154, THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
THE SCOTCH DODDIE AND NO SURRENDER 
59. Few breeders of today can realize the personal courage 
and integrity of purpose necessary among the promoters of the 
newer breeds of cattle, to stem the tide of popular opposition 
from the aggressive Shorthorn supporters of the earlier days. 
Even more difficult is it to understand the anathema attached 
to any man who at that time would depart from the Shorthorn 
fold to worship new idols. A man of such courage and clarity 
of purpose was BLanrorp R. Pierce of Creston, Illinois. Mr. 
PieRcE was bred and reared on an Oneida county farm, his 
birth being March 11, 1832, at Groton, New York. In early 
life he and his brother learned to break and to show oxen at 
the county fairs. With the characteristic adaptability of the 
men of his day, when he came to I]linois in 1857 he taught 
school near his farm in the winter and did carpenter work in 
the summer. From this humble beginning he became a buyer 
and shipper of grain and livestock to Chicago, and at the time 
of the big Chicago fire suffered severe monetary loss from the 
burning of many carloads of corn and wheat. In keeping with 
the practice of many another Illinois pioneer, he early adopted 
a policy of land extension, and little by little acquired the 
acreage that now makes up Woodlawn Farm. Mr. PIERCE was 
a typical livestock farmer; he left the land richer than he found 
it, and he turned to all classes of livestock to obtain his results. 
He was very successful with the horses and hogs, but was not 
a proponent of dairying. He never kept but one milk cow, and 
family tradition records that one to be so excellent that its full 
span of years were spent on Woodlawn farm. 
Until 1881 Mr. Pierce was a breeder of Shorthorns, but in 
this year he switched his allegiance to the then little known 
breed of Aberdeen-Angus. He sought many of the recent impor- 
tations, and purchased about two carloads in Canada from the 
CocHRANE and Mossom Boyp herds. His great ambition was 
