352 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



tetnesia 3d, whose bull calf of December, 1857 

 Champion 2615 was sold to William Bidden 

 of Bremer County. Mr. Melencly seems to have 

 first used the bull Young Colonel 3584, bred by 

 John G. Dun of Ohio. He sold an Artemesia 

 heifer, calved in 1858, to George Clark of Cedar 

 Falls. Among the other owners of Short-horns 

 in Iowa in the "fifties" were John Patterson of 

 Burlington; B. N. Moore of Van Buren County; 

 George Griff en of Monroe County ; J. H. Majors 

 of Mahaska County ; John E. Teter of Jasper 

 County, who owned a roan Ohio-bred Rose of 

 Sharon cow that was calved in 1856; and W. 

 Duane Wilson of Fairfield, who appears in Vol. 

 Ill as the owner of an Ohio-bred Rosabella. 



About 1860 a religious order holding 3,000 

 acres of good land in Dubuque County under 

 the title of the Corporation of New Melleray* 

 established a herd of Short-horns. They bred 

 largely from stock tracing to the importa- 

 tion of 1817; one of their earliest bulls having 

 been Emperor 3910, bred by Capt. James N. 

 Brown of Illinois and sired by imp. King Al- 

 fred. One of their foundation cows was the 

 roan Beauty Spot a daughter of Mr. War- 

 field's Renick 903 bred in Kentucky in 1854. 

 They also purchased a cow from Hon. J. D. 

 Smith of Illinois, and another bred in 1854 



'The Brothers making 1 up this Catholic organization came originally 

 from Ireland in 1831; establishing- upon the fertile body of land secured in 

 Dubuque County what is known as New Melleray Abbey. 



