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way of the Ohio contingent as the leader in the im- 

 porting business, and the promise of the rise of 

 Illinois to the proud position of prominence it was 

 soon to assume and which it has held ever since. 



Not one of the previously prominent Ohio firms 

 is named as having brought horses across the ocean 

 in 1869, the only importer of record in that state 

 for that season being F. D. Dunham of Cincinnati, 

 whose' lot consisted of two stallions which do not 

 seem to have made any impression on the equine 

 affairs of the state. Hume & Short of Brighton 

 and A. G. Van Hoorebeke of Monmouth are the Illi- 

 nois operators listed in the records. "With three 

 residents of Pennsylvania they comprise the roster 

 of those actively engaged. The Pennsylvanians 

 were E. W. Shippen, Meadville, who brought out 

 three stallions, Edward Schreiber, Allentown, who 

 brought five stallions and one mare, and John S. 

 Parker, West Chester, who brought two stallions. 

 The total importations for the entire year amount- 

 ed to fifteen stallions and one mare. Xo mark worthy 

 of prominent mention seems to have been left by 

 any of these animals. Only one foal is recorded as 

 having been produced by the mare imported that 

 season, Eugenia 803. It was a colt, color not given, 

 sired by Prince Imperial 748 (imjwrted the same 

 year) and foaled in 1876. 



It was in this year of 1869 that the state of Iowa 

 received its first imported stallion. In the fall of 

 1868 Peter Bland, one of the earliest converts to the 

 draft horse faith and a resident of the Darby Plains 



