270 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
A LUMBERMAN WHO LOVED LIVESTOCK 
105. A debt of gratitude is owed by the members of the 
SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLus to Henry F. Brown of Minneapolis, 
Minn. When the nucleus of this gallery was presented to the 
Club by Mr. OcILvig, it was neccessary to find some means of 
financing the preparation of oil portraits of the other worthies 
who deserved the recognition of the Sanctum Sanctorum with 
them. Living men could well be honored by their friends, but 
those who had passed on, required a generous philanthropy 
from some appreciative disciple of the present day. This dis- 
ciple was found in H. F. Brown, and to his interest and finan- 
cial backing are due the portraits of BAKEWELL, Bates, WEBB, 
Barciay, Torr, CRUICKSHANK, THomas Bootu, RENICK, ALEX- 
ANDER and others. The amount of his contribution was very 
large financially, but even larger in its influence on the coming 
generation of American livestock men, for here is gathered a 
galaxy of livestock divinities that breathe an inspiration to all 
who behold. 
Henry F. Brown was born at East Baldwin, Me., October 10, 
1837. He was one of a family of ten children but his father 
was a man of sufficient affairs to permit-his education in the 
Baldwin and Fryeburg Academies. At the age of seventeen he 
sought his fortune in the west, entering upon the lumber busi- 
ness of Minnesota. So well did he prosper that on his retire- 
ment in 1896 he possessed large ore holdings in the Mesabe 
iron range, (under lease to the United States Steel Co.) a large 
lumber acreage, both virgin and cutover lands, and a magnifi- 
cent Shorthorn estate to which he devoted his remaining years. 
He was at one time president of the Union National Bank of 
Minneapolis and an organizer and director of the North Ameri- 
can Telegraph Co. His death occurred December 17, 1912, 
after a delaying battle of two years with disease. 
