WOODBURN FARM ALEXANDER 



ments, A. J. Alexander grew weary of it. February 

 20, 1901, Mr. Brodhead wrote me: 



" We are doing nothing at present in the way of 

 breeding horses at Woodburn. At our sale of trot- 

 ters, where we sold all of our mares and stallions, 

 we reserved all animals two years old and younger. 

 We now have these on hand and have been breaking 

 them, and some time in the near future will sell 

 them. They are now four, three and two years old, 

 and those that we have handled show great speed. 

 We have about twenty head of shorthorns and may 

 gradually build up a herd. Mr. Alexander takes 

 great personal interest in them. We are grazing 

 beef cattle and raising sheep quite extensively, which 

 is quite a slow business for me, but my outside interests 

 in Chicago and other places have become so great 

 that I really have not the time to actively engage in 

 the breeding of horses. My great regret in being 

 out of the horse business is losing touch with my old 

 friends. I believe that I regret Allen and yourself 



most." 



Alexander John Alexander died in the latter part 

 of 1902, and now Woodburn is but a memory. I am 

 glad that I saw so much of it when it was making 

 history that will endure. As Mr. Alexander was 

 never in robust health, and of a retiring disposition, 

 visiting delegations to Woodburn saw very little of 

 him, but much of Mr. Brodhead, whose authority 

 was unquestioned. The enemies of Woodburn sin- 

 gled out Mr. Brodhead rather than Mr. Alexander 

 for attack, and thus the romantic cottage of the man- 



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