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As is related in the *'Horse of America" which 

 was published by Wallace in 1897, Felter stated that 

 he had bought Dolly Spanker from W. A. Delevan, 

 and that Mr. Delevan purchased her from Joseph S. 

 Lewis, of Geneva, New York. Thereupon I wrote to 

 Mr. Lewis and the following is his response : — 



''Some twenty-six years ago since I bought a 

 brown mare from a gentleman by the name of 

 James Gilbert, then living in the town of Phelps, 

 in this county, for a friend and very soon after 

 sold her to W. A. Delevan, of New York. She 

 was then about five years old, a fine roadster, and 

 could speed in about 3:30. He took her to New 

 York, and after driving her some time sold her 

 to my esteemed friend, Harry Felter. I think she 

 passed into the hands of his father, and met with 

 an accident. She was put to breeding, and had a 

 colt by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, that grew up to 

 be the famous George Wilkes. For the benefit of 

 many persons in New York I lost no time in look- 

 ing about to learn the pedigree of the mare and 

 of the horse that got her. On seeing Gilbert I 

 learned that he got the mare of an old man who 

 is now dead, by the name of Josiah Philips, of 

 Bristol, in this county. I lost no time in sending a 

 man, who lived with us at the time, by the name 

 of John S. Dey, to Bristol, to get all the facts in 

 the mare's pedigree that he could get hold of. 

 He learned through Philips that the sire of this 

 mare was the Wadsworth's Henry Clay, owned 

 for many years by General Wadsworth, of Gene- 



