OTHER PROMINENT FIGURES OP THE PERIOD W,i 



111., was quite active during the period under con- 

 sideration. The Degens were dealers, but handled 

 some mares and bred some good colts. They exliib- 

 ited many horses at the leading fairs and were quite 

 successful, but their stock appears to have been so 

 scattered as to have been almost lost to sight. They 

 bred 24 stallions and 19 mares during the time we 

 are considering. These were sired by 10 different 

 stallions, so it is evident that their breeding opera- 

 tions were incidental. The stallion L'Ami 6239 

 (1649) was imported by this firm and left a, few 

 colts in their stud. He subsequently won first at 

 the Ohio State Fair in 1888 and is now considered 

 to have been one of the best stock horses used in 

 Ohio. 



George S. Hanna. — George S. Hanna, a lawyer of 

 Blo'omiugton, 111., had a stud of Percherons which 

 achieved more than a local reputation. His early 

 stock was imported by George "W. Stubblefield, who 

 also imported several of the sires used in this stud. 

 Mr. Hanna 's operations were on farms near Bloom- 

 ington. He himself gave little attention to the busi- 

 ness, and his Percheron breeding seems to have been 

 carried on as an incident to farHj,ing. George W. 

 Stubblefield was one of his chief advisers and helped 

 sell some of the surplus produced. 



The Hanna stud was established in 1882. The 

 number of colts produced gradually increased until 

 in 1887 10 colts of Mr. Hanna 's own breeding were 

 raised. By 1890 24 stallions and a like number of 

 mares had been raised. No records are available as 



