364 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



back to England for Cotswold sheep. He then 

 bought locally a few Herefords, and became a suc- 

 cessful exhibitor and a recognized good judge of 

 sheep as well as cattle. Shortly after Mr. Miller 

 began his investments in cattle he hired Morgan to 

 assist in the buying, handling and selling of the 

 stock. It was while thus engaged that Mr. Culbert- 

 son asked Mr. Miller to allow Morgan to go to Eng- 

 land and buy a bull for the herd which he (Culbert- 

 son) was starting at Newman, 111. This resulted in 

 the importation of old Anxiety — ^but that is another 

 story, Morgan's subsequent prominent identifica- 

 tion with the trade will appear further on. 



James Powell was another capable English cat- 

 tleman, a brother of William Powell, already men- 

 tioned as being associated with Mr. Miller. The 

 Powells had a lot to do with the successful introduc- 

 tion of the Herefords in the newer west, and as this 

 volume is written they are still actively interested 

 in the business in Texas. Their father, Thomas 

 Powell, lived upon a 200-acre farm some five miles 

 from the historic city of Hereford, and kept a good 

 herd of unregistered "white faces", so that both 

 James and William — ^members of a family of nine 

 children — had an excellent practical training in 

 their early years. 



James Powell came out to America in 1867 on the 

 ship Louisiana, sixteen days at sea, and like many 

 of his countrymen who afterwards became shining 

 lights in the Hereford trade, he headed for north- 

 em Ohio. William Powell had come to the States at 



