42 A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 



less, yearlings. The importation also included 

 a bull, Royal Duke, bred by Dr. Armstrong. Mr. 

 Grant sold the bull calf Manrico 2d to Thomas R. 

 Clark who was living in New York City and was 

 associated with the Victoria Colony. Within a 

 year or two after the importation, Mr. Clark had 

 secured most of the cattle. From the service of 

 imp. Goggles, imp. Mobe 8th had produced a 

 heifer called Ida that was sold at four years old 

 with calf at foot to Archibald Kerr of Eureka. 

 It should be mentioned that the first importation 

 was kept for a time in Clay county. 



Mr. Grant died in April 1878 and lies buried 

 near a little Episcopalian church which he him- 

 self had built with funds he had collected. His 

 will, which it is said provided for the disposal of 

 millions, was a farce, as but little money or other 

 property was left when he died. 



Thos. R. Clark who was a member of the firm 

 of Fiske, Clark & Flagg, Gents' Furnishing 

 Goods, New York City, subscribed to Grant's 

 Victoria Colony and is said to have been the one 

 man who came out ahead. He bought most of 

 the cattle of the Grant importation and also a 

 lot of fashionably bred Bates cows of the B. B. 

 Groom assignees at the time when Bates was 

 giving way to Scotch. The ranch was kept 

 stocked, but whether with descendants of the 

 Grant importation, is uncertain. After Clark's 

 death some ten or fifteen years ago, the land and 



