334 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



First Illinois herds. Virginia carried the 

 Short-horn colors into Ohio and Kentucky, and 

 emigrants from those States in turn bore the 

 banner of the " red, white and roans 5 ' into Indi- 

 ana, Illinois and Missouri, from which vantage 

 grounds the breed ultimately spread through- 

 out the entire West. 



The earliest introduction of Short- horn blood 

 into Illinois was made by Capt. James N. Brown 

 of Grove Park, Sangamon County ; who had 

 previously bred and shown cattle successfully 

 in Kentucky. The herd at Grove Park was 

 founded in 1834. The stock was brought from 

 Kentucky, probably the most noted of the ear- 

 lier members of the herd being the cow Lady 

 McAllister, for which $900 was paid in 1837. In 

 1852 he bought in Kentucky the cows Beauty 

 and Miss Warfield and the bull Vandal 1065. 

 These were followed two years later by such 

 animals as Margaretta, Bentona, Stella, Sally 

 Campbell, Lulu and Tuscaloosa. In 1856 Capt. 

 Brown bought in Kentucky Queen Victoria, 

 Maude and Orphan 2d. These cattle and others 

 purchased subsequently by Capt. Brown, in 

 common with most of the other stock of that 

 period, carried more or less of the blood of the 

 importation of 1817. In the meantime (in 

 1854) he had purchased in Ohio the imported 

 bull Young Whittington and the imported cow 

 Picotee and bull calf Buckeye. In 1857 Capt,, 



