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a large iminber of the Stodder show cattle. Mr. 

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

 M. Hill ill proniotiiig' the Fredoiiia, sales held 

 aiiiiually from 19U6 to 1914. 



Another Cher<->kee 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 Groldendroi) 

 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 sou of imp. Antiquary. Later Mr. 

 Cheney bought what became his best known bull, 

 the Davidson bred Orange Blossom Perfection. 

 While iiKjst of the cows were of the commoner 

 kind he owned some ge)od ones and the descend- 

 ants of these, nearly all (_>f the Cruickshank 

 Orange Blossom family, tigured in the pedigrees 

 of sevei'al good lierds. 



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- 

 hidder of Columbus, associated for a time with 

 Williams Bros, under the name of Williams & 

 HouselKjlder. is credited as having lieen the ex- 

 hilntor of imp. Cupbearer. Mr. Householder 

 l^red a few Shorthorns but little stock is recorded 

 as lu'ed by him. 



Beginning in 1898 Adam Andrew of Craw- 



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