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BEGINNINGS OF ILLINOIS CATTLE- 

 BREEDING 



Illustrative of the pioneer type men who helped 

 make these middle western states, and who left a 

 great impress for good upon our cornbelt agriculture, 

 as well as sons to carry forward their beneficent 

 plans I can conceive of no better case than that 

 afforded by Gapt. JAMES N. BROWN of Grove Park, 

 Sangamon Go., 111. What is said to be a very good 

 likeness of this contemporary and friend of ABRAHAM 

 LINCOLN hangs in the baronial hall. 



Amidst scenes famous the world over for their 

 pastoral beauty, JAMES N. BROWN was born in Fay- 

 ette Co., Ky., Oct. 1, 1806. In the green pastures 

 and by the still waters of this central Kentucky 

 home he early imbibed that love for good cattle, 

 good horses, good sheep, good blue grass, good corn- 

 fields and good farming that was to prove of so 

 much value to the newer west in the years that 

 followed. He was educated in the common schools 

 of Kentucky, finishing at Transylvania University at 

 Lexington. While he followed his father to Illinois 

 in 1834 at the age of 28, it appears from a copy of 

 the Lexington (Kentucky) "Observer and Reporter," 

 printed Sept. 16, 1835, containing among other inter- 



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