LIBRARY CONGRESS Class SEbi Book , ^3 PRESENTED BV ^^^fe^xg^^^/ 1 Ji BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE Portrait Gallery OF THE Saddle and Sirloin Club BY Edward N. Wentworth union stock yards " chicago, illinois 1920 1 1 .. ZJUaJLt- &- s •*? PREFACE The compiler of these brief biographies wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness for material and inspiration in a number of the stories told, to the files of The Breeder s Gazette and to books of Mr. 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 many friends of those whose portraits hang on these walls, another debt is due, as their acquaintanceship and intimacy have been freely drawn upon, but the list is far too long to enumerate. The richness of association of Mr. Ogilvie (6) and Mr. Leonard (64) with these heroes of a day gone by has also been liberally tapped, and heartiest appreciation of their unfailing good nature and cordial support is hereby expressed. Edward N. Wentworth. Saddle and Sirloin Club, Chicago, 111., August 25, 1920. ALPHABETICAL INDEX No. OF Portrait Adams, Hon. Henry C 25 Alexander, Robert A 82 Allen, Louis F % Allerton, Samuel W., Jr 67 Armour, Philip D 70 Armour, Philip D., Jr 123 Armour, J. Ogden 69 Babcock, Dr. S. M 23 Bakewell, Robert 78 Barclay, Capt 80 Bates, Thomas 74 Bellows, George 120 Booth, Thomas 76 Booth, T. C 85 Bracelet '. 134 Brown, H. F 105 Brown, James 110 Brown, James N 99 Buchanan, W. 1 4 Buel, M. P 38 Bunn, John W 102 Carlyle, W. L 32 Carpenter, Reid 106 Clark, Thomas 61 Clarke, N. P 45 Cobb, Emery 97 Coburn, F. D 13 Colling, Charles and Robert 94 Cooper, Col. John S 48 Cozzens, Samuel 37 Craig, John A 24 Crouch, J 42 Cruickshank, Amos 89 Curtiss, C. F 26 Davenport, Eugene 29 Davidson, James 1 117 Davison, G. Howard 8 Detmers, Dr. H. J 127 Dorset, Dr. Marion 30 Dragon 147 Dryden, John 14 Duggan, Charles E 31 Dunham, Mark W 43 Durham Ox 133 Fairfax, Henry 10 Fairholme Footprint 145 Favill, Dr. H. B 17 Francis, John 50 Franklin, Benjamin 93 Funk, Isaac 101 ALPHABETICAL INDEX— Continued No. OF Portrait Funk, Lafayette 103 Fyvie Baron 144 Gentry, N. H HI Gibson, Richard 113 Gilbey, Sir Walter 81 GiUett, John D 100 Goodwin, W. R 3 Grant, William J 124 Grant, Ulysses S ^^ Groves, John W 118 Haggin, James B 68 Hamilton, Alexander 90 Harding, Frank 108 Harding, George 115 Harris, Col. W. A 109 Harviestoun Baroness 146 Hatch, Hon. Wm. H 27 Henry, Dean W. A 20 Hermes 141 Hord, T. B 58 Hoard, W. D 7 HoUoway, Robert 44 Hutchinson, B. E 65 Ingwersen, Charles H 56 Ingwersen, Henry C 57 Jefferson, Thomas 88 Judy, J. W 104 Ketton Ox 129 Keefer, Louis 54 Kohrs, Conrad 53 Law, Dr. James 122 Leonard, A. G 64 Leonard, Charles E 107 Levering, Mortimer 40 Lincoln, Abraham 75 Lockridge, S. F 112 Lord Banff 135 Lovejoy, A. J 55 Marshall, Duncan 9 MarshaU, John 91 Martin, George — 121 Maxwalton Commander 130 Mackenzie, Murdo 49 Melvin, Dr. A. D 34 Miller, John 114 Miller, William 116 Mohler, Dr. J. R 35 Montgomery, Andrew 46 Morrill, Senator J. S 28 Morris, Edward 72 ALPHABETICAL INDEX— Continued No. OF Portrait Morris, Nelson 71 Morris Sheep 137 Morris Six 139 Morton, Secretary J. Sterling 16 Ogilvie, R. B 6 Pabst, Captain Fred 47 Pickrell, J. Henry 95 Pierce, B. R 59 Pearson, Dr. Leonard 1 Penn, William 125 Pink Brillante 131 Prather, J. Frank 119 Renick, Felix 92 Rosenbaum, Joseph 51 Roundup on Bear Creek Ranch 52 Ruberta 140 Rusk, Secretary Jeremiah 18 Rutherford, Dr. J. G 2 Ryan, J. E. G 36 Salmon. Dr. D. E 33 Sanders, A. H 12 Sanders, J. H 21 Sherman, John 66-142 Skinner, Dean J. H 11 Skinner, W. E '. 39 Spencer Ox 132 St. Valentine , 136 Swift, Gustavus Franklin 62 Thomson, Robert B 22 Tilden, Edward 63 Tomson. John Ross 126 Torr, Wm 84 Truman, J. H 41 Van Meter, B. F 98 Van Natta. W. S 60 Victory, Winged 143 Vilas, Senator Wm. F 19 Washington, General George 86 Waters, Henry Jackson 5 Webb, Jonas 87 Webster, Daniel 79 Wetherell. William 83 Whitehall Marshal 138 White Heifer that Traveled 128 Wilson, Secretary James 15 Wilson, Thomas E 73 THE MISSION OF THE CLUB The clanking whir of the nineteenth century in industrial America, the reddened glow of her furnaces, the webbed weave of her rails, and the crackling luminescence of her electrical achievements; all by their spectacular novelties have diverted the national attention from the artisanship and artistry of those who, from farm and flock, grassland and granary, market and menu, have builded an unsurpassed husbandry and cradled its distribution. Today the crowding world has sounded its food cry, its pitch shrilled by war, and public attention is gradually focussing on food sources. Against such contingency the live- stock industries have builded, but the squirming consumer looks not behind the price barrier, and dreams not of the masterly achievements of yardman and packer, showman and rancher, breeder and producer, that lie hidden behind the veil. The marvel is not that prices have been unprecedentedly high, it is that there has been so complete a production and distribution that the food gaps in the friendly areas of the world have been successfully stopped. Heroes of production have there been, heroes of husbandry, heroes of industry, each contributing his share toward the ulti- mate fillment of the public maw. Yet where lives the urbanite who can tell of them, or who can recognize the broad service and ideals that have led to the perpetuation of their memories upon the walls of this inner shrine? Here are portrayed in oils and pigments, the loved features of those who have wrought their works to the cohesion, advancement and prestige of the livestock industry. What if the passing crowd forget, in here, revivified, the eyes of those who gave look down, their souls still sing their sagas to the mellowed memories of those who would commune, or fling their challenge to the youth who sets his foot to travel in their paths. The swarded pasture, the stir of market and the tensities of tanbark take on new luster under their beatitudes, in- spiring emulation of their achievements. 8 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY Many there be who can ride the flood of an energized idea, stealing from its latencies powers for their own emolumence. Such by the hundred receive popular acknowledgment, urban and rural alike, but all too frequently the man who can originate such an idea is little known and only locally recognized. He who unseals the fount from which the flood springs, too often is washed up on the shore, short yards from where he started, while the public eye ignores the bruised battler to watch the crest of his liberated wave. Or, if his sacrifice be seen, gives approbative glance, an-d forgets, in seeking new sensations in the whirl of modern progress. Today is only temporarily discriminative, its heroes are short-lived and its memories shorter. He who does and gives sooner finds obscurity than he who dazzles and takes. This reconstructive period finds America taking too much for granted. The stream of meats which has plenished the food table of this country has been so long enjoyed that it is a matter of commonplace, to be admired for its volume, but to be credited to no one. Hl-advised agitators and shortsighted economists through influencing executive and legislative powers have tinkered with meat supplies to the permanent injury of the producers of this generation. The achievements of men who look upon us from these walls are ignored and unknown, and the labor for which they stand, unrecognized. Their perpetuation furnishes the justi- fication of this gallery; the broadening acquaintance with them, its mission. To the petty jealousies and frictions of an agricul- ture developed from so many provincial angles, it brings a court of authority. Saddle and Sirloin emblematic of the field of their jurisdiction, christens the club walls on which the portraits hang, and the organization of active workers in husbandry and industry who uphold them. The permanent housing of the International Livestock Expo- sition at the Union Stock Yards in 1900 made Chicago as firmly the pivot of the improved livestock industry as it had previously OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 9 been the pivot of livestock marketing. By that act the scattered offices of the numerous pedigree associations found a logical loca- tion, and a common center for the vast ramifications of the live- stock industry was established. Chicago became the contact point for those who breed and those who feed, those who sell and those who buy, those who kill and those who cure; all that mighty array of stockmen, shippers, commission men, packers, breeders, vet- erinarians, manufacturers of stock feeds, medicine and serums, harness and saddlery men, fertilizer makers, builders of farm machinery, and the journalists of the growing agriculture. So varied a constituency early created the need for quarters suitable for the fraternal discussion of the important affairs pertaining to the interests they represented. Appreciation of this need called into existence the Saddle and Sirloin Club. The germ of the idea unfolded in the mutual minds of Robert B. Ogilvie (6), Arthur G. Leonard (64), and Alvin H. Sanders (12) in June, 1903, as a corollary to Mr. Leonard's achievement in building the purebred Livestock Record Building, while the name was suggested by Richard Gibson from "The Drui4's" tales of that title. Mr. Leonard's acquaintanceship as general manager of the Union Stock Yards, Mr. Sanders' life- time relation with the growth of livestock journalism, pedigree values and breed history, and Mr. Ogilvie's personal intimacy with the gentlemen breeders and sportsmen of Britain and America, the show and breeding veterans of a half century, all furnished viewpoints assuring the broadest foundations in club ideals. In the days of the old Lake Side Stock Show the necessary social and business center was provided in the old Grand Pacific hostelry, but the retirement of Messrs. Drake and Parker in 1894 scattered the clans. Hence from its inception the Saddle and Sirloin Club was foredestined to a broader function than the refreshment of those whose business and financial interests located them at the Stock Yards. Here numberless meetings 10 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY fraught with bovine, equine, porcine or ovine significance have been hel-d. Here college students have first made contact with the broad sweep of breeding's artistry. Here visiting friends from the two hemispheres have found the inspiration and atmos- phere that has led our stockmen to ultimate accomplishment. The functioning of the club as a unit in cohering husbandry and commerce initiated several clearly defined club activities. First and foremost it has made itself the ally of the International Livestock Show, being perpetual host to the latter's guests. Sec- ondly, and with the aid of the International, it attracts each year, and in ever increasing numbers, men of education, wealth and high business ability to the ranks of modern agriculture, especially livestock breeding. Thirdly, through admitting to membership staff workers of the agricultural colleges and through offering gold medals in essay contests to agricultural students, it has stimulated the formation of the Saddle and Sirloin and Block and Bridle Clubs of the colleges, and has led many a noteworthy novice into the ranks of the constructive initiate. Fourthly, it has committed itself to the perpetual com- memoration of those worthies who have bequeathed to mankind the improved animals and the organized industries that have made modern production and distribution possible. Fifthly, it has formed the nucleus of what it some day hopes will become the leading livestock library of the world. To Robert Ogilvie (6) the club owes the idea of the gallery, and it is to him and H. F. Brown (105) that the indebtedness for the first portraits is due. Largely through the individual efforts of Mr. Ogilvie the atmosphere and the spirit of the club has developed. While club officials have changed he has labored unremittingly and unceasingly on the gallery, striving constantly for improved artistic standards and for worthy recipients of the club's honors. It will ever be a memorial to his taste and a tribute to his knowledge of the makers of the livestock industry. OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 11 A BATTLER AGAINST THE WHITE PLAGUE 1. One of the foremost forces in the upbuilding of the vet- erinary profession in the eastern United States was Dr. Leonard Pearson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pearson was born in Evans- ville, Ind., August 17, 1868. Much of his early education came from the home instruction of his mother, and in 1888 he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at Cornell University. Two years later he earned his D. V. M. from the University of Pennsylvania, and then went abroad to attend lectures in the veterinary schools of Berlin and Dresden. He studied bacteriology in Koch's Laboratory where he became inter- ested in tuberculosis, and was permitted, the facilities of the laboratory of the veterinary division of the German Army. On his return he was made assistant professor of medicine in the veterinary department of the University of Pennsylvania, and three years later he was promoted to full professor. In 1897 he was elected Dean of the school. Dr. Pearson was appointed state veterinarian in 1896 and served continuously in that capacity until his death. It was through his ejfforts that the Livestock Sanitary Board of Penn- sylvania was organized. He reorganized the veterinary school at the University of Pennsylvania and secured the new buildings and equipment, which are undoubtedly the best in the country. In addition, he procured a farm for experimental work in con- nection with animal diseases. Dr. Pearson was a recognized leader in the control of in- fectious diseases. He was the first in America to use tuberculin for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle. His investigations on bovine tuberculosis were extensive and most valuable, and 12 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY at the time of his death he was endeavoring to find an immuniz- ing agent against this disease. So eminent had he become in state veterinary work that in 1895 Secretary Morton offered him the position of Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. His interest in veterinary education and his loyalty to Pennsyl- vania led him to decline the offer. He was a prominent writer on veterinary subjects. For years he conducted the veterinary magazine through which he gave to his profession much of the best in the languages of other countries, as well as many valuable contributions of his own. In 1908 the University of Pennsyl- vania conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. Dr. Pearson was a member of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Dermography held in London in 1891, and of the Third International Congress for the Study of Tuber- culosis held in Paris in 1898. He was Secretary and President of the American Veterinary Medical Association, for two years was president of the Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association, and for a similar period headed the Keystone Vet- erinary Medical Society. Dr. Pearson was an active member of the Guernsey Cattle Club at Philadelphia, of the Pennsylvania Livestock Breeders' Association and of the State Grange, While not a cattle showman, Dr. Pearson did a great deal toward in- teresting men of wealth and discrimination in the cause of the Guernsey, and was an instrumental factor in their dissemination throughout the state. Professionally, Dr. Pearson held mem- berships in the American Public Health Association, the City Board of Health in Philadelphia, the State Board of Health, and was Veterinarian to the State Board of Agriculture. OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 13 The reorganization of the veterinary school and the Pennsyl- vania State Livestock Sanitary Board are the resuhs of his efforts that stand out in bold relief above much else of great value that he did. While these will be known to the historian, the sterling qualities of the man will abide with those who knew him. He was a manly man with a sweetness of disposition rarely found among men. His deep interest in the advancement and betterment of his profession caused him "to burn the candle of life at both ends." As a result, he died a premature death while on a vacation at Spruce Brook, Newfoundland, September 20, 1909. 14 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY A VETERINARIAN WHO NURSED A YOUNG AGRICULTURE 2. One of the broadest executive careers vouchsafed to a Canadian agriculturist has fallen to the lot of Dr. John Gunion Rutherford, horse breeder, veterinarian, agricultural official, army officer and railroad executive. Dr. Rutherford was born at Mountain Cross, Peebleshire, Scotland, December 25, 1857. He was "a son of the Manse," his father being the Rev. Robt. Rutherford, a Presbyterian minister at Peebles. He was edu- cated at the Glasgow high school, at Ikiinburgh, and by means of a private tutor. As a young man he came to Canada where he attended the Ontario Agricultural College and the Ontario Veterinary College at Guelph. Following graduation he entered upon veterinary practice, being located at various points in Canada, the United States and Mexico, In 1884 he settled at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, and undertook horse breeding and production as a side operation to his practice. From 1887 to 1892 he was veterinary inspector for the provincial government, being elected in the latter year to the Lakeside (Manitoba) Legis- lature. He remained a legislator for four years, and was then elected to the Canadian House of Commons, as a member from MacDonald. One of his earliest duties in an official way for Canadian agri- culture was to represent the Dominion at the International Insti- tute of Agriculture at Rome. In 1908 he was a delegate to the International Congress on Tuberculosis at Washington, and was elected the same year to a term as president of the American Veterinary Medical Association. In 1909 he became president of the Civil Service Association of Canada, chairman of the International Commission on the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis, and president of the Western Canada Livestock Union. For many years previous he had been president of the Horse Breeders' Association of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. He gained early military experience in the northwest, having served OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 15 under Gen. Middleton as veterinary officer to the northwest field force, during the Riel Rebellion in 1885. Dr. Rutherford has published a number of monographs on veterinary subjects as well as on horse breeding and the care of horses. His chief recreations are riding and driving, and he is a notable fisher- man in the mountain waters of the northwest. He has supported the chase most heartily and is an officer and member of the Rideau Hunt Club, and the Ranchman's Club of Calgary. From 1902 to 1912 he was veterinary director general of Canada, and from 1906 to 1912, livestock commissioner for the Dominion. At the close of the latter year, he resigned his posi- tion to assume the superintendency of agriculture and animal industry with the department of natural resources of the Canadian Pacific Railway. After six years of this duty he was appointed member of the Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners, with headquarters at the Canadian capital at Ottawa. The variety of interests which he has so successfully maintained throughout his life has served to give him an optimism of viewpoint and a for- ward tendency in thinking that have been of real service to Cana- dian citizenship. 16 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY A WORD PAINTER OF LIVESTOCK MASTERPIECES 3. The dean of American showyard reporters was William Ransdell Goodwin. Never was the story of a live stock exhi- bition fully told to a North American breeder until he had opportunity to read Mr, Goodwin's virile comment, and never could he visualize clearly the incidents of the big ring battles until his forceful pen had touched up the higher lights, Mr. Goodwin's indomitable energy and his extraordinary facility made a name for him that is almost immortal. He possessed a perennial potentiality to find in each new show an added luster in the animals on review, and from one season to another was able to classify each detail in which the exhibit of that day had surpassed its predecessor. His reports of the World's Columbian Exposition, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Alaska- Yukon Exposition, the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the Iowa and Illinois State Fairs, the American Royals and the Internationals were classic, no matter what the breed nor how unusual the feature he discussed. He was one of the most forceful personalities known to the field of agricultural journalism, Mr, Goodwin was born at Brookville, Indiana, August 19, 1863. His father, William Ransdell Goodwin, Sr., was a Meth- odist divine, then president of a college at Brookville. His early education was in the public schools of Danville, Quincy and De- catur, 111., and he spent three years at the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- versity. In 1883 he completed his college course at DePauv University, receiving his A. B. degree. Three years later his A. M. was conferred by the same school. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi in college, and for years was joint host with his brother, Judge John B. Goodwin, to the Chicago Alumni Asso- ciation of the fraternity, either at Heatherton, his brother's Naper- ville home, or at Oakhurst, his own estate near the same town. Following his graduation in 1883, he allied himself with his brother in the breeding of Aberdeen-Angus cattle at Beloit, OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 17 Kans., a breed with which his brother secured a lifelong success. "Will" Goodwin was not destined for this long, however, as he was a born writer, and his facility of expression coupled with his love for livestock opened for him a future in agricultural journalism which did not terminate until he had become one of its most forceful figures. In the summer of 1885 he joined The Breeder s Gazette, then in its third year of life. His first duties were in the business department, looking after the interests of the holders of public sales and aiding breeders in the purchase of desirable animals. After a few years, however, he entered the editorial department, first as assistant editor and later as managing editor. Mr, Goodwin succeeded to the last position when the editor of the Gazette, Mr. Alvin Sanders (12), was appointed on the wool commission by President Taft. In 1899 Mr. Goodwin acquired an interest in the stock of the Sanders Publishing Co., and became its vice-presi