A HISTORY OF SHORTHORNS IN KANSAS 45 



mals to the herd which he owned from about 1874 

 until late in the eighties. 



First Shorthorns for Barton County. In a- 

 bout 1875 or 1876 Matthew Toews settled near 

 Ellinwood coming from Omro, Wisconsin. He 

 had been breeding in that state and brought a 

 small herd to his new home. 



T. M. Marcy. Mr. Marcy had been breeding 

 Shorthorns in Ohio, from which state he came to 

 Kansas in about 1877 locating in Shawnee 

 county. He secured three bulls from K. S. 

 Streater of Cleveland, Ohio. They were Bread- 

 albane 2d 31887, a roan by the Torr bred Booth 

 bull, imp. Breadalbane and out of imp. Golden 

 Symp, vol. 15 ; Henry 3d, a roan also by imp. 

 Breadalbane out of Calm 15th, vol. 8 ; and imp. 

 St. Albans, a calf out of imp. Golden Symp by the 

 Booth bull, Athelstane. These bulls were all 

 used to some extent, though St. Albans was used 

 more heavily than the others in the early period 

 of the herd's existence. Breadalbane 2d was 

 used most on the heifers sired by St. Albans. 

 While other bulls saw service in the herd, only 

 one, Commodore 59188, was the sire of many of 

 the young cattle produced in the middle and 

 latter eighties. 



Commodore was bred by Col. Harris and was 

 calved at the very time that Baron Victor 

 reached Linwood. He represented the Kentucky 

 line of breeding made popular in the West by the 



