342 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



W. W. Thrasher, Fayette County; J. D. Wilson, 

 Greensburg; Alfred and Washington Hadley, 

 Parke County; Smith Wooters, Union County; 

 Jacob Taylor, Henry County; Joseph Allen, R. 

 N. Allen and Messrs. Farrow of Putnam County; 

 James Wright, Franklin County; Messrs. Lott 

 and T. S. Mitchell, Jefferson County; Thos. E. 

 Talbot, Jefferson County; John Owen, Monroe 

 County; Levi Druley, George Davidson and L. 

 F. Van Schoick of Wayne County; Eli Harvey, 

 Addison Hadley and Sidney Hadley of Morgan 

 County; W. I. Walker of La Porte County; J. 

 W. L. Matlock, Abram Hoadley, V. Lingenfel- 

 ter and Alfred Coffin of Hendricks County; 

 Messrs. Scholfield, Johnson County; Joseph H. 

 Hendricks and John R. Cravens, Jefferson 

 County; Rockhill & Nelson and L. S. Bayless, 

 Allen County; Nicholas Druley, Union County, 

 and E. Pierce, Whitley County. 



Pioneer breeders of Michigan. In 1843 Mr. 

 A. S. Brooks of Oakland County, who had re- 

 moved to Michigan from New York several 

 years previous, ordered sent from York State 

 three heifer calves and a bull calf, all to be pure- 

 bred Short-horns. With the cows came a lot of 

 Merino lambs. After a perilous journey on the 

 lake from Buffalo they were, through the care- 

 lessness of an attendant, turned loose in the 

 streets of Detroit and were not located until 

 three days afterward. They were then driven 



