OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 299 



A HUSBANDMAN FROM OXFORD 



116. Another representative of the Aberdeenshire Miller family 

 that played so important a role in the Shorthorn and Clydesdale 

 history during the formative days of Canadian agriculture was 

 Mr. William Miller, nephew of George Miller of Markham, 

 Ontario, and brother of Mr. John Miller (114). Mr. Miller's 

 father was also named Wiluam Miller, and he was partner 

 with George Miller in some of the early enterprises which intro- 

 duced Scotch Shorthorns from the north of Caledon. William 

 Miller, Jr., was born in 1834 near Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshire, 

 Scotland. He was educated in the common schools of Canada 

 and at Oxford University, gaining a training that gave him a 

 most facile expression in later life. The rudiments of livestock 

 were learned on his father's farm, near Pickering, Ontario, to 

 which place he came in 1839. During the period extending from 

 1854 to 1861, numerous importations were made into Canada 

 from the herd of Robert Syme of Redkirk, Dumfrieshire, by 

 George and William Miller. With the first lot Mr. Miller 

 brought over that showyard veteran, Simon Beattie. The original 

 selections in large part were made by William Miller, Jr., then 

 a young man making his first tour of the old country herds and 

 flocks. Mr. Miller selected the bull Redkirk 15138, a fine roan 

 of medium size that was shown by Mr. John Miller, and later 

 sold into New York. In the spring of 1869, Mr. Wiluam Miller 

 imported the grand roan show heifer Ruberta, bred by the 

 Messrs. Garne of Broadmoor, Gloucestershire. This heifer was 

 fed out for show by John and William Miller and successfully 

 exhibited previous to being sold to M. H. Cochrane at Hillhurst. 



In 1881 he undertook the management of a farm owned by a 

 Mr. Simpson, collector of customs in Montreal, but in 1884 went 

 to Hillhurst. In the fall of 1886, Mr. Luther Adams, Boston, 

 Mass., secured a large farm at Storm Lake, Iowa, and commis- 

 sioned William Miller to stock it, and to secure a shipment of 



