THE SHORTHORN 



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The first Shorthorns imported to America were brought to 

 Virginia in 1783 by Gough and Miller, and though not called 

 Shorthorns the evidence shows them to have been of this breed. 

 These men also imported again about 1792. It is said that in 

 1 79 1 and also in 1796 a Mr. Heaton brought Shorthorns to New 

 York State. A Mr. Cox also brought a bull and two cows to 

 Rensselaer County, New York, after the close of the War of 

 18 12. In 18 17 the first pedigreed bulls, Marquis (408) and 

 Moscow (9413), were brought to America, S. M. Hopkins im- 

 porting them into the Genesee Valley in New York. What are 

 known as "The Seventeens " were imported in 18 17 by Colonel 

 Lewis Sanders of 

 Kentucky, including 

 four bulls and four 

 heifers. One of these 

 heifers died before 

 reaching Kentucky, 

 but the others, Mrs. 

 Motte, the Durham 

 Cow, and the Tees- 

 water Cow, were the 

 first to be imported 

 west of the Allegha- 

 nies, and their de- 

 scendants are known 

 as "The Seven- 

 teens." In 18 17 and 18 18 importations were made to Massa- 

 chusetts ; in 1 82 1, 1822, and 1823 importations were brought to 

 New York State, and from then on, into various sections of the 

 eastern states. 



The Ohio Importing Company, organized at Chillicothe, Ohio, 

 in 1833, with about fifty stockholders, became the most impor- 

 tant factor in introducing Shorthorns to America up to this time. 

 In 1834 Felix and Josiah Renick and E. J. Harness went to 

 England, where they visited Bates, the Booths, Maynard, Clark, 

 and other famous breeders, and purchased nineteen head and 

 brought them to Ohio. In this shipment were the heifers Rose 

 of Sharon by Belvedere, bred by Thomas Bates, and Young Mary 



Fig. 71. The Lad for Me 140618, a well-known 

 Shorthorn show bull and sire, bred and owned by 

 J. G. Robbins & Sons, Horace, Indiana. Photo- 

 graph by the author 



