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have passed from earthly scenes. Would that I had 

 the time to tell, and the reader the patience to 

 listen to, the stones of each and every one ! 



The mere names of such men as Gapt. JAMES N. 

 BROWN, Gol. JAMES W. JUDY, Hon. LAFAYETTE FUNK, 

 J. H. PICKRELL, Gol. W. A. HARRIS, RICHARD GIBSON, 

 N. P. CLARKE, HENRY F. BROWN, EMORY GOBB, JOHN D. 

 GILLETT, GEORGE HARDING, FRANK PRATHER, CHARLES 

 E. LEONARD, LEWIS F. ALLEN, BEN F. VANMETER and 

 S. F. LOCKRIDGE may mean but little to the average 

 passer-by, but a story goes with each that would start 

 ambition's glow in almost any young man's breast. 



Once there was a great show of splendid animals 

 established in the historic Exposition Building that 

 stood where the Art Institute of Chicago now houses 

 a different, and in some respects a less valuable, 

 class of exhibits. The home of the original Amer- 

 ican Fat Stock Show disappeared before the city's 

 growth. An exhibition that had registered a com- 

 plete and in every way desirable economic revolution 

 in cattle production in the United States was driven 

 upon the streets. It had been nurtured, managed 

 and kept alive largely by the self-sacrificing labor 

 of these baronial hall veterans and their contempo- 

 raries of the Hereford and Aberdeen-Angus faiths, 

 with LAFAYETTE FUNK usually at their head. But 



