724 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



spirit in the extensive operations of the Messrs. 

 Hamilton at the time they were so prominently 

 before the public some fifteen years ago. He 

 had a brother, W. W., who also handled the 

 Flat Creek tribes, and a member of a collateral 

 branch of the Hamilton family, Col. A. W. Ham- 

 ilton, also dealt largely in Bates-bred cattle in 

 partnership with the late Gen. John S. Williams 

 under the firm name of Williams & Hamilton, 

 Longwood Farm, Mount Sterling. Largely 

 through the skill and judgment of Mr. James 

 C. Hamilton whose patriarchal appearance 

 and kindly ways earned for him in his later 

 years the universally applied title of "Uncle 

 Jimmy" the home herd at Flat Creek attained 

 a degree of individual merit that gave it great 

 prominence among the leading collections of 

 the breed, and it received an extended patron- 

 age from the North and West. 



Mr. A. L. Hamilton, who had established him- 

 self on a farm near Lexington, to which he gave 

 the name of Kirklevington as expressing his 

 adherence to Bates blood held an auction sale 

 June 11 and 12, 1884, which attracted one of the 

 largest crowds ever seen at an event of that 

 character in the West. The proprietor was 

 in very feeble health at the time, and this was 

 made the occasion of the dispersion of a large 

 proportion of his Short-horn holdings. The 

 sale continued for two days under the manage- 



