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Sir Bredwell, Benita, Lady Chloe, Lady Brenda 

 and Georgina, drew the blue for Sotham as best 

 graded herd, uniformity of type being the rock upon 

 which Lewis took his stand. Free Lance was champ- 

 ion bull and Jessamine best female. 



Death of Adams Earl. The founder of the 

 Shadeland herd died in January, 1898. The part he 

 had played in the introduction and successful dis- 

 semination of the Hereford blood has been outlined 

 in preceding chapters, but the influence of his work 

 with the " white faces" was so far-reaching that he is 

 by common consent accorded a permanent place in 

 the American Hereford gallery of fame.* 



*Mr. Earl was born in Fairfield Co., O., in 1819, and came 

 of New England stock. His parents removed to Indiana in 1836 

 and settled upon the fertile Wea Plains, upon the borders of 

 which the famous farm of Shadeland .is located. Arriving at 

 his majority he undertook about 1844 the marketing of farm 

 products at New Orleans by means of flat-boats floated upon the 

 Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He subsequently engaged 

 in merchandizing upon quite an extensive scale at Lafayette and 

 ultimately became associated with the late Moses Fowler in 

 various important enterprises, such as wholesaling groceries, 

 banking, etc. In 1860 he engaged in pork and beef packing and 

 a few years later became a partner in the Chicago house of Cul- 

 bertson, Blair & Co. About 1870 he became the moving spirit 

 in the building of a railway from Lafayette to Kankakee, which 

 is now a part of the Big Four System, Mr. Earl being the presi- 

 dent, general manager, and builder. Meantime, in connection with 

 Mr. Fowler and A. D. Raub, he had purchased 36,000 acres of 

 land in Benton county and spent large sums of money in tiling, 

 fencing, building, etc., and so important were the operations of 

 this syndicate that on their tender of $40,000 to build a court- 

 house at the new town of Fowler the county voted to move the 

 seat of local government to that point. 



