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Frankfort and Louisville, Ky. In connection with his practice 

 as an attorney he did an extensive real estate business, taking up 

 valuable lands and mining claims. With Lloyd Tevis and others, 

 he was joint owner of the Home Stake Mine in the Black Hills, 

 one of the richest and most widely known properties in the world. 



For many years MR. 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 

 Thoroughbreds to the blue grass section. 



In the fall of 1906, he founded his Shorthorn herd, securing in 

 1907 the redoubtable Whitehall Marshall (138) for its head. 

 About this time he made several importations of Welsh ponies, 

 Shire and Suffolk horses, and Shropshire sheep. His Berkshires 

 were also acquired then, and he developed one of the very strong- 

 est herds of swine in the country. 



In 1908 as a result of his advocacy for clean milk, he estab- 

 lished a certified dairy plant at Elmendorf, and laid the founda- 

 tions for a great dairy herd, buying and importing Jerseys at a 

 great cost, and also securing Guernseys, Kerries, Dexter Kerries, 

 and Milking Shorthorns. His milking herd ultimately included 

 some 1,400 animals, of which more than half were Jerseys. His 

 famous bull, Noble of Oaklands, has been the source of more 

 showyard winners and high test cows than any bull of the breed 

 in recent years. The dairy barn was built of native limestone, a 

 southwestern type of architecture being used, and the roofs were 



