OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 107 



THE DAVID HARUM OF DEXTER PARK 



37. The veritable dean in length of service among the habitues 

 of the stockyard district and the Chicago horse market, is SAMUEL 

 COZZENS. Born in Providence, R. I., in 1848, he came to Chicago 

 at the age of eighteen. His first work was at the Yards where 

 he was placed in charge of the Dexter Park horse market for the 

 Stockyard Company. As the volume of business increased, he was 

 appointed superintendent of this branch of the market and was 

 placed in charge of the stables. From the very beginning MR. 

 COZZENS was recognized by MR. SHERMAN (66), as a man of 

 latent possibilities, and he turned a number of business and 

 investment opportunities in his direction that served MR. COZ- 

 ZENS well from a financial standpoint. This so broadened his 

 acquaintance among the men of the livestock industry of Chi- 

 cago, that when he went into the coach and saddle horse business 

 for himself in 1898, he was successful from the start. 



MR. COZZENS has been a director of the Livestock Exchange 

 Bank for thirty-five years, having been identified with it when 

 it was opened as the Union Stockyard Bank. Upon its reorgani- 

 zation as the Livestock Bank he retained his position, and for a 

 period of ten years he has been a director of the Stock Yards Sav- 

 ings Bank. MR. COZZENS has done an enormous business in the 

 lighter types of horses, but with the changing market demands 

 he has extended his operations to animals of the draft type. His 

 business has been phenomenally successful, and at one time he 

 handled more horses than any other man in the Yards. 



In return for the interest and kindliness which MR. SHERMAN 

 showed him as a young man, MR. COZZENS has been one of the 



