DESCENDAJ\ TS OF B ULR USH MOR GAN 6 1 7 



& Walker's Sherman Morgan, s:n of Sherman Morgan. Made one season 

 at Plum Grove, Cook Co., 111., and went South. 



YOUNG BULRUSH MORGAN 



Bay with small star and three white feet, 14^ hands, 900 pounds; 

 foaled about 1830 ; bred by Elihu Cowdery, Tunbridge, Vt. ; got by Bulrush 

 Morgan : dam chestnut with stripe in face and three white feet, brought 

 from Ohio when young, said to be by an English hunter. Owned three 

 different times by D. W. Cowdery, South Royalton, Vt., and was kept 

 in Tunbridge, Randolph and Northfield, Vt. ; then went to Maine and 

 New Hampshire, returned to Vermont, and died in Tunbridge, Vt. Very 

 compactly-built, fine-coated, with fine head and ear, high-spirited, pleasant 

 disposition, and could be driven or ridden by a lady. His stock were highly 

 valued. D. W. Cowdery writes : "He was sound and active until his death 

 at about 35 years old. No trotting tracks or training horses to trot fast in 

 those days. The horse that could go the fastest or last the longest on the 

 road was the fastest horse. He could road easily 10 miles an hour". 



DAN TUCKER 



Dapple bay or brown, 15^ hands, 1165 pounds; foaled about 1838; 

 bred by J. C. Hatch, Naperville, 111. ; got by Morgan Eclipse, said to be son 

 of Bulrush Morgan : dam bay. Owned successively by Joseph Naper, Naper- 

 ville, 111. ; J. J. Cleveland, Manchester, la. ; A. G. Bannister, Naperville ; Robert 

 Leach, Brush Hill, III, and, about 1862, by a tavern-keeper at Solon, 16 miles 

 south of Cedar Rapids, la. A compact, blocky-built horse with good action. 



GEORGE 



Foaled about 1850; bred by A. G. Bannister, Laporte City, 

 la. ; got by Dan Tucker, son of Morgan Eclipse : dam bay, said to be 

 by the Bowen Horse, son of the Ellsworth Horse of Naperville, 111. (The 

 dam of Bowen Horse was said to be by Morgan Eclipse). An excellent 

 horse, of Morgan pattern and action. Died at Laporte City, la., about 1871. 



MORGAN (HAMMOND'S) 



Dark chestnut ; said to be by Bulrush Morgan. Taken to Brandon, Vt., 

 about 1835, and kept there by German Hammond. Very kind, handsome, 

 and a smart traveler. 



MORGAN ONE EYE (KILBURN HORSE, BILLY MORGAN) 

 Dapple brown with star and white hind feet, very heavy mane 

 and tail, 14% hands, 975 pounds; foaled May 20, 1834; bred by Moses 

 Chamberlain, Bradford, Vt. ; got by Bulrush Morgan : dam bred by Frank 

 Wright, Bradford, Vt., foaled 1831, got by Post Boy, a horse that came 

 to Bradford from vicinity of Keene, N. H., said to have been got by old Jersey, 

 and owned by one Smith, who afterward went to Maine ; 2d dam brought 

 from Long Island by Mr. W T right. Sold to Rufus Calhoun ; to George W. 

 Kilburn, Alstead, N. H., 1846 ; Joseph Peters and Mr. Martin, Bradford, Vt., 

 1 85 2; 'Ed win Corliss; to Mr. Whittlesey, a schoolteacher, then of New 



