620 THE MORGAN HORSE 



sition and a good roadster. Stock fine. Received ist premium three years 

 in succession at Lake county (111.) fair. 



MORGAN (KIES') 



Dapple bay, heavy mane and tail, 1 6 hands, 1200 pounds; bred by 

 Mr. Potter, in Vermont, and foaled 1844, at Spring Arbor, Mich.; got 

 by Bulrush Morgan : dam said to be by Ironside. Sold to Francis Kies, 

 Moscow, Mich., 1848. Died about 1852. Had good disposition and left 

 good stock. 



DAVIS HORSE 



Bay, 15^ hands, 1200 pounds ; foaled 184- ; said to be by Bulrush Mor- 

 gan. Action and speed not remarkable, but enduring and hardy. Linsley. 



SLAWSON HORSE (BULRUSH MORGAN) 



Bay with black points, very heavy mane and tail, said to be be Bulrush 

 Morgan. Taken from Vermont, about 1850, by Mr. Huntington, and traded 

 to D. D. Moore, Champlain, N. Y. Owned afterward, for several years, by 

 Mr. Slawson, Chazy, N. Y., who took him West. Robert McCrea, Champlain, 

 N. Y., writes : " He was a great stock-getter ; a small horse of the Morgan 

 stamp ; his mane reached nearly to his knees, and all of his colts show the 

 Morgan very much. They had the best manes and tails I ever saw. Some of 

 his stock were large, weighing 1250 pounds ". 



MORGAN TIGER (VICKERY'S) 



Chestnut with dock tail, 15 hands, 1000 pounds; foaled about 1847; 

 said to be of Bulrush and Sherman Morgan blood. Sold to Joseph Vickery, 

 Mannsville, N. Y., about 1850; to a Mr. Stearns, near Rochester, N. Y. 

 Ward N. Emmons, Adams, N. Y., says : "Morgan Tiger was a very stylish, 

 proud horse of Morgan type, with a trotting gait". 



Sire of dam of Capt. Emmons ch. g. 2 : 19%, winner of 23 races, and fifty-race trotter; second 

 dam of Ed. White 2 127, winner of 16 races and fifty-race trotter. 



BARRE 



Dapple bay, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; bred by Mr. Douglass, Chelsea, 

 Vt. ; got by Bulrush Morgan. Sold to Mr. Alden, Vershire, Vt. ; to A. M. 

 Jackson, Barre, Vt., 1851 ; to E. M. Williams, Columbus, O., 1854; to Mr. 

 McCarthy, Xenia, O. ; to Illinois parties. 



MORGAN TIGER (KNOWLTON'S) 



Yellow bay, about 15 hands; bred by Chester N. Pike, Cornish, N. H. ; 

 got by Bulrush Morgan : dam said to be Morgan. Purchased by Mr. Knowl- 

 ton of Mr. Pike, who then kept hotel at Chelsea, Vt., and taken to Venice, 

 O., about 1854. Owned afterwards by George Kennard ; was sold at auction 

 at Cincinnati, and, it is thought, went to Kentucky. Harry Dearmond, near 

 Harrison, O., says : " I knew Bulrush, brought here from Vermont, also Little 

 Gifford. Both horses were kept here, owned by one Knowlton. Bulrush 

 was said to be Morgan on both sides. They were about 15 hands, solid, good- 

 looking horses. These horses were brought here about 1854. Bulrush was 



