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less, }'earliiigs. The importation also include<l 

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

 Grant sold tJie bull calf Maiu-ico 2d to T]i<.)mas 11. 

 Clark who was living- in New York City and was 

 associated witli the Victoria Colony. Witiiin a 

 year or two after the importation, M.v. Clark had 

 secured most of the cattle. From the service of 

 imi). Goggles, imjD. Niobe 8th had pi'oduced a 

 heifer called Ida that was sold at four }-ears old 

 with calf at foot to Archibald Kerr of Eureka. 

 It should be mentioned that the first iiuportation 

 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 j)rovided for the disposal of 

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

 lU'operty was left when he died. 



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

 of Eiske, Clark & FUigg, Gents' Furnishing 

 (floods, New York City, subscribed to Grant's 

 Victoria Colony and is said t(_) have been the one 

 man who came out ahead. He bought luost of 

 the cattle of the Grant importation and also a 

 lot of fashionably bred Bates cows of the ]>. 1>. 

 Groom assignees at tlie timt; when Bates was 

 giving way to Scotch. Tlie rancli was ke})t 

 stocked, l)iii, wlx'tlier with descendaihs of the 

 <Jr;uii iui])o)-ta1ion, is uncertain. After Clark's 

 d(_'a1h some ten or fifteen years ago, the land and 



