132 A HISTORY OF THE PERCHERON HORSE 



the sole progeny credited to this band of five being 

 a roan filly dropped in 1866 by Lyons to the cover 

 of Orleans. And there their history stops. 



Gray Duke. — The horsemen of Ohio began anew 

 in 1865. The shipment of that year consisted of 

 but a single stallion— Gray Duke 1724, a gray foaled 

 in 1863 — and ^vas made by the Gallon Importing 

 Co., of which J. M. White, Cardington, 0., was the 

 leading spirit. Mr. White was a passenger con- 

 ductor on one of the early western railways and an 

 enthusiastic horseman during his entire career. To 

 his enterprise may be credited the first importation 

 of French blood into the Gallon district and the re- 

 sumption of the business after the close of the war. 

 He personally sent money to France for the purchase 

 of a gray colt and then sold one-third interest in 

 the youngster to two of his friends, the three forming 

 the nucleus of the later prosperous Gallon Import- 

 ing Co. 



Eastern Imports of 1866. — Three stallions and the 

 same number of mares were brought across the ocean 

 in 1866, S. W. Ficklin, Charlottesville, Va., import- 

 ing the stallions Bienvenu 37 and The Colonel 459 

 and the mares Constance 530 and Eugenia 802. Both 

 of these mares proved prolific and left recorded prog- 

 eny behind them. 



In the same year Dr. J. Pembroke Thom, Balti- 

 more, Md., imported the mare Charlotte Corday 529, 

 but later sold her to J. W. Hunt, Frankfort, Ky., 

 where all trace of her is lost. In 1870 and 1871 she 

 produced gray fillies to Little Corporal 274, a home- 



