and contributed
largely of his energy to the development and staging of the
night horse exhibition. His death was in the harness, as he
suffered from an apoplectic stroke at the close of the 1917 Inter-
national.

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A CATTLE CRUSADER FROM CALEDON

49, One of the pioneer managers of the great cattle holdings
of the boom days of cowboy and grassland was Murpo Macken-
ziE. Born in Tain, Scotland, in 1850, he gained his first experi-
ence as plowboy and farm laborer. In his late teens he entered
into an apprenticeship in the North of Scotland Bank, studying
at the same time in a lawyer’s office. From this position he
turned quite naturally to the assistant factorship of the 500,000
acre estate of Sir Cares Ross at Balnagowan, County of Ross.
Here he was placed in charge of the agricultural interests in
particular, although he retained an agency for the North of
Scotland Bank. It was part of his duties to attend to the rents
and leases of some 500 towns on SIR CHARLES’ estate, in addi-
tion to handling the cropping and grazing lands.

In 1885 he crossed the waters to America and became man-
ager of one of the ranches of the Prairie Cattle Co., in Colorado.
Four years later he succeeded Mr. W. J. Top to the manager-
ship of the entire holdings of the company in southeast Colorado,
what is now Oklahoma, and in the Panhandle district. On Jan-
uary 1, 1891, he was called to the Matador Land & Cattle Co.,
and assumed the position of manager of its extensive grazing
lands and herds in Colorado and Texas. Mr. Mackenzie
brought to bear on the big range problems all of those instincts
that have made the Scot truly constructive from an agricultural
standpoint wherever he has gone. At the time that he took
charge the herd consisted of about 65,000 head, and the total
holdings were reputed to be worth about $6,000,000. About
750,000 acres were operated by the company on its southwest
range, 500,000 acres being in one parcel and 250,000 acres being
in the other. In addition to this the company leased 450,000
acres in Dakota and 150,000 acres in Canada.

The original cattle were of the distinct Texas type, southern
stock graded up to some extent by the use of Shorthorn blood.

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The bulls used in the herd were entirely grade, some purchased
in Kansas, but the majority produced in the herd itself. Mr.
MACKENZIE’s first move was to cull out all inferior cows and
to replace the bulls with purebreds. For a number of years
he used Hereford, Shorthorn and Aberdeen-Angus bulls, all
three, but he gradually increased the proportion of the former
until all of the steers marketed were whitefaced. In the later
nineties he established a purebred herd from 300 to 350 cows,
from which he proposed to breed the extra Hereford bulls he
needed. He particularly fancied the Anxiety blood of GupGELL
& Simpson and drew strongly on them as well as on other Mis-
souri-Kansas breeders. He adopted a policy of paying about
$100 to $250 for bulls for general range service, while he paid
as high as $1,000 for sires for the purebred herd. On the
average he secured about 150 bulls annually from the pure-
bred herd for use on his range cows. The bulls were first put
to service when two years old and were turned to the herd in
the ratio of one bull to twenty-five cows.

When Mr. Mackenzie took charge of the herd, the bulk of
the steers were of such an inferior nature that they were sold
as two-year-olds to the cattlemen of Dakota, Montana and
Wyoming to be run as stockers and in part fattened. The
returns on such animals were insufficient to pay the costs of
production, and it was to meet the demands of the Kansas and
Missouri feeders that the grade bulls were replaced by pure-
breds. Mr. MAcKENZzIE was really a pioneer in this work and
effectively demonstrated not only that purebred cattle were suc-
cessful under the conditions of the range, but also that high
breeding was by no means necessarily accompanied by unpro-
ductiveness.

On Jan. 1, 1912, he proceeded to Brazil as general manager
of the Brazil Land, Cattle & Packing Co. He gathered together
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ment in Brazil, some 250,000 head all told. These were dis-
tributed over about 9,000,000 acres, 1,250,000 acres being in
Meneas-Gereas and the remainder in the province of Matto-
grosso. Backed by Witson & Co. capital, he founded one of
Brazil’s first packing-houses, and was appointed vice-president
of the Brazil organization.

He returned to America in 1919 and took up an advisory
position with THomas E. Witson particularly to handle pro-
ducer relations for Witson & Co. Mr. MacKenzie has arisen
from the position of plowboy to that of controlling more cattle
than any other man in the world, and his example can furnish
only encouragement and inspiration to young men who will
study his career.

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A PREACHER OF PORK

50. The pre-eminent producer of barrows at the International
Livestock Exposition has been the firm of Joun Francis & Son,
New Lenox, Ill. Their record in the showyard has never been
equalled by other breeder, and as a measure of their ability, both
in the selection of breeding animals and in the fitting and finish-
ing of showyard types, the International grand championship
on single barrows has fallen to their herd four times. The
honors came at as widely separated intervals as 1909, 1912,
1913 and 1916, while many ribbons within the Poland-China
breed show were won in intervening years. Four purples were
also secured on groups of three barrows, the 1910, 1912, 1913
and 1916 Internationals furnishing the occasions. Champion-
ship on carcasses was captured at the 1906, 1908, 1909 and 1912
Internationals.

Mr. Joun R. Francis, the founder of the firm, was born Jan-
uary 8, 1843, near New Lenox, Il. His education was received
in the rural schools of Illinois, and he began the breeding of
Poland-China swine in 1872. In 1894 he was elected sheriff
of Will Co., and succeeded during this period in obtaining title
to much land, due to the foreclosure of mortgages resultant
from the business reverses of those years. He managed to reap
a very tidy profit, and to become quite a financial influence in
his county. In 1898 he retired from political office and spent
his remaining years in improving his Poland-China stocks. Mr.
FRANCIS was equally successful with the small, middle and large
types of Poland-China, and won honors in the showring with
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called middle type, however, and he became interested in the
big boned kind only during his very last years.

Mr. FRANCIS’ greatest service to husbandry lay in the adver-
tising he gave the Poland-China breed as a result of his show-
ring record. Until he entered the lists, no breed of swine had
been able successfully to compete with the Berkshire, and he
did much to put the Poland-China on its feet, from the stand-
point of the showyard and block. The work he began so suc-
cessfully is now being carried forward by his son, Howarp
Francis, as his death occurred March 28, 1913.

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FINANCIAL BACKER OF THE OLD CATTLE KINGS

51. One of the most active commission men during the boom
days of the cattle range, and one of the broadest financiers of
the Wyoming and Montana operators was JosEpH ROSENBAUM
of the firm of RosensAum Bros. & Co. Mr. RosENBAUM was
born at Schwabach, Bavaria, April 1, 1838, and came to America
with his brother, Morris, in 1850. His father had preceded
them and had established a business at Dubuque, Iowa. When
twenty years of age, in partnership with his brother, he estab-
lished a general store at Cedar Falls, Iowa, but in June, 1862,
enlisted in Company B of the 31st Iowa infantry. He served
until the close of the war, and on his discharge engaged in the
handling of livestock and grain at Waverly, Iowa, shipping to
the Chicago market. In connection with this work the brothers
established in 1867 the State Bank of Waverly and the State
Bank of Nashua, some thirty miles to the north of Waverly.
Morris ROSENBAUM was cashier of the Nashua branch and
JosepH RosENBAUM was cashier of the Waverly institution. In
1874 their interests were disposed of to other parties, and the
two brothers established in Chicago the livestock commission
firm of RoseNBAuM Bros., later incorporated as ROSENBAUM
Bros. & Co. JosEpH ROSENBAUM was president of both organi-
zations and was later president of two branch subsidiary com-
panies which he organized, the Livestock Commission Company
and the J. Ros—EnBauM Grain Co. In his later years Mr. Rosen-
BAUM became an extensive operator on the Board of Trade.

In the brightest years of the range cattle industry, Mr. RosEn-
BAUM loaned enormous sums to a number of the Montana cattle
men. In the spring and summer of 1886 he had in the vicinity
of one million dollars tied up in the herds of a number of
Montana operators, the best known being Conrap Kours (53).
The severe winter wreaked havoc with these men, MR. Kours
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opened up Mr. Rosensaum proceeded to Helena where he called
the group of debtors together. Most of the men were certain
that he had come out only to seize the remainder of their broken
property, and were utterly unable to understand him when he
asked them how much money they would want. Yet when their
difficulties finally were crystallized into an appreciable form, Mr.
RosENBAUM loaned them an additional million, and ultimately
received full payment for the entire debt. Some years ago
when he faced ruin on the Exchange, a friend made a special
trip to Helena, called together the men who had so thoroughly
benefited from Mr. Rosensaum’s faith a quarter century previ-
ous, and secured from them a loan of well above a million
dollars, that not only staved off ruin for Mr. Rosensaum, but
made it possible for him to reap a large profit. His death
occurred May 22, 1919, at Pasadena, California.

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THE ROUNDUP ON BEAR CREEK

52. This landscape showing the “Roundup” on the ranch of
the Pioneer Cattle Co. in the Bear Creek Valley, Dawson Co.,
Mont., was presented by Mr. Kours (53) upon the occasion of
completing fifty years of ranching in Montana, in 1913.

A PATRIARCH OF THE NORTHWEST RANGE

53. The grand old man of northwestern cattle progress and
prosperity was ConraD Kours, president of the Pioneer Cattle
Co. of Montana. Mr. Kours was one of the leaders in the
introduction of the Hereford to the northwest range and wielded
an enormous influence in placing beef production on a firm
financial foundation. He was born in 1835 in Schleswig-Hol-
stein, and came to America about 1850. He first settled in Iowa
but in 1863 went west to rise to prominence during the early
days of the cattle boom. His original cattle were improved
by the use of Shorthorn bulls but with the coming of the Here-
fords, he became a firm believer in the use of the Hereford top
cross. His original selection of Herefords comprised seven
head, secured from the Swan Land & Cattle Co., in 1884. His
herd at this time was one of the best groups of non-pedigree
Shorthorns to be found in the west. These were accumulated
on his Sun River Range and descended from good cattle he had
picked up along the old California and Oregon trails. They
were first maintained in Deer Lodge Valley but due to the
shortness of the pasture, he was obliged to move them in 1878
into the Sun River country. In 1879 he branded 4,900 cattle
on this ranch.

When the Herefords were introduced, Mr. Kours retained
the best cross-bred bull calves for breeding purposes, while the
first cross steers gave him great satisfaction. The cattle were
earlier maturing than any he had previously had, and he found

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less difficulty in shrinkage and waste during the long ship to
Chicago. When he first started marketing, he was forced to
drive from Montana down to Laramie City or Cheyenne on the
Union Pacific, a distance too great to permit their delivery in
good condition and at a satisfactory price in Chicago. The
construction of the Northern Pacific across Montana induced
Mr. Kours to move his cattle to Tongue River, some 150 miles
south of Miles City. He made his first Chicago shipment in
1882, consisting of 400 four-year-old Shorthorn steers. The
cattle were a long time on the road and suffered from a heavy
shrink but they weighed 1,585 pounds at Chicago and brought
the top price for range cattle, $5.85. Later in the year he
shipped 700 three-year-olds, of mixed breeding, that averaged
1,365 pounds, but received $5.85 for these as well.

The severe season of 1886-1887 practically ruined Mr. Konrs.
His herd was reduced over 90 percent by death from the cold
and starvation. Financial help at this time from JosepH RoseEn-
BAUM (51) of Chicago enabled him to pull through, however,
and in the 90’s Mr. Kours was able to purchase the entire pure-
bred herd of the CHILps’ estate, a good lot of cattle descended
from the stock of Adams Earl. About this time, Mr. Kours’
son-in-law, Hon. JoHN M. BoarpMAN, became associated in the
management of the Pioneer Cattle Co. and took charge of the
breeding of these Herefords. Due to a dispute between the
herdsman and the administrator of the CuiLps’ estate, the pedi-
grees for the cattle were not secured, and the animals were
therefore bred as a non-pedigree herd, with registered bulls con-
stantly in service. This herd usually numbered about 300 head,
while a purebred Shorthorn herd numbering 700 head was also

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maintained. During the later years of feeding, only cross-bred
Hereford-Shorthorn steers were produced, Mr. Kours believing
firmly in the first cross for feeding purposes. These cross-
breds were obtained by using Hereford bulls on cows of the
Shorthorn foundation. About 1910 Mr. BoarpMan became gen-
eral manager of the C-K ranch, and Mr. Kours curtailed
slightly his operations. His death occurred in June, 1920, but
he still lives rich in memories and inspiration to the veteran

cattleman and stock owner.

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A BELOVED TEUTON

54. One of the rare souls found among the commission men
during the early days of the development of the commission
business at the Yards was Louis KEEFER. He was born July 1,
1844, in Mannheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and came to
America as a boy of fourteen. His only education was received
in the German schools as almost upon his arrival in Pennsyl-
vania, he began trading, first from a pack on his back and later
in livestock. His original location was in Allegheny, but in
1863 he proceeded to Pittsburg, and began buying stock
throughout eastern Ohio to ship to the Pittsburg market. In
1873 he came west to Chicago, and entered into partnership
with Levi B. Doup in the commission firm of Doup & KEEFER.
Shipment of live cattle and sheep to England was coming into
its own at that time, and the young firm became one of the
largest exporters. Their various interests grew so that in the
early nineties they were buying more cattle than any single
packer operating on the Chicago market. Mr. Keerer became
a large farm owner in his later years, having one holding at
Oregon, IIl., and another in Mason Co., IIl., along the Sanga-
mon river. He fed cattle extensively at various distilleries,
particularly at Pekin and Peoria, handling as many as 10,000
to 12,000 head a year. He married in 1869 and was the father
of nine children, seven of whom are living. He was succeeded
in his business by his sons, Epwarp T. KEEFER and ARTHUR
Keerer. Mr. Louis KEEFER died Aug. 19, 1916.

He was a kindly man of the quiet affectionate disposition that
loved everyone and instinctively forced everyone to love him.

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Charitable to a high degree, every worthy cause presented to
him enlisted his support. More perfectly than any modern, he
represented the type of German that our prewar literature ideal-
ized, the kind that was absolutely incompatible with the deeds
of the early war. His optimism, his good nature, and his cheery
example made his death particularly touching to his friends
and business associates.

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A BERKSHIRE BARON

59. The development of swine interests at the International
Livestock Show laid almost exclusively during the first
seventeen exhibitions in the hands of Mr. ANDREW J. Loveyoy,
charter member of the International Association and one time
president. He was born December 5, 1844, and reared on River-
side Farm, flanking the little Rock River, near Roscoe, Ill. Of
robust frame, he spent his early years on the farm and assisted
his father in the agricultural operations then customary in
Winnebago. When twenty-one years of age, he went to Chicago
where he obtained employment as a driver of a notion wagon.
This outfit soon developed into a huge four horse truck from
which he did a prosperous business across northern Illinois.
While on the road he found plenty of opportunity to think about
farming and rural problems, so when he became connected with
a wholesale drygoods concern in Chicago, he laid away from
his savings the money with which to buy the family home. As he
was possessed of a keen eye for those characteristics that denote
strong breeding, he chose the Berkshire for his chief breed on
the farm, and purchased a boar and sow as foundations, for
$50. He advertised extensively and succeeded in developing
breeding animals that justified the claims of his advertisements.
In the early years of the International he made consistently
strong shows, winning the grand championship in 1901 on his
boar Combination. This winning gave him a reputation that
attracted a numerous clientele of buyers to his farm. He was
selected by showyard managers to judge swine, and breeders’
and farmers’ organizations chose him to address their meetings.
He became a contributor to the farm journals and a valued
lecturer before agricultural college students. In 1902 his annual
auction developed an average of $107.75 per head, at that time
the highest average ever attained by the breed.

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In this same year, Mr. Lovesoy secured the boar Masterpiece,
bred by Mr. Berry of Kansas, and made a strong show with
him at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He was sold for
$2,500, a record price for a representative of the breed. In
1907 he sold one of his sons, Star Masterpiece, to Mr. W. S.
Corsa at public auction for $5,500. Following the Lees and
Longfellows of Mr. GEeNnTRY’s breeding, the Masterpiece blood
was the first great new contribution.

Mr. Lovesoy was a member of the 48th General Assembly
of Illinois, and under GovERNOR YATES’ administration, was
State Game Warden for four years. He was appointed to the
Illinois State Board of Agriculture at about the same period,
a position which he retained until his death, November 19, 1919.
From a local reputation, Mr. Loveyoy grew until he was known
throughout the entire country. He was recognized and esteemed
as a leader in his profession and his personal ability and
breadth of acquaintance made him a notable figure among the
swine growers of America.

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HEADS OF A CATTLE HOUSE

56-57. The firm of INcwersen Bros., founded their business
on a widespread acquaintance among the German settlers of
eastern and central Iowa, gained in the pre-Civil War days.
The two brothers were born at Hattstadt, Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany; Henry C. (57) on May 2, 1829, and Cuarves H.
(56) on July 19, 1836. The entire family came to America in
1852, settling in Clinton Co., Iowa, just west of the town of
Clinton. As they grew into manhood they started in the farm-
ing business together, feeding cattle and hogs, and buying live-
stock on the side. In 1870 and 1871, Mr. C. H. INcweRSEN was
sheriff of Clinton Co., having previous to that time been a
county supervisor.

In 1872, some bad buys of livestock made it expedient for
them to close out their Clinton interests, and they proceeded to
Chicago where they started a straight commission business. In
1873 a permanent partnership was formed, which business was
maintained until their retirement in 1901. During this time they
had built up a clientele of consignors that gave them a most
loyal annual support. In 1919 there still remained about a
dozen of the original customers who shipped to them in 1872.
An Iowa feeder by the name of HarrincTon not only has
shipped to them or their successors every year, but in addition,
has never shipped a carload of livestock elsewhere. About 7,000
carloads of livestock were handled annually by this firm at the
height of its career.

In 1895 they became financially interested in the Iowa Pack-
ing Co., of Sabula, and later Clinton, Iowa. The earnings of
the commission business were completely absorbed in order to
maintain the packing interest and in 1900 they sold their stock
in this venture. The following year the two brothers decided
to retire, and their sons bought out their business and the busi-

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ness of RosenBAuM Bros. & Co., and have since conducted the
two as one organization.

Following retirement, HENry (C. INGWERSEN returned to his
old home at Clinton, where he remained until his death in 1907.
CHARLEs INGWERSEN, on the other hand, remained in Chicago,
but on his death, which occurred in 1910, his body was taken
to Lyons, a suburb of Clinton, for interment.

The political affiliations of the two INGWERSENS were always
a matter of considerable interest to the commission men of
Packingtown. When they first came to America they were
staunch Republicans, but in the early 70’s turned Democrats.
However, they were again Republicans in 1896 and voted for
McKiney, but in the following years turned to the Democratic
ticket A fruitful cause for small wagers among the old timers
was to bet on the party affiliations of the INGWERSENS as each
new election came up, and one friend good naturedly remarked
that “it was unfortunate that they died before they could per-
manently decide whether they were Democrats or Republicans.”

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A MONARCH OF THE FEEDLOT

58. The most extensive maker of beef and mutton America
has ever produced, was T. B. Horp of Central City, Nebr. His
grasslands covered some 20,000 acres in the richest section of
the Cornhusker state, and he annually marketed between 10,000
and 15,000 cattle, a similar number of sheep and over 10,000
hogs. Whole trainloads of Central City cattle were picked up
on his switches, which lined the Union Pacific for many miles.
Each of his eleven separate feeding stations turned out more
livestock in a year than were finished by the average of the big
Nebraska feeders. Mr. Horp was a daring operator, frequently
being a heavy loser. More than once he faced financial disaster,
but he never faltered. His maxim for pertinacity was, “A man
is never whipped until he’s whipped inside.” This combined
with his second maxim, never to “make the same mistake twice,”
made him almost invincible.

T. B. Horp was born at Marion, Ohio, June 15, 1850, and
after a life of gigantic achievements, suddenly nipped by paraly-
sis, he was there interred following his demise in Minneapolis,
December 15, 1910. The day before his death he had left
Central City to seek a noted Northwest specialist on nervous
disturbances and paralytic strokes.

Mr. Horp afforded the greatest single market for grain and
hay in the central west. Annually such enormous quantities as
10,000 tons of hay and 1,000,000 bushels of corn were fed in
his yards. Of this amount only 5,000 tons of hay and 75,000
bushels of corn were produced by him and the remainder had
to be purchased. His demands made a lucrative business for
several grain dealers and elevator operators, but having become
established, they made the mistake of trying to crowd prices on
him too concertedly, and he secured the capital, not only to buy
them out, but to obtain a string of elevators all across Nebraska
and Iowa on the main trunk lines.

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The outdoor method of feeding was adopted by Mr. Horp
as a permanent policy. His feed lots held from 200 to 300
cattle, being ten to fifteen acres in area. In the center of each
lot was a house to shelter the swine that followed each group
of steers, but the cattle themselves had only a wind break on
the north and west, usually a board fence or a line of straw-
stacks. Overflow water from the cattle tanks was piped to the
hog troughs and great racks capable of handling a two days’
supply of roughage were placed on the west side of the lots
for additional shelter. Practically no summer feeding was done,
and each spring, as a sanitary precaution, the lots were plowed,
planted to corn and thoroughly tilled, to make them clean for
the following feeding period.

Only mature cattle were handled, Mr. Horp’s ideal being the
three-year-old. In order to make as certain of this as possible,
no cattle were put in his lots that weighed under 1,000 pounds.
On December 31, 1904, he had 18,000 such steers in his lots,
with a few hundred additional that were under that weight
which ran as stockers. Large numbers of plain steers were pur-
chased at around three cents a pound, and he obtained a spread
of three to three and a half cents in marketing. He began cut-
ting his cattle when they had been on feed ninety days, market-
ing those with sufficient flesh on them, and he cut again in 120
to 150 days, closing all out at six months. Yet his cattle always
came to the market finished, he never believed in the warming-
up process. So uniform was his product that whole trainloads
run through to Chicago, were often sold on their reputation
before they reached the market.

Mr. Horp based his success in feeding operations on doing
exactly the opposite of what the run of feeders did. If they
bought and fed lightly, he would plunge heavily; when they
indulged he abstained. He was a notable judge of men, picking
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the profit sharing plan for those who worked with him, and he
frequently indulged his generous inclinations to an extent that
embarrassed him considerably. He was extraordinarily abhor-
rent of business controversies and made most liberal settlements.
He donated large sums of money to the development of Central
City, sharing the expense of all its improvements. At the Chi-
cago market his affable approachability made him exceedingly
popular. Mr. Horp left Nebraska immeasurably the richer for
his residence there, his memory will long be green in the minds
of those privileged to know and work with him.

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THE SCOTCH DODDIE AND NO SURRENDER

59. Few breeders of today can realize the personal courage
and integrity of purpose necessary among the promoters of the
newer breeds of cattle, to stem the tide of popular opposition
from the aggressive Shorthorn supporters of the earlier days.
Even more difficult is it to understand the anathema attached
to any man who at that time would depart from the Shorthorn
fold to worship new idols. A man of such courage and clarity
of purpose was BLanrorp R. Pierce of Creston, Illinois. Mr.
PieRcE was bred and reared on an Oneida county farm, his
birth being March 11, 1832, at Groton, New York. In early
life he and his brother learned to break and to show oxen at
the county fairs. With the characteristic adaptability of the
men of his day, when he came to I]linois in 1857 he taught
school near his farm in the winter and did carpenter work in
the summer. From this humble beginning he became a buyer
and shipper of grain and livestock to Chicago, and at the time
of the big Chicago fire suffered severe monetary loss from the
burning of many carloads of corn and wheat. In keeping with
the practice of many another Illinois pioneer, he early adopted
a policy of land extension, and little by little acquired the
acreage that now makes up Woodlawn Farm. Mr. PIERCE was
a typical livestock farmer; he left the land richer than he found
it, and he turned to all classes of livestock to obtain his results.
He was very successful with the horses and hogs, but was not
a proponent of dairying. He never kept but one milk cow, and
family tradition records that one to be so excellent that its full
span of years were spent on Woodlawn farm.

Until 1881 Mr. Pierce was a breeder of Shorthorns, but in
this year he switched his allegiance to the then little known
breed of Aberdeen-Angus. He sought many of the recent impor-
tations, and purchased about two carloads in Canada from the
CocHRANE and Mossom Boyp herds. His great ambition was

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to get the best bulls of the breed, regardless of price, and these
he obtained as fast as the opportunities arose. Prominent in
his pedigrees appear the names of Wellington, Moon Eclipser,
and Prince Ito, the latter purchased at $9,100. From these
great sires and their descendants his success was easy, and in
1898 he formed a partnership with his son which lasted a period
of eight years.

In 1893 Mr. Pierce had moved to Chicago and Woodlawn
had participated actively in the Columbian show. When the
new International Livestock Show was conceived, Mr. PIERCE
was one of the first and most ambitious of its supporters. In
every way possible he backed the undertaking, by taking out
his life membership in the International association, by pre-
paring a show herd himself, and by encouraging his friends
in the most optimistic terms to support it. While the show
plans were still embryonic he was asked by Mrs. GoopALL, then
editor of the Drovers Journal, to what cause she should devote
the beautiful loving cup her paper was offering. With his eye
to the ultimate market demand, he quickly told her to offer it
for the champion steer. Little did he suspect at the time that
his own steer Advance would be the winner of this trophy, and
he was hectored good naturedly about it for several years there-
after.

In 1906 the dispersion sale of Woodlawn herd was held to
permit the settlement of the partnership. The success was phe-
nomenal and when the checks were drawn, Mr. Pierce pro-
nounced his breeding venture by all odds both the pleasantest
and most profitable eight years of his life. As a judge of beef
cattle, particularly Aberdeen-Angus, Mr. PiERCE was without
peer. He excelled in the selection of “diamonds in the rough”
and more than once surprised his son by telling of the prices
paid for a particular load of cattle. His judgment in the case
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three sons, Black King of Woodlawn, Woodlawn, and Black
Woodlawn, won breed championships, one could appreciate his
uncanny sagacity in female selection. Similarly he bought the
unfinished Blackbird Lassie, dam of the 1899 Trans-Mississippi
champion, Lord Woodlawn, while the grand-dam of his cham-
pion steer, Advance, was obtained in the roughest of condition.
Woodlawn cattle exerted a powerful influence on Mississippi
Valley herds, and Mr. Pierce’s contribution and foresight in
emphasizing the block test did much to carry the Aberdeen.
Angus to its present stage of popularity. His death occurred
in Chicago, March 29, 1909.

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A FOUNDER OF HEREFORD FORTUNES

60. High upon the roll of those superlative men who assumed
the task of upbuilding American agriculture following the Civil
War is written the name of WILLIAM S. Van Natta. The prac-
tical genius, the creative power, and the zest for good blood
which characterized this Hereford pioneer made him stand in
the foremost rank of that coterie of devoted men who fought
the burdensome battles for breed recognition in the 80’s and
early 90’s. Mr. Van Natta loved good cattle, the producer’s
kind. The low legs, broad breasts and wealth of flesh of the
earliest white faces so caught his fancy that following the Phila-
delphia Centennial he abandoned his old friends, the Dukes and
Duchesses, and carried the Hereford standard till his own step
faltered. During his thirty odd years of allegiance he con-
tributed of his energy and finances to the fullest, with a tena-
cious pluck and a rugged honesty that brooked no adversity.

Wituiam S. Van Natra was prairie-bred, first seeing the
greens of Indiana blue grass from a log cabin window, Sep-
tember 27, 1830. His childhood earned him a perfect self-
reliance, and he grew up in the atmosphere of the stocker range
and feeder pen. In his earlier manhood he made a number of
trips into the Panhandle and the old “Texas long-horn” country,
and there gained an appreciation of western problems that made
him an invaluable contributor to the animals destined to domi-
nate the short grass areas.

In the fall of 1876 he entered partnership with a banker,
Moses W. Fow er, La Fayette, Ind., and secured in New Mexico
a shipment of 1,500 steers for Mr. FowLer’s 25,000 acre farm
in Benton Co. From handling them he became impressed with
the necessity for early maturity and quick finish in the face of
rising feed stuff prices. In 1878 he purchased a Hereford bull
from RoBERT SAMPLE and the following year about thirty young
cows and heifers from T. L. MILLER. One of these was Viola,

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his first winning show cow, and the dam of his champion Viola
4th, while another was Princess, dam of his immortal Fowler.

During 1879 he also imported a few cows and a bull in con-
nection with Eart & Stewart. The bull proved unsatisfactory
so he journeyed to Maine to secure BurLeicH & BOoDWELL’s
Tregrehan, the foundation of Mr. Van Natta’s success. In
1886 he participated in the famous “white-face invasion” of
Kentucky with Tregrehan’s son Fowler, out of his original Prin-
cess, as head of the herd. Fowler was an extremely well bal-
anced animal and had an exceptional show career. His blood
proved a powerful factor in the upbuilding of Mr. Van Natta’s
herds and was doubled back and forth in numerous pedigrees.

The Van Natta triumph came at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition where his aged bull, Prime Lad, and his aged cow,
Lorna Doone, both won championships. His closing years saw
a similar pair of champions, from Prime Lad’s loins, sweep the
circuits of 1908 and 1909, Prime Lad 9th and Margaret. His
death occurred May 26, 1911.

Mr. SANDERS (12) pays tribute to the dogged persistency of
Mr. Van Natta during the days of the inter-breed conflicts by a
fitting comparison to GENERAL GranT. “Wn. S. Van Natta
became convinced in the early 70’s that the ‘white faces’ were
the best beef cattle of the day, and in their cause he enlisted,
not for ‘ninety days,’ but ‘for the war’; and upon that line he
fought it out to a finish that not only brought fame to himself,
but honor to the Hereford name.”

Ww. S. VAN NATTA

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A HEREFORD SHOWYARD GENERAL

61. Almost the sole survivor of that earnest hard working
band that carried the standard of the Hereford to recognition
and victory in the bitter breed battles of the 80’s and early 90’s,
is THoMas CLarRK. Mr. Ciark was born at Didley, Hereford-
shire, August 28, 1842, and from the time he could take his
first steps, was intimately connected with the creation and prog-
tess of the whitefaced breed. His father had also been identi:
fied with Herefords, and his grandfather, WaLTER CLARK, was
one of the pioneer improvers of over a century ago, breeding
his cow stock himself, and securing his sires from the elder
TomPkKINS, GALLIERS and HEWER.

Tuomas CLARK came to America in 1866, possessed only of
the parcel that he carried. He landed in New York, and pro-
ceeded to a farm in Ohio where he worked for about ten weeks.
He then obtained a position with a Cleveland butcher by the
name of PRoBERT, with whom he worked for three years. Fol-
lowing this, he began butchering for himself at Elyria, Ohio,
conducting farming operations at the same time. After two
years, however, he found it difficult to make the interests of the
two businesses coincide, hence he abandoned his dressed beef
trade. He secured his first Herefords in 1869, three imported
cows, well advanced in calf that were brought over by HUMPHREY
& Aston. A few months later he went to Guelph, Canada, where
he secured a bull called Sir Arthur from F. W. STone.

In 1877 he came to Illinois where he located at Beecher, in
the neighborhood of Mr. T. L. MILLER, already a Hereford
pioneer. Mr. CiarK drove across the country with him his
little band of purebreds which at that time numbered about
twenty-five. Three years later in partnership with Mr. MILLer,
he shipped two carloads of Herefords west to Cheyenne in order
to introduce them to the range. The work was of a distinct
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tical. It required two years to sell them, the bulk of them going
to the Swan Land & Cattle Co. This shipment, however, broke
the ice and in later years Mr. CLarK shipped large numbers of
purebred bulls into the Cheyenne and Montana districts. Later
he went after the southwestern trade and sold many animals
into Kansas, the Panhandle and New Mexico.

His showyard record began in 1869 in Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania. In 1876 he showed his herd at the Michigan State Fair,
meeting all the good Canadian Shorthorns. Under the adjudi-
cation of Joun MILLER (114) he received first prize on his herd
over all competition. His first show in Illinois was the county
fair at Freeport in 1877. At this time his herd only numbered
about twenty-five head, but he husbanded its resources care-
fully, until at the heighth of his operations, he possessed about
150 purebred animals. His last year in the showring with any
considerable number of animals was 1902, although at intervals
since then he has shown one or two individuals. Mr. CLark
was the first man to sell a Hereford bull at public auction, to
realize as large a sum as $9,000. This was secured for the bull
Perfection, shortly after he won at the 1901 International.

In August, 1877, the American Hereford Herd Book was
established under the direction of Mr. T. L. Mrtuer, at Beecher,
Ill. THomas Cxarx contributed liberally of his time and infor-
mation to the production of Volume I, and on its publication
in 1880 succeeded personally in attracting new breeders to the
Hereford standard. About this time breeders of Herefords
declared war to the knife on the Shorthorns, and made exten-
sive and organized plans to clean up the championships at the
Lake Front Show. Numbers of breeders made enthusiastic prom-
ises to steer a large number of their best bull calves, following
Mr. Ciark’s admonition that the “gentlemen would do well to
bear in mind that if they wanted good steers they must alter
good calves.” In 1881 Mr. CLark imported for Eary & Stuart

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the extraordinary two-year-old steer called Wabash. In 1882
this steer won the two-year-old championship, but was unable
to go to the top of the show. As a breeder and promoter, few
men have had a more vital influence on their chosen breed, or
have lived to see as secure a success as Mr. CLark has achieved
with and for the Hereford. From the start of the Internationa]
he has been prominent in cattle circles, both as an exhibitor and
a director. Of recent years he has been one of the two super-
intendents of the cattle department, paying particular attention
to steers and his own breed, and he has succeeded in making
the steer contest without parallel in the world.

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FROM BARNSTABLE BUTCHER TO WORLD MEAT
MERCHANT

62. One of the pioneers of Packingtown was GusTavus
FRANKLIN Swirt. Of English descent from the earliest Colonial
times, Mr. Swirt’s birthplace was at West Sandwich, Mass., out
on Cape Cod. He was born June 24, 1839, the grandson of
Captain WILLIAM SwIFT, a figure in both the Revolutionary war
and the war of 1812. Through his mother he traced to ELDER
Wituram BREwsTER of the original Plymouth colony, and to
THomas PRINCE, second Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. SwIFt
came of a large family, eight boys and four girls, and early
decided to relieve the home pressure by taking up an occupa-
tion other than the parental one. He took the step which con-
trolled the trend of his later years by obtaining employment
with the town butcher of Sandwich. After mastering the details
of the business, he opened a retail butcher shop at Barnstable,
Mass., in 1862, and within a few months established a small
slaughter house. His success was such that in 1869 he went to
Brighton, a suburb of Boston, at that time the principal live-
stock market in New England, and in 1872 formed a partner-
ship with James A. HatHaway. The new firm prospered and
the headquarters were moved to Albany, New York, Mr. Swirr
making regular visits to the Chicago and Buffalo cattle markets,
where he was a large but conservative buyer. In 1875, HaTHa-
way and SwirT transferred their operations to Chicago and
embarked in the business of buying and shipping cattle. Two
years later, Mr. Swirt began to slaughter cattle at the Union
Stockyards, and with the advent of cold weather, shipped his
first dressed beef in ordinary box cars from Chicago to the
eastern markets. The economy of this method so impressed
him that he began to experiment with a refrigerator on wheels,
recognizing its possibilities in the opening of new and expan-
sive markets. After considerable pioneer work that drew heav-
ily on his limited capital, he sent the first car of perfectly

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refrigerated dressed beef to New England, to arrive Thanks-
giving morning, 1878. At this time the partnership with Mr.
HatTuHaway was dissolved and his brother, Epwin C. Swirt, came
in with him to organize the firm of Swirr Bros. & Co.

The business of the new firm grew rapidly, its market extended
throughout the entire United States and even to Europe. In
1885, the firm was incorporated under the name of SwirT &
Company, with a capital stock of $300,000 and Mr. Swirr was
made president. At the time of the incorporation the company
employed some 1,600 men, but under his management it grew
until approximately 40,000 were employed at the time of his
death in 1903. Today the principal plants of Swirr & Company,
in eleven large cities occupy nearly 318 acres, and the total num-
bers of employees exceeds 60,000. The capital stock has increased
to $150,000,000 and the distributed sales for 1918 were above
one and one-fifth billions. Mr. Swirt made several trips to
England to overcome the prejudice against western dressed beef,
a prejudice that was partially mitigated by the disease dangers
in the influx of live cattle.

The new master of the packing trade kept in close touch with
the branch houses of his business, and was familiar with prac-
tically every detail. He was a firm believer in quality and con-
stantly endeavored to produce the best in all his various prod-
ucts. He was quick to take advantage of any new idea that
could be applied to his business and continually studied scien-
tific methods of utilizing wastes and developing byproducts.
Economy in operation and the development of mechanical
refrigeration were the two principal factors contributing to
Swirt & Company’s success. Mr. Swirt became heavily inter-
terested in many other firms and corporations in all parts of
the United States, and took an active part in numerous public
and benevolent activities within Chicago. He was the father of
eleven children and was succeeded by his sons, Louts F. Swirt
as President, and Epwarp F. Swirt as Vice President of the
company.

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A GENIUS OF MARKET ORGANIZATION

63. Epwarp TILDEN, packer and banker, was born at Utica,
N. Y., June 17, 1855. While still a babe his family moved to
Wisconsin and his public school education was received at Del-
avan. His introduction to business occurred in the same town,
where he became a clerk and bookkeeper in a general store. He
then spent two years in Toronto, Canada, but when he had
acquired facility in bookkeeping he was offered a position with
BRINTNALL, Lams & Co., wholesale hardware dealers of Chicago.
As his acquaintanceship widened, his opportunities multiplied,
and in 1883 he became general bookkeeper and five years later
assistant cashier of the Drovers National Bank at the Stock-
yards. From here he proceeded in 1897 to Lippy, McNem &
Lippy, to become treasurer of their packing industry. In 1903
he was made president and director of this company, a position
he retained until his death, February 5, 1915. He was appointed
as executor of the Gustavus F. Swirt estate in 1903, and was
also made treasurer of the newly organized National Packing
Co. Two years later he was made its president, which office he
retained until its dissolution.

About 1900 he acquired an interest in the St. Louis Stock
Yards Co., and was made a director. About the same time he
was elected treasurer and director of the Sioux City Stock Yards
Co., and in 1907 he was made president of the Denver Stock
Yards Co., a position he held until 1915. Mr. TiLpEN main-
tained a large farm at his boyhood home and frequently enter-
tained the employees of the packing plant there. On one occa-
sion he furnished entertainment for 7,000.

For several years he was very active in politics and was a
member of the Chicago School Board from 1900 to 1906, being
its president the last year. He was school treasurer for Hyde
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Chicago. He was a commissioner of the South Park Board from
1910 until the date of his death.

In 1883 he first organized the firm of Epwarp Titpen & Co.,
as investment bankers, and from that time on was more or less
interested in the banking business of Chicago and other cities.
He was a large stockholder in the Fort Dearborn National Bank
and the Drovers National Bank of Chicago, and was extensively
interested in many other industries of that city. He was a
director of the Chicago & Alton Railroad and of the Toledo,
Peoria & Western.

Mr. TILDEN exercised a very broad financial and political
influence throughout the Central West, but his greatest achieve-
ment was the upbuilding and development of the Lippy, McNEIL
& Lippy plant. He was largely responsible for the variety of
its products, and on several occasions saved the company from
overthrow and disintegration by bits of bold business judgment
and strong financiering. His death in 1915 was a great loss to
the packing and business interests of Chicago.

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THE PIONEER OF PACKINGTOWN

65. The first packing business in Chicago was operated by
the firm of Burt, Hutcuinson & Snow, located on Rhodes St.,
near Archer Avenue. Its facilities were relatively primitive in
the light of those used at the present day, but on its foundations
was builded a firm, the Chicago Packing & Provision Co., that
at one time was the largest in America. The genius behind the
organization of Burt, Hutcuinson & Snow, was BENJAMIN
Peters HUTCHINSON.

Mr. HurcHInson was born at Reading, Mass., February 24,
1829. His early education was received in the New England
Public Schools and upon completion of his course he engaged
for a time in the shoe business at Lynn, Mass. In 1853 he came
to Chicago, but not finding the exact opportunities he desired,
he proceeded to Milwaukee. In 1858 he returned to Chicago,
entering the grain business, and within a few months partici-
pated with Messrs. Burt & Snow in organizing the packing
business previously mentioned. Upon the establishment of the
Union Stockyards the firm took its business there, and estab-
lished the first packing house at the Yards. In 1872 the partner-
ship was dissolved, and the Chicago Packing & Provision Co.
formed from it. This continued in business until 1885.

In 1870 Mr. Hutcuinson founded the Corn Exchange
National Bank, which early developed into a thriving institu-
tion. Aside from his banking and packing interests he con-
ducted a large business on the Board of Trade, where he had a
notable career both as a speculator and as a shipper of grain.
His death occurred in Chicago, March 16, 1899.

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THE FOUNDER OF THE YARDS

66. The real originator of the Union Stock Yards as far as
practical achievement is concerned was JouN SHERMAN. From
its inception he was identified with this industry and was elected
its president in 1866, a position he occupied until succeeded
by Mr. Joun A. Spoor in 1897. During these years the vast
interests of the Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. were almost
entirely in his hands, and so competent were his efforts and so
popular his personality, that on his retirement a bust (142)
was presented the Club by the commission men and others more
or less intimately associated with him during his tenure of office.

He was born on a farm near Beeckman, Dutchess Co., New
York, in January, 1835. His early education was almost
meagre, as he alternated his hours in public school with a posi-
tion as clerk in a country store. When the California gold rush
of 1849 occurred, he joined one of the New York parties and
was among the fortunate ones to fill his pockets with gold. As
he had married previous to going west, his stay there was not
long, and he returned at the earliest opportunity to New York.
His trip across the country had convinced him of the great agri-
cultural opportunities of the middle west, and shortly after his
return he removed with his family to Illinois. He bought a
farm a short distance out of Chicago, growing corn and feeding
livestock for several years. About 1856 he came to Chicago,
and was appointed to the management of the stockyard operated
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and also the
Merrick Yards on Michigan Avenue. At this time each railroad
maintained its own market and the advantages of a centralized
institution had not yet been realized.

In the early 60’s Mr. S. W. ALLERTON (67) and other Chicago
financiers had pointed out the necessity for a constant Chicago
market, and Mr. SHERMAN in company with Mr. Lepyarp, then
president of the Michigan Central Railroad at Detroit, pur-

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chased the 320 acres that were the original site of the Union
Stockyard, and induced the other railroads to combine for its
utilization. After organizing its activities to the widest degree,
Mk. SHERMAN returned to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., with his family,
where he remained for a period of about two years. The devel-
opment of the stockyards, however, required his return, and he
came back as general superintendent, and later president of the
Yards. In 1897 he resigned, but maintained his interest as a
director until his death, February 25, 1902. The growth of the
Yards was phenomenal and by the early 80’s from 8,000 to
10,000 cattle a day were handled. This made it the largest
market in the world at the time, a prestige that has been main-
tained until the present day. A large debt is owed by the public
to Mr. SHERMAN for the thoroughness and foresight of his organ-
ization.

JOHN SHERMAN

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A GIANT OF ILLINOIS’ AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES

67. SAMUEL WaTERS ALLERTON JR., was one of the pioneers
in the livestock industry of Chicago. He was a strong buyer
of livestock in the days previous to the general market in Chi-
cago, and shipped large numbers of animals to the east, to New
York and Boston. Mr. ALLERTON published in the Chicago
Tribune the first letter in favor of organizing the Union Stock
Yards and by his efforts in founding the First National Bank
and in developing the world’s greatest livestock market, did
much toward making Chicago the financial center of the west.

SAMUEL W. ALLERTON JR., was born May 26, 1828, at Amenia,
Dutchess Co., New York, the youngest of nine children. At
seven years of age due to the destructive tariff measures of the
30’s, his father was forced into bankruptcy, and at twelve he
was required to commence work for himself. In 1842 the entire
family removed to Yates Co., New York, where a farm was
rented. Young SAMUEL worked with his father until they saved
sufficient money to buy a farm in Wayne Co. He then with his
brother Henry, rented a farm from which they made a profit
of $1,500. They forthwith bought a small acreage jointly near
Newark, for $4,500, paying the $1,500 profit down. His brother
went to work on this farm while he rented another, and at the
end of three years he had saved $3,200. He then returned to
Newark where he worked with his brothers and traded in live-
stock in a small way. Upon taking his purchases to New York
and Albany he discovered that he knew as much as the dealers
he met, he therefore told his brother HEnrRy, “I think my serv-
ices are worth more than $9 a month, and as we now have the
farm paid for, and $3,000 in money, you take the farm and I
will take the money.” His brother attempted to dissuade him,
but seeing that he was intent on trying the livestock trade, he
agreed to this settlement. HENrRY’s parting advice to him was

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to make a name and character for himself, thereby being sure
to win.

The first hundred cattle Mr. ALLERTON ever bought were sold
in New York City where the Fifth Avenue Bank now stands.
It was the worst market New York had known in ten years, and
he lost $700. This almost discouraged him, but an elderly uncle
who had been very successful, said to him, “Don’t lose your
courage, I never found but one dead sure thing, and that was
hoeing corn at 50 cents a day. If you make money you must
sometimes lose it, try again.” Young ALLERTON then went to
Erie. Rebellious women had burned the railroad bridges
because the trains would not stop for dinner, making a break
in the line. He bought 100 cattle, shipped them over the Erie
to New York, encountered a great flood, and found the market
consequently short. This netted him a profit of $3,000 and
gave him new courage. He drifted to the west and for one year
fed and raised cattle in Illinois. The panic incident on the
failure of the STuRcIs interests in Cincinnati, wiped out every-
thing Mr. ALLERTON had. He became ill and concluded that
there was something wrong with the western climate, so took
an interest in his brother’s store in Newark. This form of busi-
ness seemed too petty to him after dealing on so much larger a
scale, and the confinement made the western climate seem very
desirable to him. He borrowed $5,000 and started for the west,
proceeding directly to Fulton Co., where he traded a little, and
renewed his acquaintance with Miss PamitLa W. THOMPSON,
daughter of A. C. THompson, a big cattleman located in that
county. In 1860 he removed to Chicago, and four months later
they were married.

Believing that Chicago was the only place “where the world
turned around every twenty-four hours,” he commenced in a
conservative way to buy and sell stock. At this period the only
general market in Chicago was held in the winter, the remainder

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of the year all livestock being shipped to the East. A severe
break occurred in the Chicago cattle demand about this time,
and Mr. ALLERTON saw a favorable opportunity to buy.
Through the good influences of a Mr. Tosy, he succeeded in
arranging for a sight draft with Grorce SmiTH’s bank. Mr.
ALLERTON thereupon went to the stockyards and bought all the
hogs on the market, preparing a draft for $80,000. This was
too much for the bank, which refused to handle it, having
expected something in the vicinity of $5,000 instead. After
various ventures he succeeded in getting it discounted at a 1%
rate by AIikENs & Norton. The venture proved successful, and
gave Mr. ALLERTON the financial security necessary to establish
a permanent business.

At the outbreak of the Civil War the financial situation in the
north was rather strained. Congress had just passed the National
Bank Act and had issued bonds to secure the circulation. Hither-
to, the only paper currency had been the so-called red-dog and
bob-tailed notes. Mr. ALLERTON broached the subject of a na-
tional bank to Mr. AIKENs, but the latter demurred because he
feared he could not get stock taken. Nothing daunted, Mr.
ALLERTON secured five other men that would take $10,000 each
and thus the First National Bank of Chicago was founded.

Ever since his permanent location in the west, Mr. ALLERTON
had been accumulating farm lands, and by the opening of the
new century, had acquired a total of about 19,000 acres in IIli-
nois, in addition to some 21,000 acres in Iowa, Wisconsin and
Kansas. As his financial independence grew he secured large
holdings in gold mines, and aided in the financiering of the street
railways in pioneer Chicago. Throughout all his activities, how-
ever, he maintained his chief interest in the livestock trade, con-
tinuing to ship to New York, New England and Britain.

Mr. ALLERTON was a staunch republican in politics, and a
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constructive financial legislation, believing the American finan-
cial system should be as sound as the Bank of England. Mr.
ALLERTON provided large benefactions for public schools, colleges
and hospitals, and interested himself in the promotion of num-
erous industries of a public nature. He ran for mayor of Chicago
against CARTER H. Harrison, and carried the north division of
the city and the better residential wards, but was beaten by politi-
cal manipulations in the organized districts. He died February
22, 1914, at his winter home in South Pasadena, Cal.

Mr. ALLERTON’S advice to young men seeking a start in agri-
culture was: “Hire out to some farmer by the year for $250 and
board; save $200 of it and deposit it in a good bank until you
can invest it safely. Keep on until you have saved $1,500 and
then rent a farm. You will have a character and a credit and will
have no trouble renting a farm. Then with good health nothing
can prevent you from becoming a farm owner. Get married
when you have enough to start in life.”

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THE FOUNDER OF ELMENDORF

68. Kentucky from earliest times has been the home of magni-
ficent breeding establishments. The story of Woodburn Farm
(82) has been told for years, but its rival in variety of livestock
and quality of breeds did not exist until Elmendorf estate, lo-
cated near Lexington, Kentucky, was founded. Elmendorf was
the property of the venerable James B. Haccin, a man who lived
almost to his 94th birthday, and who participated actively in
some of the most notable events of the last century. Mr. Haccin
was a “forty-niner,” having begun the practice of law in Califor-
nia, but he soon turned to mining interests and in company with
Senator Hearst and Marcus Daty he achieved international
fame and vast fortune. As a breeder of Thoroughbreds and trot-
ters, Mr. Haccin’s name has been foremost for years, but he
touched agriculture most intimately during his later life, when
he collected his famous herds of Shropshires, Shorthorns, Jerseys
and Berkshires. With fine spirit he placed the entire estate at
the disposal of the Kentucky Agricultural College for demonstra-
tion and instructional purposes, making thereby an unprecedented
contribution to agricultural education.

Mr. Hacein carried his activities into his most advanced years
and maintained keenest personal interest in Elmendorf to the end,
constantly expanding its operations. He ranks among the strong-
est and most rugged characters in our national life.

He was born in Harrodsburg, Ky., December 9, 1820 and died
at his home at Newport, R. I., September 12, 1914. He was a
grandson of pioneers who came to Virginia in 1775, but who
proceeded immediately to the little settlement in the vicinity of
the fort at Harrodsburg, Mercer Co., Ky. This pioneer Haccin
was a staunch friend and boon companion of the redoubtable
Simon Kenton, and both became famous for their prowess as
hunters and Indian fighters. Mr. Haccin’s education was for the
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Frankfort and Louisville, Ky. In connection with his practice
as an attorney he did an extensive real estate business, taking up
valuable lands and mining claims. With Lloyd Tevis and others,
he was joint owner of the Home Stake Mine in the Black Hills,
one of the richest and most widely known properties in the world.

For many years Mr. Haccin was a figure in the agricultural
and financial affairs of California. He purchased the Rancho del
Paso of about forty thousand acres, and here collected the very
best blood obtainable in Thoroughbred horses. Each year he
sent valuable shipments east for public sale in Kentucky and at
Madison Square Garden. In 1897 Mr. Haccin married Miss
Pearl Voorhies, of Versailles, Ky., and shortly thereafter made
the purchase of the land on which he founded his Elmendorf
estate. This finally included some 9,000 acres in the fertile coun-
ties of Fayette, Scott and Bourbon. Mr. Haccin made extensive
improvements on the farm and then transferred his California
Thoroughbreds to the blue grass section.

In the fall of 1906, he founded his Shorthorn herd, securing in
1907 the redoubtable Whitehall Marshall (138) for its head.
About this time he made several importations of Welsh ponies,
Shire and Suffolk horses, and Shropshire sheep. His Berkshires
were also acquired then, and he developed one of the very strong-
est herds of swine in the country.

In 1908 as a result of his advocacy for clean milk, he estab-
lished a certified dairy plant at Elmendorf, and laid the founda-
tions for a great dairy herd, buying and importing Jerseys at a
great cost, and also securing Guernseys, Kerries, Dexter Kerries,
and Milking Shorthorns. His milking herd ultimately included
some 1,400 animals, of which more than half were Jerseys. His
famous bull, Noble of Oaklands, has been the source of more
showyard winners and high test cows than any bull of the breed
in recent years. The dairy barn was built of native limestone, a
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made of red Spanish tile. Rigid sanitary measures were enforced
throughout.

Mr. Haccin was often referred to as eccentric and a man of
mystery, but those who were near enough to him to know his great
worth, his generosity and kindness of heart, his gentle courtliness
of manner, believed differently. He was the benefactor of Ken-
tucky and the South, and gave much to his generation.

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HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF ARMOUR

69. On the death of P. D. Armour in 1901, the responsibility
for the great business of Armour and Company fell upon his
eldest son, J. Ocp—en ARMour. Mr. ARMouR possesses in high de-
gree the masterly characteristics of his father, and with quieter
methods he has secured as firm a grasp on the business as was
held by his paternal predecessor.

Mr. ARMourR was born in Milwaukee, Wis., November 11, 1863,
but came to Chicago in 1875 with his family. He was educated
at Harvard school, Chicago, and entered Yale college in 1880.
Owing to his father’s desire to give him early training and experi-
ence in the business of the firm, he sacrificed his final college
year, and returned to Chicago for duty in 1883. His apprentice-
ship began at once, and after serving a year in subordinate posi-
tions, he became a partner. He early showed the necessary energy
and close attention required by his father and advanced steadily
in leadership.

Since his accession to the business in 1901, the annual gross
income has grown from $182,000,000 a year to $1,065,000,000 in
1919. The company activities were greatly developed and ex-
tended by original and modern means. Economy and business
efficiency were applied both to manufacture and distribution,
enabling lower prices to the public and higher values to the pro-
ducers. His work has been essentially that of development and he
has built numerous plants in the near vicinity of the livestock
producing regions in order to eliminate the necessity of long live-
stock shipments. Today he operates at logical points some fifteen
plants in the United States and in addition has several in Canada
and South America. Under his guidance the number of branch
houses distributing Armour products has reached over four
hundred, while the refrigerator and tank service in 1918 totalled
5,435 cars. He has succeeded in increasing the utilization of
byproducts; has paid great attention to educational and informa-

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tive work among both producers and consumers, and has devel-
oped and improved the working conditions and community inter-
ests in all his plants. Hs was early interested in agricultural edu-
cation, and founded a series of scholarships, known as the Armour
Scholarships, which were competed for annually at the Interna-
tional by the different colleges. Their award to each institution
was based on the excellence of showing of each, in the student’s
judging contest and the show of college livestock.

Mr. ARMOUR has always followed a sane financial policy as
head of the Company and each year has put back into the business
about 90 percent of the profits. He played an important part in
engineering the changes necessary to produce a steady livestock
market every day in the week, thereby giving the packing house
employes constant and steady work, and overcoming the earlier
tendency to spasmodic and unsystematic periods of employment.
He has contributed generously to his father’s philanthropies, espe-
cially the Armour Institute, giving the latter sums far in excess
of the liberal amounts originally provided by his father.

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A MASTER OF MEN AND MEASURES

70. Foremost among the philanthropists and men of big busi-
ness in the closing years of the last century in Chicago, occurs
the name of Partie DanrortH Armour, founder of Armour and
Company, and the Armour Institute. He was born May 16, 1832,
at Stockbridge, New York, a farmer descended from a race of
Scottish farmers. When the rush for gold in California reached
its highest mark, he had reached the age of nineteen. Stories of
fabulous wealth obtained by this or that adventurer were recounted
in each magazine and journal, and like many others, the ambi-
tious youth turned anxious glances toward the west. He finally
secured parental consent, and with a few companions left the
family homestead to seek the land of the sunset. Although the
start was made on foot he had received several hundred dollars
from his parents, and in a large measure became the financier of
the party. The undertaking was of an almost stupendous nature,
one member of the party died, and two lost heart, turning back.
At Independence, Kansas, they secured a yoke of oxen and a
prairie schooner, and at the end of six months arrived in Cali-
fornia. A brief study of conditions convinced the young man
that a more certain road to fortune would be found in building
sluices than in prospecting for gold. At first he worked as a
laborer by himself getting $5.00 a day, or $10.00 when he
worked at night. This led to his developing a contract business
for sluice construction and he employed numbers of miners who
had lost their all in vain searches and who wished to earn money
to return home. The business prospered and in five years young
Armour had accumulated a few thousand dollars. He thereupon
returned to Oneida Co., New York, to invest in a farm, but as he
found the young lady in whom he believed himself interested
had married another while he was in the west, he started for
other parts in which he determined to build a fortune.

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On his return from California, he had stopped for two days in
Milwaukee, then the prosperous gateway of the west. It was in
fact one of the principal stopping points for that grim variety of
Argonauts who were seeking the Pacific slopes or returning to
their homes with California gold in their pockets. Milwaukee
seemed the logical place to locate and he joined in a partnership
with Fred P. Miles on March 1, 1859, in the produce and com-
mission business. The enterprise prospered from the beginning
and soon handled a large volume of the smoked and pickled meats
demanded by travelers going to and from the coast. After three
years of this existence, Mr. ARMouR had become well known in
the business circles, and in 1863 he joined the packing firm of
Joun Puianxinton, then the largest livestock industry in Mil-
waukee. The firm name became PLANKINTON & ARMOUR, and
pork packing its chief business. The days were long, extending
from four in the morning until late at night, but the business
boomed.

Following the Civil War, Chicago began to develop, and PH1tip
ARMOUR watched carefully for expanding interests. He prevailed
upon his brother, H. O. ARMour, to open in New York the com-
mission house of ARMOUR, PLANKINTON & Co., while JosePH F.
Armour took charge of the Chicago office. On Christmas day,
1865, the Union Stock Yarps opened for business, and two years
later the Chicago house of the firm began packing hogs under the
name of ArMour & Co. For eight years hogs only were handled,
but in 1875 Mr. ARMouR removed to Chicago and expanded the
business so that in 1878 they began killing cattle and in 1880
slaughtering sheep. In 1878 the refrigerator car was perfected,
and upon the refusal of the railroads to build refrigerator cars,
Mr. Armour built a fleet of his own. Business grew rapidly
since it had been previously impossible to eat fresh meat in the
“off season,” and ARMouR & Co. developed as new fields of en-
deavor opened.

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Mr. ARMOUR understood thoroughly the science of eliminating
waste. From his earliest days he had learned to turn everything
to account, and instead of paying somebody to remove the refuse
of the industry as had previously been the custom, he began the
manufacture of glue, fertilizer and soap. Many other lines of
byproducts were added from time to time, until today they form
the most profitable part of the firm’s business. In fact, they are
the principal factor in keeping down the prices of retail meat,
since they absorb such an important percentage of the killing
costs. Mr. ARMOUR is quoted as saying, “Give me the waste
from the animals slaughtered and I will make more money than
the fellow selling the meat.”

In 1893, he had developed as a side line to his meat packing
activities, a moderate grain business. Because of the panic, cash
grain in the northwestern grain centers was selling at such great
discounts that Chicago May futures could be sold and country
grain bought to replace them. Mr. Armour bought several mil-
lion bushels in the northwestern market, but at the same time a
combination of rival grain operators bought all the cash grain
in Chicago, and refused to move it out. Since the law required
all grain to be stored in registered elevators, Mr. ARMouR had no
place to unload his northwestern wheat. Sixteen hundred cars of
wheat accumulated on the tracks, and three hundred boatloads on
Lake Michigan. In this crisis he declared, “I'll build an elevator
of my own”—when told it would require six months to accomplish
this, he snatched a telephone, called a contractor, installed electric
lights to permit night work, and in forty-two days had the ele-
vator completed and was receiving grain. The combine was de-
feated, and Mr. Armour reaped a reasonable reward.

One Sunday he attended the old Plymouth Church, and listened
to a sermon by Dr. F. W. GunsauLus who preached on the sub-
ject, “What I would do with a Million Dollars.” Mr. ARMouR
became intensely interested, as a vision of affording technical

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education to boys too poor to attend regular colleges was
unfolded by the clergyman. After the sermon, Mr. ARMOUR
approached Dr. Gunsautus and said, “If you will give your time
to such an institution as you have outlined, I will give you the
money.” From this the ARMoUR INSTITUTE was founded, on a
benefaction running up into millions of dollars.

When Mr. ARMour died, January 6, 1901, he had developed a
business that employed more people than any other single con-
cern in the world, and whose annual income was approximately
$180,000,000. His death resulted from heart trouble, but even
to his last days he remained the same energetic and enthusiastic
worker as of old, refusing to remain idle, despite the advice of
his physician. When his portrait was hung in the Hall of Fame at
the University of Illinois, many of the big men of the business
and agricultural world gathered, to pay tribute to his achieve-
ments. Today he stands as one of the most prominent figures of
all history in the nation’s commercial development.

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A MASTER MARKET MAKER

71. Another German born citizen of America who rose from
as humble beginnings as Caprain Passt (47) and who became
fully as influential a financial figure in the business world previ-
ous to his death, was Netson Morris, Chicago packer and opera-
tor on the Board of Trade. Mr. Morris was born in a small settle-
ment in the Black Forest, Germany, January 21, 1839. He was
practically self-educated, since he came to the United States at
the age of twelve, and to Chicago at the age of fifteen. Here
he secured employment in the stockyards and two years later laid
the foundations of the packing business of Morris and Company
by entering business for himself. The growth of his big organiza-
tion was gradual, and throughout the 80’s and 90’s he was able to
add quite materially to its scope through some profitable opera-
tions on the Board of Trade.

In 1863 he married SARAH VOGEL, and reared four children:
Epwarp Morris, who succeeded him at the head of the industry;
Tra NELson Morris, who has been closely connected in various
official capacities with the corporation, and who since 1913 has
occupied various diplomatic positions, among them being U. S.
Minister to Sweden; Gusta Morris, who became the wife of
Maurice L. RoTHscHiLp, head of the Chicago clothing store,
and Maun, the wife of M. MarTINEAu, now living in London.

Upon the incorporation of the partnership of Morris & Co.,
NeELson Morris became president, and for a number of years
was also president of the FAIRBANK CANNING Co., in which he
held a large financial interest. He was a director of the first Na-
tional Bank, of the Stock Yards Savings Bank, and the People’s
Trust and Savings Bank. He died August 27, 1907, at the age of
68 years, leaving a business of large proportions as a monument
to his shrewd business judgment and his unswerving constructive
purpose.

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NEtson Morris was one of the best judges of cattle that ever
rode a horse in the yards, and it is within the memory of many
of the stockyard veterans when he set forth each morning for a
personal inspection of the cattle market and a personal direction
of the buying for his firm. His figure in the yards was familiar
long after he ceased these more strenuous operations, and many
drovers and stockmen remember his sturdy manner and his always
democratic bearing. To know him in these days was to admire
and love him. His charities, always quiet and unostentatious,
were myriad, and his death was a real calamity to many.

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A SCION OF BIG BUSINESS

72. The foundations of the great packing business of Morris
& Co. were bequeathed by NELson Morris to his son EDWARD
Morris. In the later years of his father’s life the younger Morris
had manifested a genius for business that compelled a hearty
recognition when he succeeded as its head. Frequently the sons
of rich men have scattered the fortune handed them by their
fathers, but Epwarp Morris conserved and enlarged the estate.
He had been at the head of the packing business for only a few
years when he bought from the other heirs their entire holdings
in the packing company, at a cost of fifteen million dollars.
This was one of the most gigantic transactions recorded in the
commercial world at this time. Mr. Morris had a genius not only
for the packing business, but for other lines. He was counted
as one of the largest bank stock holders in the city of Chicago,
and his name appeared on the directorate of numerous stock com-
panies. Few men of such large affairs have continued in such
close personal touch with their undertakings, but the habits of
industry inherited from his father clung closely to him and he
knew intimately each detail of his large plants.

Epwarp Morris was born Oct. 1, 1865. His early life was
very closely allied to the business of NELson Morris & Co., and
his collegiate training was limited. Mr. Morris, however, was
widely read, and discussed interestingly any subject in business,
music, art or literature. On Oct. 1, 1889 he married HELEN
SwiFT, and to this union were born four children; Epwarp Mor-
RIs, the present head of the business, NELSON, RUTH and HELEN
MuriEL. His happiest moments were spent in his own home, but
he was very much interested in the financial development not
only of Chicago, but of the country at large. Mr. Morris was a
familiar figure at the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLus, where he was
ready to recognize each acquaintance and to accord him a genial
companionship. Of a generous nature, no one in distress could

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come to him without meeting with a ready response, and he was
one of the most generous contributors to charity in the city. A
very large portion of his charity was distributed without the
knowledge of the outside world. He purchased the SHAKESPEARE
house, and presented it to Harvard University a few years before
his death, thus giving a hint of the inward mind of the engrossed
man of business. His death Nov. 3, 1913, came as a distinct shock
to the commercial world, although it was not unexpected by those
in the inner circle of his acquaintance. A nervous breakdown,
resulting from kidney disorder, terminated one of the most suc-
cessful business careers offered a man of the younger generation,
and his untimely demise was sincerely mourned.

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A PRODIGY OF PACKINGTOWN

73. Possibly the most meteoric career enjoyed by one of the
younger business men of America is that of Tomas Epwarp WIL-
SON, president of the packing industry of Witson & Co. Mr.
WILson was born in London, Ontario, July 22, 1868, of Scottish
descent. When nine years old his parents moved to Chicago, and
he received his education in the Chicago public schools. Upon
graduation he secured a position with the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy Railroad. While handling the special equipment rece
ords in 1890 for the railway company, he overheard another clerk
strongly condemning a similar position with Morris & Co., left
after a brief experience. Mr. WILSON sought and was given the
position, and then began his career in the meat packing industry.
He served the Morris company in various capacities, and in prac-
tically all departments, and by 1906 had achieved sufficient mas-
tery of the details of the organization to be elected vice president
of the company. On the death of Epwarp Morris, he succeeded
to the presidency in 1913. His success here was manifold, and
he rapidly acquired a reputation second to none among the deans
of the packing industry.

In the spring of 1916 the New York interests which had been
financing the packing firm of SuLzBERcER & Sons Co. found the
latter had become so involved that they took charge of the busi-
ness themselves. Mr. WiLson was approached with a high sal-
aried proposition, but on a pure salary basis he refused to con-
sider a change. His years of experience with Morris & Co. made
him feel a loyalty to the original concern which a matter of salary
could not divert. Recognizing this, Mr. WILSON was again ap-
proached by the New York financiers and offered both a record
compensation and an option on a large number of shares of the
SULZBERGER & Sons Co. stock at less than one-fifth of the face
value. This apparently low rate was named in order to reward
him thoroughly for upbuilding and stabilizing the business. Mr.

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WILSON entered his new duties with a will, and was so successful
in organizing and whipping together the disintegrated interests
that at the time his option expired, the shares he held were worth
nearly four times as much as when he received his option. This
gave Mr. WILson a high financial rating and has enabled him to
proceed even further with the extension and organization of the
business. On July 21, 1916, the firm name was changed to
Witson & Co.

Witson & Co. is among the largest of meat packing concerns
in the world having packing plants at Chicago, Oklahoma City,
Kansas City, Los Angeles, Calif.; Sioux Falls, S. D.; Nebraska
City, Nebr.; Albert Lea, Minn.; Natchez, Miss.; Wheeling,
W. Va.; Chatham, Ontario, Canada; Buenos Aires, A. R. South
America and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Witson & Co. have branches in
all principal European countries and do a large export business.
In 1918, the company showed total assets of $129,891,945.30.

Mr. WILson was elected first president of the Institute of
American Meat Packers, which organization he was instrumental
in forming. The Institute comprises in its membership nearly
every large and small meat packer in the United States. Mr.
Witson is a director of the International Livestock Exposition,
a director of the Wabash Railroad and president of the Oklahoma
City Stock Yards Co. In 1918 he also was elected president of
the Chicago Shorthorn Cattle Club. Edellyn Farm is near Lake
Forest, Ill., where Mr. WILSON indulges his passion for breeding
and raising pure blooded horses, Shorthorn cattle, Duroc Jersey
hogs, poultry and game. He has specialized in Shorthorn cattle
and Clydesdale draft horses.

Mr. WILson is one of the most popular of the greater officials
in Chicago, and has a wide club membership and an even wider
friendship. As an example of the success that can come to the
youth of humble origin who possesses brains and industry, Mr.
WILSON stands almost supreme and his career is a direct challenge
to every young man of ability.

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A MASTER OF THE ART OF ARTS

74. On the 21st of June, 1775, there was born at Aydon Castle,
Northumberland, the genius who was to dominate Shorthorn
breeding for the century to follow. THomas Bates made the
most distinct contribution to the art of animal breeding that oc-
curred during the nineteenth century, since he demonstrated with
unfaltering step the value and method of pedigree matings. In
1800 he leased the extensive acreage of Halton Castle for'a period
of twenty-one years, and there founded the family that swept on-
ward to the first climax in Shorthorn breeding, the New York
Mills Sale of 1873. His early acquaintance with the breed was
gained at Darlington Fair on market Mondays. Here he dwelt
with keen hand and shrewd eye on the products of the “divinities
of old Durham,” and seasoned that keenness of judgment and
irrevocableness of decision that blazoned his way through the
difficulties of the coming five decades.

On May 1, 1800 he entered into control of the Halton Castle
acreage but although he had acquired his first Shorthorns two
months previously the foundation stock on which he had set his
heart was as yet unpurchased. A step in the desired direction
came through his acquirement of CHARLES Cor.Linc’s Daisy Bull
in the following autumn, but he was used only for steer breeding
operations. A legacy in 1804 from a deceased aunt enabled him
to embark in his coveted occupation. From it he purchased for
100 guineas, the four-year-old Duchess by Daisy Bull. She de-
scended purely from CoLLinc’s two famous bulls, Favorite and
Hubback, and had ancestry only of the animals that BaTEs ad-
mired. He had numerous vicissitudes, however, and was unable
to found the family he desired until at the Ketton dispersion in
1810 he secured her granddaughter by the 1000 guinea bull
Comet. The cow herself was pronounced “shabby” by the ring-
side, and loud were the taunts that Mr. Bates received, but he had
achieved his desire and with characteristic courage announced

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that he was going to build the “best breed” of Shorthorns from
her. That he accomplished his purpose is a matter of history.
He inbred and interbred her descendants until a natural tendency
to shy breeding forced him to seek elsewhere for sires. This
contingency was due more to the physical absence of bulls rather
than lack of courage on BaTEs’ part to continue his methods, and
the justification of his judgment is found in the fact that only one
of several bulls introduced had any permanent effect of improve-
ment. In fact most of the outside bulls were actually detrimental
to his operations.

The one bull from external sources that made him fame and
fortune was selected on his pedigree alone, the bull Belvedere,
full of the blood of CHARLEs CoL.ine’s old Princess. This cow
too carried only the heritage of Favorite and Hubback, and hence
brought to Mr. Bates again the blood he so earnestly was con-
centrating in his Duchesses. Selected on his pedigree alone, Mr.
Bates found his judgment confirmed by a glimpse of the bull’s
head, and completed his transaction for the animal before he
examined the remainder of its conformation. From Belvedere
he obtained his magnificent Duke of Northumberland and the
show herd that placed him undisputably as Britain’s premier
breeder. From that day forward his family increased in value
until in 1873 the best Duchess brought $40,600 and the average
of fourteen Duchesses in the sale was practically $18,750.

In 1821 Mr. Bates removed from Halton to Ridley Hall and
in May 1830 he transferred to his permanent estate at Kirkleving-
ton, purchased in 1811, driving his herd with him. His fifty cows
and heifers by 2d Hubback excited an interest of unrivalled in-
tensity. One further service Mr. Bates performed for the breed-

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ing art. Milk and butter records were kept on all cows, his best
cows when tested having each quart of milk churned separately.
From his humble beginnings have arisen the principle of dairy
test associations and the great advanced registry systems.
Firmness and keenness of judgment were his biggest assets, his
certainty of himself and oft-time irritation. At the Doncaster
meeting of 1820 EarL SPENCER said of him, “Wonderful man!
Wonderful man! He might become anything, even Prime Min-

ister, if he would not talk so much.”

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SAVIOUR OF THE UNION

75. ABRAHAM LINCOLN was the most typical American. His
individualism was personally characteristic; “he was copied from
no model and founded on no example.” ‘He blended and accen-
tuated the American traits and stands out before the world pre-
eminently the American of Americans. He was equally skilled
in leading the leaders and getting into the hearts of the plain
people. No other American ever so thoroughly understood or
came so close to the great throbbing masses. He sprang from
their ranks and he continued to be their soul. Concentrate the
genius of the common people in one grand incarnation, refining
and sublimating their essence to be then idealized in their adora-
tion, and you call it ABRAHAM LINCOLN.”

He was born in Hardin Co., Ky., February 12, 1809, of Vir-
ginian ancestry. He grew to manhood in a wild region “with
many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.” No
qualification was required of his school teachers except “readin’,
writin’ and the rule of three.” There was absolutely nothing to
excite ambition for education. But in spite of this he made the
best of what the half educated teachers could impart, and by the
time he was nineteen he had acquired sufficient business pro-
ficiency to take a carload of farm products to New Orleans for
sale. In 1830 his father emigrated to Macon Co., Il., and young
Lincoun, then an angular giant of six feet four, went with him
to build the cabin, clear the fields and split the fence rails from
the walnut forests.

Once the farm was cleared he left his father, and engaging
himself to a merchant, employed his leisure hours in reading and
study. Both surveying and the principles of law interested him,
but the outbreak of the Black Hawk war retarded his legal am-
bitions, as he volunteered to become a soldier. In 1833 he was
appointed postmaster of New Salem, IIl., at the same time acting
as deputy surveyor. In 1834 he headed his ticket for the legisla-

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ture of Illinois, and was thrice re-elected, resigning when he had
served eight years. By this time he had attained some proficiency
in law, and he formed a partnership with J. T. Stuart of Spring-
field, to which place the state capitol had been removed due to
his efforts while in the legislature.

In 1846 he was elected to congress. His first bill provided for
the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia, but
was beaten. He was not a candidate for re-election and returned
to Illinois to his practice and to take up the leadership of the
Whig party in his state. He regarded the repeal of the Missouri
compromise as most treacherous, and began a series of discussions
against slave rights in territories, that made him one of the lead-
ing figures of the anti-slavery party. The conservative element
of the Whigs was led by Senator Douctass, while the new or
Republican party was led by Lincoln. In 1858 when Mr. Douc-
Lass sought re-election, the Republicans selected LINCOLN as his
antagonist. LINcoLn challenged the senator to a series of joint
discussions, which challenge the senator accepted. From this
arose that remarkable series of arguments that have lived in
American history. SENATOR Douciass defended popular sover-
eignty (derisively called “squatter sovereignty”) with great adroit-
ness, but Mr. Lincotn’s higher ethical and moral standards ulti.,
mately won the popular favor. It was in the course of these de-
bates that he uttered the prophetic and pregnant words: “A house
divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government
cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not
expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to
fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided.”

This debate established Mr. LINcon’s reputation as an orator
and statesman, and he was nominated on the third ballot in the
Republican convention of 1860, over WM. H. S—warp. As soon
as the extreme partisans of the south learned of this, they. began
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was formed for South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas, known as the Confederate States
of America, with JEFFERSON Davis of Mississippi as president.
Mr. Lincoin kept his own counsel and in his inaugural address
treated the secession as a nullity. He declared the Union perpetu-
ate and inviolate, and announced the government’s intention to
maintain its authority. He closed with the following strain of
peace and dignity: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-coun-
trymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict
without yourselves being the aggressors. You have no oath regis-
tered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have a
most solemn one to preserve it.”

The attack on Sumter was the southern answer, and hostilities
too detailed for discussion here were entered upon. Of Mr. Lin-
COLN’s measures, history records the wisdom. To the constant
pressure of the abolitionists to make slavery the chief issue, he
responded that “My paramount duty is to save the Union, and
not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union
without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by
freeing all slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing
some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” Eventually
the emancipation measure became a practical source for weaken-
ing the enemy resistance, and he gladly published the necessary
proclamation, January 1, 1863. The following fall he urged the
necessity of a constitutional amendment to back his decree, and
on January 31, 1865, the 13th amendment was finally adopted.
His careful diplomacy in the questions involving European ngq-
tions, (ably seconded by his Secretary of State and former politi-
cal rival, Mr. Seward), his strength on the draft question for mili-
tary service, and his second inaugural address, stood as bright
lights in the path of those devoted lovers of the Union who could
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The triumph of final victory and re-election were rudely
snatched from his personal enjoyment, when a traitorous hand
shot and then stabbed him to death on April 14, 1865. For one
day the body lay in state, then the funeral train took him to
Springfield to his final rest.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN “had at once the flavor of the soil and the
flight of the stars. When he rose to large endeavor he had what
seemed to be almost Divine inspiration. Some of his papers in
their simplicity, directness and strength are more like the epistles
of Paul than anything else in literature. His speech was as lu-
cent as crystal, because his thoughts were as clear as the sunbeam.
He was filled with sublime thoughts which transformed them-
selves into sublime words and sublime acts. His imperishable
speech at Gettysburg, which will ever remain the noblest monu-
ment of that immortal field, sprang from the greatness of his soul,
and reflected his inmost being. His second inaugural rose to a
moral elevation not reached outside of sacred deliverance, and
the grand and lofty portraiture of the Supreme law of justice
and retribution in God’s universe, almost suggests the awful and
mystic communion of Sinai. His example and his inspiration
live for all time. The appreciation of his great personality and
his true historic grandeur increases as we gain the juster per-
spective of distance, and the sanctity of his memory will deepen
in the hearts of his countrymen, as the sublimity of his service
and the mystery of his martyrdom become more and more the
loftiest legend of our national story.”

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THE YORKSHIRE SQUIRE AT HIS BEST

76, Situated in the fertile valley of the Swale in late eighteenth
century Yorkshire, THomas Bootu’s Killerby estate cradled the
birth of that second dominant strain of Shorthorns to carry the
standard of the red-white-and-roan to all corners of the earth.
His foundation animals were acquired even prior to 1790, but he
first tapped the CoLLING source about this year, when he secured
from ROBERT CoLLine (94) the roan bull Twin Brother to Ben
and one of his sons, both of his Hubback heritage. Unlike the
famous founder of the Duchess tribes, his younger compatriot
THomas Bates (74), Boor felt no necessity to utilize the CoL-
LING females, and thereby stamped himself both more original
and more independent than his worthy colleague. Robust consti-
tution and a wealth of flesh-making capacity were his ideals. His
cattle must be excellent grazers, but, from the first, breadth of
back and thickness of loin outweighed all considerations of lacta-
tive persistency.

Mr. Bootn’s early bulls of CoLtinc blood were followed by
others from the same source, Suworrow, Pilot, Marshall Beresford
and Albion. The latter bull in particular was successful in
establishing that low down blockiness and round-ribbed cover that
so distinguished the later BooTu tribes. In the light of THomas
Bates, Mr. Bootu was not a pedigree mater, but based his selec-
tions almost wholly on the types of animals themselves. Excep-
tional pains were taken in the introduction of the CoLLinc stock
to overcome defects and to fix the desirable beefing characteristics,
and the resulting improvement led Mr. Boortu gradually to be-
come independent of the CoLLINc support. With the opening of
the new century, the Bakewell (78) formula was applied to his
Fairholme tribes with eminent success, and a little later to the
descendants of the yellowish red and white cow found on the
Darlington market in 1797, Halnaby by Lame Bull (359).

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To the service of Albion, Halnaby produced Young Albion,
the first of the Killerby bulls to be leased to another breeder. So
successful was the first venture that it was ultimately adopted as
the permanent herd policy. As a result, the BootH bulls of un-
known ability were given ample opportunity in the herds of
other men, and those that proved worthy could be recalled to
Killerby or Warlaby for further use.

The demands for agricultural products during the Napoleonic
Wars brought sufficient prosperity to the Bootu family to enable
the elder son, RicHArb, to undertake a herd of his own at StTup-
LEY farm, some fifteen miles south of Killerby. Here were taken
a few of the choicest animals from the paternal herd, which with
the well chosen purchases of RICHARD on Darlington market soon
brought about new standards of achievement in the Boots ranks.
In 1819, upon the marriage of the second son, JoHN, THOMAS
BootH turned over old Killerby to filial management, and re-
moved to his other estate of Warlaby located in the valley of the
Wiske, where he remained until his retirement from Shorthorn
activity about 1835.

Like his cattle) Taomas Bootn bred on. While his achieve-
ments are classic, his sons, RICHARD and JouN, carried forward
his work to even higher levels. So that when, after fifty years of
intimate fellowship with the breed he loved, he passed the torch
of progress into younger hands, he knew that his lifelong service
was not terminating. His final sleep in 1836 found his face
turned to the future, expectantly forecasting the triumphs of his
Fairholmes, Annas, Bracelets and Strawberries, loved intimates
of the half century gone by.

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AN AMERICAN ULYSSES

77. Doggedness and persistence characterized the career and
life of ULyssEs S. Grant. The son of a tanner, he was born at
Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27, 1822. As a youth he preferred
the out-of-doors and instead of following his father in the tanning
business, conducted the family farm, did teaming, and at intervals
maintained a livery business between neighboring towns. He
attended the village school and was given one year in the academy
at Maysville, Ky. Ambitious to receive a higher training, he
secured an appointment to the U. S. Military Academy. He
proved to be a good mathematician and an excellent horseman,
but only an average student. Following graduation he was bre-
vetted and later commissioned a second lieutenant, which rank
he held at the opening of the Mexican War. He volunteered to
perform a hazardous messenger mission through the Mexican lines
to bring up ammunition, which act, coupled with bravery in
action, resulted in his promotion to first lieutenant.

Following the war he was stationed at various places, but
found the army life on the Pacific coast so uncongenial, that in
spite of a promotion to captaincy, he resigned in 1854 and re-
turned to civil life. In order to reach home he was forced to
borrow $50 from his classmate, S. B. BucKNER, and it is related
that after the fall of Fort Donelson and the surrender of GENERAL
Buckner, GENERAL GRANT returned the courtesy of carfare home.
Civil endeavors proved successful, and the opening of the War of
Secession found him, after various misadventures, COLONEL of
the 21st Illinois infantry.

In August, 1861, he was made a brigadier general of volun-
teers, his commission being dated back three months. He was
assigned to the command of the district of Southeastern Missouri
with headquarters at Cairo, Ill. In a series of actions, (Paducah,
(Ky.), Belmont, (Mo.), Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Corinth,
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he succeeded in opening up the Mississippi river for the Federal
forces. This gave a new front of attack on the south, which ad-
vantage he pursued after a vicarious period in which his com-
-mands were rapidly shifted and re-shifted. His successes at
Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville, drove the Confederates out
of Tennessee and made him a Lieutenant-General. On March 12,
1864, he was given supreme command, and immediately initiated
a pressure from all sides that resulted in final victory. The early
successes were costly and subjected him to severe censure, to
which came his famous reply, “I propose to fight it out on this
line if it takes all summer.” Sherman’s march to the sea and
thence northward cut off the Confederates from the south, Banks
shut in Mobile and the central south, SIGEL countered Brecken-
ridge, BUTLER attacked Richmond and MEapE covered Washing-
ton. SHERMAN was particularly successful, as was HUNTER who
succeeded SIGEL, and the Confederate armies were shut into Vir-
ginia and the Carolinas. Constant attack, with varying immediate
successes ultimately wore down first the LEE and then the JoHns-
TON resistance, and GENERAL GRANT was acclaimed the victor.

The reconstruction days developed sharp friction between
PRESIDENT JoHNSON and GENERAL GRANT, now a full general
by act of Congress. Petty politics played some very ignoble
roles in the War Department, but the Congressional backing
was such that GENERAL GRANT pulled through unscathed. In
1868 he was elected president by a wide margin over SEYMOUR,
while some disappointed politicians forced Horace GREELEY
against him for the second term, only to receive a greater defeat.
PRESIDENT GRANT resumed specie payment on the federal debts,
secured the funding of the war debt at lower interest rates
through new bond issues, modified the Indian policy so that
humanity and justice replaced brute force, secured the adoption
of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, put competi«
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exterminated the unlawful bands that terrorized the communi-
ties where colored and white conflicts were rife. His greatest
diplomatic achievement was the referring of the Alabama claims
against England to a court of arbitration in Geneva, Switzer-
land, which act founded the permanent friendship of the two
English-speaking nations. Following his presidency, he made
a famous tour of the world during which he visited the rulers
of each country through which he traveled. His later years
were seriously impoverished by the business treachery of the
junior partner of the New York firm of Granr & Warp, and
only the publication of his autobiography brought sufficient
funds to secure his wife against real want. In 1884 cancer at
the base of the tongue set in, and he passed away July 23, 1885.
GENERAL GRANT was as characteristic an American type as WASH-
INGTON, WEBSTER or LINCOLN. His justice and steadfastness were
traits that healed great breaches between the North and South
during the reconstruction, and his death was mourned in both
sections of the country.

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THE FOUNDER OF LIVESTOCK BREEDING

78. RoBERT BAKEWELL was the pioneer artisan of modern live-
stock breeding. Born in Leicestershire about 1725, he found
early advantage over his contemporaries by a thorough educa-
tion in anatomy, at that time in its very rudiments as a science.
About 1750 he acceded to the management of his father’s farm
and immediately put into application the knowledge of animal
form he had acquired in his earlier training. The livestock of
his period were most heterogeneous, a condition brought about
as a result of crossing Flemish stocks to both cattle and horses,
and Spanish wools to sheep. His early breeding is veiled in
darkest secrecy. He is reputed jealously to have excluded from
his breeding pens those who would study his methods and results,
and to have many times kept animals that would be barred from
breeding use on other estates. Be that as it may, it is most
likely probable that his apparent secrecy simply lay in his
inability to explain in his earlier successes the reasons for the
homogeneity which was attained by his inbreeding and the per-
fection of type which accrued from his recognition of the rela-
tion of external form to internal values.

Robert BAKEWELL achieved success in each of the four prin-
cipal races of livestock; Leicester sheep, Longhorn cattle, the
Cart Horse (Shire), and the Small White pig. Due to the
greater rapidity of generation, his greatest success was found
in his sheep. In 1785 he had as many as eighty rams leased to
Sheep Breeders’ Associations in his awn and adjacent counties
and received as high as 300 guineas for the use of these rams
for a season. His most celebrated ram, Two Pounder, is reputed
to have earned 800 pounds in one year. His wide flung develop-
ment of the sire leasing system provided one of the chief forces
of advancement for the later British breeds.

His successes in his Longhorns were scarcely so pronounced
although in an Oxfordshire sale in 1791, several bulls of his

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breeding brought about $1,000 each, while two years later the
sum of $2,000 was paid for one animal. His achievements so
excited the surrounding breeders that they came to the ear of
the King, and Georce Tuirp honored this pioneer with a royal
inquiry concerning his “new discovery in stock breeding.”

RosBERT BAKEWELL was clearly of a scientific mood and a
research temperament. At Dishley Hall he maintained a museum
wherein he preserved both skeletons and pickled joints illustrat-
ing the results he had attained. Most of the exhibits were from
the Leicesters, but one joint at least was a relic of the notable
Old Comely that died at twenty-six years of age with a full
four inch fat covering above his sirloin. As far as is known,
BAKEWELL never enunciated his principles of breeding, but as
crystallized from his experience one finds the following five
axioms which have guided breeders of livestock for over a
century:

Like begets like.

Variation exists in all stocks.

Select an ideal type.

Breed the best to the best.

Inbreeding produces fixity of type, refinement and early
maturity.

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ORATOR, PATRIOT, STATESMAN

79. The first American statesman really to become prominent
as a director of opposition, during the successes of JEFFERSON,
Mapison, Monroe and Jackson, was DANIEL WEBSTER. He was
born in Salisbury (Now Franklin), N. H., January 18, 1782.
As a child he was very sickly and was allowed much leisure
time which he spent in fishing, hunting, roaming the woods and
reading. His thirst for knowledge was insatiable, and he read
every book that came within his reach, conning his favorite
authors until their most salient thoughts were permanently
stored in his memory. In 1796 he was sent to Exeter Academy
where he overcame a natural timidity and developed a real
gift as an orator. Although very poor, his father felt that there
was great promise in young DANIEL, and decided to send him
to college. After six months preparation under a private tutor
he entered Dartmouth where he graduated in 1801. While in
college he was not considered a thorough scholar but his mem-
ory was prodigious, and power of convincing statement
unrivalled. He became recognized as a remarkable speaker,
and, although at the time an undergraduate, he was selected by
the Hanover townspeople to deliver the Fourth of July oration
in 1800.

After leaving college he read law with SenaToR THomas W.
THompson in Salisbury, and taught school at Fryeburg, Me.,
for a few months in order to send his brother EZEKIEL to college.
In 1804 he removed to Boston where he entered the office of
CHRISTOPHER GORE, as student and clerk. One year later he
was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession at Bos-
cawen, N. H. In 1807 he turned his business over to his brother
EZEKIEL and located in Portsmouth, where his reputation as a
barrister grew rapidly. He was soon considered a worthy antag-
onist to JEREMIAH Mason, one of the ablest lawyers produced
in America.

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His first important political pamphlet was a criticism on the
embargo laws, published in 1808. In 1812 he made a speech
in Portsmouth which summarized the objections of the New
Englanders to the war just declared against Great Britain. This
speech brought him wide recognition as an orator and in 1813
he took his seat in Congress, being made a member of the Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations. In 1816 he moved to Boston, and
at the expiration of his second term of Congress in 1817, he
retired to private life. He built up his law practice and soon
found himself at the head of the American Bar. The tariff of
1828 furnished an occasion for the display of Mr. WeEBSTER’s
strong Federalist spirit, and he earned undying fame as an
orator and statesman. His reply to Hayne, January 25, 1830,
has been characterized as the most genuinely powerful oration
delivered since that of DEMOSTHENES on the crown. In 1839
he visited England, gaining a cordial reception and sincere
admiration.

He was appointed Secretary of State in 1840 under WILLIAM
Henry Harrison, and showed a remarkable ability and diplo-
macy. Owing to a quarrel between the Northern and Southern
Whigs following the death of PRESIDENT Harrison, all
of the members of the cabinet, except Mr. WEBSTER, resigned
in an effort to force PRESIDENT TYLER to resign. WEBSTER was
involved in a series of negotiations with Great Britain, on the
treaty concerning the Canadian border, and felt that he should
finish this problem before abandoning his portfolio. The
Whigs attributed this failure to back them up to unworthy
motives and as soon as the treaty was signed, opened severe
newspaper attack requiring his resignation. Once the treaty
was firmly established he responded to their challenge and
resumed his law practice in Boston. Two years later he was
elected to the Senate and took an active part in opposing
the incipient movements of that day to disrupt the Union. On

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PRESIDENT TayLor’s death in 1850 he became once more Secre-
tary of State, under PRESIDENT FitLMorE. He was candidate
for presidential nomination in 1852 but was defeated by both
PRESIDENT FILLMORE and GENERAL Scott. His health began
to fail rapidly and on September 8, he left Washington for his
home in Marshfield. His death occurred October 24, 1852.

For sheer power of intellect and personality, DANIEL WEBSTER
stands without equal in American history. His independence
of thought and his tremendous personal courage have been a
source of inspiration to hundreds of young lawyers since his
day, and his example has furnished consolation to more than
one statesman who has braved popular opposition. His demeanor
and carriage exhibited a loftiness of ideals that won respect
and confidence in any company, and he died admired both by
British and American statesmen and literary men.

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A MAN OF A THOUSAND TALENTS

80. “A long green coat with velvet collar and big yellow but-
tons, a colored handkerchief, long yellow cashmere vest, knee-
breeches, very wide top boots, and plain black hat,” thus cata-
logs WM. McCompie the “plain” dress of the gentleman of Ury,
Capt. BarcLay. He was acknowledgedly the greatest all around
sportsman of his day, active in fox hunt, prize ring, and local
regiment, performer with courser and coach, claimant to the
earldom of Airth and Monteith, apologist for Quaker and finan-
cier for tenant farmer, the very cornerstone of the Shorthorn
foundation in Aberdeenshire. Of manly scope himself, all of
his operations breathed of bigness. “His cattle must be up to
their knees in grass and his wheat-wagons with four or six horses
and the drag on seemed like an earthquake to the Aberdonians
when they rumbled down Marischal street to the harbor. Well
might the surveyor tremble by reason of them for the safety
of the Old Bridge.” McComsir asserts that “his horses were
the strongest and his fields the largest in the country. He once
said that he did not like a field in which the cattle could see
one another every day.” Ury embraced some 4,000 acres, of
which four hundred were in highest tilth, reclaimed from the
stony littoral of the Grampians’ Pleistocene.

His Shorthorn operations opened in 1822, but his success was
grounded in the purchase of Lady Sarah in the dispersion of
Mason of Chilton’s herd in 1829. Her son Monarch, dropped
soon after her arrival at Ury, was rebred to her and from this
union came the foundation bulls of Ury’s success, the notable
Mahommed and Sovereign. Sold out of the herd, the former
bull was repurchased on the basis of his breeding successes
elsewhere, and remained in the herd until 1841. In 1838 the
first herd, with the exception of Mahommed, was dispersed to
tide the Captain over financial difficulties, some eighty head real-
izing a total of 3,000 guineas. The Lady Sarah blood was par-

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ticularly valuable, three heifers sired by Monarch bringing over
$500 apiece. Two years was as long as the Captain could
abstain from Shorthorn operations, however, and in 1840 he
once more established his herd with Mahommed as its head.
But the new herd was shortlived and its excellence hardly up
to the standard of the original Lady Sarah collection. On Sep-
tember 22, 1847, the final dispersion took place under the gavel
of Wittiam WETHERELL (83).

His athletic achievements were his pride. At a coursing meet-
ing where he first met HucH Watson, he discovered a man after
his own heart, and according to Dixon “asked him as if it was
a highly intellectual treat, ‘Would you like to see me strip
tonight and feel my muscle?’” He once walked 1,000 miles
in 1,000 hours on a wager. He drove the “Defiance,” a coach
in which he had both sporting and financial interest, all the
miles from London to Aberdeen, some 500, without leaving the
box. He won thereby a bet of £1,000, and was so flushed with
victory that upon a friend’s remark that he must be tired he
rejoined, “J have £1,000 that says I can drive back to London
again, starting in the morn.” He bred a famous race of game
fowls, and always backed his birds to the limit for pit victories.

A close friend epitomizes him as “a great eater, a man of
fine simple faith and always in condition,” and “The Druid”

closes his career as follows:

“On New Year’s Day he had always his friends to dinner,
and he sat obscured to the chin behind the round of beef which
two men brought in on a trencher. Mr. KINNEAR was the per-
petual Vice and everybody made a speech. The Captain’s was

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quite an oration or rather resume of the year, and concluded
with a special eulogium of those who ‘have died since our last
anniversary.” Not infrequently he killed one or two before
their time, perhaps more from a little dry humor than by mis-
take; and then he begged their pardon and said, ‘it did’nt matter
much.” For some time before his death he had suffered slightly
from paralysis; but a kick from a pony produced a crisis, and
two days after when they went to awake him on the May morn-
ing of 754, he was found dead in bed. He lies in the cemetery
of Ury, about a mile from his old home—the trainer of pugilists
with the gentle apologist for Quakers—and his claim to the
earldom of Airth and Monteith seemed to die out with him.”

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A KNIGHT OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE

81. In Britain during the last century, there were many men
whose showyard and farming successes elicited the commenda-
tion and reward of loyalty. From only one man, however, came
such breadth and definiteness of achievement as to result in
knighthood. This notable contributor to rural welfare was the
late Sir WALTER GiLBEy of Elsenham Hall. On the recommen-
dation of Epwarp the VII, then Prince of Wales, QuEEN Vic-
TORIA put her pen to the necessary papers to make him a Bar-
onet, in recognition of his distinguished achievements in horse
breeding, the literature of livestock and general agriculture.
The copy of his portrait by Sir W. PucnH OrcHarpson that
hangs on the Club walls was prepared by Artist NyHoLM. The
original portrait was paid for by the subscriptions of over
twelve hundred different people; Americans, Canadians, Aus-
tralians, Scots and Irish, joining with native Britishers in this
testimonial. Sir WALTER received the portrait publicly in 1891,
at the Royal Agricultural Hall in London. The ceremonies
were under the direction of Duke of Portland, Master of Horse
to the Crown, and the presentation was at the hand of the Prince

of Wales.

Sir WALTER GILBEY’s origins were humble; his father was
a stagecoach driver on the run between Essex and Whitechapel,
and every childhood influence directed him toward the equine
world. His first business undertakings were in the sale and
buying of horses, a business that soon developed into a great
agricultural and mercantile trade. From early peverty he
attained enormous wealth and his money was freely spent to
procure rural advancement. From the beginning his interest
lay in the production of Shires, Hackneys, Hunters and Ponies.
It is related that his first horse was purchased from his small
winnings at cribbage while on a non-military mission in the
Crimea. In order to secure the time to play, he traded his rum

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ration to thirsty soldiers for their candle issues. Among his
earliest ventures was the opening of a wine shop from which
he stepped into the position of wholesale wine merchant. This
latter business developed to such an extent that in his latest
years his taxes amounted to five million dollars annually.

An earnest student of breeding practice, his interest in the
origin and source of British types was insatiable, and the results
of his researches are recorded in the pamphlets and books he
has published. Most of these were published from the press
of Vinton & Co., agricultural publishers, a corporation in which
he held much capital stock, and to whose London Livestock
Journal he devoted some attention in his later years.

The English Cart Horse, the Hackney and the Hunter were
rescued from deterioration and perhaps oblivion through his
good offices. He gathered a group of interested men and re-
established the Shire Horse Stud Book of England. As earnest
of his interest, he paid $4,300 for the stallion Spark at a crucial
period in Shire market values. He was elected president of the
Shire Horse Society and through his widespread interest suc-
ceeded in having the Royal Commission on Horse Breeding
established. In 1894 he paid $25,000 for the Hackney stallion
Danegelt in order to prevent his exportation, and placed him
in service at Elsenham stud. Although this horse lived but three
seasons thereafter, his investment proved most profitable, since
the Danegelt blood has dominated showyard pedigrees ever
since. His equipment for harness horses was one of the most
complete and original in the entire world, his arrangement of
paddocks and his equipment of riding and driving schools being
recognizedly superlative in Britain.

Str WALTER was president of the Hackney Horse Society, the
Hunter Improvement Society, the Polo Pony Society, the Shet-
land Pony Society, the Essex Agricultural Society, and the
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Cart Horse Parade, probably the most imposing draft display in
existence.

An earnest student of the problems of land owner and tenant
in Britain, his contributions to rural uplift were of the practical
sort. It is related that in erecting cottages for his tenants he
insisted that the wash house and the coal hole be built apart
from the cottage. “No man wants to come home to his dinner
or his supper, and find the place full of steam and soapsuds.”
His portrait rightly hangs beside those of other masters of an
early agriculture, since his public recognition was more wide-
spread and his achievements more immediately rewarded.

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A PATRON SAINT OF AMERICAN STOCK BREEDING

82. Woodburn Farm is a name to conjure with among those
devoted students of the art of breeding who builded the hus-
bandry of the last half of the nineteenth century. RoBeErTt A.
ALEXANDER and his brother, A. J. ALEXANDER, were natives of
Scotland, but early in life purchased a princely estate at Wood-
burn, Woodford Co., Kentucky, a few miles west of Lexington.
Housing and stabling of stone brought something of the Scot-
tish permanence to the high tilthed acres of the farm, and noth-
ing was omitted to give grace and worth to this notable estate.
Two breeds of livestock, trotting horses and Shorthorn cattle
vie with each other in proclaiming the fulness of debt they owe
to the ALEXANDERS. In the history of the American trotters who
can surpass the romance of Alexander’s Abdallah, ridden to
death by the Morcan raiders, or who can rival the breeding
annals of Miss Russell, dam of sixteen foals. By Harold, half-
brother both of the ill starred Abdallah and the ever illustrious
George Wilkes, she produced eight foals, among them the cham-
pion Maud S., while from Belmont, Abdallah’s supreme son,
came eight more foals with the magnificent Nutwood as pre-
mier. Who can vie with the endurance of the great four-mile
Thoroughbred runner, Lexington? The sources of broodmare
excellence were cradled in this farm. Sally, Lady Russell, and
Water Witch, how these names stir the memory of the harness
lover, whether he be breeder or track follower, and yet how
these mares contributed not only to the harness bloodlines, but
also to the Thoroughbreds and runners of Kentucky’s palmiest
days.

Modern agriculture was reached through Shorthorn, Jersey,
Cotswold and Southdown. Today the venerated bluegrass
swards of Kentucky and Tennessee are dotted white with the
rich meated products of the master hands of ELLMAN and WEBB,
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it was in the Shorthorn that Mr. ALEXANDER displayed his clear-
est genius as a constructive shaper of bovine destiny. In the
winter of 1852-53, the two ALEXANDERS visited Great Britain
with the determination to lay foundations for a great Shorthorn
herd. Sixty-eight cows and heifers and fifteen bulls, evidenced
the thoroughness and the permanence of their intentions. From
two of these animals Mr. ALEXANDER produced Duchess of Air-
drie, the first of the great line that played such a noteworthy
role in American Shorthorn industry. Further importations
only strengthened the foundation stock, and Woodburn became
the nursery for much that was historic in the adolescent days
of American breeding. Few pedigree matings were planned to
concentrate the bloods of the individual strains, but the spec-
ulations which became rife in Airdrie bloodlines found their
sources in other herds. Throughout the Civil War the herd
prospered in the custody of J. M. Wooprurr in Indiana, and
the period of expansion of post-bellum days found Woodburn
in a position to dominate the bloodlines of the new herds of
Illinois, Iowa and the Central West. In the 60’s, Mr. ALEx-
ANDER’S herd had become so firmly established that more than
one return importation was made to England, particularly of
the Dukes of Airdrie. R. A. ALEXANDER died December 1, 1867,
but his brother continued the operations at Woodburn until well
toward the close of the century. While no such constructive
achievements were attained in all breeds as in the Shorthorn,
it is noteworthy that the Woodburn contributions to Jersey
breeding were large factors in the extension of this breed
throughout the South, and that their importation and distribu-
tion of Cotswolds did much to further long wool interests at a
time when strong moral and financial backing was needed. As
a nursery of improved livestock, Woodburn stands supreme in
American agricultural history, and its peer has not yet been
developed.

ROBERT A. ALEXANDER

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A RARE OLD WORTHY OF THE BRITISH AUCTION BLOCK

83. “The Nestor” of the notable fraternity which centered in
the Tees valley of the 18th and early 19th centuries was the
redoubtable WILLIAM WETHERELL. No one knew more of the
original bovine divinities, no one entered more fully into the
confidence of the early directors of Durham destinies, and no
one had more abiding faith or courage in the future of the red,
white and roan. Three times did natural or economic exigen-
cies deprive Mr. WETHERELL of the rewards of his labor, and
four times with undiminished courage did he build up a Short-
horn herd. His stimulus was first received in 1810 at the KeTTon
dispersal, while Barmpton’s first public vendue, eight years later,
offered him the opportunity for his initial purchases.

At Aldro, Mr. WETHERELL developed a wellspring of com-
mercial interests and optimism accessible to all the members
of that early bovine brotherhood. His herdsman, JouHn Warp,
was a master of showyard wizardry, despite the severe competi-
tion. WETHERELL himself was an auctioneer of nation wide
repute and served at many a notable offering. In 1847 he
closed out Barctay’s (80) second Ury herd and was extremely
popular with many another of the Shorthorn worthies. He was
a constant and liberal buyer, never hesitating to push prices
to the top. Bad luck never discouraged him and he met with
truest bravery the almost instantaneous loss of twenty-four cows
from pleuro-pneumonia. At another time he was forced to sacri-
fice the best bull he ever possessed as a result of developing a
dangerous temper.

At his dispersion he spoke trenchantly of “auld acquaentance,”
and the old blue bullock-van that had transported the “Cumber-

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land Ox” over the countryside was catalog and counting house
for the settlement of the sale responsibilities. WETHERELL was
aggressive and persistent, and both among his colleagues and the
younger generation of breeders, he was a never failing source
of facts on Shorthorn beginnings. His ideas of type were inflex-
ible; he fought the craze for mere elephantism and preached
powerfully of rugged constitutions. He was one of the best
judges of his day and a notable proponent of the red, white
and roan in public debate and private argument.

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“FIRST FARMER OF ENGLAND”

84. Success has always come to him who has both brains and
property. This is the tale of a farmer who rose by brains and
without property, a tenant farmer who ultimately earned the
title of the “first farmer of England.” Wuituiam Torr was of
Lincolnshire. He gained the qualifications that ultimately
earned him his enviable sobriquet by mastering completely,
one stage at a time, each of the practices necessary for perfec-
tion in farm management. First of all, he wrought with the
soil, and worked on the best methods of tillage until to equal
his crops became the despair of his brother tenants of the east
of England. He then took up sheep, selecting the breed of
BAKEWELL (78) and show and market alike gave unstinted appro-
bation to his carcasses and fleeces.

These successes made it possible for him to take up the breed-
ing of Shorthorns, and in 1844 he opened his real career as
cattle breeder by leasing the famous Leonard of Boot breed-
ing. Mr. Torr had an ultimate ideal in mind and selected con-
tinuously toward it. Smooth laid shoulder, wide flung fore-
ribs, powerful loins and wealth of flesh represented his ideal
in form, while mellow touch and furry coat were as distinctly
his concept of cover. At the Kirklevington dispersion of 1849,
Mr. Torr found much of merit in the Waterloos, and developed
the strain in his own herd by crossing on Booth bulls.

Mr. Torr once said “it takes thirty years for any man to make
a herd and bring it to one’s notion of perfection.” He devoted
just that length of time to Shorthorn cattle, when his death
occurred in 1875. From all over the kingdom came purchasers
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for fifteen hundred guests, and a sale canvas set up to accom-
modate two thousand buyers, the crowds so overwhelmed the
vicinity that the scene has never been paralleled in agricultural
history. Mr. Torr’s eighty-five head of Aylesby production
brought a total of over $243,000, the cattle going to Scotland,
Ireland and New Zealand. Many of the best were taken to
Warlaby to rejuvenate and refresh the Booth stocks, overdone
by years of showyard fitting.

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THE WONDER WORKER OF KILLERBY

85. The fashioning of the stocks that carried on the rich
improvements of the Shorthorn breed wrought by the Colling’s
fell largely into the hands of THomas Bates (74) and the Booru
family (76). While both believed in the fundamental excel-
lence of the Favorite-Hubback blood, there were vital differ-
ences in the way the pedigrees were handled, and the Bootus
had recourse to the Colling foundation only through the males,
depending on the stock of the surrounding country for the
females. Beginning with the elder BooTH in 1790, the family
was intimately interested in the development of better Short-
horns for a period of nearly ninety years, each generation
stamping its individuality on the herd. The work of THomas
Bootu Sr. was carried on separately by his two sons, RICHARD
at Studley and later at the paternal estate of Warlaby, and JoHN
at Killerby. Joun Bootu’s showyard successes were tremen-
dous and his sale of stock throughout the thirties and forties
so prodigious that he almost never could meet his demands.

When Joun Boorn laid aside his mantle of achievement, he
left to his son, THomas C. Bootu, perhaps one of the most
dificult tasks a young breeder has ever faced. The Bates blood
was in its ascendancy, and while showyard and tenant farmer
in Britain had accorded the highest recognition to the practical
qualities of the Bootu cattle, the “fashionableness” of the
Duchesses and their corresponding sale values were undeniable.
Furthermore the great days of his uncle RicHarpD had arrived
and he had scant hope for recognition in the face of the really
notable achievements of the Warlaby herds. With spirit of the
true soldier, however, he buckled to his task, and as he received
some assistance in the way of show animals from his UNCLE
RicHarp following his father’s dispersion sale of 1852, he early
gained a nucleus on which to build. On his father’s death in
1857, he became the dominant figure in the Killerby herd.

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When, too, his uncle passed on in 1864, he succeeded to most
of the Warlaby animals and reunited such of the BooTH strains
as had become separated during the previous years. During
the succeeding five years the BootH herds reached the height
of their show career. At the Royal of 1868 the two breed cham-
pions came from Killerby, Commander-in-Chief and Lady
Fragrant, and in 1869 at the last appearance of the Bootus at
the Royal, Lady Fragrant was again supreme.

Long periods of showing and high fitting had adversely
affected the Bootu stock, however, and there was a marked
decrease in the fertility of the herd. Whether this was due to
the effect of the conditioning of the animals or whether in the
search for the meatiest, animals that were pathologically fat
had been retained, is unknown, but there is little doubt that
the herd stood in need of regeneration. The only certain source
of Bootu quality outside of Killerby itself was found in the
herd of WiLtiam Torr (84) and hence at the Aylesby Manor dis-
persion of 1875, following Mr. Torr’s death, T. C. BootH was
both a liberal and constructive bidder. During the two or three
years immediately preceding this purchase the Killerby herd
had been ravaged by foot and mouth disease, hence Mr. Bootu’s
problem was more than a pedigree one.

From thenceforward until his death in 1878, Mr. Boorn’s
progress was phenomenal, exports to America being numerous
and the Irish demand insatiable. The last of a family of
masters, THomMas C. BootH bridged the period of incubation
in England’s north country and carried successfully into modern
time the standards and ideals so ably formulated by his notable
ancestors.

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FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY

86. GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, first president of the
United States, was born at Pope’s Creek, Westmoreland Co.,
Va., February 22, 1732. His great grandfather, JoHn WasHINc-
TON, was a Yorkshireman, and crossed to Virginia in 1657. The
family was prominent in the history of the province, each gen-
eration contributing materially to its social, political and eco-
nomic life. Tradition records that the future statesman’s boy-
hood was guided by an unusually devoted mother of scrupulous
fidelity and firmness. To her is due his retention as an Ameri-
can, for his older half-brother secured for him a warrant in the
British navy as midshipman, and he only forewent its acceptance
on her earnest remonstrance.

His school work prepared him for a surveyor and from the
age of sixteen until nineteen he employed himself at this pro-
fession. His surveys of the Allegheny valleys and hills con-
stituted a remarkable contribution to the provincial organiza-
tion and some of his benchmarks serve as bases for the modern
division of land in Virginia.

In 1851 he was commissioned an adjutant of the Virginia
militia with the rank of major, and although he journeyed
shortly thereafter to the West Indies with his half-brother
Lawrence, he was ultimately given charge of one of the grand
military divisions of the province. The death of Lawrence per-
mitted him to succeed to Mt. Vernon and he began a series of
agricultural operations whose details will be recounted later.

The French and Indian Wars established his military repu-
tation. His trip to the Ohio Valley to interview the commander
of the French forces as an emissary of GovERNOR DINWIDDIE
permitted him to learn much of the country and tactics of
savage warfare, and “from that moment,” says WASHINGTON
Invinc, “he was the rising hope of Virginia.” His defense of
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Brappock enhanced his prestige, while the reduction of Ft.
Duquesne made him America’s military leader. In 1759 the
wars had ceased sufficiently so that he was enabled to marry
Marta Custis, one of the wealthiest widows of Virginia, and,
to indulge his agricultural tastes. He became a member of the
Virginia house of burgesses, and took an earnest interest in
politics, but “it is not known that he ever made a set speech
or entered into a stormy debate.” He was one of Virginia’s
delegates to the first and second Continental Congresses. On
the return from the first congress a friend inquired of Patrick
Henry whom he considered the greatest man in the congress.
Henry's reply has gone into history: “If you speak of elo-
quence, Mr. RuTLEDGE of South Carolina, is by far the greatest
orator; but if you speak of solid information and sound judg-
ment, CoOL. WasHINGTON is undoubtedly the greatest man on
that floor.”

He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental
forces by the second congress, a position he accepted with sin-
cerity and humility. His service from the successful siege of
Boston to the surrender of Yorktown continually demonstrated
his military prowess. After his masterly defense of the Dela-
ware, FREDERICK THE GREAT declared his campaign “the most
brilliant achievement recorded in military annals,” while some
years later he sent GENERAL WASHINGTON a portrait of himself
inscribed in his own handwriting as follows: “From the oldest
general in Europe to the greatest general in the world.”

His indignant refusal of a crown and his patriotic adjust-
ment of the difficulties of the army over lack of pay, made him
a statesman at a time when partisanship ran rampant. In 1794
he announced as his principles of a sound government, to make
the United States an independent power, “First, an indissoluble
union of the states under one federal head; second, a sacred
regard for public justice; third, the adoption of a proper peace

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establishment; and fourth, the prevalence of that pacific and
friendly disposition among the people of the United States which
will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies,
to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the
general prosperity, and in some instances to sacrifice their indi-
vidual advantages to the interest of the community. These are
the pillars on which the glorious fabric of our independence
and national character must rest.” For a period of five years
he was able again to pursue his beloved agriculture and enter-
tained widely with hunts and explorations. He headed the Vir-
ginia delegation to the Constitutional Convention and was unani-
mously chosen the first president and as unanimously re-elected.
His service in uniting the warring Federalists and Republicans
for constructive upbuilding, his two inaugural and his farewell
addresses, his neutrality policy in the Franco-British war of the
closing century, his recognition of all sections of the country
in his appointments to office, and his triumphal visits to the
north and south, served to build him an irreplacable affection
in the hearts of his countrymen.

His last public service came when French war threatened,
and he was made commander of the American army in 1798
with the rank of Lieutenant-General. Fortunately the war was
averted. He died December 14, 1799, following a severe expo-
sure in a rainstorm while overseeing his estate.

GEoRcE WASHINGTON may truly be called America’s first
scientific agriculturist. He maintained an intimate correspond-
ence with that noted early English writer on rural affairs,
ArTHuR Younc, and in his correspondence evidenced a knowl-
edge not only far above the average of the day, but equivalent
in its sum total to that of the last mid-century. Before the
Revolution he conducted some very interesting experiments on
manuring, trying out each spring the rate of growth for his seed
of that year in small boxes differently treated. Soil conserva-

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tion and soil erosion were problems he was continually fight-
ing, and he made extraordinary efforts to preserve the texture
of the soils along the river banks. His Mt. Vernon estate
amounted to over eight thousand acres, and was subdivided into
five farms, the home farm being called Mansion House Farm.
In 1760 his principal crops were clover, rye, grass, hops, tre-
foil, timothy, and speltz. His operations as a livestock man
were particularly comprehensive. He raised cattle, sheep, swine,
horses, deer, turkeys, and geese, with his greatest interest in
sheep, horses and mules. At this day it is rather curious to
find negroes listed among the livestock products of his farm.
GENERAL WASHINGTON kept stallions for public service, prin-
cipally of the Arab breed, but he also in his later days had a
few Narragansett pacers. GENERAL WASHINGTON imported a
number of sheep from England, mostly rams, these animals
being of the Dishley-Leicester breed, originated by RoBERT
BAKEWELL (72). He was the first breeder of mules in America,
having imported several Spanish jacks, and was presented with
a pair of Bedford pigs by a British Admiral, which had an
important influence in the foundation of the Chester White
breed of swine.

Modest, disinterested, generous and just, he sought nothing
for himself in the way of public favor, and declined all public
reimbursement beyond his original outlays, scrupulously
accounted for. What better eulogy has ever been written than
Ricuarp Henry Lee’s “First in war, first in peace and first in
the hearts of his countrymen.”

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DREAMS OF “THE DOWNS” THAT CAME TRUE

87. Wherever the revivifying influence of carcass making
sheep have gone, there can be traced the blood of one or the
other of the two founts of mutton improvement, the Dishley
Leicester or the Southdown of Sussex. The changing demands
of earlier maturity and small retail cuts with the highest pos-
sible thickness of rich red flesh has gradually given a prepon-
derant influence to the sheep of the chalk hills of Sussex. Two
men builded largely in the founding of this strain; Joun ELL-
MAN of Glynde in its formative years, and Jonas WEBB of Babra-
ham in the days of its ascendancy.

The Southdown is perhaps the purest type that has come down
to modern sheep husbandry. Not a step in its improvement can
be traced to the influx of alien blood, while it has been a con-
tributory force to Shropshire, Oxford, Hampshire and almost
every other Down breed that has marked individuality today.
By careful selection and breeding systems based on the BAKE-
WELL formula, the Southdown achieved its wondrous carcass
worth. It is to modern sheep husbandry what the Berkshire
is to swinedom, the Thoroughbred to the turf, and the old Flem-
ish stock to modern beeves.

For years Babraham was the source of improvement of hun-
dreds of flocks in old England, and royalty and tenant alike
patronized Jonas Wess to benefit from his monumental achieve-
ments. Extension and distribution of the breed were fostered
through the exhibition of choice specimens at district and national
shows, and wherever they went the Babraham pens received the
bulk of attention. Successes at the earlier Paris Universal expo-
sitions were inevitable and one particularly fine group attracted
the attention of EMpEror NapoLeon Tuirp. Mr. Wess chanced
to be on hand and to the enthusiastic request of the French ruler,
as to their ownership, he diplomatically replied, “Yours, your
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received and shortly after a magnificent chest of silver arrived
at Babraham with the compliments of the Emperor.

In 1838 Mr. Wess cast his lot with Shorthorn cattle and bred
them with an individuality all his own until his death in 1862.
At this time some hundred and fifty animals were present in
the herd and the dispersal brought prices ranging up to the
$2,000 for the bull Lord Chancellor. Numbers were exported
to Prussia, Austria and Australia, while some of his earlier
breeding successes found future opportunity in America.

Jonas WEBB was a man of impressive originality, and among
a galaxy of long-sighted, broad visioned geniuses in Britain
during the last century, he stands on his own merit, a most
successful breeder and a most permanently constructive artisan.

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AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

88. The third president of the United States was THomas
JEFFERSON. His family had been in Virginia for a century and
a quarter at the time of his birth, April 2, 1743, their pursuits
being purely agricultural. On the death bed, his father, GrorcE
JEFFERSON, when THOMAS was fourteen, left an injunction that
he should be educated at William and Mary College. In after
life he often stated that if he were forced to choose between
the education and the estate his father left him, he would let
the latter go. He was a prodigious scholar, excelling in math-
ematics and the sciences, a skilled violinist, and a robust athlete.
His professor, Dr. SMALL, friend of Erasmus Darwin, “prob-
ably fixed the destinies” of his life. On graduation he entered
upon the study of law under the guidance of the Virginia jurist,
Georce WyTHE. In April, 1764, he acceded to the management
of his father’s estate and gave most of his attention to the culti-
tivation and improvement of his lands. In 1767 he was admitted
to the bar, but throughout his political life he always main-
tained himself to be professionally a farmer, and steered clear
of all alliances and interests that would bias his judgment.

In 1769 he was elected to the Virginia house of burgesses,
but since on the third day of the session resolutions against the
stamp act were adopted, the royal governor forthwith dissolved
it. In 1774 he prepared the “Draught of Instructions” for the
delegates to the Continental congress, which denied the right
of the electors of Britain to rule over the colonies, since the
colonial legislators could not pass laws affecting Britain.
THomas JEFFERSON was a member of the committee that drew
up Virginia’s military defense plan and in 1775 was sent to
Congress where he was appointed chairman of the committee
of five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. MR. JEr-
FERSON himself did the writing, but many emendations and
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that its final adoption was hastened by the heat and the swarms
of flies from a nearby stable that literally drove the delegates
from the room. He was on the committee that suggested the
“E pluribus unum” motto for the newly founded federation.

After the declaration he returned to Virginia where he actively
set about the reforms necessary to make that colony conform
to the spirit of the July 4th document. He refused a commis-
sionership to Paris in company with FRANKLIN and DEANE, in
order to prosecute this work. As a legislator he secured the
laws holding Virginia lands in fee simple and permitting their
sale for debt and he divorced the church and state, declaring
the “government has nothing to do with opinion,” and “it is
error alone which needs the support of government; truth can
stand by itself.” He devised the system of courts of law and
prescribed their powers and methods; he caused the removal
of the capitol to Richmond; he extirpated the law of primogeni-
ture; he abolished the cruel punishments of the ancient code;
and he made the beginnings of a system of public education.
In 1779 he was elected Governor and managed the colony during
the difficult days of the GaTEs and CORNWALLIS campaigns.

In 1783 he was elected to Congress where he assisted in the
adoption of the decimal system for currency. The following
year he was sent to Paris and in 1785 succeeded FRANKLIN as
chief plenipotentiary. The wrongs of the French peasants bore
bitterly into his heart and made him ever thereafter an unswerv-
ing democrat. He successfully endeavored to break the French
protective tariff and open up her markets to American agricul-
tural products, and he sent to America seeds, roots, nuts, and
information of agricultural importance. He became acquainted
with the naturalist Burron, and supplied him with American
zoological specimens, at the same time developing a facility in
osteology and palaeontology that made him a real contributor
to the science of fossils on his return to America.

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The Bastile had fallen when he was given six months leave.
He arrived at Monticello to learn that he had been appointed
Secretary of State under Washington at the princely salary of
$3,500. But he was ill at ease, since he found Hamitron and
the Federalist party looking on the new government as only a
temporary expedient, lacking strength for permanency. Since
his lesson in France had taught him the overwhelming need for
equal justice, he could do naught but oppose this movement.
In 1794 he retired to Monticello.

The Presidential election of 1800 resulted in a tie between
himself and Aaron Burr and through the good offices of his
erstwhile opponent, ALEXANDER HamILton, he received the elec-
tion in Congress. He abolished the alien and sedition law, dis-
patched Decatur to overawe the Barbary pirates, and purchased
from BonapaRTE the great Louisiana territory. His first term
was extremely peaceful, but the difficulties with England and
Spain several times came nearly to a head in his second presi-
dential period, and his embargo method of meeting it not only
ruined himself financially, but also stirred up bitter critics of
the administration.

His last days were spent at Monticello under a cloud of debt,
and he died on the Fourth of July, 1826, fifty years after signing
the Declaration of Independence and only a few hours before
Joun Apams, the second president, passed away. His greatest
public work following the presidency was the securing of an
appropriation for a state university and the personal superin-
tendence of its construction. He was buried beneath an inscrip-
tion written by his own hand: “Here was buried THomas Jer-
FERSON, author of the Declaration of Independence, of the Stat-
ute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the Uni-
versity of Virginia.”

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THE SAGE OF SITTYTON

89. The saga of the silent sage of Sittyton has been so stir-
ringly sung, the secrets of his rent-paying Shorthorns so stren-
uously studied, and the shrewdness of his Scotch soul so cele-
brated in its sturdy simplicity, that modern tribute can add
little to his laurels. Amos CRUICKSHANK vivified the problems
of the Northern Scot, sought incessantly to energize his native
granites, and through his single minded idealism resuscitated
the red, white and roan when its standard was wavering under
the combined assaults of doddie and whiteface. A half cen-
tury since, the disciples of BATEs and Boots were shirking the
obvious in the quest of that which was not obvious. The royal
pedigree and the showyard glamor that bequeathed the latent
values of each, blinded the masters’ followers to the lesson of
feedpail and paddock, and the whim of landed fanciers too often
obscured the need of the humble beef artisan. To the north
of the hills of Lammermoor, where straw supplement replaced
the luxuriance of the shire pastures, the descendants of Kirk-
levington, Killerby and Warlaby fared often ill, though prime
beef was the need. So with the tenant’s necessity ever in his
eye, the loved “herdsman of Aberdeenshire” fashioned a breed’s
destiny in the plastic heritage of the thick-cutting beeves he
moulded in the Northland.

Two brothers husbanded the Aberdonian treasure. AMOS
CRUICKSHANK’Ss face alone reposes on the Club walls; but the
Shorthorn debt is equal to both. Amos lived with the cattle,
AntHoNy builded the business, christened the calves and man-
aged the sales. The heritage of Amos, a bachelor, died with
him, ANTHONY passed on the family virtues to the sequent gen-
eration. Popular verdict accords Amos the greatest honor,
though, because his hand selected root and cake and his feet
tread quest for bloods and beasts to build on, in the herd.
Amos CRUICKSHANK was born in 1809 and laid the Shorthorn

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foundations in 1837 with bulls from BarcLay of Ury (80).
For twenty years he scoured all Britain for suitable foundation
stock, the bulls and bloods of all prominent breeders being given
their trial. Not until 1860 was the method of BAKEWELL and
BaTEs thought of favorably, and that only when Champion of
England, of their own breeding, completely outsired rival bulls
brought in from other herds. The really constructive period
at Sittyton was thereupon entered, to terminate only with Amos
CRUICKSHANK’s death in 1889, after fifty-two years of active
industry with his favored tribes.

The tale of his change of policy is a romance of chance. Be-
fore 1860 the CRUICKSHANKS wrought with the blood that had
builded fame for others, the Torr-bred Fairfax Royal, Lincoln-
shire’s great bull Matadore, TowNELEY’s Plantagenet, BooTH’s
Buckingham, TanqueErRay’s The Baron, and Lord Bathurst, Master
Butterfly 2d and Lord Raglan. Many there were who insist that
the latter bull might have been the cornerstone of an even greater
success than that which arose from his Champion of England,
had Amos CruicKsHANK been prepared to prosecute the Bake-
WELLIAN scheme when Lord Raglan was in the herd, but his Cale-
donian caution had not yet reached the decisive point for such
a step. In 1858 the end of a herd bull’s breeding cycle forced him
to seek a good red yearling. An appeal to his friend WiLKINSON
of Lavendar fame, brought only a suggestion that he use the
eight-year-old roan Lancaster Comet, a bull of great service in
his Lenton herd. This did not meet Mr. CruicKSHANK’S require-
ment but since further search was unsuccessful, he ordered the
bull shipped. The first impression of the bull’s “great head and
horns lowering upon him over the side of the truck” so disap-
pointed him that Lancaster Comet was relegated to his other farm
at Clyne and turned into the pasture with a lot of cows that had
been shy breeders. Late that fall the bull contracted rheumatism
so seriously that he could profitably only be sent to the butcher.

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Among the dozen calves that he sired was one from a two-year-
old heifer of moderate merit only, in which Mr. CRUICKSHANK
discerned the divine spark. So enthusiastic was he in a cautious
Scot way that his brother ANTHONY bestowed on the young bull
the ambitious title of Champion of England. Unfortunately the
showyard did not agree with this judgment when he was pre-
sented in yearling form and only a detailed reexamination, point
by point, determined Mr. CruicKSHANK to keep him. With the
advent of his calves, the home appellation was justified, and for
the remaining days at Sittyton the problem in mating dealt
entirely with the concentrating of his blood. From the noble
array of show cows and matrons that were his daughters, Mimulus,
Morning Star, Violante, Victorine, Village Rose, Village Belle,
Princess Royal, British Queen, Carmine Rose, Silvery, Surmise,
and others, and the immortal Grand Monarque, Scotland’s
Pride, Pride of the Isles, Royal Duke of Gloster, Roan Gaunt-
let, Caesar Augustus, Barmpton and Cumberland, all bulls
of the Champion of England stock, came the short-legged, broad
turned, quick maturing, matchlessly meated race that met his
“rent-paying” ideal. Sittyton became the deep flowing spring of
Shorthorn blood in the north, and from generation to generation
its overflow spread from one country to the other in its task of
regeneration and revivification of the earlier English strains.

The limits of Sittyton service have not yet been realized. Thirty
years after the closing of that stern yet kindly eye, the blood it
so zealously watched over goes on to new achievements, and the
livelihood and fortune of new generations of breeders are builded
on the CRUICKSHANK pedestal. The mind that recognized only
profitable attainment as the fundament of breeding ideals, has
set up a permanent standard in the land, the soul goes march-
ing on.

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FOUNDER OF FEDERAL UNITY

90. Possibly the most brilliant intellect involved in the founda-
tion and organization of the American government was that of
ALEXANDER Hamitton. Of historically uncertain parentage, he
was born on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, January 11,
1757. His education seems to have been desultory, as at the age
of thirteen he was forced to enter the office of a West India trades-
man and merchant. Owing to an early isolation he possessed a
most precocious independence, and at fourteen years of age wrote
business letters that were models of tradesmanship. His employer
soon became in the habit of going away for days at a time and
leaving this mere child in charge of the counting house. A severe
hurricane wreaked unprecedented devastation on the islands, and
young HAMILTON prepared so vivid a description of it for the
press, that numerous friends and relatives combined to send him
to Boston for an education. Friends here, however, advised him
to proceed to Elizabethtown, N. J., where he studied energetically
in preparation for college, and wrote much prose and verse that
received wide publication. On the completion of his course here
he went to King’s College, New York (now Columbia) where he
made remarkable progress.

About this time the difficulties with the mother country were
coming to a head, and although temperamentally a loyalist, he
was soon won to the colonies’ cause. His articles, although writ-
ten when only seventeen, possessed such remarkable ability that
they were popularly attributed to Jon Jay, or other patriots.
The discovery of their authorship made him a leader in New York
politics, and at the outset of the war he was appointed a captain
of New York artillery. At Long Island and White Plains his
battery so distinguished themselves by their smartness and disci-
pline (almost rare qualities in the Continental army) that he was
appointed staff officer with GENERAL WASHINGTON. Always pas-
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reproof given him by the General, and entered the line again.
At Yorktown he led the storming party on the British redoubts.

During the winter cessations of hostilities, he studied finance
and government most vigorously, and offered such a remarkable
plan of a national bank system that he was made collector of rev-
enue at New York and later a delegate to the Continental Con-
gress. He took an important role in the ratification of the peace
treaty, and in the formation of the Federalist party. So disin-
tegrated were the finances and policies of the colonies, that at
the constitutional convention of 1787, he proposed a scheme of
government, involving office for life and appointees of the presi-
dent as state governors, so aristocratic in type that it aroused the
powerful opposition of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and others, and the
modern constitution was adopted to defeat it. Personal friends
have always insisted that this scheme was a clever ruse to bring
order to the dissenting parties. Following the agreement as to
a constitution, Mr. HAMILTON wrote a series of essays in “The
Federalist” that contained such brilliant logic as to convert the
necessary doubters to the constitutional adoption.

At the time of WasHINCTON’s inauguration, he was appointed
secretary of the treasury and established the economic and tariff
policies that have defined the issues for the two great political
parties ever since. His report of January 14, 1790, on public
credit was the first great state paper in American history, and in
it he reduced the confused finances to order and formulated a plan
for the assumption of the state debts. During the same period
he prepared a system of revenue, a scheme for revenue cutters,
estimates on income and expenditure, temporary regulation of the
currency, navigation and coast-wise trade laws, plans for the
postal service, plans for West Point, plans for the management
of public lands, and settlements for the vast public and private
claims. Later he reported on the establishment of the mint, the
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manufactures, the excise tax system, and finally on the public
credit and extinction of the national debt.

Politically he was very active, incurring the enmity of THomas
JEFFERSON, JAMEs Mapison and James Monroe. In 1795 he
withdrew from the cabinet in order to recuperate his personal
finances and became New York’s leading attorney. On the elec-
tion of Joun Apams he clashed repeatedly with the new president,
but on being created inspector-general of the new army and war
department, he found so much of organization necessary, that his
politics for a time were laid aside. However, due to JEFFERSON
and AARON Burr, the Federal party was defeated in New York
and he was forced to come to the front once more to defend his
party. A widening breach developed between Burr and JEFFER-
son, but the former’s intrigues against the latter for president
were too much for HAMILTon’s tastes and he was led to support
JEFFERSON. The quarrel was made personal by Burr, and in
July, 1804, he was challenged by the latter to a duel. Hami.ton’s
common sense prompted him to refuse it, but, as he feared that
the country was approaching the chaotic condition of France
under the Revolution, and as he felt his services for order might
be hampered if he appeared a coward, he accepted. Burr was
acquitted of treachery in prematurely firing, although Hamitton’s
friends have never accepted the verdict. The wound was mortal,
and his tragic fate evoked a universal burst of grief. He became
the country’s first political martyr, and his fame has grown with
the years.

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OUR GREATEST CHIEF JUSTICE

91. The foremost jurist of the evolving young America was
Joun MarsuHatt. His early manhood caught him in the throes
of the Revolution and he performed ably as an officer of Virginia
militia. At Monmouth, Brandywine and Germantown he showed
his military ability, but at Stony Point and in covering Mayor
LEE’s retreat at Paulus Hook, he showed his real genius and per-
severance. His military career was terminated by recruiting duty
in Virginia in 1780, and while he participated in Baron STEUBEN’S
operations in Virginia, he never really indulged so actively again.

His legal career began at the time of his recruiting duty in
1780. During his leisure hours he attended the course of lec-
tures given by CHANCELLOR WYTHE of William and Mary, and
late in the season he was admitted to the bar at Williamsburg.
In 1781 he resigned his commission and entered upon law prac-
tice in Fauquier county. He attained immediate prominence and
was elected a member of the house of burgesses. He forthwith
located in Richmond, and barring the time he was on national
duty, remained there the rest of his days.

JoHn MARSHALL was one of the four lawyers engaged by the
defendant in the celebrated case of WARE vs. HitTon, tried before
Justice Joun Jay, involving the question of indebtedness to
Britain. His colleagues were Patrick HENRY, ALEXANDER CAMP-
BELL and JAMEs IrvINE. He declined attorney-generalship under
WASHINTON’s first administration, also a foreign mission. On
the occasion of the French hostility due to the replacement of
James Monroe as ambassador by CHARLES C. PINCKNEY, he was
appointed a member of the special mission to France to settle
the difficulty. This proving impossible, he returned to America,
after backing up PINcKNEY’s immortal “millions for defense,
but not one cent for tribute.”

He resumed his law practice, declining an appointment as
supreme justice, but in 1800 he was appointed Secretary of State

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and in such capacity he settled all of the French difficulties. In
1801 he was appointed to the supreme court to succeed CHIEF
Justice ELLswortH, but at the special request of the president
administered both duties until the end of the presidential term.
It was while chief justice that he acquitted Aaron Burr of the
charge of murder of ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

He compiled the “Life of Washington” in five volumes on the
request of the family, and afterward published the first volume
separately as the “History of the American Colonies.” (1824).
The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by New Jersey in
1802, Harvard in 1806, and Pennsylvania in 1815. He was
elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York
University with a total of ninety-one votes, the highest anyone
received, except WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN, LINCOLN, WEBSTER and
Grant. He died in Philadelphia, July 6, 1835, aged 79 years,
8 months and 13 days.

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PLANTING SHARON ROSES IN THE BLUEGRASS

92. Foremost in the first rush of emigration, seeking the grain
and pasture land of Kentucky and Ohio, in the early years of the
last century were two brothers, FELIx and Grorce RENIcK, of
Hardy Co., Virginia. By aid of the compass, they beat their track
across the mountains, and settled on large tracts of land near the
present site of Chillicothe, Ohio. They were representative of
the most influential type of these agricultural pioneers, accustomed
to breeding cattle for grazing and feeding purposes, and familiar
with the fattening of steers on “shock” corn in the open fields of
winter. Their first contribution to the agriculture of the region,
lay in driving to the seaboard the cattle grown out and fattened
in this rich prairie region. In 1805, GeorcE RENick drove sixty
eight animals through to Baltimore and on arriving in good con-
dition very profitably disposed of them. Since this solved the
marketing problem, the cattle industry advanced with amazing
strides. In 1817, Feurx Renick marketed 100 richly furnished
Shorthorn steers at Philadelphia, at an average price of $134 per
head. This experience so elated him that he rapidly became the
leading feeder of market toppers in Ohio, and with one exception
was the most extensive breeder and feeder of bullocks of improved
blood in the United States. In length of time, GzorcE RENICK
probably rendered greater service as a feeder, but he at no time
equalled the extensiveness of FELIx’s operations.

The leading breed in the Ohio valley at this time was the Long-
horn, and considerable rivalry existed between the followers of
this stock, and the supporters of the Shorthorn. The Ken-
tuckians largely flocked to the first standard, and the Ohioans
to the second. Since in the shows the Longhorns usually landed
on top, the only step consonant with the pride of the Ohio men
was to secure animals of sufficient merit to defeat them. FELIx
Renick became the initiator of a proposition to form a joint
stock company from among the cattle growers of this district to

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purchase English cattle. The details of the organization were
drawn up November 2, 1833, the backing of two Governors being
secured, About fifty shareholders were included, all Ohioans
except the two CUNNINGHAMS from Kentucky and Virginia respec-
tively. Mr. RENICK was appointed as agent of this company to
proceed to England and select the cattle. His outstanding service
as a bullock producer undoubtedly earned him this right, although
he was not committed to the purchase of any particular breed of
animals. As companion members of the buying committee, E. J.
Harness, and JosAH RENICK were designated to act, and HENRY
Cxay in sending advice to Gov. TRIMBLE suggested the purchase
of typical specimens of the “Durham,” Devon and Hereford
breeds. On arrival in England they made a thorough study of
cattle conditions, visiting the herds of BootH (76), RicHarp
Bootn, Maynarp, CLarK, WoopHouseE and Bates (74). Their
familiarity with Shorthorn types and pedigrees so impressed the
latter breeder that he personally conducted them to many of the
British herds and to the amazement of his fellow breeders, offered
six females of his own breeding to the Americans for purchase.
Investigation of the Hereford and Devon failed to impress them,
and they ultimately shipped to America seven bulls and twelve
cows of the Shorthorn breed. In this importation were a total of
four of the get of Belvedere, and the two roan heifers Rose of
Sharon, by the latter sire, and Young Mary by Jupiter, foun-
dresses of the two families that became so important in later
Shorthorn records. During this visit, Mr. Renick came to lean
quite strongly on the judgment of Mr. Jonas WHITTAKER and
the next two importations totalling forty-two animals were
selected by this noted Briton.

The Ohio Importing Co. continued operation until 1837. In
1836 they conducted a public sale at which twenty-four females
brought $814 and nineteen bulls $789. At their dispersal sale
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exactly $1,000 apiece. The stockholders were enabled to reap
considerable profit on their investments, unless they took into
account the cost to themselves as individual purchasers of the
animals. Following the breaking up of the Importing Company,
Mr. RENIcK approached Bates concerning the purchase of the
Duke of Northumberland; he attempted one or two general
importations thereafter but practically speaking they came to
naught.

It is difficult to estimate the great value to the Shorthorn breed
rendered by Mr. RENIcK and his company. Four of the most im-
portant families of the mid-century originated in the animals he
brought across: the Josephines, the Young Marys, the Young
Phyllis and the Roses of Sharon. These supplied the stimulus
of fresh blood to the descendants of the older importations, and
spurred on the breed to new achievements in the showyard and
market. For more than one hundred years, the RENICK family
was identified with Shorthorn development and improvement, and
Mr. FELIX RENICK is to be fully credited with the impulse for
good he thus initiated.

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OUR MASTER PHILOSOPHER

93. The preeminent diplomat of 18th Century America and
possibly her greatest diplomat of all time if his paucity of mate-
rials be considered, was BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Reared under con-
ditions of adversity, “the youngest son of a youngest son” for
five generations, the triumphs of intellect, diplomacy and states-
manship he acquired were titanic. As a physicist his name comes
down to posterity almost equivalent to Str Isaac NEWTON; as a
journalist he combined the talents of a JoHNsoN with the energies
of a GREELEY; as a state builder he found no rival in the forma-
tive republic; and as a diplomat no Hay nor Root could vie with
his prowess. The polyhedric personality of this Pennsylvania
printer finds not a rival on the scroll of fame of our nation.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born January 17, 1706, of pure Eng-
lish descent. His father was a soap maker and tallow chandler
of Boston, and BENJAMIN was fourteenth of a double brood that
totalled seventeen. The tenth son of his father, he was early
destined for the clergy, but financial troubles removed him from
the Boston grammar school after one year’s attendance. Vicissi-
tude stalked the young boy, but he found employment to his lik-
ing in the print shop of his brother James. Here he read much
from the library of MATHEW ARNOLD and from books he pur-
chased with his frugal savings due to living on a vegetable diet.
Even during his adolescence he was earnestly striving to perfect
his style, and when the colonial assembly forbade JAMES to pub-
lish “The New England Courier,” Benjamin succeeded to the
post, although still a boy in his teens.

Fraternal friction drove him out within a few months and he
landed in Philadelphia after some minor adventures. Here at
eighteen he made the friendship of the Royal Governor, Sir Wm.
KEITH, and secured his backing to send him to England for a
printing press. On arrival in London the necessary credits were
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with A. PALMER, a famous London printer, followed by six
months with Watt. Here he made the acquaintance of many of
the celebrated authors and broadened markedly his knowledge
of the world. In 1726 he returned to America, where he ulti-
mately succeeded in establishing himself as editor of the Phila-
delphia Gazette. His original style soon built this into a most
valuable property. Here he organized with a/select coterie of
friends the Junta Club that proved the forerunner of the American
Philosophical Society, founded in 1743. He was the originator
of the first subscription library in America, which grew into the
Philadelphia Public Library and in 1749 established an “academy
for youth,” the mother of the University of Pennsylvania. He
organized the first fire company in Philadelphia remaining a
member for fifty years, and he instituted the night watch ard
street lighting. He invented the open FRANKLIN stove, but refused
the patents tendered, in order that all might benefit in its manu-
facture. In 1749 he published a paper which established the
identity of lightning and electricity, and the power of points to
draw off an electric charge. In 1752 his famous kite experiment
was performed. For this he received the CopLey medal of the
Royal Society of London in 1753. In this same year Harvard
and Yale each conferred the A. M. Degree on him, while WILLIAM
and Mary did the same in 1755. In 1759 the University of St.
Andrews gave him a J. V. D. and in 1762 Oxford made him a
D.C. L. He was elected a member of the Royal Societies of Lon-
don and Edinburgh, of the Royal Academy of Science in Paris,
of the Imperial Academy of Science, of St. Petersburg, of the
Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, and of the
Real Academy of History in Madrid.

But this represented his success in one line only. His “Poor
Richard's Almanack” published first in 1732, rose rapidly to a
circulation of 10,000 copies. In 1733 he took up the mastering
of French, Spanish and Italian, and ultimately acquired real

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literary facility in the first two tongues. His pamphlet “Plain
Truths,” published in 1743, was a timely warning against the
French and Indian War that gave him an immense popularity.
In 1752 he began a series of contributions to European journals

that only ceased with his death.

His career as a statesman began somewhat humbly. In 1736
he was made clerk of the Pennsylvania assembly, and in 1737
postmaster of Philadelphia. The next decade and a half were
occupied with his scientific labors. In 1753 he was made post-
master general of the American colonies with Witu1am Hunter,
and in 1754 he was deputy from Pennsylvania to the congress at
Albany of commissioners from the several colonies to devise
mutual protection against the Indians of the Six Nations. Here
he projected and formulated “a plan for the union of all the
colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for
defense and for other important general purposes.” It was
adopted by all colonies but Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Between 1757 and 1762 he was agent for the colony against the
Penn family, “proprietor of the province of Pennsylvania,” to
require the latter family to pay taxes and contribute to the gen-
eral defense. This cause he won in the English courts. In 1775-
77 he was made a delegate to Continental Congress, and as such
devised a plan for the union of the colonies, also a postal system,
afterward adopted by the United States. He was one of the
committee of five that framed the Declaration of Independence.
In 1785 he was made “President” of Pennsylvania and was unani-
mously elected in 1786 and 1787. He was delegate to the con-
vention that framed the constitution and was one of the chief
forces in building up the idea of the federation of states, rather
than a strongly centralized government.

His crowning triumphs were diplomatic. In 1764 he was sent
abroad to secure the repeal of the Stamp Act, and although the
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him of disloyalty, his success with the British Parliament in nulli-
fying it in 1766, restored him to popularity. He became repre-
sentative in London of practically all the colonies and remained
fighting obnoxious legislation and taxes until 1775, when a signi-
ficant closing sentence in a letter from his friend THomas Wat-
POLE, “I hereby wish you a prosperous voyage and long health,”
sent him hurrying home before British bailiffs could incarcerate
him. In 1776 he was deputed by Congress head of the committee
that talked peace terms with ApmiraL Howe, at the Britisher’s
request. About the close of 1776 he arrived in Paris, at seventy
years of age, and was acclaimed a popular hero. He secured a
loan and military assistance from the French government, estab-
lished a system of commissioned privateers, adjucated prize
money disputes, quieted mutineers, secured the recognition of the
United States as an independent nationality, secured the first
accredited French Minister to America in 1778, and became the
first American minister plenipotentiary the following year. His
most delicate bit of work following this was the securing of $6,-
000,000 loan to finance four more years of war. He repeatedly
tried to return to America after 1781 but congress refused his
resignation. With Joun Apams and Joun Jay he drew up the pro-
visional treaty of peace with Great Britain that established Amer-
ican independence, and then arranged commercial treaties with
Denmark, Portugal and Morocco. Just before leaving Europe
he secured the signature of Prussia to a treaty that abolished pri-
vateering and secured private property from destruction by land
or sea in time of war. GENERAL WASHINGTON declared this to
“mark a new era in international morality.” His last efforts in
diplomacy were directed toward the abolition of the slave trade.

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As a philanthropist, he had no mean record. He left $5,000
to Boston and Philadelphia respectively for the encouragement of
young married mechanics, that had accumulated a total of $348,-
000 in Boston in one hundred years. Another gift of £100 was
made to provide silver medals to be given annually for meritori-
ous scholarship in the public schools.

To such a crowded life no worthy benediction can be written.
His last words were “A dying man can do nothing easy.” The
thought of service and usefulness occupied his mind to the last
breath and he died as he had lived, the most versatile American.

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THE SEERS OF KETTON AND BARMPTON

94. The first parents of modern Shorthorn breeding, if first
parents there be, were CHARLES and RoBERT COLLING, farmers of
Ketton and Barmpton. Their primal venture in cattle improve-
ment dates to the visit of CHARLES CoLLInc to RoBerT BAKEWELL
(78) in 1783. Here considerable time was spent in the study both
of the methods and the results of this master artisan. Mr. Cot-
LING’s efforts convinced him beyond all doubt as to the funda-
mental soundness of the DIsHLEY principles, but with equal
soundness he postponed his attempts at application until he be-
came possessed of the cattle to suit his purposes. His founda-
tion animal was discovered in 1789, when he obtained from Mr.
Maynarp of Eryholme, that mother of the modern Shorthorn, the
“beautiful Lady Maynard.”

Both the farms of Ketton and Barmpton were located in the
Tees valley, approximately three miles from the city of Darling-
ton and the historic Darlington Market. This was the center of
the old Shorthorn country, the home of the Holderness and
Teeswater stocks. It was on these foundations that the CoLLInc
brothers labored and their most popular subject of discussion
was the methods and means of eliminating some of the most
obvious faults of both strains. One of Lady Maynard’s daughters
was mated to her grandson through another daughter, and pro-
duced the bull calf called Favorite, the cornerstone of the blood
concentrations that builded so firmly Ketton’s success. Favorite
was mated back to his own dam Phoenix producing Young
Phoenix. He was then bred to Young Phoenix and produced
the bull Comet 155, the bovine hero of his time and the first
cattle beast to sell for $5,000. The incestuous methods that
produced Comet, the notable price received for him, and the
fame of such wondrous exhibition cattle as the Durham Ox
(133) and the White Heifer that Traveled (128) gave CHARLES
CoLLinG a notoriety that no breeder in the north of England

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had hitherto obtained. Another of CHARLES CoLLinc’s famous
foundation cows, in addition to Lady Maynard, was the original
Duchess cow, secured on Darlington Market in 1784. This cow
was the ancestress of the famous Duchess strain that builded so
well for Bates (74) and his followers.

The CoLuine blood origins were not yet complete, however,
and one more animal that loomed large in later Shorthorn pedi-
grees must yet be mentioned, the famous bull Hubback. In 1783
CuakRLes COLLir:. first noticed on Darlington Market some super-
lative veals - * “ound on inquiry that the calves were sired by a
bull belon, » Mr. Fawcett of Haughton Hill. Mr. Cotiine
went to see him but was not sufficiently impressed to buy. A little
later his brother RoBert displayed his keenness of judgment by
purchasing him at the price of ten guineas. The bull was scarcely
large enough to match the mates of such animals as the Durham
Ox and the White Heifer, and so after one season’s use he was
transferred to CHARLES COLLING. This time Mr. CoLuinc decided
that the bull must have some value in his mellow furriness and he
consequently used him for two years. Late in 1787 he was sold
to Mr. Huppack of North Seton, Northumberland, At ten years
of age he had as yet been unnamed but usage gradually gave him
the name of his owner, and when he died at fourteen years,
Huspack had furnished the blood which Mr. Bates (74) used to
mate with his Duchess cows.

CHARLES COLLING’s breeding career closed in 1810, at which
time his inbreeding methods had made approximately three
fourths of the herd come from the loins either of Favorite or his
son Comet. The forty-seven head in the sale brought $35,000,
with the $5,000 Comet at the top. For company’s sake, Mr. Cot-
LING had reserved the deep milking, wide spread Magdalena by
Comet, but so ardent was the demand and so importunate the
pleadings of his old friend Jonas WHITAKER that even Magdalena
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ordered, to present Mr. CoLinc with a piece of silver plate bear-
ing the signatures of over fifty breeders, “as a token of gratitude
due from the benefit they have derived from his judgment, and
also as a testimony of their esteem for him as a man.”

Rosert Cou.ine’s individual accomplishments were perhaps
lesser than those of CHARLES, but it is difficult to say just where
his counsels ended and CHARLES’ began, so intimate was their
association. Early in his career, he bought Leicester sheep from
BAKEWELL (78) and developed a system of ram leases that be-
came a certain source of profit. Three tribes of Shorthorns were
created at Barmpton, the Wildairs, the Red Roses and the Prin-
cesses, while the bulk of the foundation bulls of THomas Bootu
were here produced. The Princess blood was indeed epochal as
through the Princess-bred Belvedere, Mr. Bates (74) ultimate
success occurred. RoBERT CoLLinc’s partial dispersion was in
1818 and completed in 1820. At the first sale sixty head sold for
$40,000, while two years later forty-six head brought only $10,-
000, due to the deep agricultural depression of the time.

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ORGANIZER OF THE AMERICAN SHORTHORN
ASSOCIATION

95. The leading Shorthorn spirit in Illinois during the years
just following the Civil War was the Hon. J. Henry PickRELL,
first president of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
and later its secretary. Mr. PICKRELL descended from Kentucky
and Virginia ancestors, his father settling in Sangamon Co., IIli-
nois, in 1828. He was born March 20, 1834, and was early
identified with Shorthorn breeding. In 1859 he was made presi-
dent of the Macon County Fair in Illinois, and as its representative
attended the Bourbon County (Ky.) Fair and the Kentucky State
Fair.

His prominence in the Shorthorn trade dates from 1865, when
he brought to his farm at Harristown the yearling bull Sweep-
stakes 6320, of Rose of Sharon blood purchased from GEORGE
M. Braprorp of Kentucky. Sweepstakes was sired by Mr. REn-
1cK’s famous Airdrie, and therefore carried a double line of
Woodburn blood (82). Sweepstakes won first prize as a two-
year-old at the Illinois State Fair of 1866, and was made champion
over Mr. Duncan’s hitherto invincible Minister. In 1868 Mr.
PicKRELL imported from Kentucky the Phyllis cow Kate Lewis,
of B. F. Van MetTER’s (98) breeding and won championship with
her at the Illinois State Fair of 1868. Sweepstakes was again
champion at this fair, and won the $200 prize offered for a bull
with five of his get. He was ultimately sold to Ohio, and Mr.
PICKRELL was forced to submit to bulls, other than his own, win-
ning in the showring. He had such an insatiable thirst for show-
yard successes, however, that after considerable search he secured
the Cochrane-bred Baron Booth of Lancaster, one of the most
noted bulls ever on the great show circuits of America. In the
hands of Mr. PicKRELL’s herdsman, Davin Grant, Baron Booth
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was secured the bull Baron Lewis, that defeated his sire for cham-
pionship at the Indiana State Fair and brought a price of $3,000
in the sale ring.

Mr. PICKRELL in 1877 entered partnership with the famous
Missouri breeder, J. H. Kisstncer, half the herd being maintained
at Clarksville, Mo., and the other at Harristown, Ill. The suc-
cess of the combination was instantaneous, and the two were so
important in the early show rings that in the twelve years from
1867 to 1879, their prizes aggregated above $40,000. Their rela-
tions were broken in 1879.

In the early 80’s Mr. PickRELL formed a partnership with
Tuomas & Situ of Kentucky, and in 1883, the firm sold seventy-
two head at an average of $420. Throughout Mr. PickrEL1’s
entire career, he was exceptionally successful with his sale offer-
ings, and the bulk of his averages ran between $400 and $600.
Perhaps his greatest service to the breed lay in his active partici-
pation in the organization of the American Shorthorn Breeders’
Association and the acquisition of the Allen, Kentucky and Ohio
registration records to form the “American Shorthorn Breeders’
Herd Book.” Mr. PICKRELL was the first president and was later
chosen secretary to succeed CoLoNnEL Murr, a position he held
until his death in 1901.

Outside of his livestock affiliations, Mr. PicKRELL developed
numerous agricultural interests that gave him a wealth of ma-
terial for journalistic purposes. The columns of all agricultural
papers were open to his contributions, but for the last thirty
years of his life he was a salaried member of the staff of the
Country Gentleman, acting specifically as its Illinois Livestock
Reporter. Mr. PickKRELL’s style was unadorned, but his ideas
were most highly practical, hence his influence was far-reaching.

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A RECORDER OF SHORTHORN RELATIONSHIPS

96. One of the most difficult tasks in connection with the found-
ing of pure breeds has been the collection of the material neces-
sary to establish the herd and record books. In the more widely
distributed breeds the situation has been particularly appalling,
never more so than in 1848 when Louis F. ALLEN of New York
brought out his first volume of Shorthorn records. Rail trans-
portation was still in its infancy, and the seed stock that had
crossed from Britain in the preceding quarter century was so
widely dispersed that there was no hope of emulating the worthy
Coates and making pilgrimage by sturdy nag from manor to
farm and village to hamlet. Hence the first volume was incom-
plete, being based almost solely on the animals of New England,
New York and Pennsylvania with which Mr. ALLEN was person-
ally familiar. As an additional discouragement to early pro-
motion, it left the printer at almost the low mark of the business
depression of the 40’s. With the change of tide in the early 50’s,
breeders began to take more interest in the records of their animals
and Mr. ALLEN was more hopeful when he undertook the produc-
tion of the second volume. 2

Of the Shorthorn lovers of the period, Mr. ALLEN was perhaps
best fitted for this task. He had visited several of the important
breeders of the red, white and roan in rural England, and was
personally intimate with many of the New England and Middle
State importers. Near Black Rock, New York, he had maintained
a small herd of the breed and was instinctively a student of pedi-
grees and pedigree methods.

Hence when he resumed his efforts in 1851, he found more
encouragement, particularly from the coterie of promoters and
breeders in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. In Kentucky a
committee of breeders had been appointed to collect the data on
the Shorthorns of their state, and when the report was ready to
be published, the records were turned over to Mr. ALLEN for his

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second volume. In the autumn of 1855 the book appeared with
approximately 3,000 pedigrees. In many cases the information
was fragmentary and more than once errors and even forgeries
were discovered. But the proper foundation had been laid and
Mr. ALLEN was recognized throughout the Shorthorn fraternity
as the authorized custodian of the records.

The growth of the breed interests was most pronounced in the
Mississippi valley in the 70’s, and gradually the geographic limits
led to dissensions among the breeders. The western and southern
men soon felt that the location of pedigree autocracy in New York
gave numerous possibilities of minority control, and in the early
70’s two new registers appeared, the American Shorthorn Record
in Kentucky and the Ohio Shorthorn Record in that state. The
only solution guaranteeing a strong and permanent future was the
unification of the three interests, so in the autumn of 1882 the first
step was taken through the acquirement of Mr. ALLEN’s records
for $25,000, by the newly organized American Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association. Immediately thereafter the other two
registers were purchased and since 1883 there has been but one
book. Headquarters of the records were removed to Chicago,
and have remained either there or at Springfield ever since.

One very great service which Mr. ALLEN rendered was in the
publication of his volume on “American Cattle.” This first
appeared in 1868, and summarized the knowledge at that time
available on the improved cattle in America, as well as giving
considerable of the early lore on feeding and breeding. His
death, less than a decade after relinquishing his position of author-
ity in the breed, removed one of the most notable servants of
improved stock of the early days.

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ONE OF GOD’S GENTLEMEN

97. Among the busy men of industry who grounded their suc-
cesses in the soil was Emery Coss, one of the formative spirits of
the Western Union Telegraph Co. Mr. Copp was born in Dryden,
N. Y., August 20, 1831. At eleven years of age his father died,
but under his maternal grandfather, Lemt BrapLEy, he secured
the best of common school educations and was financed for a
course in telegraphy at Ithaca, N. Y. After a few assignments,
in which he was exceptionally successful, he was made manager
of his company, the old Erie & Western. In 1852 he proceeded
by water from Cleveland to Chicago and was one of the few
survivors to float ashore when the boat burned. This laid the
foundation for a delicacy under indoor life that ultimately forced
his retirement. In 1853 under Mr. Cosp’s control five separate
telegraph companies were merged under his management, and in
1856 these were absorbed by the Western Union, Mr. Coss being
made western superintendent at Chicago. He established the
transmittal of money by telegraph and during the Civil War was
in charge of the transmission of the War Department orders and
reports that were sent by wire. He was entrusted with the service
code, and was a valued friend and aide to PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
Failing health forced him to seek release from his arduous duties
after the Civil War, but so desirous was the company of retaining
his services that they sent him abroad for a year in the hope of
restoring him. The attempt was unsuccessful, however, and he
retired to his farm in Kankakee, purchased in 1861.

Here his improvement was gradual. He was made president
of the First National Bank, and in 1867, GovERNOR OGLESBY ap-
pointed him a member of the Board of Trustees of the University
of Illinois. In 1873, the board was reduced from a membership
of twenty-eight to nine, and Mr. Cops was made chairman of the
finance committee, a position held twenty-six years.

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Shorthorns were first recorded by him in 1870. He took a
prominent part in the establishment of the American Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association, and was its second president, serving from
1884 to 1900. He survived the floods of Booth, Bates and
Scotch popularity by making his tenet the best animal regard-
less of the fashionableness of its bloodlines.

Mr. Coss was very successful financially, a part of his wealth
arising from the gradual incorporation of his farm into the limits
of Kankakee. He died at the age of seventy-nine, on April 14,
1910. Perhaps his most outstanding trait was his courtliness of
manner and his gentlemanly character. Mr. Copp was a man of
high spiritual nature respected and beloved by all who knew him,
and he rightly earned the title accorded him by a Kankakee
friend, in a published appreciation, “one of God’s Gentlemen.”

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A SHORTHORN SOLON

98. The romance of the early Kentuckians and Ohioans who
courageously risked their lives and fortunes to build up the
blooded cattle industry of America can never be adequately told.
The names of RentcK (92) and Van METER, WarRFIELD and
ALEXANDER (82), CUNNINGHAM and ComBs, are now memories;
the strains they fought so earnestly to perpetuate are now over-
shadowed by the soggy rent-payers from the Northland, and the
manors that cradled their triumphs are now given over to the
most diversified of agricultural production.

Almost alone of those mighty intellects survives Mr. BENJAMIN
F. Van METER, now of Lexington, who during his active years
lived on the parental estate in Clark Co., about four miles from
the town of Winchester. Mr. Van METER was born January 30,
1834, the fifth son in a family of fifteen. It was in this year that
FeLix RENIcK (92) crossed the waters to import the first pedi-
greed cattle to come west of the Allegheny mountains. Both
Isaac Van METER and Capt. Isaac CUNNINGHAM, father and
grandfather of Ben Van METER, were heavy stockholders in this
venture. Born thus into an atmosphere of pedigreed stock, it was
not surprising that in 1853 he chose to go to England with his
brother SOLOMon and CHARLEs T. GARRARD rather than complete
his college course. On this trip he first made the acquaintance
of Ropert A. ALEXANDER (82) and was fortunate to have the
opportunity of returning aboard ship as sole Kentuckian in the
company of this early master.

The friendship here commenced, ripened into a permanent
asset for Mr. Van METER. Due to the sharp practice of a neigh-
bor, Sgurre Duncan, he was cheated out of the service of the
bull Lord John, of Woodburn breeding, for which he had bartered.
So firm was Mr. ALEXANDER’S interest, however, that he permitted
the young VAN METER to use for four months, the undefeated
Second Duke of Airdrie, then billed for shipment to Scotland.

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In 1854 his father Isaac VAN METER died, and Ben VAN METER
became sole executor of the estate, the herd at that time totaling
about one hundred head of cattle. His share, consisting of eight
choice animals, constituted the foundation from which he bred,
with only slight additions from the outside, for a period of fifty
years. Among the females added were the heifers, Gem the
Second, out of Imported Gem by Broker, and Red Rose the Sec-
ond, foundress of Mr. VAN METER’s Red Roses. The best cow
bred in the Van METER herd was Red Rose the Eighth, winner at
the best Kentucky fairs and finally first in Winchester over ABRAM
RENICK’s two best Roses of Sharon, WiLLiaM WARFIELD’S two
best Loudon Duchesses, Epwin BEDFORD’S* two best Loudon
Duchesses, and a half dozen recently imported cows shown by
the Clark County Importing Co. She was never defeated but
once, and then by her full sister, Red Rose Eleventh bred by Mr.
Van METER. When finally sold to B. B. Groom, she won first
prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Cattle Show. A public sale
about this time of thirty-nine animals brought a total of $55,000
to Mr. Van METER, a Rose of Sharon of his own breeding bring-
ing $3,000, and a yearling Rose of Sharon by Fourth Duke of
Geneva bringing $5,550. His most famous family in the light of
the years was the Young Mary line, and it is with the Young Marys
that Shorthorn breeders associate the VAN METER name.

Mr. Van METER was an intimate friend and close associate
of ABRAM RENICK, SR., in spite of the latter’s ten years’ advan-
tage in experience.

The Van METERS were descended from one of the early Dutch
settlers in New Amsterdam, his ancestor, JANS JYSPERTSEN VAN
METERENE, crossing from Bommell, South Holland, in 1663.
The family lived in New York and later in what is now West
Virginia, and from earliest times was devoted to agricultural
pursuits. Mr. Van METER was the first vice president of the
American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association and played an influen-

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tial role in its foundation. Since his retirement from active
breeding, he has taken a great interest in the problems of
improvement of Kentucky stock, and with true Bates loyalty
has fought hard for the dual purpose kind. He has published
several articles on the methods of producing suitable farm ani-
mals from the grade Jersey and Holstein foundations, of his
native state, crossed later with pure Shorthorn bulls. His mem-
ories of the golden days of Bates’ prosperity constitute an
exceptional storehouse for the pedigree student of today.

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A BUILDER OF CORNBELT AGRICULTURE

99. The beginnings of Illinois cattle breeding were laid in
the days when early Kentuckians crossed over the Ohio to con-
quer the fertile prairies of Illinois. Typical of this pioneer type
both as to influence for the future on the state’s farm practice
and as to the heritage in worthy descendants who carried for-
ward the pioneer ideal was Caprain James NicHoLas Brown
of Grove Park in Sangamon County.

Captain Brown was born October 3, 1806, in Fayette Co.,
Kentucky, amid the pastoral greens of fields early famous for
their contribution to American livestock. He was Captain of
militia in his native state but early acquired the taste for Short-
horn cattle under the inspiration of his maternal uncles, of the
famous Kentucky WarFiELD family. In 1834 with his father
he drove his herd from Kentucky to Illinois. So successful was
he on his better animals, even prior to this date, that he had
received numerous prizes, treasured heirlooms in the family to
the present time. CapTaIn Brown was the first apostle of the
truth that the most profit in a permanent agriculture comes
from marketing good grass and good corn in the form of good
cattle. He was essentially a farmer and gradually extended
his interests to Berkshire swine and Southdown sheep. He was
a member of the State Legislatures of 1840, 1842, 1846 and
1853, a colleague and friend of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. From this
position he lent notable assistance in organizing the Illinois
State Agricultural Society, and was elected its first president.
So interested was he in the welfare of agriculture, that in present-
ing the case for state appropriations for this purpose before the
legislature, he said: “So you will know I stand for this heart and
soul, I will duplicate dollar for dollar any appropriation you
may make.” His earnestness carried the day, and the initial
appropriation of $3,000 was matched by Capt. Brown.

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In the early 50’s he made trips both to Ohio and Kentucky,
bringing back a number of valuable Shorthorns. He partici-
pated in organizing the Illinois Importing Association and
together with Dr. JoHNn of Decatur, and Henry Jacosy of
Springfield went abroad in 1857. A valuable consignment of
cattle, horses, swine and sheep was obtained, the first direct
importation into Illinois. At the sale of this stock held at
Springfield, he purchased imp. Rachel 2nd at the then long
price of $3,025. The venture was a great success, twenty-seven
head bringing an average price of $1,165.

Previous to this time Captain Brown had initiated his I]linois
career as a showman. At the first exhibition of the State Board
of Agriculture in 1853 he took six prizes. Thenceforward his
success in the showring was cumulative, and the ensuing battles
at the Illinois State Fair brought him victory during the eleven
successive years for the grand herd prize. Capt. BRowN was
more than'a breeder. In 1856 Grove Park received the prize
of the Illinois Board of Agriculture for the best arranged and
most economically conducted grazing farm in the state. He
was a student of rural beauty, and his plantations of black
locusts, and his field and drive lines of black walnut, elicited
the admiration of all visitors.

He was a close personal friend of ABRAHAM LINCOLN and at
the funeral of the lamented statesman in Springfield, he had
the honor of being one of the pallbearers. Capt. Brown’s por-
trait hangs on the walls of the State Capitol at Springfield and
also in the Hall of Fame at the University of Illinois. During
the later years of his life Capt. Brown’s three sons, WILLIAM,
CHARLES and BENJAMIN, participated in the management of the
farm, enabling the continuation of the breeding and feeding
operations till the present. Capt. Brown’s death occurred in
1869, and his body lies at rest under the bluegrass he so thor-
oughly builded on.

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FOUNDER OF THE EXPORT CATTLE TRADE

100. Joun D. GiLLeTT was the dean of the fat stock men of
the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and was the originator of and sponsor
for the export bullock trade to Great Britain. He was born
at New Haven, Conn., April 28, 1819, of French Huguenot
descent. His ancestor, JONATHAN GILLETT, emigrated in 1630
to Dorchester, Mass., in one of WINTHROP’s companies. On
being made a free man he proved his mettle by volunteering
to fight the Pequot Indians at New London, and was one of
sixteen to return from that bloody encounter. For this service
he received a grant of land, the Wetang Meadows. The GILLeTTS
were minute men and volunteers in the Colonial Army, fighting
at Lexington and many other of the northern engagements. The
Connecticut book of the Revolutionary War from the Adjutant
General’s office records 49 GILLETTs in the commands of
CoLoneL HunTINcToN and GENERAL WoosTER, among them
JoHN GILLETT’s grandfather, Benont. His father ELIPHAZz was
captain and sole owner of the brig “John” engaged in the West
Indies and coastwise trade.

When he was three years old his father died, but his mother
was able to send him to the Lancastrian school in New Haven.
In his seventeenth year he sailed in the ship “Thomas” to
Georgia, where he clerked in his uncle’s store, but in 1838
returned to New Haven where he attended the Pearl Academy
for three months. He then decided to cast his fortune in the
west, and in 42 days made the journey from New Haven to
Illinois, going via the Ohio and Mississippi from Pittsburg to
St. Louis and thence by stage to Springfield, Ill. The last
twenty miles to Bald Knob, the home of another uncle, were
made on foot, and he made a humble start at $8 a month as a
farm hand for his uncle. With the first $50 saved he entered
40 acres of land, as at that time most of the land in Logan
county was for sale at government prices, prairie land not being

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considered as desirable as timber land. Many believed that it
would be a century before the prairie would be settled, due to
the exposure to cold bleak winds and the difficulty of obtaining
fuel. By 1842 as a result of saving all the money he could and
investing it in land he was owner of 240 acres. During this
year he married and began running cattle on the open grass of
Sangamon and Logan counties. This stock was secured from
other settlers and was descended from the best blood of the
Ohio and Kentucky Shorthorns. Mr. Gittetr determined to
cultivate to corn all of the land he could secure. Although
corn sold at only 6 to 8 cents a bushel, it was quite profitable
when put through cattle. He fenced his pastures, selected his
best heifers, and in 1850 bought his first purebred bull, a Short-
horn, secured to effect his feeder ideal, from the herd of Mr.
THomas SKINNER. From time to time he bought more good
bulls of Shorthorn blood, but always paid more attention to
individual merit than pedigree. He was not a breeder as he
always purchased his own sires, but he stayed neither hand nor
pocketbook when he found animals that met his concept. He
omitted no opportunity to purchase all the cattle his neighbors
had to sell and his wonderful ability to judge the quality and
weights of cattle on the hoof often netted him $500 profit on a
single day’s work.

By 1852 Mr. GiLLett had the largest farm and the greatest
number of cattle, horses and hogs, of any farmer in Logan Co.
He employed a number of men to attend to the manual labor
of feeding and herding the cattle, and several tenants to farm
the land and raise his corn at 10 to 15 cents a bushel, thereby
conducting his farming and stock feeding operations on the
largest possible scale. He conceived the purpose of supplying
the Chicago market with a line of grade steers that would
excel anything received there, and there is little question but
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quarter century of farming he possessed 12,000 acres of land
and a herd of 3,000 high grade Shorthorn cattle from which
he annually marketed 300 steers of his own raising, weighing
1800 to 2400 pounds. At his death in 1888 he possessed 18,000
acres, with his innate spirit of expansion still unsatisfied. On
his death bed one of his friends who had called to express his
farewell grief was astonished to have Mr. GILLETT state in
regretful tones that he had made a big mistake in his life. The
friend responded that he could not see how a man whose years
had been packed with constructive endeavor, such as Mr. Git-
LETT’S, could have had time to make a mistake. But the old
gentleman insisted, and thinking to learn something, perhaps
of a gossipy nature, his friend pressed him for an explanation.
The old gentleman hesitated, then in a sudden burst of confi-
dence said, “I should have bought more land.”

In 1872 he sent 86 head of three-year-olds to Albany, averag-
ing there 1891 pounds per head, and the next year 90 head that
averaged 1780 pounds. In December, 1873, he had 75 three-
year-olds on the Buffalo market that averaged above a ton, their
home weight being 2250 pounds. During that year he marketed
at Chicago, Buffalo, Albany and New York, 800 three-year-olds
averaging 1531 pounds.

The early American Fat Stock Shows saw his keenest triumphs.
At the very first show in 1878, his Shorthorn steer, John Sher-
man, weighing approximately 2200 pounds at three years seven
months, won the championship. Again in 1880, he was promi-
nent as an exhibitor, but since his cattle came direct from the
pastures, the necessary finish for ultimate triumph was lacking.
This so stirred his pride that in 1881 he came back with the
celebrated red bullock McMullen at 2100 pounds and defeated
Miller’s grade Hereford steer, Conqueror, for the championship.
In 1882 McMullen again won for him, after making a total gain
for the year of 470 pounds. He was probably the finest type

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of the old-fashioned steer ever exhibited, with table back and
massive frame. Perhaps the greatest service to modern Ameri-
can steer showing was the strong stand he took favoring the
elimination of three and four-year-old steers from the shows.
In fact by 1885, Mr. GILLETT was marketing all of his cattle
by the time they had reached thirty months of age. His example
elicited a number of noteworthy pupils and Mr. D. M. Monrncer
of Iowa, J. G. Impopen of Illinois, and a host of others carried
forward the standard and precedents he had set. The relief of
a bullock’s head standing out from the keystone of the arch at
the main entrance to the stock yards at Chicago, is a carving
from a clay model of John Sherman, his first champion, named
for the founder of the yards.

In September, 1876, he made his first shipment of live cattle
to England, one hundred head averaging 2100 pounds. Between
1876 and 1880 he shipped 1,300 steers to the Liverpool and
London markets. In 1879 one of his shipments destined for
Britain was diverted at New York by Wituiam Ottman & Co.
of the Fulton Market, at a then sensational cost of $6 per cwt.
These were exhibited at the MEssrs. OTTMAN’s stalls in the great
Durham Premium Christmas Cattle and Sheep Exhibit at the
Madison Square Gardens and won extreme praise. In 1881 he
shipped to Liverpool by the steamer “Thanemore” 122 bullocks
averaging 1963 pounds, that brought him a $200 average price
or a total of $24,400, about $5,000 more profit than Mr. GILLETT
figured he could have made if he had disposed of them in Amer-
ica. The mammoth McMullen and thirty other show steers
featured his 1882 shipment, which consisted of 167 animals.

His methods of outdoor feeding of steers, and of keeping his
cows and calves on bluegrass pasture without shelter, being fed
only in the severest weather, produced a very hardy strain of
cattle. He believed that perfect freedom and exercise in the
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ment and that cattle are better off without shelter and less liable
to disease. He demonstrated that Shorthorn cattle were not
too tender for successful raising and feeding anywhere in the
country, as the unrestricted sweep of the winter winds of the
Illinois prairie severely test the endurance of animals exposed
to the weather; also that cattle might be raised to the highest
degree of excellence without an expensive outlay for buildings,
and that corn and bluegrass would produce the finest quality
of meat. The reputation of his cattle gained at the Fat Stock
Shows in Chicago for their surpassing physical development
and hardiness created a demand from the western ranchmen,
who bought thereafter for breeding purposes the greater part
of his annual crop of calves. In June, 1879, Ropert Foote of
Wyoming took out 41 heifers and a bull of Mr. Gittett’s breed-
ing, while CoL. CRoucH of Texas took 75 bulls at $100 a head.
In 1882 a trainload of Shorthorns delivered at Cheyenne
featured 23 bulls of Mr. GiLLETT’s breeding which readily out-
sold all other consignments in the train.

In later years Mr. GILLETT’s agricultural interests were
accompanied by political and banking interests. As early as
1850 he became interested in founding and laying out towns,
Nauvoo in that year, and Lincoln, IIl., ten years later. He
founded the first National Bank of Logan Co., and was its presi-
dent until his death. All business and commerce interested him
and he loved to assist the county merchants with loans. Many
a Logan Co. grocer, butcher or drygoods vendor received invalu-
able financial help from the old gentleman, and when his sturdy
pioneer life finally closed, August 25, 1888, he gravely told his
surviving family, a widow, seven daughters and one son, that
his prairie days held no regrets, “every minute I have enjoyed.”

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A PRAIRIE PIONEER

101. The founder of the Funk family, pioneer agriculturists
of Illinois, was Isaac FuNK. He was born in Clark Co., Ken-
tucky, November 17, 1797, and received most meager educa-
tional advantages. In 1823 he migrated to McLean Co., I]linois,
where he settled on the acreage that ultimately became Funk’s
Grove. Here, without capital, but by dint of much industry
and perseverance, he laid the foundation of the biggest fortune
based solely on agriculture, that has been developed in Ameri-
can history. After forty-two years of labor, his assets were
admittedly above $2,000,000, although he dealt only in live-
stock and farm products.

Mr. FunkK was elected to the state legislature in 1840, where
he served one term, and was sent to the 23rd and 24th sessions
as a member of the senate. He was originally a Whig, but
previous to the Civil War became a Republican, and gave loyal
and efficient service during the difficult period that followed.
He played a very important role in the retention of Illinois
to the cause of the Union, resisting every effort of the slave
holders of the southern section to secure its secession. In
February, 1863, he delivered, in the language of the prairie
pioneer, what has been termed the “most illiterate and most
intelligent” address the state senate has ever heard, against the
activities of the anti-war factionists, for which he received both
state and national commendation. His death occurred January

29, 1865.

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A FINANCIAL FRIEND OF THE SHOWYARD

102. The destinies of improved Illinois agriculture were
directed from the late 50’s until almost the beginning of this
century, by as strong a triumvirate of farmers as has been
known in any state in America. These men were COLONEL
James W. Jupy (104), Hon. Larayerte Funk (103) and Mr.
Joun W. Bunn. Of the three men, Mr. FunxK contributed some-
thing of a general farming experience, Cox. Jupy something of
the interests of purebred livestock, and Joun W. Bunn some-
thing of the business and clerical instincts, necessary for the
strong organization and functioning of a living pregnant insti-
tution.

Mr. Bunn was born in Hunterton Co., New Jersey, June 30,
1831. At nine years of age he was brought to Springfield,
Illinois, by his parents, who emigrated across the waters and
plains of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. His education was
received in the public schools of Illinois, but he early mani-
fested an interest in business affairs and business methods, and
like many other young men of the growing country, partici-
pated in local politics. In 1859 he was appointed treasurer
of the State Board of Agriculture, a position he held unremit-
tingly for thirty-nine years. He had acquired previous to this
time, title to some excellent farming land in the vicinity of
Springfield, but in March, 1867, he was appointed treasurer
of the University of Illinois at Champaign. This effectively
overruled such desires as he may have had to have pursued
farm operations personally, and during the next three decades,
he devoted all of his energy to public affairs.

In 1878 the initial American Fat Stock Show was held under
the auspices of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture in the
old Exposition building on the Lake Front, where the Art Insti-
tute now stands, and Mr. Bunn acted as treasurer for a number
of years. Mr. Bunn won a home in the hearts of the exhibitors

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since he always paid the premiums regardless of the financial
outcome of the show. At the close of the fiscal year 1892-1893,
he found himself in slightly failing health, and resigned his
position with the University. Five years later it became neces-
sary for him to relinquish his activities with the Board of Agri-
culture, and on June 7, 1920 the last of the trinity who had
wielded such an enormous power in agricultural organizations
passed beyond.

Mr. BUNN was a prominent man in IlIlinois business circles.
He was president of the Illinois Watch Co., at Springfield, and
for many years head of a wholesale grocery concern in that
place. For nearly a decade he was treasurer of the Selz-Schwab
Shoe Co. of Chicago.

The effective functioning of the State Board of Agriculture,
the early promotion of the rural interests at the University of
Illinois, the upbuilding of the State Fair, the organization of
the Farmer’s Institute System, the support and development of
the Stallion Registry office, the seed, feed and grain inspection
functions, and the development of needed agricultural legisla-
tion can all be credited to the activities of these three men. In
the light of history, it is hardly possible to say which of the
three did the most. Mr. Buwnn’s duties brought him into contact
with the public rather less frequently than the other two men,
and his genius was directed ordinarily to things that are unseen,
the silent and efficient functioning of the machine. The debt
of the State of Illinois cannot be measured in monetary terms
to men such as these, the new generation is reared accustomed
to the innovations and blessings they have accomplished. In
the hearts of the men who have struggled beside them, however,
there will live forever a monument and testimonial to their
spirits and the things they have achieved.

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A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF THE OLD-TIME CATTLE
SHOWS

103. The second generation of the Funk family so important
in the agricultural and livestock development of Illinois, were
the two brothers, LAFAYETTE and Jacos Funk. By curious inci-
dent, they died within an hour of each other, as did their father
and mother, at their home, Funk’s Grove, in McLain Co., Illinois.
LaFAYETTE Funk was born in 1834, in the log cabin which his
father, Issac Funk (101) had timbered ten years previous, by
the side of a huge glacially-deposited granite boulder. The
public activities of LAFAYETTE FuNK were extremely conspicu-
ous for many years. He was active in the Illinois legislature,
and was made a member of the upper house when JosEpH W.
FIFER was elected governor. Mr. Funk rendered valuable serv-
ice to the agricultural interests of Illinois as president of the
State Board of Agriculture, but it was in his capacity as man-
ager of cattle at the old Fat Stock Show held in the Lake Front
pavilion in Chicago during the 80’s that he achieved his highest
success. He was chairman of the Illinois exhibit at the Colum-
bian Exposition, and a director of the Union Stock Yard Co.,
operating the Chicago livestock market.

LAFAYETTE Funk was a veritable apostle of agriculture. In
the early days he drove his cattle from the pastures of central
Illinois to Chicago, and when the Chicago markets failed him,
he drove on through to Buffalo, or to Milwaukee. Where the old
Montcomery Warp building now stands, once stood a grove
of trees, under which he frequently paused to rest his cattle,
and to water them from the Chicago river. Mr. FuNK was as
much a pioneer in breeding and production as he was in cattle
feeding. In the later years of the last century he paid close
attention to the improvement of Leaming and Reid Yellow Dent
corn, participating actively in the movement that developed seed
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planting. Mr. FUNK was progressive even after attaining his
allotted three score years and ten, and actively participated in
the management of his farm, flocks and herds. On his broad
acres he established a twentieth century standard of agricul-
ture that was widely recognized and popularly emulated. He
was an early promoter of alfalfa growing, and Funk’s Grove
was the mecca of those who sought a leaf from Mr. Funk’s
extensive experience. He early extended his operations to the
grassy regions west of the Missouri and there bred and nurtured
cattle under more favorable and economical conditions, to be
finished in his Illinois feed lots.

Mr. Funk gave freely to the public of his personal energy
and experience, uninspired by the instincts that animated the
ordinary politician. His every act was constructive. As presi-
dent of the State Fair, he sought the most favorable opportunity
for each exhibitor and insisted on the highest possible degree
of efficiency in the management of that institution. He reposes
in the timberland where his boyhood days were spent, adjacent
to the scene of nearly a century of useful activity. His death
occurred September 6, 1919.

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‘THE GREATEST LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEER OF THE
CLOSING CENTURY

104. On the anniversary of the 65th State Fair at Springfield,
Illinois, there occurred the death of a man whose pioneer work
laid its foundations. Cot. James W. Jupy was America’s oldest
livestock auctioneer, a commanding figure in the pedigree stock
circles for many years. During the golden days of the Short-
horn trade he was a popular personality, performing at most
of the great auctions.

He was born in a red, white and roan environment amid the
bluegrass pastures of Kentucky, May 8, 1822. He settled in
Illinois as a young man, but had conducted numerous auctions
of miscellaneous farm property before leaving Kentucky. He
acquired a large farm near Tallula, Il., not far from the home
of the well known Shorthorn breeder, J. H. Spears. Cox. Jupy
was a home loving man and a gentleman of the old school, his
heart was in his acres, and his highest ideal to make them as pro-
ductive and fruitful as they were charming in topography and
surroundings.

Cot. Jupy reached the zenith of his career in the 70’s, when
he made dozens of historical sales both in the Mississippi valley
and farther east. His first Shorthorn sale was cried at Jack-
sonville, Ill., in August, 1856, for JupcE Steven DuNLap, and
his career continued until he was nearly eighty years of age.

Among the heroes of the Lake Front show, Cot. Jupy was an
influential figure, contributing largely to the foundation, organ-
ization and operation of the institution. Possessed of the quali-
ties of the sage he early foresaw the movement tending to
shorten the feeding life of the steer and was a leading pro-

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ponent of the moves that ultimately removed the bulky four
and three-year-olds from the competitions.

Cot. Jupy knew all of the leading breeders and his informa-
tion on bloodlines and pedigrees was encyclopedic in range and
accuracy. His simplicity, honesty, modesty and great hearted-
ness won him a host of loyal friends, while his resourceful
sense of humor, native sagacity and spontaneous generosity
made him conspicuously successful. He was an early presi-
dent of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture and gave of his
best years to the establishment of the State Fair at Springfield.
His death occurred at his home, “The Walnuts,” September 16,
1916, at the ripe age of ninety-four.

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A LUMBERMAN WHO LOVED LIVESTOCK

105. A debt of gratitude is owed by the members of the
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLus to Henry F. Brown of Minneapolis,
Minn. When the nucleus of this gallery was presented to the
Club by Mr. OcILvig, it was neccessary to find some means of
financing the preparation of oil portraits of the other worthies
who deserved the recognition of the Sanctum Sanctorum with
them. Living men could well be honored by their friends, but
those who had passed on, required a generous philanthropy
from some appreciative disciple of the present day. This dis-
ciple was found in H. F. Brown, and to his interest and finan-
cial backing are due the portraits of BAKEWELL, Bates, WEBB,
Barciay, Torr, CRUICKSHANK, THomas Bootu, RENICK, ALEX-
ANDER and others. The amount of his contribution was very
large financially, but even larger in its influence on the coming
generation of American livestock men, for here is gathered a
galaxy of livestock divinities that breathe an inspiration to all

who behold.

Henry F. Brown was born at East Baldwin, Me., October 10,
1837. He was one of a family of ten children but his father
was a man of sufficient affairs to permit-his education in the
Baldwin and Fryeburg Academies. At the age of seventeen he
sought his fortune in the west, entering upon the lumber busi-
ness of Minnesota. So well did he prosper that on his retire-
ment in 1896 he possessed large ore holdings in the Mesabe
iron range, (under lease to the United States Steel Co.) a large
lumber acreage, both virgin and cutover lands, and a magnifi-
cent Shorthorn estate to which he devoted his remaining years.
He was at one time president of the Union National Bank of
Minneapolis and an organizer and director of the North Ameri-
can Telegraph Co. His death occurred December 17, 1912,
after a delaying battle of two years with disease.

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He bought the first acres of Browndale Farm in 1870, and
two years later secured from the famous herd of CoL. W. S.
Kine, the foundations on which his own Shorthorn operations
were grounded. He paid little attention to the strife in blood-
lines, and merit in form and function was the lodestar toward
which he was attracted. The names of Young Nominee, Queen of
Louans and Missie of Browndale 12th were familiar to breeders
of three distinct epochs in Shorthorn history. In fact no man
in America was able more truly to be christened veteran than
he. For exactly forty years his herd was a figure in the Short-
horn annals and for a period of thirty-four years he never failed
to have an annual sale. From his herd 1,210 Shorthorns were
sold for an average of $250, while thirty-three head left Brown-
dale at prices between $1,000 and $2,025.

In 1891 Mr. Brown became a director of the Shorthorn Asso-
ciation, and later became its president. He provided an infinite
force for good, detesting sham and pretense and always making
public his own stand on essential issues. Throughout the dark
days of business depression in the mid-nineties, he was a source
of inspiration to his fellow breeders and delved deep into his
pocket to tide over many a struggling youngster who had staked
his all on the Shorthorn standard.

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-HOST OF MAXWALTON

106. Rep CARPENTER, senior member of the firm of Car-
PENTER & Ross, proprietors of Maxwalton Farm, was born at
Mansfield, Ohio, June 6th, 1853. Mr. CARPENTER was educated
as a lawyer, and his early years were spent as a practicing attor-
ney. From the vantage point gained in this position, he became
interested in the manufacturing of sanitary appliances, and was
ultimately made president, when the business was incorporated
under the name of the HumpHreys Mrc. Co. He first became
interested in Shorthorns in 1902, placing a few purebreds on
his farms just outside his native city. In 1903 he secured the
services of PETER G. Ross, then herdsman for E. S. Key of
Whitehall Farm, Yellow Springs, Ohio. In order to encourage
Mr. Ross and to make him a permanent supporter of the busi-
ness, he formed a partnership with him in 1905 under the firm
name of CARPENTER & Ross.

The foundation of his success lay in the purchase of the
imported Avalanche in the winter of 1903, the cow then being
in calf to Whitehall Sultan. The following spring she dropped
Avondale 245144, a bull without peer, and asserted by some to
be without equal, as a sire. Avondale won first prize as two-
year-old at the International, was breed champion of the Amer-
ican Royal, and at other ages won prizes ranging from first to
fourth in class. It was not as a show bull, however, that Avon-
dale’s success was marked, but rather through the showyard
winnings and the sale values of his progeny. He was the sire
of five International champions and over a score of first prize
winners. Attempts to replace Avondale with bulls of other
breeding proved unsuccessful, the most notable purchase being
the imported Shenstone Albino, senior champion of the 1909
International, sire of the 1913 champion Pride of Albion, and
grandsire of the 1919 circuit champion Pride of Oakdale. On
Avondale’s death he was replaced by two of his sons, and only

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bulls of his blood have been extensively used in the herd ever
since.

CARPENTER and Ross have imported large numbers of British
and Scotch-bred animals, and have had exceptional averages
almost from the start in their public sales. Mr. CARPENTER was
elected president of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Associa-
tion in 1916 and in 1919, in company with his partner, he made
an extensive tour of Great Britain, visiting all of the leading
herds and historic points of Shorthorn interest. Following this
trip, he and his partner laid the foundations of an Aberdeen-
Angus herd as well, and were highly successful on the fall show
circuit of 1920.

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A MIGHTY MISSOURIAN

107. For over eighty years the name of Ravenswood Farm
has dominated the Shorthorn interests of the state of Missouri.
The acreage itself was acquired in 1825 by NATHANIEL LEONARD,
father of CapTAIn CHARLES E. LEONARD, the director of the
farm for over a half century. The original purchase of Short-
horns was made from Grorce Renick of Kentucky, the year
Captain LEONARD was born, and included the six hundred dollar
white bull Comet Star, and the five hundred dollar red heifer
Queen.

Capt. LEONARD was born on Ravenswood itself, within a few
miles of the present town of Bunceton. After a course in the
Kemper School at Boonville he pursued studies at the Univer-
sity of Missouri. Following his graduation he returned to the
home farm, evincing an active interest in agricultural affairs.
Following his marriage October 22, 1872, to Miss Napine N.
NELSON of a prominent family of bankers, he settled to Short-
horn promotion with a will. Under his direction, the entire
twenty-two hundred acres were utilized for the support of
Shorthorns, and many notable additions were made to the herd.
At the historic New York Mills sale in 1873, three imported
heifers were purchased, Charming Rose, Rosamond 8th, and
Rosette, an average of $4,000 being paid for them. The success
of the Scottish tribes in the hands of Cot. Harris, made Capt.
LEONARD an ardent supporter of the northern sort. He secured
Barbarosa from SENATOR Harris, at $1,000, and in the early
part of the twentieth century acquired the Lockridge-bred (112)
show bull, Lavender Viscount. His greatest breeding achieve-
ment lay in the production of the dam of Americus, that sold
in the Argentine in 1908 for $38,000 gold.

Capt. LEonarRD was a notable judge of men and placed com-
plete confidence in those he charged with responsibility. He
afforded freest opportunity for his herd manager, Mr. Ep Pat-

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TERSON, to use his judgment and talents in the development of
the herd. Capt. LEonarp’s work in behalf of the Shorthorn
breed was much more extensive than the mere showing and sale
of high class stock. He exerted a powerful influence in the
formation of the American Herd Book and loaned the sum of
$10,000 cash to complete the necessary $25,000 for the purchase
of the old herd records of Mr. Louis F. ALLEN (96).

From 1898 to 1902 he was president of the Shorthorn Asso-
ciation, and served continuously as director from its organiza-
tion in 1883 until his resignation in 1906. Caprain LEONARD
had an extremely open mind with reference to cattle and pedi-
gree value, and always recognized merit wherever found. He
was a keen eyed judge whose services were sought in many a
hotly contested ring, and his experience and viewpoints were
treasured as strongly in the financial world, in which he exer-
cised no mean authority in his later life. His death, March 8,
1916, removed one more of that ever dwindling circle of con-
genial pioneers that builded so well at the early Royal and
International shows.

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A DIRECTOR OF SHORTHORN DESTINIES

108. In 1903 the herd of Georce Harpine (115) & Son, which
for years had been a vitalizing factor in the Shorthorn circles
of Wisconsin and the Middle West was put up at public auction
at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, in order to permit Mr.
Greorce Harpinc to retire. For the first time the SADDLE AND
SiRLOIN CLUB was used as a medium for the entertainment of
the buyers at that sale, and it thereby was dedicated to a service
in good fellowship among the breeders of America that it shall
never forego. Mr. FRANK HarpInc, junior partner of the firm,
thereupon took over the entire Anoka establishment, and so
developed and extended its operations that thenceforward it
quite dominated showyard, salering and breeding herd.

The foundation of Mr. Harpinc’s phenomenal success was
the noted show bull and sire, Whitehall Sultan 163573. This
famous animal was imported in dam, being bred by J. DEANE
Wituis, Bapton Manor. His sire was an exceptionally good
white bull sold to the Argentine, Bapton Sultan, and his dam
was the Royal winner, Bapton Pearl. Of predominantly Scotch
bloodlines, he carried through his dam the blood of Moon Daisy,
of an English tribe bred by Deane Wiis’ father. Many con-
sider the dash of English blood the foundation of his success
as a sire. Whitehall Sultan was born to a show world, being
dropped the property of E. S. Ketty, Whitehall Farm, Yellow
Springs, Ohio, on the state fair ground at Springfield, IIl.,
October 11, 1900. He was first shown as a two-year-old at the
1903 International, where he won third place to Mr. Harpinc’s
Ceremonious Archer, sold for $5,000 to Cot. LowpEen. White-
hall Sultan was forthwith purchased for Anoka Farms. In 1904
he was defeated by Choice Goods at the World’s Fair at St.
Louis, but turned the tables on the latter bull at the Illinois
State Fair. Whitehall Sultan lived to be eleven years old, and
approximately 125 calves were dropped to his cover, mostly

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bulls. They were sufficient not only to give Mr. Harpinc a
foremost rank among American breeders but also to dominate
Shorthorn showrings to such a degree that in one period of six
years more than 50 percent of the Shorthorn prize winners at
the International claimed him for ancestor in first, second or
third generation. His sons, Whitehall Marshal (138), White-
hall King, Anoka Sultan, Sultan Stamp, and others were veterans
of Anoka, while Avondale, Glenbrook Sultan and Royal Sultan
established enviable records in other herds.

In addition to his contribution of the Whitehall Sultan blood,
Mr. Harpine has done much in a commercial way for the Short-
horn breed. He was the first man in America to try out con-
sistently the calf sale idea, and has made it the regular means
of distributing Anoka offerings. Furthermore in 1914 he was
elected secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Associa-
tion, having previously been its president. In this capacity he
has expanded the society’s activities greatly, developing a staff
of field workers for the breed to assist in sales, registration,
purchases, fitting, and any other aid the small breeder may
require; a service that has unified the breeders to a degree
never hitherto known. In appreciation of this he was made
executive of the association in June, 1920, and the secretarial
duties were delegated to Roy Groves. Of recent years he has
developed a farm at Wheaton, III., where he will handle animals
of too great age for his calf sales, and animals from other herds
which he may distribute. Mr. Harpinc is still relatively a young
man, being born in 1871, and his story is not yet finished.

278 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

A LEADER OF MODERN SHORTHORN PROGRESS

109. There is an old breeder’s adage to the effect that having
found a successful sire, one should start immediately to look for
a new one, on the theory that when the good animal is gone it will
be too late to find his successor. Few students of bloodlines have
realized how pertinently this applies to tribes and families, as
well as to individuals. The man in American agriculture whose
foresight permitted him to divine this truth was CoLONEL WIL-
tiam A. Harris, the founder of Linwood, and the custodian of
the lamp that lighted the Shorthorn supporters to new achieve-
ments following the days of the Duchess reaction. There is no
question but what America’s greatest nursery for all classes of
purebred livestock was Woodburn Farm (82) and there is scarcely
less certainty that its most worthy and specialized rival was found
by the banks of the Kaw river, on the southern slopes of Linwood
in eastern Kansas.

Cot. Harris’ life was almost an epic. Born at Luray, Va.,
the son of a former congressman and Minister to Brazil, Co.
Harris received his first training at the historic Virginia Military
Institute. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was peacefully
pursuing his studies under the guidance of the professor whose
name comes down to us as “STONEWALL” Jackson. Co. Harris’
father was of that coterie of thinking men who opposed the policy
of secession, but when the will of the majority cast the lot of the
cavaliers’ domain with the South, the younger Harris responded
to the call. His progress in the military service was rapid and
at Gettysburg he was Chief Ordnance Officer of one of the divi-
sions in Longstreet’s corps. Later campaigns against the Con-
federacy completely wrecked the Harris fortune, and the recon-
structive period saw him engaged in locating the Kansas Pacific
railroad from Kansas City to Denver. Although engineer by
training, his insight and instincts were agricultural, and he made
mental note of the excellent grazing location some twenty-five

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miles west of Kansas City that afterward became Linwood. Cot.
Harris was placed in charge of the disposal of Government lands,
granted to the railroad as a subsidy for its building operations,
and later was given control of the campaign for settling the short
grass lands of Western Kansas. A season or two of crop failures
convinced him of the almost criminal nature of the procedure and
he abandoned the position. So successful was his work of this
nature, that he was authorized to close out the Delaware Indian
Reservation. His heart, however, was centered in cattle, and his
energy, in preparing Linwood for his permanent home. In the
early 80’s he divorced completely his other operations and seitled
comfortably into the production of Shorthorns.

Of a constructive yet inquisitive mind Cox. Harris felt that
Shorthorn futures lay elsewhere than in the old Bares founda-
tion, and, from a chance perusal of a Sittyton (89) catalog, he
gleaned the idea that ultimately placed him foremost in the ran s
of Shorthorn achievement. Through the intermediary operations
of J. H. Kisstncer of Missouri and James I. Davipson (117),
Cox. Harris obtained a young bull of the CrurcksHanxk blood,
Baron Victor, at $1,100. In company with him came three thick
Scotch heifers, Violet’s Bud, Victoria 63rd and Victoria 69th.
Baron Victor developed into a bull of magnificent conformatic
burly and curly before the horn, massive in neck and chine, and
prodigious in spread of rib and depth of heart. His loin, quarter
and flanks were heavy and his short leg set him squarely to ‘h<
ground. Mated to the Marys, Josephines, Roses of Sharo: ->.
other Kentucky sorts, he realized instantaneously the ideal of
quick maturing beef. His early progeny at Kansas City sales
could scarcely be led fast enough into the ring to meet the
breeders’ demands. So successful was the Aberdeenshire blocd
that several importations were made by him direct from the
Sittyton herd, and only the peerless Duthie held precedence over
Cox. Harris in Mr. CRUICKSHANK’S esteem.

280 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

The showyard was never a factor in Linwood’s success. COL.
Harris’ prowess was recognized almost before he had opportunity
to advertise, and the competition for his products was keen from
the outset. So important was his service and so well known his
attainments, that in 1892 while selecting an importation in Britain,
a political convention at Wichita unanimously nominated him for
congressman-at-large for the state of Kansas. Against his better
judgment he responded to the call, serving two terms in the House
of Representatives. Following this, his Kansas supporters
showed their appreciation by sending him to the Senate, but the
financial and political struggle proved too great for his later
years. Linwood was dispersed and the acreage sold at a time
of acute business depression, and at last he returned to his old
relationship with the stockmen of the nation.

During his declining years he wielded the gavel at many a
sale, judged in the hottest contests of the ring, and assisted in
the management of shows, and state and national agricultural
conclaves. His last public service was that of Managing Director
of the International Livestock Exposition, and his last public
address to the Shorthorn Breeders of America at their meeting
of 1909. Within the walls of the SADDLE AND SirLoin CLus,
his was the patriarchal voice that all heeded, and his were the
lips that counselled beginner and veteran alike in the steps of
Shorthorn progress. His death in 1910 left a vacancy in the
evening gatherings after show or sale that has never been filled.

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AN EXPERT IN CATTLE VALUES

110. James Brown, superintendent of the cattle buying for
ARMOUR AND CoMPaNy, was born on a farm near Springfield, III.
His chief interest lay always in livestock and the soil, and from
his earliest days he has held more or less extensive farming inter-
ests. Educational opportunities in his family were meagre, due
to the death of his father when he was ten years of age. How-
ever, he attended the rural school annually from December 1
to March 1, until he was sixteen years old, when it became
necessary for him to participate continuously with his brothers
in the operation of the farm. Upon reaching his majority he
decided to extend his interests, and while retaining his partner-
ship in the farm, he entered upon the management of an elevator
near Springfield and also established a tile factory. This was
the first tile factory to be operated in Illinois outside of the
Whitehall district, but in spite of the necessity of shipping some
clays he managed to make it a success. After three or four
years he went west and in the spring of 1880 located at Buffalo,
Wyo., near old Fort McKinney. He obtained some ranching
property and sold his interest in the Illinois farm to extend his
ranch holdings. During this period he lived in Springfield
during the winter and went west for his cattle business in the
summer.

In 1889 he came to Chicago, where he first entered into part-
nership in the commission firm of Warp & Brown as a cattle
salesman. During the five years he was a member of this firm
his work proved of such a nature that Mr. J. Ocb—EN ARMOUR
(69) secured him for the cattle buying department of ARMOUR
AND Company, which position he has now held for over a quarter
of a century. He is head of this department for all the markets
on which ARMOUR AND Company operate, being in charge of their
cattle buying throughout the United States.

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In 1908 he made the initial purchase of Shorthorns for his
farms near Dundee and Elgin, Ill. His herd in recent years
has averaged about seventy-five head of cattle and was headed
by the bull King’s Secret, by King Cumberland, bred by the
Elmendorf farm (68). This bull was followed by Bandmaster,
Jr., of Canadian breeding, an animal that has proved peculiarly
satisfactory. In June, 1919, he sold his herd down to very lim-
ited numbers and is now rebuilding it with animals possessing
the very best pedigrees he can secure. In addition to his
Shorthorns he has bred some Shropshires, and has raised and
fed large numbers of lambs for market. His chief purpose in
operating Thaxton Farms has been to bring the soil up to a
very high state of cultivation, and he has been very successful
in this regard.

Mr. Brown has been a director of the International from the
earliest years, and has particularly devoted his attention to the
carload lots and the upbuilding of the cattle show. His
acquaintance among the cattlemen of America is rivalled by
few, and his career furnishes a challenge to every young man
who must overcome apparently insurmountable obstacles.

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AMERICA’S MOST CONSTRUCTIVE SWINE BREEDER

111. The tale of Berkshire improvement in America is only
complete when one considers Berkshire types in seasons before
the advent of Wood Dale Farm in breeding and showrings, and
the stamp that prevailed thereafter. “The Master Breeder,
who has led the Berkshire breed up from the depths into a
position of commanding eminence,” is NicHoLas H. Gentry.
In early years the Berkshire was a short, compact fine-boned
pig, whose prick ears and short face were deemed non-concomi-
tant with the deep side, long body and finished scale that
market bacon and lard ideals demanded. So thoroughly had
this notion been inculcated into the American swine producers,
that the grass nurtured hog of the Miami valley and the mas-
sive framed descendant of the Jersey Red gradually over-
whelmed the qualitied progeny of English pork triumphs. To
“Nick” GENTRY more than to any other man, is due the credit
for the re-establishment of the breed’s prestige and the promo-
tion of its distribution.

N. H. Gentry was born on Wood Dale Farm, March 16th,
1850. His grandfather, REUBEN GENTRY, had entered the land
from the Government direct, and had settled on it in 1819, just
one century ago. Not an acre of it has ever been transferred
from the family and the title reads only in the GENTRY name.
The pioneer GENTRY emigrated from Madison Co., Kentucky, to
Missouri in 1809, fast on the heels of DAanieL Boone. Both
REUBEN GENTRY and son lived the fullness of their years on
Wood Dale Farm, but it was not until 1875 when N. H. Gentry
paid the SNELLs of Edmonton, Ontario, $1,800 for three imported
Berkshires that the standard of purebred livestock was placed
at the head of the farm policy.

From the blood of these three individuals came the entire
herds of later years. Mr. Gentry’s system of linebreeding and
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demonstrated the value of pedigree matings, that a record of
his showyard successes at America’s two greatest livestock con-
claves, the Columbian and Louisiana Purchase Expositions, is
here presented. At Chicago Wood Dale Herd won seven firsts,
seven seconds, two thirds, five fourths, two fifths, two sevenths,
one eighth, one tenth, one eleventh and three championships,
while animals of this breeding won an additional four firsts,
six seconds, seven thirds, four fourths, three fifths, one sixth,
one seventh, two eighths, one tenth, one eleventh and one
twelfth. Mr. Gentry’s King Lee was champion boar bred by
exhibitor and his Baron Duke, reserve. Duchess 123d, daughter
of his famous Longfellow, won a similar prize in the sows,
with Duchess 118th reserve. At the St. Louis Fair sixteen firsts,
seven seconds, four thirds, one fourth, two sevenths, two eighths
and 14 champions (including barrows) fell to his lot. Such

a triumph had never befallen any other swine exhibitor on this
continent.

Mr. Gentry has bred Shorthorn cattle simultaneously with
his Berkshires, maintaining an average herd of 100 head. His
success with early sires lay in the great “Linwood” breeding
bull, Victorious, followed by the Choice Goods bull, The Choice
of All, first at the American Royal of 1904.

Mr. GEntRY’s public services and offices have been numerous.
He was one of a committee of eighteen to represent the live-
stock industry of America at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.
For years previous to the Association of State Fair Managers,
there existed an organization of livestock exhibitors which met
annually at the Illinois State Fair, then the close of the state
fair circuit. Mr. Gentry was president of this Association for
some years, with G. Howarp Davison, (8) secretary, and the
organization went out of existence, only when the State Fair
Managers’ Association was born. Mr. Gentry has been a
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twenty years and a member of the State Fair Board from its
incipiency. He has been a director of the American Shorthorn
Breeders’ Association and the American Berkshire Association,
and was president of the latter organization from 1896 to 1902.
He was a member of the commission responsible for the Mis-
souri display at the Columbian Exposition, and secured an
appropriation of $20,000 for special premiums for Missouri
livestock at this show. A similar position at the St. Louis Fair
enabled him to obtain a $100,000 appropriation for Missouri
exhibits. During the recent war he was on the committee of
seven chosen by Food Administrator Hoover to determine the
equitable ratio between corn and hogs for the period of the
war, the much-talked-of 13 to 1 ratio. He was also a member
of the National Agricultural Advisory Committee during the
same period.

Mr. GENTRY’s portrait was donated to the SADDLE AND Sir-
Loin CLus by the members of the American Berkshire Associa-
tion, and the letters from the hundred and forty-seven contrib-
utors who expressed their appreciation of Mr. GentrRy’s serv-
ices were bound in a single volume and presented to him by the
CLus. There have been many masters of swine husbandry in
America during the century and a half since constructive atten-
tion has been given to the forming of improved breeds, but Mr.
GentRY, by the national nature of his service and the individual
independence of his methods, towers the dominant figure among
them.

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A BATTLER FOR BETTER CATTLE

112. S. F. Locxrivce shares with B. F. Van METER (98)
the honor of linking the generations of the BooTH and BaTEs
days of Shorthorn breeding with the present. “Sim” LOCKRIDGE
was born in Putnam Co., Indiana, January 23, 1846, not far
from the town of Greencastle where he at present resides. His
education was received in the village school, but his earliest
surroundings associated him with Shorthorns. In 1853 Dr.
A. C. STEVENSON made an importation of the breed from Eng-
land, bringing them to Greencastle. Young LockripcE became
vitally interested in these animals, but his parents overruled
any desires he had for a close association with them by requir-
ing a strict attendance at the public school.

The outbreak of the Civil War called him to army service,
and he served in the 78th and 133rd regiments of Indiana vol-
unteer infantry. In 1868 he graduated from Indiana Asbury
University (now DePauw), and traveled and read law for three
years. In 1872 he began breeding Shorthorn cattle, and for
the following two years was president of the Putnam County
Agricultural Society. He laid his Shorthorn foundations
slowly, visiting many of the fairs of the early 70’s to study
both the Kentucky and Central West types before reaching his
decision. His first Shorthorns were bought at the Hucues &
RicHARDSON sale of June, 1872, just across the road from head-
quarters of the later-developed Elmendorf (68) estate. He
picked a half dozen females of excellent individuality, but of
rather plain breeding, for which he paid an average price of
well above $600. The sale of Breastplate to Mr. PICKRELL in
1863 for $6,250 caused Mr. Lockrivce to lean rather strongly
toward the Booth cattle. He was unable to perceive why the
Booths with wonderful backs, broad crops, thick flesh and
straight lines, were to be condemned for their supposed failure
in lineage. In 1874 he proceeded to Canada to attend several

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sales in the vicinity of Toronto. There he saw some of the very
best of the early Scotch importations, and after a careful study
of a number of sires secured from MR. JoHN MILLER, (114)
the great bull Lord Strathallan, for $2,050 gold, then the equiva-
lent of $2,500 currency. This was his introduction to the Scotch
sorts, and while he was not arbitrary in his promotion of them,
he ever after combined Scotch bloods with his Booth founda-
tions. His most noted bull following Lord Strathallan was
Baron Lavender 3d, which he purchased in the spring of 1899.
This bull proved an excellent sire for him and he never
obtained from his service a bad or indifferent calf. Most nota-
ble of these was Lavender Viscount, champion of the American
Royal, Goldfinch, Royal Avalanche, Golden Crest and Sun-
flower 4th.

In 1874 Mr. Locxripce was elected secretary of the Ameri-
can Association of Breeders of Shorthorns, which position he
held until 1882. From 1881 to 1883 he was a member of the
state senate of Indiana, and later became so strongly identified
with Grand Army affairs as to be elected Commander of the
Greencastle Post, and aide-de-camp on the staff of GENERAL ELI
TORRENCE, when the latter was Commander-in-Chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic. In 1882 he was prominent
among the founders of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Asso-
ciation, being elected a director, a position he retained for
twenty-seven years. In 1899 he was a delegate to the Farmers’
National Congress in Boston, and in 1900-01 was president of
the Central Shorthorn Breeders’ Association. The following
year he was elected president of the American Shorthorn Breed-
ers’ Association, to which he was subsequently twice re-elected.

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Mr. LocxripcE has been an ardent champion of the red,
white and roan and has served its interests well since he has
always paid highest attention to individuality, and has made
pedigree fashion more or less subsidiary to his other demands.
He has exerted a great stabilizing influence among his fellow
breeders and has called forth numerous expressions of their
esteem. In length of service he stands second only to Mr. Van
METER, and his years add richly to his personality and mem-
ories.

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KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN DAYS

113. Most delightfully reminiscent of all the makers of
bovine history who were wont to gather at the old Drake-Parker
hostelry in the days of the Lake Front Show, was RicHarp Grs-
SON, whom Mr. Sanpers has fitly termed a “Knight of the
Golden Days.” Mr. Gipson possessed the essence of all those
qualities that have made the Anglo-Saxon foremost as breed
builders and inherent animal fanciers. He had an exceptional
appreciation of the products of the breeder’s art, and he loved
with every fibre of his being, any choice representative of
blooded race. “Like ‘Jorrocks’ of old he was a devout believer
in the efficacy of ‘a bit o’ blood’ whether it be in a ’orse, a ‘ound,
or a woman.” He was an ardent admirer of rural English
sport, the course, the chase, the coach and the cock-pit. He
teemed with the sentiment that exalts rural beauty, and treasured
its shades and odors. Shortly after coming to America he
requested and received acorns from one of the royal domains
of Britain, and having successfully grown them into seedlings,
he presented some to the city of London, Ontario, for plant-
ing in Victoria Park in commemoration of the coronation of
Kinc GEORGE.

RicHarp Gigson was born February 20, 1840, almost within
the shadows of Belvoir castle walls. He was the eldest of eight
sons in a family of fourteen. In early life his father removed
from Leicestershire to Derbyshire. He was educated in the
grammar schools of Derby and Lincoln, and received his first
business training in the office of a Lincoln grain merchant. Fol-
lowing this, he returned to his father’s farm, Swarkeston, and
for four years worked patiently to learn the details of the farm-
ing and livestock operations upon an estate of approximately
600 acres. Here he managed to win several prizes for excep-
tional work in plowing and cultivation. When twenty-one he
and his brother Joun, (of Lincoln sheep fame in Canada),

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crossed over to Quebec, and went into service at GEORGE Ros-
son’s Spring Grove farm north of London. Here he rooted
out the fundamentals of Canadian agriculture, and forthwith
took charge of a fifteen hundred acre estate on Long Island,
belonging to a New York ship builder. Finding that his tastes
and activities had insufficient rein, he undertook the handling
of the fourteen hundred acre farm near Utica, New York, owned
by Watcock and CAMPBELL of the New York Sheeting Mills,
cotton manufacturers. Mr. Gipson induced the proprietors to
enter into purebred livestock, and after a short experience with
Ayrshires on the suggestion of Mr. CAMPBELL, he succeeded in
getting Shorthorns introduced.

While America had early given allegiance to the BATES fam-
ilies, England retained predominantly the Bootu tribes. In
the hope of popularizing the WarLaBy stock, Mr. GIBSON made
a visit to THomas C. Bootu, (85) then at the pinnacle of his
showyard career with the Royal champions Commander-in-Chief
and Lady Fragrant. It had been a set policy of WARLABY never
to sell females, and it was only when Mr. Gipson promised to
take the animals out of Britain that a price was quoted. Among
the ten head selected was the $5,000 show heifer Bride of the
Vale. Two years:later a like number of Bootu-bred animals
were again imported by him. Fearing the inroads of the War-
LABY animals, Mr. SHELDON, owner of all the Thorndale
Duchesses, offered to sell a half of his herd. After some dis-
cussion between Mr. Gipson and Mr. CAMPBELL, the division
was made, the Duchesses costing $5,500 apiece, and the Oxfords
$2,800. A year later the remainder of the herd was taken over.

About this time it was discovered that the only Duchesses of
pure BATEs descent were those owned at New York Mills, and
in 1873, Britain and America matched pounds against dollars
to secure possession of this noted collection. The astounding
total of $381,999 was reached for 109 head, the top price being

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$40,600 for the 8th Duchess of Geneva. Following this, Mr.
GIBSON engaged in numerous enterprises on his own account,
and in 1883 purchased Belvoir near the village of Delaware,
Ontario. Mr. Gipson was an ardent lover of the English sort
of Shorthorn, and could not approve of the less stylish, though
heavier-bodied Scottish stamp. For years he gamely fought a
losing fight for BaTEs and Bootn, but with the waning of their
popularity he entered into broader fields. He was president of
the Dominion Shorthorn Association, and the Canadian Kennel
Club. He was a member of the agricultural commission
appointed by the Ontario Government in 1880, and held numer-
ous offices in connection with a number of stock breeders’ organ-
izations both in the State and in Canada.

RicHarp Gipson was a fluent conversationalist, and possessed
an inexhaustible fund of cattle lore. His sense of humor
assured him of an admiring audience, while his ability to weave
romance won him a permanent place in the hearts of those who
listened.

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A PIONEER FOR THE SCOTTISH BLOODS

114. One of the veteran stockbreeders of Ontario who worked
so diligently to upbuild the Scottish Shorthorn interests in the
early days of Canadian cattle breeding was Mr. Joun MILLER
of “Thistle Ha’” farm. Mr. MILLER was born May 12, 1817,
near Annan, Dumfrieshire, in Scotland. On April 12, 1835,
he left Scotland in a sailing vessel and arrived at Markham,
Ont., June 1, with a consignment of Leicester sheep and Berk-
shire swine for his uncle, GEoRGE MILLER, another of Ontario’s
agricultural pioneers. For five years he worked steadfastly for
this uncle, but on the arrival of his father and mother from
Scotland he participated with them in clearing what is now
known as the Atha farm. For eight years he worked for his
parents, but in 1848 he bought Thistle Ha’ so called from the
bad state of its cultivation at its purchase. This ground orig-
inally contained 165 acres, but from time to time more land
was added until it included over a square mile. Except for
100 acres of cedar land, this entire farm was kept in a high
state of cultivation.

The year following his arrival in Ontario, he showed a young
Shorthorn bull against all ages and breeds in a class of eight
at the Toronto spring show, and took first prize. At the first
provincial show in London, 1854, he won first and second on
two imported yearling Shorthorn heifers. In 1857 he showed
four two-year-old heifers and the bull Redkirk. He was very
successful in all Dominion showrings, including the provincial
fair and also won in several of the northern state fairs in the
United States. In 1867 he purchased from J. H. Spear the cow
Nellie Bly 2d for $1,000, after she had won first at St. Louis
and several other places. She was the first bovine to be intro-
duced to Canada at such a price and became the foundation of
that branch of the Nelly Bly family that was for so many years
popular in the provinces. About this same time he purchased

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the Prince of Bourbon, 6060, from R. A. ALEXANDER, (82) and
followed him with Oxford Mazurka, 8750, which he showed
continuously for five years, only failing twice to take first
money. In later shows Oxford Mazurka defeated the bulls that
beat him on these two occasions, but owing to an injury he had
ultimately to be killed. He dressed a carcass of 1870 pounds.

In 1869 he and his brother Wittiam, (116) imported the
renowned show cow Ruberta which was sold to Hon. M. H.
CocHRan_E for $1,000, and later transferred to Cot. W. S. Kinc
of Minneapolis for $2,000, where she enjoyed an exceptionally
successful show career. In 1870 he imported a number of very
good Scetch cows including the Highland champion, Rose of
Strathallan. She reared ten calves for Mr. MILLER and was
the dam or grand-dam of an enormous number of prize winners.
Her son, Lord Strathallan, was shown all over Canada and was
very successful, winning first eleven times at leading American
shows. In 1878 three bulls descended from this dam, won
first, second and third places at Toronto, and the following
year one of them gained the sweepstakes at the same place. In
1881 her son, Crown Prince of Strathallan, defeated Messrs.
Watts’ celebrated Barmpton Hero, the only time he was ever
beaten in the showring. Another cow of the same importation
was Isabella, foundress of the favorably known Canadian family.
She was never defeated in the showring except by her stable
companion, Nelly Bly 2d. Mr. MiLier’s show herds of the late
80’s and early 90’s were headed by the great show bull Vice
Consul, a bull that was never defeated in class.

In 1854. Mr. MILLER imported his first Clydesdale, Rob Roy,
and six years later brought over the famous Black Douglas.
His best known mare at this time was the Canadian-bred Maggie,
that had won twenty-two first prizes. She girthed eight feet
and one inch. To the service of Black Douglas she produced
the sweepstakes winner at the provincial show of 1863, winning

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over a number of imported horses. In 1865 he imported the
far famed Comet 174, a horse that had traveled in Scotland
one season, but that remained in service in Ontario for upwards
of twenty years. Many of his colts were prize winners, and
with the exception of Netherby 126, there was never a horse
in Ontario that sired so many good colts. In 1875 he showed
four imported mares at five different shows, and won first prize
on each occasion. In 1882 he imported a horse and three mares,
winning with them both at the Provincial and at Toronto. In
1883 he imported thirteen animals and in 1884 nine, several
prize winners being included in each lot. For the next four
years he made extensive Scotch purchases but in 1887 and °88
his sales were so large he was unable to show. In 1885 he won
first with a Canadian-bred yearling by Boydston Boy, that
defeated the first prize winners at the English Royal, the Royal
Northern, and the Glasgow Summer show that year. He sold
this horse for $2,500, the highest price ever received for a
Canadian-bred drafter up to that time.

During his first ten years he imported and bred Leicester
sheep and for the next fifteen, maintained a flock of Cotswolds
as well, but from 1860 to 1880 he bred Cotswolds only, with
the exception of a few Shropshires handled between 1863 and
1867. From 1880 onward, however, extensive importations of
Shropshires were made and the foundations of many successful
flocks both in showyards and breeding pens were laid in Thistle
Ha’ purchases. In 1887 his Shropshires won the silver medal
at Toronto for the best middle or fine wool flock, and in 1888
they won the flock prizes both at the Provincial and at Toronto.
In 1889 he sold from the farm eighty-five Cotswolds and 425
Shropshires, his stud rams being the imported ram Director
and the undefeated English and Canadian champion lamb,
Spearman. For a number of years MR. MILLER paid consid-

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erable attention to Berkshires, but after 1880 made no attempt
to keep up the pedigrees. He died August 29, 1904.

Joun MILLER’s integrity and good judgment made him a
servant of highest value to the stock raising public. His
influence on both Canadian and American flocks and herds was
second to none and the number of breeders who traced their
success to his foundations became greater with each year of his
operations.

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FOUNDER OF ANOKA HERDS AND FLOCKS

115. The word Anoka in the language of the Wisconsin
Indians means “wind-favored spot.” It was chosen by GEORGE
HarvInc as the name of his Wisconsin farm more than a quarter
of a century ago, at a time when his success in the Shorthorn
world demanded a dignified title for the produce he was annually
vending to an eager and constructive trade.

Mr. Harpinc was born in Pittsfield, New York, in 1840, a
few months after the arrival of his parents from Winchester,
England. His boyhood days were spent in Ohio, in the vicinity
of Painesville, where his father and GENERAL CASEMENT, finan-
cier and pioneer railway promoter of Kansas and Colorado,
grew in business together. In 1880, Mr. HarpiInc migrated to
Wisconsin, where he engaged in a hardware mercantile business
in both Waukesha and Chippewa Falls. After nine years of
pursuit of this industry, Mr. Harpinc purchased 160 acres near
Waukesha, which ultimately became: known as Home Farm
among the Anoka Farm holdings.

In 1870 he decided to embark in the breeding of Cotswold
sheep and Shorthorn cattle. The Cotswolds were secured from
the flock of ABNER STRAWN, Ottawa, IIl., and became a chief
source of supply of sheep of this breed in later years. In 1885
Mr. Harpinc advanced the money necessary to put the American
Cotswold Association on its feet, taking pay in the stock of the
Association. His son was elected secretary and a turning point
in the society’s finances occurred. The registration became self-
supporting and funds became available for use as prizes at the
leading fairs and expositions. Shropshires were added to Anoka
about 1900, and Hampshires have been handled at intervals
since.

The first Shorthorns were secured from C. C. Park, Glen Flora
Farm, Waukegan; a bull named Baron Bertram and two heifers,
whose total cost was $1,200. From the bluegrass breeders he

GEORGE HARDING

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secured the majority of his early Anoka stock, but he obtained
some in the Genesee Valley in New York, and a particularly
good lot of Young Marys and Roses of Sharon from W. A. Sat-
TERWHITE of Illinois. His first Scotch Shorthorn was the bull
Strathearn, secured from Joun Mixer, (114) Brougham, Ont.

He entered the showring about 1875, and remained in it
annually for a period of twenty-eight years when he turned his
responsibilities over to his son, Frank W. Harpine (108). In
the contests of the early 80’s he occupied a conspicuous position
in the leading western shows, Strathearn being a good forerunner
of Cupbearer and Young Abbotsburn. Scotch females were
secured by direct purchase abroad or from the stocks of COL.
Harris, (109) Joun Mrtter (114) and LurHer ADAms.
His greatest years in the showring were his later ones, his
achievements of one year being the foundation on which he
builded better for the succeeding years. The grand champion at
the first American Royal in 1900 was Viscount of Anoka, cham-
pion at most American shows for a period of two years, while
Best of Archers not only did yeoman service in the ring, but
begot the 1903 International champion, Ceremonious Archer, out
of his veteran Lady-in-Waiting.

Toward the close of his career, Mr. Harpinc served as a dis-
tributor of numerous lots of cattle of other than his own breed-
ing, and in 1901, despite the desperate drouth that enthralled
the entire Mississippi Valley, he held an exceptionally successful
sale at the Dexter Park Pavilion in Chicago, making $657 average
on 43 head. Throughout the 1900 and 1901 show season the
Anoka herd won first more times than any herd with which it
competed, except that of J. G. Roppins & Sons. At the 1901
Royal, Anoka’s Golden Victor won the Armour trophy for the
best bull of the breed. In 1903, Mr. Harpinc planned the dis-
persion of his Anoka herd in order to effect a settlement of his
interests with his son and to permit his retirement. Eleven bulls

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averaged $489.05 and seventy-seven cows, $467.75. The herd
bull Best of Archers reached the top at $1,605.

Two large manufacturing plants were maintained by Mr.
Harpinc in Waukesha, the Modern Structural Steel Co., and the
Waukesha Malleable Iron Co. At one time he was mayor of
the city and gave much time to the upbuilding and beautification
of the community. His death in 1909 closed a lifetime of pro-
gressive service. GEORGE HarRpDING was a man of few words but
many thoughts. Like most men of real power, he was self con-
tained and unassuming. For a period of thirty years he actively
supported every constructive movement tending toward the bet-
tering of Wisconsin livestock, and Anoka has been identified with
almost every operation that has builded toward higher values and
broader recognition of the Badger state’s fundamental industry.

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A HUSBANDMAN FROM OXFORD

116. Another representative of the Aberdeenshire Miller family
that played so important a role in the Shorthorn and Clydesdale
history during the formative days of Canadian agriculture was
Mr. WILLIAM MILLER, nephew of Georce MILLER of Markham,
Ontario, and brother of Mr. Joun Mitier (114). Mr. Miier’s
father was also named WituiaM MILLER, and he was partner
with Grorce MILLER in some of the early enterprises which intro-
duced Scotch Shorthorns from the north of Caledon. WILLIAM
MIL_eR, Jk., was born in 1834 near Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire,
Scotland. He was educated in the common schools of Canada
and at Oxford University, gaining a training that gave him a
most facile expression in later life. The rudiments of livestock
were learned on his father’s farm, near Pickering, Ontario, to
which place he came in 1839. During the period extending from
1854 to 1861, numerous importations were made into Canada
from the herd of RoBerT Syme of Redkirk, Dumfrieshire, by
GeorcE and Wituiam MILuer. With the first lot Mr. MILLER
brought over that showyard veteran, Simon BeEattiz. The original
selections in large part were made by WILLIAM MILLER, Jr., then
a young man making his first tour of the old country herds and
flocks. Mr. MILLer selected the bull Redkirk 15138, a fine roan
of medium size that was shown by Mr. Joun MILLER, and later
sold into New York. In the spring of 1869, Mr. Witt1am MILLER
imported the grand roan show heifer Ruberta, bred by the
Messrs. GARNE of Broadmoor, Gloucestershire. This heifer was
fed out for show by JoHN and Witiiam MILLER and successfully
exhibited previous to being sold to M. H. Cocurane at Hillhurst.

In 1881 he undertook the management of a farm owned by a
Mr. Simpson, collector of customs in Montreal, but in 1884 went
to Hillhurst. In the fall of 1886, Mr. LutHer Apams, Boston,
Mass., secured a large farm at Storm Lake, Iowa, and commis-
sioned WiLLIAM MILLER to stock it, and to secure a shipment of

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the best young cattle obtainable in Scotland. By this time Mr.
MILLER was known on both sides of the water as a shrewd, keen
witted “all around judge,” and his seasoned maturity and broad
acquaintance stamped him as one of the makers of American
Shorthorn history. Canadian quarantine regulations had at this
time rendered it impossible to forward more of the SITTYTON
surplus to Mr. Davipson, (117) and Mr. MILLeEr’s fortunate
arrival at this time to secure the 1886 shipment permitted Mr.
LutHER Apams’ herd to become the final American outlet for
Mr. CruIcKsHANK. Only one bull was secured in this importa-
tion, the red calf Harvester by Baron Violet, but a number of
choice heifers were included, Simplicity, Gwendoline, Athene,
Golden Feather, Sorrel, Golden Crest and Violet Mist. Mr.
MILLER made a strong attempt to secure the bull Commodore,
a noble roan by Baron Violet out of the famous Custard, dam of
Cumberland, then Mr. CRUICKSHANK’s herd bull. Mr. Crutck-
SHANK would not price him, however, so Mr. MILLER visited the
Collynie and Uppermill herds, securing a number of young stock
by Field Marshal and William of Orange. The most notable
bull secured in this importation was the yearling Cupbearer
which had just been sold by Mr. DuTHIE to an Ontario breeder,
and sent to Liverpool for shipment. On account of the Canadian
quarantine, he had to be returned to Collynie, whereupon Mr.
MILLER secured him for Mr. Apams. During the previous sum:
mer he had won first prize in his class at the Royal Northern,
and had stood reserve champion to Field Marshal. This bul)
really proved to be the making of the Apams herd, winning
everywhere in the seasons of 1888 and 1889, and being American
Champion until defeated by the magnificent Young Abbotsburn.

In 1887 Mr. Miter brought out a magnificent herd for Lake-
side headed by the thick fleshed compactly built red Strathearn,
bred by JoHn MILLER. The cow and the two-year-old in this herd
were the remarkable Miss Ramsden’s 9th and 10th. In the fall

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of this year Mr. MILLER again visited Scotland and secured 31
heifers and 39 bulls, all from the herds of CruickKSHANK, DuTHIE,
Marr and CaMpsELL. This was the largest importation ever made
directly from Aberdeenshire to the United States, and included
the great roan Princess Alice and the famous Craven Knight, both
ultimately in the herds of Cot. Harris (109), also the well
known Gay Monarch purchased by J. G. Roppins & Sons. In
1889, Mr. MILLER made the last importation for Mr. ApDAms,
consisting of 12 young bulls and 18 heifers. Soon after the
animals had gone through quarantine, Mr. Apams dispersed his
entire stock, Strathearn going to GrorcE Harpinc (115) and
Cupbearer to Jonn Hope, of Bow Park. Sixteen yearling heifers
and Craven Knight were secured by Cot. Harris. Lakeside farm
itself was sold to Mr. T. H. SHERLEY of Louisville, Ky.

In 1891 Witu1am MILLER succeeded Joun T. Gipson in charge
of the North Oaks herd of James J. Hii, but remained only a
year. On its dispersal in 1893, half of the herd went to Mr.
SHERLEY of Lakeside farm and Mr. MILLER resumed management.
In 1898 he purchased the farm from Mr. SHERLEY, stocked it
with Aberdeen-Angus and feeding cattle and spent his declining
years on that valuable Iowa property. He died December 21,
1905, one of the most widely known and most fundamental
contributors to the Aberdeenshire success in America. He made
nearly one hundred trips across the Atlantic, exporting steers as
well as importing breeding stock. He handled several loads of
the famous Gillett cattle for British butcher buyers. Mr. MILLER
was a writer of great skill. His father was an intimate and
valued friend of THomas CARLYLE and he inherited much of the

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senior MILLER’s pronounced literary genius. On one occasion
Mr. D. T. MircHet (Ik Marve.) contributed to a Christmas
Breeder’s Gazette, and referred to an article of Mr. MILLER’s in
a previous issue with this comment, “When you can secure such
matter as Mr. MILier’s article of last year, from within the ranks
of your own constituency, I do not see why you need call pro-
fessional literary men to your aid.”

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AN IDEAL SCOT

117. The death of James IRonswe Davipson on February 15,
1902, at his beautiful home near Balsam, Ontario, removed from
the roll of Canadian purebred stockbreeders one of its most prom-
inent, successful and interesting figures. Mr. Davipson was a
man of sterling character and unsullied honor, of splendid phy-
sique and kindly disposition; his genial manner numbering on
his list of friends a host of lovers of good livestock in Canada,
the United States and Scotland. Mr. Davipson’s specialties in
stockbreeding were Clydesdale horses and Shorthorn cattle, he
was a safe and sound judge of both classes, a successful importer
and breeder, and a liberal and judicious feeder. He enjoyed the
personal friendship and confidence of AMos CRUICKSHANK (89)
and for some years was the principal importer and distributor of
the Sittyton cattle on this side of the Atlantic.

Mr. Davipson was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1818
and emigrated to Canada in 1842. His first agricultural invest-
ment was in his farm where he built himself a good log house,
and prepared a stable for a $165 team of horses, six cattle and
four sheep. The six cattle cost him $80. Mr. Davipson remarked
that these were “no very high prices, but when I had the progeny
to sell, it reminded me of a friend of mine who often told me
he was a good buyer; few could buy as quick as he, but he never
was a good hand at selling.” Mr. Davipson experienced the
same difficulty in this new country. He had paid cash for his
purchases, but in order to sell had to give credit or take articles
he did not want. He lost no opportunity to improve his stock
by the use of the best animals he could find, and electrified his
neighbors by selling a three-year-old steer just off the grass,
to the Toronto butcher, Mr. Jonn Ciark, for the cash sum of
$50. So pleased was Mr. CiarK, by his purchase that he recom-
mended Mr. Davinson to feed some animals for Christmas and

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Easter, advice which Mr. Davapson followed, securing $100 for
a steer, and $125 for a three-year-old heifer.

He began feeding Shorthorns about 1860, but it was not until
1871, when the Shorthorn world was topsy-turvy on linebred
cattle and paying fabulous prices for paper pedigrees, that he
made his first importation of the composite blooded cattle from
Sittyton. This was the third importation from this herd to enter
Canada, but the first to make any permanent impress on the
stocks of the day.

In 1872 he made another small importation from Sittyton and
found such ready sale for them that, in 1874, he brought one bull
and nineteen females across. The following year he sold his
first CRUICKSHANK cattle into the United States, Dr. NoEL of
Tennessee securing two heifers at $1,800, and Mr. J. H. KissincEr
of Missouri purchasing a carload which he exhibited in the show-
rings in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. This created a demand for
CRUICKSHANK cattle far beyond Mr. Davipson’s supply, and
although he imported 185 head he could scarcely keep any
females for his own use. Many calves of his own breeding
realized $500 apiece, and in 1880 when there was but little
demand for Shorthorns he disposed of six calves to the MEssRs.
SniweR for $1,500, which were resold on the next day to Mr.
PatmeER of Missouri for $2,000. At Mr. PaLmer’s dispersion
these animals brought $4,560. Mr. Davipson continued import-
ing for Mr. CRUICKSHANK until 1886 when the outbreak of pleuro-
pneumonia during quarantine at Quebec made him unwilling to
run any further risks.

About this time Mr. CruicKsHANK decided to dispose of his
herd, and gave Mr. Davipson the first offer for it. So high was
the esteem in which each held the other, that the following quota-
tion from a letter written by Mr. CRUICKSHANK at the close of
their mutual transactions stated: “I am quite satisfied with the
statement, and taking a retrospective view of our transactions for

JAMES I. DAVIDSON

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so many years, and they have been very extensive, it seems to me
almost marvelous that they have gone on so smoothly, not a jar
on either side; it is cause for great thankfulness, and I don’t
want our correspondence to drop.”

Mr. Davinson began breeding Clydesdales in 1886. In that
year he imported Darling Ist, a prize winner at the Highland
Show. She produced three foals for Mr. Davinson, the first one
being his famous Darling 2d, that produced progeny which he
sold for a sum above $10,000. Darling 2d had nine foals, and
the lowest price for any single one was for the yearling filly,
Darling 3d which sold for $1,000. In the stud of Mr. Morrarrt,
Darling 3d gave rise to some thirty-five descendants, ten of which
sold for over $10,000, and the other twenty-five served as Mr.
MorratT’s producing stud.

Mr. Davipson was a modest man of retiring disposition but
there came a time when his political friends insisted that he was
the only man who could carry the riding to their interest. In
1891 he was elected by a majority to the Canadian House of
Commons, a position he held until his death. His vigorous con-
stitution and mentality was maintained until the last, and with
the exception of failing eyesight, he enjoyed almost perfect
health until within a week of the end. An attack of pneumonia,
however, could not be controlled, and he passed away peacefully
in his 84th year, honored and esteemed by all who knew him.
Mr. Joun DrypEN (14) published an enconium on Mr. Davipson
in which he stated as a highest form of compliment, that “Mr.
Davipson was a typical Scotchman.” Mr. Wituiam MILLER
(116) wrote Mr. Ocitvie (6) this quaint and expressive com-
ment, “Mr. Davipson was not a typical Scotchman, as JOHN
DRYDEN says; he was an ideal Scot!”

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KEEPER OF THE SHORTHORN SEALS

118. Since the beginning of Illinois’ agricultural history,
Sangamon county has stood for the best in improved livestock,
and some of the earliest Shorthorn herds were cradled within its
environs. Nurtured in this progressive atmosphere, numerous of
her sons have stepped out from her borders to render the highest
of services to purebred livestock breeding. Such a man was
Joun W. Groves, secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders’
Association from 1901 to 1912. Born in 1849 and possessed of
a good common school education, Mr. Groves early took a
prominent part in the rather extensive business affairs in which
his father and brothers were engaged near Williamsville, IIl.
Nurtured on the farm his interests naturally ran to farm products,
and he bred and fed market cattle for a term of years during the
latter 70’s and early 80’s. An opportunity for personal advance-
ment brought him to Chicago in the livestock commission busi-
ness about 1885, but he soon tired of the atmosphere and did not
realize his expectations, due to the business depression of the
period. Hence about 1890 he returned to Williamsville and once
more participated with his family in their business there. He
took charge of one of the several farms operated by GEORGE
Groves & Sons, and in addition conducted a flourishing business
as buyer and shipper of market stock. In 1894 he was elected
treasurer of his county, retaining that position until 1898.

The following year Mr. Groves entered into his first relations
with the Shorthorns, when upon the recommendation of J. FRANK
PRATHER, (119) his associate in a Williamsville bank, he was
elected assistant secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders’
Association. At that time Mr. PicKRELL (95) was beginning to
lose some of that sturdy vigor which had characterized the earlier
years of his life, and due to insufficient help the work of the
office had piled up to about a twelve-month arrearage. On Mr.
PICKRELL’s demise in 1901, Mr. GRovEs was made his successor

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and immediately set about bringing the work up to date. An
office force of five clerks was increased to about twenty who
worked in day and night shifts, and when in 1903 the location
of the office was changed from Springfield to Chicago in the new
Pedigree Record building, the work of registration was well in
hand. He continued as breed secretary until his death, April 2,
1912.

Mr. Groves inaugurated two changes in the record system of
Shorthorns which in addition to economizing space had an excel-
lent influence on the habit of pedigree thinking among Shorthorn
breeders. The clumsy system of the earlier volumes wherein
a cow was given a page and volume number was replaced by
registration numbers similar to those used in the bulls. Further-
more, instead of printing the extended pedigree with its undue
weight on imported or foundation cows, a single line system
was adopted which gave sire and dam only, omitting the previ-
ously stressed female descent.

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A STEADFAST DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

119. J. Frank PratHer, Illinois Shorthorn veteran, was born
January 24, 1859, in Pike Co., Ohio. In his early years his
father Joun PRATHER, an extensive feeder of market cattle, re-
moved to Williamsville, Ill., where he pursued his livestock activi-
ties. Mr. PRATHER was educated in the rural schools, receiving
a partial high school education in Williamsville. At the age of
sixteen, he assumed care of the show herd of his brother, SAMUEL
E. Prater. The head of the herd was Brurer’s Booth, and the
two principal females were Queen of Riverdale and Silly Dale,
the latter two tracing to imported White Rose by Publicola. In
1877 his father purchased for him the farm he at present occu-
pies, and the following year he embarked on the breeding of
Shorthorns.

His most noted years with the Shorthorns date from his asso-
ciation with C. B. Dustin in 1891. He was at that time anxious
to secure a bull with which to head his herd, and learning that
Mr. DusTIN was going to Scotland, made arrangements with him
to secure a herd bull from Dutuie of Collynie. Mr. Dustin’s
herdsman selected for him two bulls and eight heifers, but one
of the heifers failed to suit, so Mr. Dustin traded him for a
promising bull calf he discovered in the pasture. Of the two
bulls first purchased by Mr. Dustin, Mr. PRATHER secured
Duke of Hamilton 2d, and he also retained a half interest in the
calf. This calf developed rapidly, and attained a showyard
record equalled by few bulls of the breed. He was named Baron
Cruickshank, and was used turn about by Mr. PRATHER and
Mr. Dustin, year by year, until he was five years old. Baron
Cruickshank weighed 2,640 pounds in mature shape, but was
not coarse in frame, and possessed a smoothness and mellowness
of flesh seldom equalled. When Baron Cruickshank reached his
fifth year, the partners deemed it inadvisable to ship him about
so much, hence Mr. Dustin gave Mr. PraTHER the bull Proud

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Archer, sent to Mr. Dustin by Durute, for his interest in the
older bull. In late years he has used another bull of excellent
character and some renown as a sire, the white Silver Knight, by

Good Knight, by Choice Knight, by Choice Goods.

For many years Williamsville was without a bank, and in the
early 90’s, Mr. PraTHER, Mr. Groves (118), the elder Jones
and W. L. Perce formed the corporation of J. F. PRATHER &
Co., to establish a banking business. From the outset MR.
PRATHER was president of the organization, and he has developed
a large banking institution. For a number of years Mr. PRATHER
was a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and acted as
treasurer both before and after its re-organization. For many
years he was active in the American Shorthorn Association,
being a director for twenty-two seasons, and president from
December, 1908, to December, 1910. Here he proved a great
steadying influence, and his word carried great weight in all of
the breed councils. Mr. PRATHER has been fortunate in securing
title to large acreage of farm lands in Illinois, Missouri and
Kansas, and has established one of the most satisfactory tenant
systems in the corn belt. He is generous and wise and has done
much that is philanthropic in his relations to his fellowmen.

With modest humor Mr. PRATHER says, “Fortune has smiled
upon me from the start. I escaped the political germ, always
so prolific in the dear old Buckeye state, and never held a poli-
tical office in my life. What positions of trust or honor I have
occupied were due to the kindness of my friends and not on
account of any marked ability on my part for the work. If the
sun shines upon me as bright and my friends remain as true for
the balance of the time alloted me, I will feel well repaid for
any suffering or disappointments I have experienced. Yester-
day is gone, the books are balanced, and all I ask of tomorrow
is health, and the respect and good will of my neighbors and
friends.”

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A MISSOURI MENTOR OF THE CATTLE RING

120. Seldom does it become the lot of man to gain so close a
personal relationship to his fellows, to stimulate and sustain by
sound counsels so large a coterie of livestock students, and to
influence so many men to adopt higher ideals of husbandry, as
befell Georce Purpy BeLLows, Shorthorn breeder, auction sales-
man and representative of the agricultural press. Few men
indeed have had so broad and accurate a knowledge of the vari-
ous breeds of livestock, and fewer still his judicious understand-
ing of. pedigrees and his keen sense of values in cattle form and
quality. The untimeliness of his death, February 17, 1913,
shocked not only his Shorthorn colleagues, but the entire fra-
ternity of agricultural workers in America.

Cot. BELLows was born in the Prairie State, July 19, 1862,
under the shadow of the present University of Illinois. At three
years of age his parents removed to Guilford, Mo., in whose
public schools he received his early education. Following gradu-
ation he put in two years at the University of Missouri. In 1881
he entered partnership in Shorthorn breeding with his father,
Frank BeLitows, and his brothers, under the firm name of
Bettows & Sons. Two years later the family moved to Mary-
ville, Mo., where Valley Home Farm was founded.

At this time Cot. BELLows embarked on a separate career.
He taught in public school and was made deputy county clerk
for Nodaway county. In 1888 he repurchased an interest in
Valley Home Farm, but five years later he decided to assume
additional responsibilities by becoming livestock advertising
solicitor for the PrERcE publications, notably the Iowa Home-
stead and the Livestock Indicator. In 1904 he dropped this work
to become an auctioneer of a pedigreed stock, a profession fol-
lowed until his death.

On the death of his father, the firm name became BELLOWS
Bros., and Cot. BeLLows became interested in building up the

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herd on Westlawn Farm, an addition to the firm property. He
was fond of the Choice Goods blood and introduced much of it
into his herd at the Tebo Lawn dispersion. His efforts proved
extraordinarily successful, and several International and Royal
champions and first prize winners were produced.

Cot. BELLows was a man of much public spirit and great
kindliness toward his fellowmen; thoughtful, lovable, conserva-
tive, his justice and honor made him one of the most trusted
men in the salesring and he conducted vendues in almost every
state and in Canada. He was a popular judge in the biggest
shows and a trusted agent and buyer for old and young breeders.
His death through the overturning of his automobile, following
the International of 1912, brought tragedy into many loyal hearts.
A friend wrote, “If the breeding of Shorthorns had brought me
no other recompense than the intimate friendship of such men
as GeorcE P. Bettows, I should feel that much had been accom-
plished toward the things that make life worth while.”

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EVERYONE’S ADVISER ON LIVESTOCK ADVERTISING

121. Perhaps the most successful field representative of the
livestock journals is Georce Epcar Martin of The Breeder’s
Gazette, Chicago. Mr. Martin was born in New Richmond, Wis.,
January 19, 1870. With his parents he moved to Sac Co., Iowa,
in 1875, and spent his boyhood on Lakeside farm near Storm
Lake, Iowa. His father was a pioneer breeder of Aberdeen-
Angus, founding his herd with purchases from B. R. PIERCE, (59)
Evans & Son, T. W. Harvey and WaLace EstTILL. He devel-
oped early a love for highclass livestock, and left the farm for
college with a feeling of regret that he was to part company with
some of the veterans of his father’s herd to which he had become
warmly attached.

At eighteen years of age he entered Drake University at Des
Moines, completing a two year course, and two years later
became a student of the State University of Iowa, at Iowa City,
where he finished in law in 1894. He opened an office at Carroll,
Iowa, not far from his boyhood home, and practiced his profes-
sion for three years, during which time he was elected to the
office of city attorney. Law, however, failed to appeal to him,
and when in 1899 he was offered a position on the field force of
Wallace’s Farmer, he quickly took advantage of it. One year
later he was secured by The Breeder’s Gazette to become its
eastern business representative, a position he held until he was
placed in charge of all their livestock advertising, early in 1920.

GEoRGE Martin has created more permanent associations with
leading livestock breeders of America than any man in his chosen
field. From the start, he has insisted on absolute honesty in the
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business getters for breeders offering their surplus at public
sales, that American livestock history has known. He enjoys
to the fullest the confidence of both young and veteran breeders,
has executed numerous commissions for the purchase of herd
bulls, boars and stallions, and has created high values for the
vender of purebred livestock without resorting to a fictitious
system of paper credits. GEoRCE MARTIN’s integrity is unassail-
able, his popularity nationwide, and his personality a potent
factor in the stabilizing of purebred livestock values.

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PIONEER OF THE VETERINARY PROFESSION

122. One of the youngest professions auxiliary to the livestock
industry is that of veterinary medicine. For centuries, the horse
doctor and the quack who gained their living either by practical
experience or through the credulity of the earlier husbandmen,
have existed but the organization of knowledge on this subject
and its dignification as a profession have been matters of the
last third of a century. Foremost among the apostles of this
movement is Dr. James Law of Cornell University.

Dr. Law was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, February 12, 1838.
He was educated in the Edinburgh public schools, and later
graduated from the veterinary medical schools located there,
taking his final degree from the University College of Surgeons.
Not content with the information he was able to gain here, he
proceeded to France, and took further work in the Ecole Veteri-
naire at Alfort near Paris, and at the Ecole Veterinaire at Lyons.
In 1857 he received his degree of V.S. from the Highland and
Agricultural Society, and was made a member of the Royal
College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1863, receiving his Fellowship
in 1870. From 1860 to 1865 he was professor of Anatomy and
Materia Medica at the Edinburgh New Veterinary College. The
following two years he was professor at the Albert Veterinary
College in London, but in 1868 was called by the late Hon.
Andrew D. White to Cornell University at Ithaca, New York,
as Professor of Veterinary Science. In 1896 he was made Direc-
tor and Dean, and in 1908 received the title of Professor Emeri-
tus. During the years of his professorship at Cornell he was
Veterinarian to the New York State Agricultural Society. From
1882 to 1883 he was chairman of the United States Treasury
Cattle Commission and selected the sites for the quarantine deten-
tion station. In 1887-8 he was in charge of the field work of
the Bureau of Animal Industry for the extinction of the cattle
lung plague in the states of Illinois and New York. He was

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National President of the American Veterinary Medical Associa-
tion in 1906 and 1907.

Dr. Law was an author of wide repute. He published a Gen-
eral and Descriptive Anatomy of Domestic Animals in two vol-
umes, a text book of Veterinary Medicine in five volumes, and
a Farmer’s Veterinary Advisor. He was the producer of num-
erous scientific monographs, and came into closest contact with
the farmers of America through his preparation of various arti-
cles in the Bureau of Animal Industry publications on Diseases
of Cattle and Diseases of the Horse.

Dr. Law’s greatest service to his profession lay in the idealism
which he injected into its development and his uncompromising
stand for thoroughness and honesty in the necessary cleanups
of livestock disease that have occurred during the last forty
years.

He came from a country where a large human population had
made animal husbandry more difficult than here, but he recog-
nized that the experience of the old world would all too soon
be ours. Guided by a prophetic vision of that which was sure
to come, he undertook immediately to develop the veterinary
profession in this country along the lines indicated by scientific
discoveries. He was anxious to prepare men to safeguard our
animal population. Dr. Law was an inspiring teacher. He was
a man of high ideals and a thorough scholar, and he still retains
a deep interest in all veterinary subjects. He is the “grand old
man” of the veterinary profession in America and beloved by
all who knew him. His portrait will serve both as an inspira-
tion and a benediction to all the generations of veterinarians
that are to come and to go.

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WHOM THE GODS CALLED YOUNG

123. The youngest son of P. D. ARMour, founder of the pack-
ing business of ARMouR & Co., was Puitip D. Armour, Jr., born
January 11, 1869, at Milwaukee, Wis. In 1875 he came to Chi-
cago with his family, and received his early education at Phillips
Andover Academy. From that institution he entered Sheffield
Scientific School at Yale University, being a member of the class
of 1890. Circumstances prevented his completion of the course,
and in 1891 he joined ARMOUR AND Company to learn the packing
business from its very foundations. He displayed an unusual
aptitude backed up by the right sort of energy and aggressiveness.
The years he spent with the Company were seasons of great
expansion and development, and formed an important period
in the history of the house. In some respects the enterprises of
these days were of a pioneer nature and fitted the younger
Armour for the big responsibilities and active participation in
the affairs of the Company, which would necessarily fall to his
lot. In 1899 the original negotiations were opened to merge the
Armour Packing Co. of Kansas City with the Chicago plant, and
the partnership previously effected between P. D. ARMouR, SR.,
and J. OcpEN ARMouR was dissolved to form the new corpora-
tion of ARMOUR AND COMPANY.

Puituip D. ARMouR, JR., was scheduled for an important posi-
tion in the new corporation, but its realization was prevented by
his untimely death at Montecito, California, January 26, 1900.
One of the elder employees of ARMOUR AND COMPANY, who knew
him well, characterized him as follows: “He was what we would
refer to today as a regular fellow; he was a most lovable man
and easy to get along with; he was as bright as a man could be—
quick as lightning—and he never knew the meaning of procras-
tination.”

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A DODDIE DEVOTEE FROM THE PAMPAS

124. The second judge to come to the International Livestock
Show from the Argentine was WILLIAM J. GRANT, to officiate in
the breeding and fat classes of Aberdeen-Angus in 1919. So
appreciative of his work were the Aberdeen-Angus breeders that
they requested him immediately upon the completion of his
duties to make the long journey again, two years later. Mr.
GRANT was a native-born Scot, first opening his eyes to the light
in February, 1869, in Elgin, a few miles to the south of the
Moray Firth in Elginshire. His early education was obtained
in the Elgin Academy, and he was articled while still a youth
to Mr. H. M. S. Mackay, a civil engineer of his native town.
For five years he studied rigorously as a land surveyor and civil
engineer, and in 1890 proceeded to the Argentine as assistant
engineer on the construction of the Buenos Aires-Great Southern
Railway. In 1893 he received appointment as chief district engi-
neer of the Buenos Aires and Pacific, and eight years later was
promoted to chief construction engineer.

In 1903 he purchased 3,750 acres of land and began opera-
tions as farmer and stock breeder. His interests grew rapidly
until he was master of 11,000 odd acres, and found his time so
occupied that in 1908 he resigned his railroad position and
devoted his entire energies to agriculture. He has developed
two very excellent herds of cattle, one of Aberdeen-Angus and
the other of Shorthorn breeding. His Aberdeen-Angus herd con-
tains 85 pedigreed cows and about 300 purebreds that are unreg-
istered. The principal families represented are the Mulben May-
flowers, the Prides of Aberdeen, the Lady Idas, the Beauty’s of
Methlick, the Advie Roses, the Ericas and the Blackbirds. The
Shorthorn herd is about the same size and comprises about 80
registered and 400 unregistered animals. Mr. Grant breeds
very largely on a merit basis and to secure this handles repre-
sentatives of both Scotch and English strains. The following

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Shorthorn families are represented: The Secrets, the Princess
Royals, the Venus’s, the Butterfly’s, the Waterloos, the Roses of
Sharon, the Rubinas, the Blanches, the Miss Beverleys and the
Old Daisy’s. In addition he handles a Shorthorn grade herd of
some 2,000 cows. .

Mr. Grant is one of the pioneer promoters of draft horse
breeding in this new country, and is developing a small but
very select stud of Clydesdales. His most famous stallion has
been the Glamis Castle horse, Monte Carlo, a half brother of
the noted Cawdor Cup winner, Scotland Yet.

General agricultural activities of a progressive sort have
recently claimed much of Mr. Grant’s time. During the five
years, 1909-1914, he was president of the Laboulaye Rural
Society, and from the beginning of his citizenship in the province
of Cordoba he has acted as advisor to the local manager of the
Argentina National Bank on farm loans. Laboulaye is a thriv-
ing town of 7,000 inhabitants, and Mr. Grant has twice been its
mayor, four times president of its town council, three years presi-
dent of its school board, and three years president of its social
club. Since 1914 he has been president of the board of directors
of the Rio Negro Land Company, and part owner and managing
director of the Nueva Escocia Colonization Company.

In 1901 Mr. Grant married Miss ELLEN GERTRUDE Macurre,
daughter of an Irish Farmer in the Argentine, Mr. Joun Macuire,
and has a family of two boys and two girls.

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A PROPAGANDIST OF PEACE

125. Possibly the first man to recognize in a practical way the
utter absence of a divine right to homage was WILLIAM PENN,
founder of Pennsylvania, constructive proponent of the Quakers,
and just administrator of the rights of the American Indian.
Of aristocratic descent, his sire successively being lieutenant,
captain, rear-admiral, vice-admiral and admiral of the British
navy, he found in his collegiate days at Oxford ample oppor-
tunity to display a rugged plebeianism by opposing what he
considered to be popish usages, the wearing of student gowns
and the display of honorary vestments. Thereafter, despite a
punishment that involved his flight to France, he fought a con-
tinuous battle within himself, pitting his sturdy spirit as dis-
played in his numerous published defenses of the Quakers,
against the more insidious acceptance of the honors and pastimes
that were his by heritage and by his wide acquaintance among
blooded families. A personal friend and ardent supporter of
RogpertT SPENCER, JoHN LocKE, GeorGE Fox and ALGERNON SID-
NEY, he lived in the favor of CHarLes II and James II of Eng-
land, and Louis XIV of France, while his personal courage earned
him respect in the court of the austere WILLIAM OF ORANGE.

Wituram Penn was born October 14, 1644, in London, Eng-
land. Owing to the sea-faring pursuits of his father, he spent
his young life under his mother’s tutelage, and from her received
his strong religious faith. Part of his childhood was spent in
Shenagarry, County Cork, his father’s Irish estate. His education
was thorough, the Oxford foundations being supplemented by
discipleship under Moses AMYRAULT, one of France’s ablest scho-
lars, and a member of the Reformed Church.

His literary talents led to an early recognition of his religious
convictions. The turning point in his life was reached in Cork,
Sept. 3, 1667, when in company with the entire congregation he
was arrested for listening to the Quaker teachings of his old

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Oxford friend, Tomas Lor. After an open rupture with his
father he entered upon an itinerant preaching journey, publish-
ing numerous treatises, of which his “Truth Exalted” and “The
Sandy Foundation Shaken” gave him a nation-wide notoriety.
This latter caused an eight months’ imprisonment in the Tower
of London which stimulated his “No Cross, No Crown” and
“Innocency with Her Open Face,” that made him immortal.

Early in 1668 he enlisted the aid of the Duke of Buckingham
to introduce a bill into Parliament that would award justice to
the Quakers, but the stern commoners refused even to listen to
the measure. In 1670 he was again arrested for preaching in the
streets, and when the jury found him “Not Guilty” despite the
court’s instructions, both the jury and prisoner were fined and
jailed for contempt. Appeal to higher authority established the
precedent for all time in English law that it is the right of the
jury independently to judge evidence regardless of the dictation
or direction of the court.

On liberation PENN visited Holland and Germany where he
made many converts, but it was not until 1681 when Cuartes II
issued the charter that confirmed his title to American lands,
that he found a home for the persecuted of his faith. PENN’s
original title for the territory was New Wales, but, on objection
by the King, he adopted Sylvania, which the King overruled to
christen Pennsylvania. Organizations for emigration were estab-
lished, and with the aid of ALGERNON SIDNEY, a liberal scheme
of laws and government approved. In September, 1682, he
sailed for Newcastle on the Delaware, on board the tiny “Wel-
come,” and selected the site of his capital at the juncture
of the Schuylkill and Delaware, a place called by the
Indians, “Coaquannoc,” and by him Philadelphia. Under the
spreading elm at Schackamaxton (now part of Philadelphia),
he concluded his famous treaty with the Indians, which recog-
nized them as previously the rightful owners of the land. PENN’s

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far-sighted generosity contributed to peace with all the adjacent
tribes and alone of all the colonies, Pennsylvania suffered no
massacres and indulged in no warfare. In 1684, disputes with
Lorp BaLtimore over the boundry line with Maryland, discus-
sions that ultimately caused the survey of the Mason-Dixon line,
sent both PENN and BALTIMORE to England, and PENN became
involved in the turmoil of the deposition of James II. In 1690
he was publicly proclaimed a traitor, and deprived of his Ameri-
can property, but after three years hiding, it was restored. In
1699 he returned to America, cementing the split in his colony
between the warlike and Quaker parties. Two years later he
sailed for England, disturbed by the report that proprietary
colonies were to be abolished, but the move was thwarted. Affairs
in Ireland claimed his attention, and he was defrauded by
unscrupulous bookkeeping of much of his property. In 1712 a
paralytic stroke impaired his mind, and after six years of faithful
care by his second wife, he passed away at Ruscombe, Berkshire,
July 30, 1718.

As a founder of American civilization and democracy, WIL-
LIAM PENN contributed much. While his doctrines of non-resist-
ance have been used for selfish purposes many times in the
intervening years, his recognition of the rights of the savage, his
careful preparation of a liberal government, and his refuge for
numerous of the harassed religious thinkers of Europe estab-
lished precedents from which the American nation has never
departed in principle. The liberality of his viewpoints has been
reflected through the centuries that have succeeded him, and to
his example may be traced the development of freedom of thought
and action in the national commonwealth.

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A CONTRIBUTION OF CATTLE WEALTH TO THE
SUNFLOWER STATE

126. Jonn Ross Tomson, breeder of Shorthorn cattle and
president of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Association 1918-
19, was born near Dover, Kansas, October 3, 1867. Of cattle
forebears, he was early initiated into the business, riding as
drover and buyer with his father at the early age of eight and
nine years over a radius of thirty miles from his home. His
aptness coupled with his extreme youth attracted much atten-
tion among the hardened veterans of the cattle range, and gained
him a reputation that made him the natural head of the business
when his father and brothers entered into purebred Shorthorn
production in 1886. At this time he had finished his common
school education and a course in a business college in Topeka,
so that the $80 cow then purchased provided his real start in
breeding.

The firm thus launched to the breeding world was known as
T. K. Tomson & Sons, the father, JouHn, “Jim,” and FRANK
composing the partnership. For ten successive years a show
herd was on the western and southwestern circuit, and it is
believed the record shows not a year passed without a champion-
ship ribbon being awarded some member of the herd at one of
the fairs. While the circuit is no longer followed throughout,
the Tomson cattle are still frequent winners. Ever since the late
nineties the females of the herd have been particularly rcognized
as true to a type, the best ones being retained regularly for
breeding purposes. A party of Uraguay breeders visiting Amer-
ican herds in 1919 pronounced the Tomson females to be the
best selected and most uniform they saw. Operations have been
conducted almost entirely on a private sale basis, very few pub-
lic auctions having been held. Hence no widely advertised fig-
ures have been announced although the financial results have been
eminently satisfactory, and the products of the herd sought both
by the east and west for purposes of foundation and improvement.

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In 1909 the death of T. K. Tomson caused a change in the
method of breeding. For several years prior to this the father
had left the active direction of the business to the two sons, JOHN
and JAMES, and on his demise JoHN succeeded as head of the
firm with headquarters on the old farmstead adjoining Dover.
James and Frank purchased a new acreage along the line of the
Santa Fe Railroad between Wakarusa and Carbondale, Kansas.
Here marketing facilities were better as Dover was nine miles
from the nearest railroad, the Rock Island, and twenty miles
from a marketing town, Topeka. The partnership was still main-
tained, but each brother’s interest was held separately. Under
Joun Tomson’s skillful management some of the grassiest pas-
tures of eastern Kansas have been developed at the Dover farm,
while excellent modern improvements have been installed
throughout.

Joun Tomson enjoys a wide reputation as a judge both of
steers and breeding cattle. His ability in this particular was
instinctively inherent, but was sharpened by the years of cattle
buying as a youth, stirrup to stirrup with his father. Among
Kansas breeders he enjoys a position of highest authority, while
his counsels have been sought by Shorthorn breeders the country
over. He is of a naturally retiring and diffident disposition, but
his whole inclination is to care in an unassuming way for the
interests of others long before looking to his own. He never
volunteers advice, but his aid is freely given for the asking.
Straightforward and sincere, his whole life has been free of
sham and pretense, and more than one of his friends has affec-
tionately admitted that the mould was thrown away after JOHN
Tomson was fashioned.

For six successive terms Mr. ToMson was unanimously elected
a director of the Shorthorn association, while his presidency in
1918 and 1919 recognized temporarily an appreciation of his
judgment and counsel, not terminated with his close of office,
but continued by his retention on the board of directors.

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A VETERAN EDUCATOR IN VETERINARY MEDICINE

127. Paralleling Dr. James Law (122) in the pioneer nature
of his service in the field of veterinary education was Dr. H. J.
Dermers, founder of the College of Veterinary Medicine of the
Ohio State University. Dr. DeTMERS was of German nativity,
having been born in the province of Oldenburg, in April, 1835.
His education was received in the leading universities of Europe,
both at Hanover and Berlin, where he pursued agricultural and
veterinary courses. In the late sixties he came to America and
at once became a naturalized citizen.

His first duties of an official nature in America were in con-
nection with the Commissioner of Agriculture of the United
States (the forerunner of the present federal Department of Agri-
culture), with whom he studied the causes of the then recently
introduced cattle plague, contagious pleuro-pneumonia. In coop-
eration with Dr. Law, Dr. BILLINGs and Dr. SALMon (33) means
for its eradication were proposed and successfully executed.

When the new Bureau of Animal Industry was formed under
the control of Dr. Satmon, Dr. DETMERS was retained as an
investigator of hog cholera and other infectious animal diseases.
At that time the science of bacteriology was in its infancy, and
Dr. DeETMERs attracted wide attention through his use of this
science to attack the cause of hog cholera. His. work in this
particular direction still stands as classic. Dr. DETMERS suc-
ceeded in isolating and cultivating an organism in beef broth
which he believed to be the cause of hog cholera, or as he called
it, swine plague. At the time that he was doing this Dr. SALMON
(33) isolated another organism which he believed to be the cause
of cholera and for many years there existed a strong rivalry
between the two scientists for the honor of prior discovery of the
organism. As a result two distinct swine diseases were popu-
larly recognized for a long time under the respective names of
swine plague and hog cholera, but Dr. DeTMers was never willing

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to accept this dual view. When Dr. DorsEr (30) discovered the
filterable virus that is now recognized as the cause of the disease,
Dr. DeETMERS was vindicated in regard to the identity of the two
diseases, even though his belief as to the cause had to be dis-
carded.

The tenacity, with which Dr. Deters clung to his explana-
tion of his discovery, was a fair measure of his character. He
knew that he was right, as far as his experience went, and he
defended his position to the best of his ability against both friend
and foe, and he encountered both. As a matter of fact Dr. DEr-
MERs knew only two kinds of people, friends or foes, and with
each class he went to the limit. For his friends he knew no sac-
rifice too great, for his foes no resistance too strong.

On completing his work with the Federal Government he was
successively professor of veterinary science at the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, The University of Missouri, The Kansas State
Agricultural College, and the University of Illinois. In 1884
he was called to the Ohio State University where he founded the
college of veterinary medicine. At the same time he acted as
veterinarian of the Ohio Experiment Station at Wooster, and
there labored without relief on a system of protective innocula-
tion against the swine plague. In all of his activities during his
long public life as a teacher, and his retired life as an investi-
gator, he worked unceasingly for the development of his chosen
profession. His former students were all his personal friends
in whom he took a fraternal interest and a personal pride. In
November, 1906, at the age of seventy-one years, he passed away
at Columbus, Ohio. Very few of the veterinarians and agricul-
turists of today were acquainted with Dr. DETmerRs, but those
who possess this privilege need no further appreciation of his
worth and quality.

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“THE WHITE HEIFER THAT TRAVELED”

128. In the first years of the 19th century, RoBERT COLLING
(94) did much to promote the newly founded race of Short-
horns by sending out his finest beeves for exhibition through-
out the principal agricultural districts. The most noteworthy
of these was the free martin heifer by Favorite (252) from a
dam called Favorite Cow. The exact date of her birth is not
recorded in the Coates Herd Book but it is presumed that she
was dropped about 1806. Because of her handicap for breed-
ing she was fed out to her utmost capacity and for several years
was publicly exhibited. It is not known at what age-she was
slaughtered, but her dead weight was estimated at 1,820 pounds,
which certainly required a live weight during her best years of
above 2,300 pounds. It was through the exhibition of such
animals as the “White Heifer that Traveled” that the CoLLinc
BrorHeErs established the firm trade demand for the foundation
animals of the then new Shorthorn breed.

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THE KETTON OX

129. The Ketton Ox was later known as the Durham Ox (133)
and is so described in this catalog. The painting of which this
is a copy was made of him at five years of age, whereas the
painting entitled the “Durham Ox” was made later in life afte:
he had achieved an exhibition record under the management ot

Mr. Day.

MAXWALTON. COMMANDER

130. Maxwalton Commander 406947, was grand champion
bull at the 1917 International. Among the last of the illus-
trious calves sired by the far-famed Avondale 245144, he com-
manded a value and a breed respect almost from calfhood. He
was dropped September 28, 1913, at Maxwalton Farms from
the imported cow Roan Lady 36th, by Nonpareil Crown.
Immediately following his championship he was purchased at
the phenomenal price of $7,500 by F. A. GiLLespre & Sons,
Tulsa, Okla., and at the dispersion of this herd in December,
1918, was acquired by H. C. Looxapaucu, Pleasant Valley
Farm, Watonga, Okla. Here he is successor to the famous Fair
Acres Sultan and the entire story of his service to the Shorthorn
breed can be written only when the next decade has gone by.

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PINK BRILLANTE

131. Pink Brillante 57897, was champion Percheron mare at
the 1916 International. Although foaled in 1908, she never
had but one year in the showring, her entry being somewhat
fortuitous due to the accidental death of her 1916 foal at about
two months of age. She was sent to the Iowa State Fair, where
A. S. Rosinson placed her first in spite of her thinness, facing
severe ringside dissent. His judgment was confirmed by her
International winning and she is now considered the best bal-
anced big mare that ever won a Percheron championship. She
was bred by DunHam’s, Wayne, IIl., and has proved a most fer-
tile and regular breeder. Although only a three-year-old, she
dropped her first colt in 1911 and one each year thereafter
through 1919. She failed to rear her 1916 and 1917 colts, both
of them dying young. Pink Brillante has a longer pre-show
record as a breeder than any other premier mare at the Inter-
national.

Her sire, Pink, was International champion stallion in 1903
and 1904, and was second in the aged stallion classes of 1905
and 1906 in spite of heavy stud use. He was a grandson of
Besigue, by Brilliant 3rd, and traced into the unsurpassed Per-
cheron strain of Brilliants. His dam Odelisque was by Bien-
ville, one of the best grandsons of Brilliant, he by Voltaire, the
best son of Brilliant 1271. Pink Brillante’s dam Briennette
also traced to Brilliant 1271, her grandsire through her dam
Brienne.

Pink Brillante stood 17:3 hands and weighed 2,300 pounds
as champion.

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EARL SPENCER’S OX

132. The champion at the Smithfield Fat Stock Show in 1835
was a white ox of Shorthorn blood shown by Lorp ALTHORPE,
EarL SPENCER. He was got by the bull Firby, owned by the
Earl and was fed at the farm at Wiseton, near Doncaster. EarL
SPENCER was prominent in politics at one time, being Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. He was unable, therefore, to devote
full attention to his breeding operations, but nevertheless
accumulated the largest herd of the day in England. He was
early tutored from the lips of THomas Bates (74) but after a
large degree of assistance in selecting early breeding stock and
through leasing some of the early Duchess bulls, he fell into
disfavor with his worthy mentor through attempting to hire
Bares’ herdsman, the historic ROBERT BELL. Eart SPENCER fol-
lowed the inbreeding systems called into vogue by BAKEWELL
and the CoL.inc brothers, but is reputed to have ruined the con-
stitution of his stock. The authenticity of this is questionable,
since at the dispersion of his herd in the early 40’s, high prices
were attained; one bull brought $2,000, another one $1,850, and
several of the cows realized over $1,000. Although in the serv-
ice of his country, EARL SpENcER’s heart was always in his
Shorthorns. When Joun Grey of Dilston called on the Earl
at the Government offices in London, the attendants slyly whis-
pered, “Ye’ve come about cows, Sir, so yell no’ have long to
wait.” He was the greatest promoter and distributor of the
breed in his day, and is credited with having established the
Shorthorn with the nobility of Britain.

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THE DURHAM OX

133. The ultimate test of excellence in beef breeding is the
block and so it was that the Durham Ox, (the second calf sired
by Mr. Cartes Coiiine’s (94) first triumph in pedigrees, the
bull Favorite), was steered and grown out for exhibition as a
bullock. He was dropped in 1796 out of a native black and
white cow, purchased at Durham Fair. Plied with feed bucket
and choicest pasture until five years of age, he attained the nota-
ble weight of 3,024 pounds. At this point he left Mr. CoLiine’s
hands, being purchased in February, 1801, for $700 by a Mr.
Butmer of Harnby. Butmer had a special carriage built to
transport him and after five weeks’ exhibition sold both ox and
carriage to Mr. Joun Day of Rotherham for $1,250. Within
seven weeks Mr. Day refused $2,625 for him, a month later he
refused $5,000, and two months later $10,000. For nearly six
years this notable animal was carried through the principal
sections of England and Scotland, until in February, 1807, he
dislocated his hip bone. Due to his extreme flesh and his
advanced age of eleven years, it was impossible to reset it and
after eight weeks of further travel during which he shrunk con-
siderably in weight, he was slaughtered. His dressed weight
totaled 2,620 pounds, 2,322 pounds of which was found in the
four carcass quarters. This placed his liveweight at over 3,000
pounds while Mr. Day announced his weight at ten years as
3,400 pounds. Prior to this time such exhibitions of beef mass
with thick joints and deeply bedded ribs were unknown, and a
great debt is due the Coxiinc brothers by the Shorthorn fra-
ternity for such an early demonstration of beef making ability.

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BRACELET AND NECKLACE

134. In 1840 JoHNn Bootu of Killerby won first prize at the
Yorkshire Show at Northallerton with the roan three-year-old
heifer Bracelet, one of the first heifers of twin birth in the
Shorthorn breed to establish a noteworthy show record. Brace-
let sought stronger competitions the following year and in 1841
won first as an aged cow, both at the Royal at Liverpool and at
the Highland and Agricultural Society Show at Berwick. The
following year she and her twin sister swept the boards at York,
but Bracelet was defeated by Necklace at the Bristol Royal. In
1843 Necklace was again the premier cow of the pair, winning
first prize at Doncaster. These twins won over thirty-five class
and championship honors. Necklace closed her showyard life
by winning the gold medal against thirty-seven contestants at
the Smithfield Show in 1846, this time being exhibited as a
butcher’s animal. It was as a breeder that Bracelet particularly
surpassed her noted twin. Her most noteworthy offspring was
the bull Buckingham (3239) that proved an exceptional sire in
the herd of Ricuarp BootH at Warlaby. A show bull of
importance produced by Bracelet was the good Hamlet by
Leonard, while her calf of 1842, the red bull Morning Star,
was sold as a two-year-old to Louis Phillipe of France. Brace-
let’s most noted daughter was the white show cow Birthday by
Lord Stanley (4269). Birthday herself was a famous breeder
and through her son, Lord George (10439), and his son, Second
Duke of Athol (11376), became incorporated into the pedigrees
of the famous Woodburn Duchesses of Airdrie (82).

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LORD BANFF

135. The dark roan bull Lord Banff 150178 (77031), was
calved in Scotland January 10, 1899, having been bred by ALEX
Watson, of Aberdeenshire. As a yearling he was imported to
the Trout Creek herd of W. D. Fiatt, Hamilton, Ontario. His
sire was the good Scotch bull Cap-a-Pie 106717, and his dam
was Roan Bessie by Sittyton Sort. After a very mild showyard
career he was sold in Mr. Fiart’s November sale in 1901, at
the Union Stock Yards, for $5,100 to Mr. Greorce E. Warp,
Hawarden, Iowa, to replace St. Valentine. At that time this
established the record price for Scotch bulls. Here he had but
little opportunity as a sire, but was shown in some of the Mis-
souri Valley exhibitions. His later years were spent in the
herd of M. E. Jones & Son, Williamsville, Il]., where he left a
type imprint noticeable even to this day. Lord Banff was a
bull of magnificent symmetry and his high valuation did much
to elicit confidence in Scotch bloodlines during the increasing
agricultural values at the first of the 20th century.

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ST. VALENTINE

136. Reputed to be the smoothest bull ever shown in Ameri-
can livestock exhibitions, the roan St. Valentine 121014, was a
prominent figure in the closing Shorthorn contests of the last
century. His breeder was the firm of JaMEs GaARDHOUSE & Sons,
Highfield, Ontario, but he was calved the property of J. G. Ros-
Bins & Sons, Horace, Indiana, February 14, 1894. His sire was
Guardsman 108200, and his dam was of the Verbena family,
the imported Verbena’s Lady, volume 39, page 682E. St. Valen-
tine’s showyard career started early under the efficient herdsman-
ship of the Roppins. His opportunities as a sire were excellent
and he sired two of the most famous show animals of the early
century, the grand champion bull of the 1900 International, The
Lad for Me, and the noteworthy female Ruberta (140). At the
same International the first prize young herd was entirely the
product of his loins. In 1898 at the Trans-Mississippi Exhibi-
tion at Omaha, he headed the first prize herd and shortly after
was transferred to the ownership of GEorcE E. Warp, Hawarden,
Iowa. His untimely death in the spring of 1901 cut short a
most promising breeding opportunity. At Mr. Warp’s sale in
Chicago that year, cow prices reached averages hitherto uncom-
mon, forty-four head making $725, ten cows selling at between
$1,000 and $2,500. Since most of the cows were in calf to St.
Valentine there is no doubt that the chief cause of the high values
was the last opportunity to buy calves by this noted sire.

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AN OVINE PASTORAL

137. This study of French sheep, probably grade fine-wools,
was purchased by Netson Morris (71) on the occasion of a trip
abroad, and presented to the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLuB. It is a
faithful representation of the class of sheep common to French
farms, the fidelity of detail as related to conformation and char-
acter being most unusual.

WHITEHALL MARSHAL

138. Whitehall Marshal 209776, was the leading showyard
representative of the great collection of Shorthorn prize winners,
sired by the bull Whitehall Sultan 163573. He was a roan bull
calved October Sth, 1902, bred by E. S. KELiy, Yellow Springs,
Ohio. His dam was the imported Missie 167th by Lord of Fame
157722. Whitehall Marshal’s career in the showring extended
over a period of five years, during all of which time he was per-
forming extensive herd service. As a senior yearling in the 1904
International he was second prize, but in 1905 he was first prize
two-year-old and in 1906 and 1907 headed the aged bull classes.
In 1908 after his transfer to the Elmendorf Farm, Lexington,
Kentucky, he was placed third, but the same year won fourth
on his get. His greatest service was in the herd of F. W. Harp-
ING, (108) Waukesha, Wis., at Anoka Farm. Here he sired many
notable showyard winners, mostly bulls. The best known was
Leader of Fashion, for several years in service in the Anoka herd.
After transfer to the Elmendorf pastures he begot the excellent
Fayette Marshal, that made notable show records in 1911-12-13.

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DRAFT CHAMPIONS OF THE TANBARK

139. The six horse team contests at the International Livestock
Expositions have proved to be the most popular feature of the
draft horse display. In general the best teams have come from
Packington, only four winners having originated elsewhere. The
two breeds that have produced the winning hitches are the Clydes-
dale and Percheron, the former having won the honors twelve
times at the close of 1919, the latter six times. The winners by
years follow:

1900 Moore—Clydesdale 1910 Morris—Clydesdale

1901 Morris—-Clydesdale 1911 Morris—Clydesdale
1902 Morris—Clydesdale 1912 Crouch—Percheron

1903 Morris—Clydesdale 1913 U. S. Yards—Clydesdale
1904 Pabst—Percheron 1914 No Show

1905 Armour—Percheron 1915 No Show

1906 Armour—Percheron 1916 Crouch—Percheron

1907 Armour—Percheron 1917 Wilson—Clydesdale
1908 Morris—Clydesdale 1918 Wilson—Clydesdale
1909 Morris—Clydesdale 1919 Wilson—Clydesdale

The team portrayed here is the Morris 1909 winner. Morris
& Co., for a number of years, were vitally interested in this
exhibit, their champions of 1901-03 being, with a single modifi-
cation, the original imported geldings shown by Moore, for
which they paid the then great sum of $3,000. Their second
notable team, the one depicted in this painting, was collected by
Mr. A. B. McLaren, who for twenty years supervised Morris &
Co.’s draft horse transportation.

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THE WORLD CHAMPION RUBERTA

140. At the Illinois State Fair of 1901, one of the strongest
and most noteworthy competitions yet developed in Scotch
bloodlines was staged. Something of an international character
was attached to this contest, as the American-bred Ruberta, win-
ner of the two-year-old class, met the imported Cicely, winner of
the aged class, for championship. Cicely had been bred by Her
Majesty the QuEEN in her Windsor herd and was a champion
of the English Royal. As Cicely was Canadian owned thereby
making the contest international, it was deemed advisable to
bring in the veteran Hereford breeder, THOMAs CLARK, as adjudi-
cator. His decision was awaited with most profound interest by
the attending ringside and when the purple ribbon was finally
given to Ruberta, the clearest title to American championship
ever held by a showyard queen was conferred. This title was
successfully defended over a series of years. Ruberta was a
roan heifer, calved October 14, 1898. Bred by J. G. Ropsins &
Sons, Horace, Indiana, she early acquired showyard fame, being
junior champion as a yearling at the first American Royal Show
and at the first International. Her 1901 victory made her almost
invincible in American Showyards, a position she held through
the notable Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Ruberta
was sired by the famous St. Valentine, (136) head of the first
prize Shorthorn herd at the Omaha Exposition of 1898. Her
dam was Russella, volume 44, page 854, by Czar 107007, tracing
to the twelfth Duchess of Gloster. Ruberta’s career in the breed-
ing herd was almost as noteworthy as her showyard record. She
is the only cow in the Shorthorn breed that has been an Inter-
national champion and the dam of a champion. Her son,
Ruberta’s Goods, won the junior ribbon at the American Royal.
In spite of the high flesh in which she was necessarily maintained
she produced six calves, and was a regular and certain breeder
throughout her life.

OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 337

THE HERDSMAN’S GOD

141. In Greek and Roman mythology, Hermes was the God
of the Wind, and hence of the dwellers of open places. He was
born, full fledged, the son of Zeus and Maia, in a cave on Mount
Cyllene in Arcadia. Immediately after birth he stole forth from
the cave and siezed the cattle of Apollo, the sun-god, dragging
them back to his cave. He stoutly denied the theft, even to the
mighty Zeus (Jove or Jupiter of the Romans), and when con-
victed, pacified his brother with a lyre he had fortunately devised
from a tortoise shell on which only the dried sinews remained.
He was the herdsman’s god, especially invoked to secure
increase in fold and paddock, and the ram and calf were asso-
ciated in the worship of him. He was the deity of good luck,
sharp trade, and “windfalls,” and later became the patron of
the cattle thieves. Hermes was sublimely swift, wearer of winged
sandals, bearer of a magic wand (later the Caduceus), and guide
of the souls that seek Charon to cross the River Styx. He was
the spirit of the open road and the flowing sail. Along the
highways square pillars (Hermz) guided the traveller, with the
head of the god and the phallus as decorative features. The
sailor invoked his aid to bring the precious trade winds or to still
the obstreperous blast. To the Romans he was Mercury; to the
Egyptians, Thoth, to the Pheenicians Taaut; and to the Babylo-
nians, Nabu. From his fabled fleetness both the twinkling red
of the planet Mercury and the fluid activity of quicksilver at
ordinary temperatures drew their names.

142. Bust of JoHN SHERMAN.

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THE WINGED VICTORY

143. The statue of “The Victory of Samothrace” or “Winged
Victory” as it is popularly called, was executed by DEMETRIUS
PoLIoRceETES, after the naval battle of Salamis in Cyprus, 306
B. C., to commemorate the Greek victory over the fleet of
Protemy of Egypt. It was set up in 305 B. C., and rediscovered
in the Island by French archaeologists working there in 1863.
It is now on exhibit in the Louvre. The suggestion of pride
and action in the pose of the body, particularly the limbs, has
never been equalled by subsequent sculptors. The artistry of
that part of the statue remaining has excited endless apprecia-
tion from critics and sculptors in general, since all attempts at
restoration of the lost portions have proved to be entirely incon-
gruous.

FYVIE BARON

144. Fyvie Baron 17608 was international grand champion
Clydesdale stallion in 1913. He was a first prize winner in the
aged stallions at the Highland and Agricultural Show the same
year, having been imported by GraHam Bros., Claremount, Onta-
rio. He shared premier honors with Golden Knight as head of
the large stud of ConyncHam Bros., Wilkesbarre, Pa. Fyvie
Baron was foaled March 8, 1907. His sire was the world
renowned Baron’s Pride (9122) and his dam was Lady Ida
(15438). Fyvie Baron draws strongly on the Darnley founda-
tion, tracing three times to him and once to Prince of Wales
through Lady Ida, in addition to tracing through Baron’s Pride.
Fyvie Baron also traces twice to Sir Everard, the latter being
his grandsire, through Baron’s Pride, and his great grandsire
in the female line through Lady Ida and her dam Lady Maud.

OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 339

FAIRHOLME FOOTPRINT

145. Fairholme Footprint 17584, was foaled June 23, 1913,
the property of Mr. Ropert A. Farrparrn, Fairholme Farm,
New Market, N. J. He is the American culmination of the famous
line of Clydesdale sires, descending from Darnley (see ANDREW
MontTcomery, 46) the most skillful bit of pedigree blending the
breeding art has yet known. Conceived to the service of the
1910 Cawdor Cup winner, Dunure Footprint, he was imported
in dam, Harviestoun Baroness (146) in the late summer of 1912.
In April, 1914, he was sold to F. Lorrop Ames, Langwater
Farms, Northeaston, Mass., for $5,000, thereby setting a world’s
price record at the time for a colt of his age. He was first shown
at the International of 1916, where he was first prize three-year-
old Clydesdale stallion and grand champion of his breed, but on
his reappearance in 1918, he not only headed the aged Clydesdale
stallion class and was again grand champion, but he showed four
yearling daughters that stood first, second, third and fourth in
the futurity class. These four won the get of sire class for him
and three of them with himself at the head won first for breeder’s
group of stallion and three mares. Only once in American his-
tory has such a performance been approached, at the World’s
Columbian Exposition of 1893, when McQueen and daughters
performed similarly, but won over all breeds. In 1919 he again
won supreme breed honors at the International Livestock Expo-
sition while his two-year-old daughter, Langwater Jessica was
junior and reserve grand champion female.

His sire, Dunure Footprint, is the most famous breeding horse
in Scotland and the leading sire of showyard winners. An offer
of $130,000 was refused for him, marking the record valuation
of a draft stallion. At the 1919 Glasgow Stallion Show he sired
six of the twenty-three yearling stallions displayed, they winning
second, third, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth respectively. Of
these three were sold at auction, the second prize at $20,000,

340 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

the third prize at $15,000, and the fourth prize at $10,000.
Dunure Footprint’s 1919 service fee was $500 with upwards of
300 bookings. This earning capacity more than justifies the
valuation.

Dunure Footprint was sired by Baron o” Buchlyvie (11263).
This horse was the most famous son of Baron’s Pride and the
only horse consistently to beat Baron’s Pride as a sire of show-
yard winners and breeding animals. Baron o’ Buchlyvie held
this proud distinction in Scotland until beaten by his own son,
Dunure Footprint. He was sold at public auction in 1911 to
settle a partnership, bringing $47,500, a price for a draft horse
never excelled.

OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 341

HARVIESTOUN BARONESS

146. Harviestoun Baroness 16886, is the best known imported
Clydesdale mare of recent years. Foaled May 21, 1906, the
property of J. Ernest Kerr, Harviestoun Castle, Dollar, Scot-
land, she developed slowly but soundly until in 1912, at six
years of age, she won the Cawdor Cup at the Highland and
Agricultural Show. She was sired by the never-to-be-forgotten
Baron’s Pride and out of one of Mr. Kerr’s most notable brood
mares, Ambrosine (17817) dam of a long list of Scottish win-
ners. Following the Highland Show, she was sent to the service
of Wa. Duntop’s 1910 Cawdor Cup winner, Dunure Footprint,
and in late summer was exported to the United States to Mr. R. A.
FAIRBAIRN, Fairholme Farms, New Market, N. J. That fall she
won an easy championship at the International and the following
June dropped the notable Fairholme Footprint (125). Again in
1913 and 1916 she returned to the International to capture the
grand championship each time. In 1917 she gave birth to a
capital youngster by Golden Knight. The dam of five colts, her
breeding career was cut short when she met with an accidental
death in the spring of 1918. As a brood and show mare she is
entirely unparalleled in recent years.

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DRAGON

147. Dragon 52155, was the younger of the famous pair of
stallions from the mare Resida that achieved International grand
championship in 1906 and 1907. Foaled in 1904 and imported
in 1906 by McLaucHuw BrotHers of Columbus, Ohio, he early
became a prominent figure in American equine circles. As a
two-year-old he headed his class at the 1906 International and
was reserve champion to his famous brother Etradegant. The
following year he returned as a three-year-old, attaining breed
championship. Following his 1906 winning, he was sold to
Mr. Joun A. Spoor, being sent to his Blythwood farm at Pitts-
field, Mass. However, in September, 1907, he was re-transferred
to McLavucHLin BROTHERS, who again showed him at the Interna-
tional. In December, 1909, he came into the possession of
Governor H. C. Stuart, of Elk Garden, Virginia. Here he
remained for two years but during the entire period from the
time of his importation until 1911, he had no opportunity to
mate with purebred mares and for five years not a colt was
registered from him. In April, 1911, Senator E. B. Wuire,
Leesburg, Virginia, purchased him to replace the champion Etu-
diant. that had headed Selma Farm stud since 1908. Selma
Farm furnished Dragon opportunity to display his real merit as
a sire, and, at the 1913 International, he was second to the
invincible Carnot on get of sire and at the 1916 International was
third. Many of his sons and daughters were first prize or cham-
pions at the eastern fairs and one of his daughters headed the
yearling futurity class at the International.

Dragon was not a large horse, standing about 16:3 and weigh-
ing 1,900 pounds. His type was rare and his stamp on his pro-
geny uniform. His death in May, 1917, cut all too short a life,
whose first five years were lost from the standpoint of con-
structive breeding.

OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 343

Dragon was sired by Kronstadt (44910), he by Lycene 21630,
and he by Cocardos 16949. This latter horse was first prize
three-year-old at the World’s Columbian Exposition, but was
sold from pillar to post following that period, being acquired
by W. S. Corsa in 1901. He begot extraordinarily good colts,
but was used only on grade mares. Kronstadt’s dam was by
the notable Villers, imported by Mr. DunHam, and bought back
by him after seven years of use on grade mares in Wisconsin.
Villers was surpassed as a sire previous to 1900 only by Bril-
liant 3rd and Besigue. Dragon’s dam Resida was generally
considered to be the best brood mare of her time in France and
perhaps of the breed of all time. She not only produced two
International grand champions already referred to, but also
another stallion of tremendous importance to American breed-
ing, the horse Hisse Haut, head of the Robison Stud, Pekin, III.

ODBDNANRWNH

NUMERICAL INDEX

Dr. Leonard G. Pearson

Dr. John Gunion Rutherford
William Ransdell Goodwin
Hon. W. I. Buchanan

Henry Jackson Waters
Robert Burns Ogilvie
William Dempster Hoard
Dr. G. Howard Davison
Hon. Duncan McLean Marshall
Hon. Henry Fairfax

John Harrison Skinner
Alvin Howard Sanders
Foster Dwight Coburn

Hon. John Dryden

Hon. James Wilson

J. Sterling Morton

Dr. Henry Baird Favill

Gen. Jeremiah McLain Rusk
Senator William Freeman Vilas
William Arnon Henry

James Harvey Sanders
Robert B. Thomson

Stephen Moulton Babcock
John A. Craig

Hon. Henry Cullen Adams
Charles F. Curtiss

William Henry Hatch

Hon. Justin S. Morrill

Dean Eugene Davenport

Dr. Marion Dorset

Charles E. Duggan

William Levi Carlyle

Dr. Daniel Elmer Salmon
Dr. Alonzo D. Melvin

Dr. John Robbins Mohler
Joseph Edward Guinane Ryan
Samuel Cozzens

Monson Parker Buel
William E. Skinner
Mortimer Levering
Jonathan Hall Truman
James Crouch

Mark Wentworth Dunham

Col. Robert Holloway
Nehemiah Parker Clarke
Andrew Montgomery
Capt. Frederick Pabst
Col. John Sidney Cooper
Murdo Mackenzie

John R. Francis

Joseph Rosenbaum

The “Roundup”

Conrad Kohrs

Louis Keefer

Andrew Lovejoy

Chas. H. Ingwersen
Henry C. Ingwersen

T. B. Hord

Blanford R. Pierce
William S. Van Natta
Thomas Clark

Gustavus Franklin Swift
Edward Tilden

Arthur G. Leonard

Benjamin Peters Hutchinson

John Sherman

Samuel Waters Allerton, Jr.

James B. Haggin

J. Ogden Armour
Philip Danforth Armour
Nelson Morris

Edward Morris

Thomas Edward Wilson
Thomas Bates

Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Booth

Ulysses S. Grant
Robert Bakewell

Daniel Webster

Capt. Barclay

Sir Walter Gilbey
Robert A. Alexander
William Wetherell
William Torr

T. C. Booth

General George Washington

NUMERICAL INDEX—Continued

Jonas Webb

Thomas Jefferson
Amos Cruickshank
Alexander Hamilton
John Marshall

Felix Renick
Benjamin Franklin
Charles and Robert Colling
J. Henry Pickrell
Louis F. Allen

Emery Cobb

Benjamin F. Van Meter
James N. Brown

John D. Gillett

Isaac Funk

John Bunn

Lafayette Funk

James W. Judy

Henry F. Brown

Reid Carpenter
Charles E. Leonard
Frank W. Harding
Col. William A. Harris
James Brown

N. H. Gentry

S. F. Lockridge
Richard Gibson

John Miller

George Harding
William Miller

James Ironside Davidson

John W. Groves

J. Frank Prather
George Purdy Bellows
George Edgar Martin
Dr. James Law

Philip D. Armour, Jr.
William J. Grant
William Penn

John Ross Tomson
Detmers, Dr. H. J.
White Heifer that Traveled
Ketton Ox

Maxwalton Commander
Pink Brillante

Spencer Ox

Durham Ox

Bracelet

Lord Banff

St. Valentine

Morris Sheep
Whitehall Marshal
Morris Six

Ruberta

Hermes

Bust of Sherman (see 66)
Winged Victory

Fyvie Baron
Fairholme Footprint
Harviestoun Baroness
Dragon

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