30 NOTED MAINE HORSES. 
RISING SUN, 429. 
As the 2.30 list contains the names of several animals 
who trace in the direct male line to this horse,Rising Sun, it 
has been thought by the writer that as a matter of history 
it might be valuable, and perhaps not wholly devoid of 
interest to the general reader as well, that the facts con- 
cerning this femily of horses should be put on record. 
Rising Sun wasa light, or yellowish bay stallion, with 
star in the forehead, and black mane and tail, 154 hands 
high, and weighed about 1,000 lbs. He was foaled in 
1848, bred by Eben Young, of Peru, Me. He was 
purchased when four months old by Messrs.G. & C. 
Hayford, of Canton, who kept him until the Fall after he 
was two years old, when he was purchased by Major. 
Isaac Strickland, of Livermore, who in turn sold him 
when five years old to Gideon Ellis, Jr., of Canton. 
He was finally sold to Grant and Milliken, of Farming~ 
dale, and from thence taken to Massachusetts, but was 
afterward brought back to Waterville, from Waterville 
to Livermore, into Major Strickland’s hands again, and 
was finally sold and died in Franklin county in 1867. 
The sire of Rising Sun was a dark bay stallion, with 
heavy black mane and tail, and black legs, and weighed 
about 1,000 pounds. He was brought into Canton in 
January, 1842, from Medd ybemps, near Calais, by a Mr. 
Griffeth, who said that he was owned by his father-in-law, 
a Mr. Gilman who was in the Legislature, and he (Griff- 
eth) had taken the horse to winter. The pedigree of this 
horse (the sire of Rising Sun) was unknown, as also any- 
