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a war as his convictions would have dictated. His 

 was the not uncommon fate of the courageous path- 

 finder. He was as indefatigable in defending Here- 

 ford interests as he was active in assailing those 

 who failed to confess what he held to be the true 

 faith; and while he was for many years a sort of 

 John the Baptist, crying vainly in a forbidding wil- 

 derness, his voice was heard by some who harkened 

 and subsequently became pillars in the Hereford 

 church. He died in Chicago in 1884 at the age of 

 eighty-three years, leaving a son who subsequently 

 became a prominent figure in the American Here- 

 ford trade. 



The Maine Importation of 1846. The state of 

 Maine has harbored Herefords continuously since 

 their earliest introduction in the east, and has within 

 its borders at this writing the oldest American herd 

 of which we have record that of the Messrs. Un- 

 derwood. 



The first of the breed to be brought across the 

 Atlantic directly to Maine, so far as we can defi- 

 nitely ascertain, were two calves imported in 1846 

 by Capt. Phineas Pendleton, of Searsport.* At that 

 time Capt. Pendleton was master of a vessel en- 



*The author is indebted to Mr. J. H. Underwood for the copy of 

 an old portrait of Capt. Pendleton from which we have had made the 

 engraving presented in this volume. Writing of his father Capt. Frank 

 Pendleton, of Searsport, says : 



"Capt. Phineas Pendleton was born in Searsport Aug. 29, 1806, and 

 died here July 19, 1895. I cannot tell when he first took command 

 of vessels, but very early in life, as he married when he was twenty- 

 two years old, and commanded vessels of all classes until he was 

 sixty years old. He was a very public spirited man. I cannot find 

 out anything about the calves he brought from England. He has 

 only one daughter here now, and she is not old enough to remember 

 the particulars about them. He always had a small farm and he 

 enjoyed it even when he got to be old." 



