270 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



A LUMBERMAN WHO LOVED LIVESTOCK 



105. A debt of gratitude is owed by the members of the 

 Saddle and Sirloin Club to Henry F. Brown of Minneapolis, 

 Minn. When the nucleus of this gallery was presented to the 

 Club by Mr. Ogilvie, it was neccessary to find some means of 

 financing the preparation of oil portraits of the other worthies 

 who deserved the recognition of the Sanctum Sanctorum with 

 them. Living men could well be honored by their friends, but 

 those who had passed on, required a generous philanthropy 

 from some appreciative disciple of the present day. This dis- 

 ciple was found in H. F. Brown, and to his interest and finan- 

 cial backing are due the portraits of Bakewell, Bates, Webb, 

 Barclay, Torr, Cruickshank, Thomas Booth, Renick, Alex- 

 ander and others. The amount of his contribution was very 

 large financially, but even larger in its influence on the coming 

 generation of American livestock men, for here is gathered a 

 galaxy of livestock divinities that breathe an inspiration to all 

 who behold. 



Henry F. Brown was born at East Baldwin, Me., October 10, 

 1837. He was one of a family of ten children but his father 

 was a man of sufficient affairs to permit his education in the 

 Baldwin and Fryeburg Academies. At the age of seventeen he 

 sought his fortune in the west, entering upon the lumber busi- 

 ness of Minnesota. So well did he prosper that on his retire- 

 ment in 1896 he possessed large ore holdings in the Mesabe 

 iron range, (under lease to the United States Steel Co.) a large 

 lumber acreage, both virgin and cutover lands, and a magnifi- 

 cent Shorthorn estate to v/hich he devoted his remaining years. 

 He was at one time president of the Union National Bank of 

 Minneapolis and an organizer and director of the North Ameri- 

 can Telegraph Co. His death occurred December 17, 1912, 

 after a delaying battle of two years with disease. 



