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by Sir Charles by Duroc by imported Diomed. 

 The dam of Vermont Hero was by Liberty by 

 Bishop's Hambletonian by imported Messenger. 

 General Knox stood 15.2, weighed 1050 pounds, 

 and in 1859 passed to T. L. Lang of Vassalboro, 

 Maine, who sold him in 1872 to Henry N. Smith, 

 who placed him in the stud at Fashion Stud 

 Farm, New Jersey. He won six races, took a 

 record of 2.31, and died July 29, 1887. The first 

 16 years of his life were spent in comparative 

 obscurity. Many of the mares which visited him 

 were of unknown pedigree or inheritance, and yet 

 through them he transmitted the light harness 

 gait. It was once said of him that he was to 

 Maine what Hambletonian 10 was to Orange 

 County. At Fashion Stud Farm he was given an 

 excellent opportunity, and one of the nuptials was 

 with Lady Thorn. The fruit was General Wash- 

 ington (sire of 15 trotters, one of them Poem, 

 2.1 li), who, bred to Goldsmith Maid, produced 

 Stranger, a sire of resolute trotters. Stranger 

 passed from the Parkville Farm of John H. 

 Shults to Europe. Among the 15 trotters 

 left by General Knox were Lady Maud, 2.18J; 

 Beulah, 2.19J; Camors, 2.i9f ; and Independence, 

 2.2 1 J. The latter was driven on the road for 



