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THE MORGAN HORSE 



SHERMAN ALLEN 



Bay, 15^2 hands, 1200 pounds; foaled August, 1884; bred by H.Eaton, 

 Harristown, 111. ; got by Robert Allen, son of Honest Allen : dam bay, bred by 

 Jacob Hoyt, Harristown, 111., got by Star Billet, thoroughbred son of im- 

 ported Billet ; 26. dam chestnut, bred by James Haverly, now of Sparta, 

 Tenn., got by Prophet, son of Black Hawk. Owned by O. L. Kendall, 

 Bethany, 111. 



HONEST ALLEN JR (DAVIS') 



Fourteen and three-quarters hands, 950 pounds ; foaled 1870 ; bredbyC.W. 

 Davis, Dover, N. H. ; got by Honest Allen, son of Ethan Allen : dam Belle 

 Davis, chestnut, bred by E. S. Pike, Middleton, N. H., got by Vermont 

 Boy, son of Young Morrill. Disposition excellent ; get few, but good and 

 fast. 



See Chapter VII. 



DENNING ALLEN 



AMERICAN ETHAN 



Black with star, 15 hands, 950 pounds; foaled 1857; bred by George 

 Adams, Whitehall, N. Y. ; got by Ethan Allen : dam Gray York, bred by J. 

 Bates, Hydeville, Vt., who sold her to Mr. Adams, got by American, son of 

 Whitehall ; 2d dam said to be by Gifford Morgan. Owned for several years 

 in Washington Co., N. Y. ; passed to Patrick O'Neil, Chicago, 111., 1866-72 ; 

 to Mitchell Bros., Saratoga, N. Y. ; to J. K. P. Pine, Troy, N. Y., 1878; to 

 Don A. Barker, Poultney, Vt., spring, 1881 ; to other parties in Poultney. 

 Mr. Pine writes : " He is strong-muscled, compactly made, and lofty in car- 

 riage". 



Total, 10 ; 7 in 2 :3o ; 9 race-winners ; 2 ten-race winners. 



Races won, 34. Races lost, 107. Total races, 141. 



Dam of John Hall 2:25%, winner of 21 races and fifty-race trotter. 



