DESCENDANTS OF SHERMAN MORGAN 



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Presque Isle, Me. ; got by Tom Lang, son of Gen. Knox : dam black, bred 

 by J. F. Dyer, got by Black Hawk Plato, son of Plato ; 2d dam black, bred 

 by David Pike, Presque Isle, got by a horse said to be of Morgan and Mes- 

 senger blood; 3d dam black (2d dam of Tom Lang, Hiram Dyer and Bay 

 Dick), bred in Canada and bought in Ottawa by a Mr. Tibbetts, said to be 

 by imported Flying Childers. Sold, 1888, to S. F. and E. D. Dyer, Presque 

 Isle, for $1000. Said to be very handsome, with excellent disposition. 



BISMARCK (HOWES') 



Black, 1 6y 2 hands, 1200 pounds ; foaled 1863 ; bred by Col. T. S. Lang, 

 Vassalboro, Me. ; got by Gen. Knox : dam sorrel, large, foaled 1851, bred by 

 William Eaton, Auburn, Me., got by Pollard Morgan, son of Whalebone. 

 (This mare was bought in 1855 by Stephen E. Littlefield, \Vilton, Me.; he 

 kept her a year or two, and sold her to Samuel Church, Farmington, Me., 

 who handled her for speed, and then let the use of her to Mr. Lang. She 

 was quite fast.) Bismarck was sold when a weanling to James Howes, New 

 Sharon, Me., and in April, 1879, purchased for P. Lorrillard, New York, who 

 sent him to his stock farm at Johnstown, N. J. A natural trotter, requiring 

 no boots or weights. Disposition good, stock large and somewhat inclined 

 to be coarse, but speedy. Trotted, 1870, at Maine State fair in 2 .-40, and 

 took ist premium. 



Races won, 7. Races lost, 22. Total races, 29. 



CHAMPION KNOX 2:31 



Bred in Maine ; said to be by Bismarck, son of Gen. Knox. Died, 1879, 

 at Baker City, Ore., the property of J. W. Brackett. A correspondent of the 

 " California Breeder and Sportsman ", Jan. 31, 1891, giving account of all 

 noted stallions owned in Oregon, says : " Vermont, by Independence, was 

 really a corner-stone in Oregon. He was a prepotent horse and got really good 

 and speedy horses ; but Champion Knox would have been the great horse of 

 Oregon had he lived. His great size and muscular power stamped him as 

 the poor man's friend". 



Races won, 5. Races lost, 20. Total races, 25. 



MOUNT VERNON 2 :26 

 Chestnut; foaled 1878 ; bred by D. W. Jenkins, Mt. Vernon, Ore. ; got 



