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horn breeders. Prominent among those inter- 

 ested in the Princesses in the East about, this 

 time may be mentioned Messrs. A. W. Gris- 

 wold, a New York lawyer who had a farm in 

 Vermont that was in charge of J. 0. Sheldon's 

 old herdsman, Mr. Williams, one of the best 

 men of his profession England has ever given 

 to this country; D. S. Pratt, a clothing mer- 

 chant at Brattleboro, Vt., who was in the busi- 

 ness purely as a speculation and not because of 

 any special love for the cattle; the Messrs. 

 Winslow of Putney, Vt., who were practical 

 farmers and dairymen; the Messrs. Wadsworth 

 of Geneseo, N. Y.; A. B. Conger, Haverstraw, 

 N. Y.; T. L. Harison, Morley, N. Y.; Col. John 

 B. Taylor,* London, Ont., and Richard Gibson 

 of Canada, who bought and exported a number 

 of cattle of this tribe to England. These were 

 reinforced by Col. William S. King of Minne- 

 sota, Col. W. E. Simms of Paris, Ky.; B. B. 

 Groom, Winchester, Ky., and others. In July, 

 1875, Mr. C. F. Wadsworth, after conferring 

 with leading owners of Princesses throughout 

 the country, issued a small volume entitled "A 

 Record of Princess Short-horns in America/' 



* Col. Taylor was an English army officer who had served with his reg. 

 Iment, the Sixtieth Rifles, in the Crimea. He settled in Canada and was 

 made Deputy Adjutant-General in command of the militia of the district in 

 which he resided. He bought a small place near London and beg-an breed- 

 Ing Short-horns with marked success. He was a great enthusiast and one 

 Df the closest students of pedigrees of his day. Probably his greatest suc- 

 cess was with tho Bates Cragjrs tribe. He died a few years since at Winni- 

 peg while in command of that military district. 



