114 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
A PROMOTER OF BREED ORGANIZATION 
40. Mortimer LEveRING brought to agricultural industry as 
broad a range of tastes, as great a degree of varied skill, and 
as high a perfection of subject mastery as modern America 
has known. Born of a sturdy stock of Quaker origin he com- 
bined with its simplicity of style the chivalrous viewpoint of 
cavaliers, and the artistic and literary perceptions of the Latin. 
Although his native home was Philadelphia, he early moved to 
Lafayette, Ind., and there became established as private banker 
and manager of farm property. At one time he had over twenty 
farms under his direction, but found time so to devote himself 
to his banking affairs, that it was his boast that he had never 
been forced to foreclose on a security. At his country home, 
Richmond Hill, with its sloping pastures bordering the Wabash, 
he for years maintained Jerseys, Shropshires, Shetlands and 
standard-bred poultry. He was one of the organizers of the 
American Shropshire Registry Association, early in 1881, and 
was its secretary until the day of his death. Under his regime 
it developed a larger membership than any sheep society in the 
world. He was also the secretary of the National Wool Grow- 
ers’ Association for many years, and its eastern vice president 
thereafter. He took charge of the American Shetland Pony 
Club records in its feeble childhood, and as its secretary, 
builded it a perpetuating structure. The American Saddle Horse 
Breeders’ Association made him a director and listened long to 
his seasoned counsel. He was a founder of the International 
and the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUvB, being secretary of the latter 
in its days of organization and early equipment. 
Mr. LEVERING was an enthusiastic sportsman and a seasoned 
judge of livestock. He was secretary of the Chicago Horse Show 
Association which not only revived the brilliancies of the old 
Lake Front Show, but actually outdazzled them at the Coliseum. 
At Kansas City when challenged by Wittiam R. NELSON as to 
