OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 107 
THE DAVID HARUM OF DEXTER PARK 
37. The veritable dean in length of service among the habitues 
of the stockyard district and the Chicago horse market, is SAMUEL 
CozzeEns. Born in Providence, R. I., in 1848, he came to Chicago 
at the age of eighteen. His first work was at the Yards where 
he was placed in charge of the Dexter Park horse market for the 
Stockyard Company. As the volume of business increased, he was 
appointed superintendent of this branch of the market and was 
placed in charge of the stables. From the very beginning Mr. 
CozzENs was recognized by Mr. SHERMAN (66), as a man of 
latent possibilities, and he turned a number of business and 
investment opportunities in his direction that served Mr. Coz- 
ZENS well from a financial standpoint. This so broadened his 
acquaintance among the men of the livestock industry of Chi- 
cago, that when he went into the coach and saddle horse business 
for himself in 1898, he was successful from the start. 
Mr. Cozzens has been a director of the Livestock Exchange 
Bank for thirty-five years, having been identified with it when 
it was opened as the Union Stockyard Bank. Upon its reorgani- 
zation as the Livestock Bank he retained his position, and for a 
period of ten years he has been a director of the Stock Yards Sav- 
ings Bank. Mr. Cozzens has done an enormous business in the 
lighter types of horses, but with the changing market demands 
he has extended his operations to animals of the draft type. His 
business has been phenomenally successful, and at one time he 
handled more horses than any other man in the Yards. 
In return for the interest and kindliness which Mr. SHERMAN 
showed him as a young man, Mr. Cozzens has been one of the 
