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a large number of the Stodder show cattle. Mr. 

 Cowley was associated with S. C. Hanna and H. 

 M. Hill in promoting the Fredonia sales held 

 annually from 1906 to 1914. 



Another Cherokee county breeder was S. L. 

 Cheney who owned quite a large herd in the 

 eighties and nineties. The first good bull bought 

 by Mr. Cheney was the well known Goldendrop 

 of Hillhurst, by the way, the first good bull 

 owned by Col. W. A. Harris and recognized as 

 the predecessor of imp. Baron Victor. He was 

 followed by the Potts bred Orange Blossom of 

 Oakland, a son of imp. Antiquary. Later Mr. 

 Cheney bought what became his best known bull, 

 the Davidson bred Orange Blossom Perfection. 

 While most of the cows were of the commoner 

 kind he owned some good ones and the descend- 

 ants of these, nearly all of the Cruickshank 

 Orange Blossom family, figured in the pedigrees 

 of several good herds. 



One of the greatest show bulls ever seen in 

 America was for one season owned and exhibited 

 by a resident of Cherokee county. M. A. House- 

 holder of Columbus, associated for a time with 

 Williams Bros, under the name of Williams & 

 Householder, is credited as having been the ex- 

 hibitor of imp. Cupbearer. Mr. Householder 

 bred a few Shorthorns but little stock is recorded 

 as bred by him. 



Beginning in 1898 Adam Andrew of Craw- 



