OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 29 
THE PIONEER IN DAIRY JOURNALISM 
7. Wittiam DempsTER Hoarp, patriarch of dairy husbandry, 
was born in Stockbridge, New York, October 10, 1836, and died 
at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, November 22, 1918. His boyhood 
days were spent on his grandfather’s farm, where he gained a 
wealth of information that served him well in his later years. 
At sixteen he was hired by Waterman Simons, a York State dairy- 
man, who taught him the rudiments of making butter and cheese, 
and the feeding and care of cattle. In 1857 the lure of the west 
brought him to Lowell, Wisconsin. His life ideals were as yet 
uncrystallized and for several years he taught singing school, gave 
instruction on the violin, and at odd moments pursued studies to 
prepare him as a minister of the gospel. He received a license 
to exhort, but owing to vital differences of opinion with the pre- 
siding elder over some of the fundamental church doctrines, he 
burned his license and went to cutting wood. 
The Civil War found him in Company D of the Fourth Wis- 
consin Volunteers, and he was under GENERAL BUTLER at the 
capture of New Orleans. II] health forced him to leave the army, 
and he returned to his parental home in New York, but with 
recuperation, he again enlisted, this time in Battery A of the 
New York Artillery, and served until the end of the war. Upon 
discharge he returned to Wisconsin, where he entered the nursery 
and hop growing business. He made some money in the former 
branch, but lost an even greater sum on his hops, leaving him 
a debt that required twenty years’ work to meet. In 1870 he 
started the Jefferson County Union at Lake Mills, and in 1872 
removed to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where this paper has since 
been published. Hoarp’s Dairyman was launched in 1885. In 
1871 he founded the Wisconsin State Dairyman’s Association, of 
which he was made the Secretary. This was among the first 
organizations of the kind in the United States, and it developed 
