ST CLAIR 767 



account of speed. I bred Zephyr to this horse in the summer of 1869, and 

 about July i, i87o,Madge was foaled and owned by me until the summer of 

 1877". 



Sire of Madge, dam of McLeod 2 :i9^. 



ONE EYED FOXHUNTER 



Brown with black points ; foaled 185 7, in Ohio ; thought to be a Morgan. 

 Brought to Wisconsin by Elijah Jaycox and kept at East Troy, 1858-59 ; taken 

 to California, 1861. Seymour Brooks, East Troy, says : " He was a very fast 

 trotter for his day. He made a race here in 2 126 about 30 years ago and 

 was then taken to California. He was of compact build and as true a type of 

 a Morgan horse as I ever saw ". 



Sire of second dam of St. Albans 2 :2o ] /4. 



HUMPHREY HORSE 



Brown with star, 15^ hands, 1130 pounds; foaled 1857 ; bredbyAbner 

 Toothaker, Phillips, Me. ; got by a Morgan horse that was being taken 

 through Maine from Vermont to the Provinces for stock purposes : dam 

 chestnut. Sold to Asia Jones, Springfield, Me. Kept at Turner and Spring- 

 field, Me. Of high courage and endurance. Died 1876. 



ST. CLAIR 



Very dark brown, nearly black, tan-colored flanks, little white on inside 

 of left hind foot, coat fine with small white hairs through it, 15^ hands, 1015 

 pounds, very strong and well-muscled, compactly built, wide between the 

 eyes, deep through chest, withers well up, had long and heavy mane and 

 tail and as good legs and feet as ever were on a horse ; would nip the groom 

 sometimes, but of a very intelligent and generally kind disposition; foaled 

 about 1843 ; said to have been bred in Illinois, and got by a Morgan 

 horse taken there from Vermont : and dam Canadian. Taken across 

 the plains to California, 1849, and driven into Placerville (then Houghtown) 

 in the fall of that year, in the lead of an ox team, by a man whose name is 

 forgotten and there sold and ridden to Sacramento, where he was owned 

 successively by Presley Dunlap, Burton Lee, Roberts & Olan, and William 

 Reynolds, and, 1856, was purchased by John E. Miller, Sacramento, who 

 kept him for stud service every season thereafter till August, 1864, when 

 he was burned up in the stable. In the stud he was popular, did a large 

 business and got from 600 to 700 colts, almost invariably bay or 

 brown. 



We first learned of Albert Chapman, Esq., of Middlebury, Vt., that St 

 Clair was represented and advertised in California as a Morgan horse, and 

 that from the characteristics of the horse and other circumstances there 

 could be little doubt but that the reputation was true. In 1885 we received 

 through the courtesy of E. H. Miller, Jr., secretary of the Central Pacific 

 railroad,, San Francisco, the fullest attainable information as to the origin 

 and history of St. Clair, and later, in a personal interview, he gave us the 

 above description. Mr. Miller is a gentleman of the highest character, 



