672 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



reer of uncommon brilliancy closed ere it had been 

 fully unfolded. 



A son of the late Judge William Z. Stuart of 

 the Indiana Supreme Bench, the deceased took up 

 the practice of law after graduating from Amherst 

 College and the Columbia Law School and quickly 

 attained reputation as one of the keenest-witted at- 

 torneys of the Indiana Bar. For many years he 

 was entrusted with the legal business of the Wabash 

 Railway Co., originating in that state, besides be- 

 ing retained in many important cases before the 

 highest judicial tribunals. His wife, who survived 

 him, was a daughter of Mr. Earl, who was one of the 

 leading business men of Lafayette, and Mr. Stuart's 

 fine judgment and acknowledged talent were in con- 

 stant requisition in connection with the promotion 

 and development of large industrial and financial 

 enterprises. In business and in his professional 

 work Mr. Stuart was equally successful, but he 

 paid a fearful penalty for his assumption of bur- 

 dens beyond any one man *s powers of endurance. 



Mr. Stuart had a genius for mastering the details 

 of any subject to which he gave his attention. He 

 became not only an expert judge of Herefords, but 

 as a student of bloodlines and combinations he was 

 confessedly one of the best informed men on either 

 side of the Atlantic. The Shadeland catalogs of his 

 preparation were for years models of their kind and 

 brimming with facts and comments of value to his 

 fellow-breeders. He was partial to the Wilton blood, 

 and the Stocktonbury cattle and this great Wabash 



