OF THE SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB 159 
A HEREFORD SHOWYARD GENERAL 
61. Almost the sole survivor of that earnest hard working 
band that carried the standard of the Hereford to recognition 
and victory in the bitter breed battles of the 80’s and early 90’s, 
is THoMas CLarRK. Mr. Ciark was born at Didley, Hereford- 
shire, August 28, 1842, and from the time he could take his 
first steps, was intimately connected with the creation and prog- 
tess of the whitefaced breed. His father had also been identi: 
fied with Herefords, and his grandfather, WaLTER CLARK, was 
one of the pioneer improvers of over a century ago, breeding 
his cow stock himself, and securing his sires from the elder 
TomPkKINS, GALLIERS and HEWER. 
Tuomas CLARK came to America in 1866, possessed only of 
the parcel that he carried. He landed in New York, and pro- 
ceeded to a farm in Ohio where he worked for about ten weeks. 
He then obtained a position with a Cleveland butcher by the 
name of PRoBERT, with whom he worked for three years. Fol- 
lowing this, he began butchering for himself at Elyria, Ohio, 
conducting farming operations at the same time. After two 
years, however, he found it difficult to make the interests of the 
two businesses coincide, hence he abandoned his dressed beef 
trade. He secured his first Herefords in 1869, three imported 
cows, well advanced in calf that were brought over by HUMPHREY 
& Aston. A few months later he went to Guelph, Canada, where 
he secured a bull called Sir Arthur from F. W. STone. 
In 1877 he came to Illinois where he located at Beecher, in 
the neighborhood of Mr. T. L. MILLER, already a Hereford 
pioneer. Mr. CiarK drove across the country with him his 
little band of purebreds which at that time numbered about 
twenty-five. Three years later in partnership with Mr. MILLer, 
he shipped two carloads of Herefords west to Cheyenne in order 
to introduce them to the range. The work was of a distinct 
pioneer nature, and the cattlemen were either doubtful or skep- 
