144 A HISTORY OF THE PEECHERON HORSE 



delphia, then and for long years afterwards the fore- 

 most live stock camera artist of America. The repro- 

 ductions herewith of plates from Gren. Walters' pri- 

 vately circulated book disclose at a glance the type 

 of horse he favored. 



The late Dr. Ezra Stetson, Neponset, 111., procured 

 some of the Walters mares, and their descendants 

 proved among the most useful horses of the early 

 days of Percheron breeding in the middle west. 



Old Success Imported. — W. J. Edwards, Clifton, 

 111., was a patentee and manufacturer of improved 

 road-construction machinery, a traveler, a gentle- 

 man, and the possessor of untiring energy. In 1868 

 he journeyed to Europe and when he returned to 

 Clifton brought with him three imported stallions 

 — a bay which was the largest of the trio, French 

 Emperor 203, and the gray Success 452. Just where 

 he acquired the bay and what became of that big 

 horse diligent research has failed to reveal. These 

 three stallions made seasons in Clifton in 1868, and 

 that fall the two grays were purchased by the 

 Fletcher Co., Wayne, 111., which took its title from 

 its first president, the late Mark Wentworth Fletcher, 

 father of James Moore Fletcher, who some years 

 later in connection with Oaklawn, and afterwards 

 on his own account, became a leader in Percheron 

 circles. Success attained great celebrity, as will be 

 noted further on. 



M. W. Dunham Enters the Business, — ^In this 

 Fletcher company, as one of its members, was the 

 late Mark W. Dunham, Wayne, 111., one of the most 



