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Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, brought two stallions from 

 France, and during the same year two others were im- 

 ported, one for J. J. Parker of West Chester and the other 

 for Edward Shippen of Meadville. In 1856 Gordon and 

 Martin of Woodstock, Ohio, imported a stallion subse- 

 quently registered in Volume I of the stud book as RoUin 

 418. Soon afterward this stallion was taken to Illinois, 

 where he acquired a great local reputation. In 1866 



W. T. Walters of 



Baltimore, Mary- 

 land, imported 

 several stallions 

 and mares. Wal- 

 ters was the first 

 person to estab- 

 lish a breeding 

 stud in America. 

 He had lived in 

 France, where he 

 made a close 

 study of horse 

 breeding, and 

 hence was able to pio. 97.— percheron stallion "my lord" 



buy to advantage. 



In 1870 M. W. Dunham, of Wayne, Illinois, and in 1874 W. 

 Singmaster of Keota, Iowa, began breeding and importing, 

 both of whom became famous Percheron authorities. In 

 addition the Stubblefields of Bloomington, Ellis Dillon of 

 Normal and Ezra Stetson of Neponset, Illinois, A. W. 

 Cook of Charles City, Iowa, and the Fullingtons of Irwin 

 Station, Ohio, were early breeders and importers. 



Notable American Percheron breeders.- — While it is 

 rather difficult to determine the leading breeders, because 

 some persons have a few very famous animals while 

 others have a large number of only fair animals, yet the 

 following are among the more notable breeders of Per- 

 cherons in the country at the present time : H. G. Mc- 



