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Alleged Importation Into Maine in 1830. In 



a communication entitled "Herefords in New Eng- 

 land," contributed to the "Breeder's Journal, "* 

 and published in September, 1886, the late Mr. H. C. 

 Burleigh said: 



"As perhaps very few of your readers are aware, 

 I will say the second, and by far the more important, 

 importation of Hereford cattle into the United 

 States was made by Sanford Howard for the 

 Vaughan Bros., of Hallowell, Me., in 1830, the first 

 being imported by Henry Clay into Kentucky in 

 1817. The Vaughan Herefords were a splendid lot 

 of cattle, and were kept on the farm since and now 

 owned by Hon. J. E. Bodwell and occupied by Bur- 

 leigh & Bodwell for quarantine and sale purposes. " 



The Vaughan Bros, were men of education and 

 distinction. One, Dr. Benjamin Vaughan, was born 

 in England and educated at Cambridge, and during 

 the American Eevolution was a member of Parlia- 

 ment, but his friendship for the colonies brought 

 him to this country. With his brother Charles he 

 settled in Hallowell, Me., on a property derived 

 from their maternal grandfather, Benjamin Hal- 

 lowell. The property had a frontage of one mile 

 along the Kennebec Eiver and a depth of five miles. 

 They established extensive gardens and nurseries, 

 carrying on model farming on a large scale. 



Mr. Burleigh began breeding purebred Herefords 

 himself in 1865 on his father's old farm near Water- 

 ville, Me., and it seems difficult to understand how 



*This was a monthly magazine established and conducted for some 

 years at Beecher, III., by Mr. T. L. Miller and his associates in the 

 interest of the Herefords. 



