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ing of a cattle-breeding establishment conducted 

 along BATES lines was concerned. Still, he was in 

 comfortable circumstances personally at the time 

 of his death, and only disappointment at not obtain- 

 ing the title to the farm was advanced at the time 

 as an inciting cause for the rash act which ended 

 his career. HOPE was a man who should have 

 lived out a long and satisfying life, and had he 

 done so he would have been one of the stanchest 

 supporters of SADDLE AND SIRLOIN aspirations and 

 policies. 



CHARLES A. DEGRAFF, big, generous-hearted, noble- 

 minded patron of animal breeding, until overtaken 

 ail too soon by the grim reaper, was one of the 

 kingliest characters of his generation. Minnesota 

 was indeed fortunate in the early days of the de- 

 velopment of her agriculture in having such men 

 as WILLIAM S. KING, N. P. CLARKE, HENRY F. BROWN 

 and CHARLES A. DEGRAFF to spread with lavish 

 hands the materials for the foundation of her sub- 

 sequently splendid live-stock husbandry; but easily 

 the kindliest, greatest-hearted of them all was 

 "CHARLEY" DEGRAFF. 



In 1883 came some of the last brilliant flashes 

 of the Duchess boom. HOLFORD of Castle Hill sold 

 the 3d Duchess of Leicester and the 3d Duke of 



