(1920) A Biographical Catalog of The Portrait Gallery of The Saddle & Steak Club
(1920) A Biographical Catalog of The Portrait Gallery of The Saddle & Steak Club
(1920) A Biographical Catalog of The Portrait Gallery of The Saddle & Steak Club
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PREFACE
The compiler of these brief biographies wishes to acknowledge
the stories told, to the files of The Breeder's Gazette and to books
of Mr. Sanders (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. Sanders, and
he who would delve farther into their romance, can gain much
of interest and inspiration by a study of their pages. To the
Edward N. Wentworth.
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 passingcrowd 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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from the two hemispheres have found the inspiration and atmos-
phere that has led our stockmen to ultimate accomplishment.
To Robert Ogilvie (6) the club owes the idea of the gallery,
and it is to him and H. F. Brown (105) that the indebtedness
world, but in recent years this was indeed the achievement of the
Hon. W. I. Buchanan. Born on an Iowa 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-
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
needed.
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him. Five years more saw him the owner of one of the leading
dry goods stores in Wisconsin.
R. B. OGILVIE
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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 and enter the draft horse
best to secure a farm,
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 and fine outbuildings. Here he
castle
expanded his Clydesdale and for a short period engaged
interests
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.
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.
Britain throughout the early part of the last century, and the oils
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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In the early 70's Mr. Hoard glimpsed the vision of what dairy-
ing in the west might become. At that time Wisconsin's total
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.
Dr. Davison was born with instincts that made him a lover of
the soiland 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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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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of his father's farm. John Marshall 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.
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.
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.
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 John Ashton, 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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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 Dwight
Coburn, for twenty-one years secretary of the Kansas State Board
of Agriculture at Topeka.
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 & Dryden included the famous Mimulus, dam of the
Cruickshank (89) pride, Royal Duke of Gloster. Her calf in Mr.
Dryden's hands was Barmpton Hero, for many years in the herd
of the Messrs. Watt; a notable show bull and a creative breeder.
1880, 1882 and 1883. Many animals that played stellar roles in
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 President McKinley to take his place as spokesman
for agriculture in the newly formed cabinet.
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 ifone 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
Paul 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
Morton'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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merit 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 politicalperiod 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 todav.
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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
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 organizationand foundation of the stud book for
the breed in its He also was specially commis-
native district.
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. Sanders 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 Robert 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 won him hundreds of friends, both in the east
spirit
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
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
DOCTOR OF DAIRYING
23. Stephen Moulton Babcock 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
for his own personal gain, its benefits have spread everywhere.
noon, Mr. Leonard (64) told Dr. Babcock 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. Babcock replied, "If you don't mind, I believe I shall
may not pass this way without leaving indelible tracks, even in
the shifting sands And so the life of PROFESSOR Craig
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
his death as any who had ever donated his life to agriculture.
volumes, but its story is not yet fully told. In 1899 he arranged
the first interstate student's livestock judging contest at the Trans-
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.
one who was making good and leaving his mark. I felt that
in draft horse, beef cattle, harness horse, swine and sheep rings,
at state fairs, theAmerican 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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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 Judge Turner. At the age of twenty-one,
he was admitted to the bar, but soon removed to Missouri, where
four years 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 Richmond, Virginia, and was so considerate
stationed at
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, Col. 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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duced the Land-Grant college bill, providing for the setting aside
of public lands to found agricultural, industrial and scientific
51st Congress. His bill was the first to change the ad valorem
basis to that of specific duties.
and a quarter dollars. During this period the total loss ha.i
been nearly two billion dollars, or approximately twice as much
as the theoretical investment. In 1913, a year when the scourge
hogs died with the cholera, while in 1917 the loss was less than
a hundred and eighty-nine thousand. The man to whom this
AN ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR
31. Charles E. Duggan is the first breederfrom the Argen-
tine to visit the International as a judge, and one of the leading
promote an entente cordiale between the
figures in the effort to
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
Thomas Nelson, Charles Duggan's maternal grandfather. As
head of the firm of Duggan Bros., he operates estancias totaling
one million acres, one of the largest holdings in the Argentine.
The Duggans 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.
Duggan 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. Duggan
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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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.
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. Dean Carlyle's portrait was presented to the club
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
Prof. 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
covery of the cause of Texas fever and methods for the control
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tific societies. With all his greatness he was a modest and kindlv
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
A PREVENTER OF PESTILENCE
34. Upon the resignation of Dr. Salmon (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. Melvin was born at Sterling, 111., 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 laterwas sent to Liverpool to inspect animals and
vesselsfrom 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.
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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cago, that when he went into the coach and saddle horse business
for himself in 1898, he was successful from the start.
enced direction, the firm has grown rapidly and now has offices
old Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. and to build the livestock
hold the first show in 1899, but due to the extensive nature of
the allied dairy interests have become members except the con-
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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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
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
J. H. TRTMAX
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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-
1912 and 1916. About 1912 he and his son extended their
interests to Herefords and their herd has been prominent at the
Ohio Valley shows and the International. Many of the best
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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. Frank
Van Natta.
Mr. Crouch 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
caterers to the new need was
the
Mark Wentworth Dunham Oaklawn Farm some five miles
of
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-
mane, whose name Suc-
sively spread gray stallion with whitish
cesswas 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.
and" in the prime of their breeding age, the animals that were
to contribute to the ultimate perfection of the Percheron ideal,
ing Mr. Wolf 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 Wirth, the
present master of Oaklawn.
MARK W. DUNHAM
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A FASHIONER OF CLYDESDALES
44. Col. Robert Holloway 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.
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 At twenty years
the beginnings for himself.
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.
years of the last and the opening years of this century, and the
Welcomes and Claras of Meadow Lawn provided a blood foun-
dation formore than one Galloway pioneer. Much credit for
his success in the field of breeding must be given to his herds-
man and livestock manager, Leslie Smith, who contributed
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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.
ANDREW M< tNTGi IMERY
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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 Philip Best Brewery to the Pabst Brewing Co., electing
Capt. Pabst president. From this position Capt. Pabst
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 1884 and he entered the showring
made in
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,
market during its most prosperous years was that of Col. John
Sidney Cooper. Col. 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
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.
Col. 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. Col. 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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national.
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The bulls used in the herd were entirely grade, some purchased
in Kansas, but the majority produced in the herditself. Mr.
Mackenzie's first move was -to cull out all inferior cows and
to For a number of years
replace the bulls with purebreds.
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 GuDGELL
& Simpson and drew strongly on them as well as on other Mis-
souri-Kansas breeders. He adopted a policy of paying about
$100 $250 for bulls for general range service, while he paid
to
ment in Brazil, some 250,000 head all told. These were dis-
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 John Francis & Son,
New Lenox, 111. 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-
Internationals.
Mr. John R. Francis, the founder of the firm, was born Jan-
uary 8, 1843, near New Lenox, 111. 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
each kind. Most of his winnings were obtained upon the so-
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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.
and in the 90's Mr. Kohrs was able to purchase the entire pure-
bred herd of the Childs' estate, a good lot of cattle descended
from the stock of Adams Earl. About this time, Mr. Kohrs'
son-in-law, Hon. John M. Boardman, became associated in the
grees for the cattle were not secured, and the animals were
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,
vania, he began trading, first from a pack on his back and later
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
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
55. The development of swine interests at the International
Livestock Show laid almost exclusively during the first
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
McKinley, 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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Only mature cattle were handled, Mr. Hord's ideal being the
three-year-old. In order to make as certain of this as possible,
no cattle were put weighed under 1,000 pounds.
in his lots that
On December had 18,000 such steers in his lots,
31, 1904, he
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.
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 controversiesand 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. Hord 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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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 siresand their descendants his success was easy, and in
1898 he formed a partnership with his son which lasted a period
of eight years.
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.
first steps, was intimately connected with the creation and prog-
ress of the whitefaced breed. His father had also been identi-<
fied with Herefords, and his grandfather, Walter Clark, was
tical. It required two years to sell them, the bulk of them going
to the Swan Land & Cattle Co. This shipment, however, broke
the iceand 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.
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
Swift & Company's Mr. Swift became heavily inter-
success.
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, Louis F. Swift
as President, and Edward F. Swift as Vice President of the
company.
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N. Y., June 17, 1855. While still a babe his family moved to
chased the 320 acres that were the original site of the Union
Stockyard, and induced the other railroads to combine for its
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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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. Haggin 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. Haggin 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. Haggin made extensive
improvements on the farm and then transferred his California
tive work among both producers and consumers, and has devel-
oped and improved the working conditions and community inter-
fact one of the principal stopping points for that grim variety of
Argonauts who were seeking the Pacific slopes or returning to
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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Nelson 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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Edward 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; Edward 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 Club, 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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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 Thomas Edward Wil-
In the spring of 1916 the New York interests which had been
financing the packing firm of Sulzberger & 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
to his operations.
The one bull from external sources that made him fame and
fortune was selected on his pedigree alone, the bull Belvedere,
until in 1873 the best Duchess brought $40,600 and the average
of fourteen Duchesses in the sale was practically $18,750.
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
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, 111., at the same time acting
as deputy surveyor. In 1834 he headed his ticket for the legisla-
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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 by Senator Douglass, while the new or
led
Republican party was led by Lincoln. In 1858 when Mr. Doug-
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 Douglass defended popular sover-
eignty (derisively called "squatter sovereignty") with great adroit-
ness, but Mr. Lincoln's higher and moral standards ulti-,
ethical
mately won the popular favor. was in the course of these de-
It
bates that he uttered the prophetic and pregnant words: "A house
divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government
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
not see that the sands of time were then drifting in their direction.
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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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tive persistency.
THOMAS BOOTH
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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 commissioned a second lieutenant, which rank
later
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
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 George Third honored this pioneer with a royal
"new discovery in stock breeding."
inquiry concerning his
Robert 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.
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." McCombie 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.
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-
take; and then he begged their pardon and said, 'it did'nt matter
much.' For some time before his death he had suffered slightly
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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developed.
ROBERT A. ALEXANDER
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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,
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-
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-
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
ences in the way the pedigrees were handled, and the Booths
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
Booth Sr. was carried on separately by his two sons, Richard
at Studley and later at the paternal estate of Warlaby, and John
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
Richard Henry Lee's "First in war, first in peace and first in
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.
that its final adoption was hastened by the heat and the swarms
of flies from a nearby stable that literally drove the delegates
The Bastile had fallen when he was given six months leave.
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 immortalGrand Monarque, Scotland's
Pride, Pride of the Isles, RoyalDuke 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
ing on.
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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 John 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
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.
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
system of coinage, the national banks, the protective policy for
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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
FELIX RENICK
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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 company in Philadelphia remaining a
fire
member for fifty years, and he instituted the night watch and
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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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 framed the Declaration of Independence.
five that
resignation. With John Adams and John Jay he drew up the pro-
His last words were "A dying man can do nothing easy." The
thought of service and usefulness occupied his mind to the last
nois, in 1828. He was born March 20, 1834, and was early
identified with Shorthorn breeding. In 1859 he was made presi-
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. Kissinger, half the herd being maintained
at Clarksville, Mo., and the other at Harristown, 111. 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
Thomas & Smith and in 1883, the firm sold seventy-
of Kentucky,
two head at an average of $420. Throughout Mr. Pickrell'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 Colonel Muir, 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. Pickrell's style was unadorned, but his ideas
were most highly practical, hence his influence was far-reaching.
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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 mark of the business
the printer at almost the low
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.
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.
the Western Union Telegraph Co. Mr. Cobb was born in Dryden,
N. Y., August 20, 1831. At eleven years of age his father died,
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.
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 Robert A. Alexander (82) and was fortunate to have the
opportunity of returning aboard ship as sole Kentuckian in the
company of this early master.
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, Edwin 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 yearswas the Young Mary line, and it is with the Young Marys
that Shorthorn breeders associate the Van Meter name.
The Van Meters were descended from one of the early Dutch
settlers inNew 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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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, 111. 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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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
what he accomplished his purpose. At the end of his first
260 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY
for the year of 470 pounds. He was probably the finest type
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ment and that cattle are better off without shelter and less liable
A PRAIRIE PIONEER
The founder of the Funk family, pioneer agriculturists
101.
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., Illinois,
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-
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 StateBoard 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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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.
heart was in his acres, and his highest ideal to make them as pro-
surroundings.
Col. Judy 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-
Among the heroes of the Lake Front show, Col. Judy was an
influential figure, contributing largely to the foundation, organ-
who behold.
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.
Mr. Brown became a director of the Shorthorn Asso-
In 1891
ciation, later became its president.
and 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. Reid 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 was incorporated
the business
under the name of the Humphreys Mfg. 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. Kelly 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-
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,
of too great age for his calf sales, and animals from other herds
which he may distribute. Mr. Harding is still relatively a young
man, being born in 1871, and his story is not yet finished.
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His chief interest lay always in livestock and the soil, and from
his earliest days he has held more or less extensive farming inter-
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.
twenty years and a member of the State Fair Board from its
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
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.
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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1889, Mr. Miller made the last importation for Mr. Adams,
consisting of 12 young bulls and 18 heifers. Soon after the
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
302 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY
a previous issue with this comment, "When you can secure such
matter as Mr. Miller's article of last year, from within the ranks
of your own constituency, I do not see why you need call pro-
AN IDEAL SCOT
117. The death of James Ironside Davidson 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. Davidson 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. Davidson'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.
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 thework 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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so much, hence Mr. Dustin gave Mr. Prather the bull Proud
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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 Wallace Estill. 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.
Iowa, not far from his boyhood home, and practiced his profes-
sion for three years, during which time he was elected to the
A PROPAGANDIST OF PEACE
125. Possibly the first man to way the
recognize in a practical
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,
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 was known as
the breeding world
T. K. Tomson & Sons, the John, "Jim," and Frank
father,
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 isno 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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to accept this dual view. When Dr. Dorset (30) discovered the
filterable virus that is now recognized as the cause of the disease,
Dr. Detmers 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. Detmers 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. Det-
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.
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 ma-de of him at five years of age, whereas the
painting entitled the "Durham Ox" was made later in life aftei
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. Robinson 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, 111., 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
EARL SPENCER'S OX
132. The champion at the Smithfield Fat Stock Show in 1835
was a white ox of Shorthorn blood shown by Lord 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 theday 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
Bates' herdsman, the historic Robert Bell. Earl Spencer fol-
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. Charles Colling'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. Colling's
hands, being purchased in February, 1801, for $700 by a Mr.
Bulmer of Harnby.Bulmer had a special carriage built to
transport him and after five weeks' exhibition sold both ox and
carriage to Mr. John 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 notableanimal 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 Colling brothers by the Shorthorn fra-
ternity for such an early demonstration of beef making ability.
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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
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 Gardhouse & Sons,
Highfield, Ontario, but he was calved the property of J. G. Rob-
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-
AN OVINE PASTORAL
137. This study of French sheep, probably grade fine-wools,
was purchased by Nelson 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 5th, 1902, bred by E. S. Kelly, 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 hewas 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. Hard-
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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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
FAIRHOLME FOOTPRINT
145. Fairholme Footprint 17584, was foaled June 23, 1913,
the property Mr. Robert A. Fairbairn, Fairholme Farm,
of
New Market, N. J. He is the American culmination of the famous
line of Clydesdale sires, descending from Darnley (see Andrew
Montgomery, 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. Lothrop 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 classand 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-
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 Wm. Dunlop'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 and the following
at the International
DRAGON
Dragon 52155, was the younger of the famous pair of
147.
from the mare Resida that achieved International grand
stallions
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.
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