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Upon another wall you will find a picture of that 

 pugnacious old pioneer, LEWIS F. ALLEN the GEORGE 

 GOATES of America the man who first collected 

 and published the pedigrees of our "Durhams," and 

 indeed this was no light task. Weary were the 

 journeys and long were the quests that preceded 

 the appearance of the initial volume of the American 

 Herd Book in 1854. It represented, as have all sim- 

 ilar efforts, before and since, the assembling of the 

 best possible information available concerning animals 

 and breeding operations of which but fragmentary 

 records had been preserved. Conducted as a private 

 enterprise, the Herd Book, small and wholly profit- 

 less for years, finally became a valuable property, 

 and the subject of long negotiations and bitter 

 exchanges between the founder and those who in 

 later years perforce became his patrons. It might 

 be noted here in passing, that a struggling young 

 lawyer in Buffalo, N. Y., named GROVER CLEVELAND, 

 a nephew of Mr. ALLEN'S, once found employment 

 in checking the pedigrees of cattle forwarded for 

 entry in this Herd Book. 



Breeders generally favored taking over the record 

 from Mr. ALLEN after it had become an important 

 public institution; but the old man, stiff-necked 

 always, gave them no encouragement. Then they 



