26 A HISTORY OF SHOETHOENS IN KANSAS 



change of residence to Anderson county. This 

 herd Avas kept up for several years but as early 

 as 1865 a number of the cows found their way to 

 Shawnee county into the herd of M. J. Alkire. 

 Indications are that the Shawnee county herd 

 absorbed the Anderson county herd before 1868. 

 M. J. Alkire remained in the business for many 

 years, consistently breeding a desirable class of 

 cattle. His name still appears occasionally in 

 pedigrees of Kansas and Oklahoma herds. 



The First Touch of Fashion. — Up to this time 

 the cattle brought to Kansas had been of the kind 

 termed " plainly bred" by leaders in the business. 

 The first attempt to conform more closely to pop- 

 ular blood lines of the day must be credited to 

 John Inlow of Johnson county. It was probably 

 in 1865 that Mr. Inlow brought in the excellent 

 red and white biill calf, 1st Grand Duke of Kan- 

 sas by the Bates bull 3d Grand Duke of Oxford, 

 and several good cows. One of the cows was by 

 the famous bull Gen. Grant 4825 and out of a 

 daughter of imp. Easter Day. He also owned 

 and used the 3d Grand Duke of Oxford and while 

 his herd did not assume large proportions, yet 

 he produced desirable cattle and their descend- 

 ants are still found in good herds. The red and 

 white Miss Watson of his breeding was the an- 

 cestress of many of the valuable cattle sent out 

 from the Glick herd some years later. Among 

 Mr. Inlow 's sales were the bull 1st Grand Duke 



