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sales in the vicinity of Toronto. There he saw some of the very 
best of the early Scotch importations, and after a careful study 
of a number of sires secured from MR. JoHN MILLER, (114) 
the great bull Lord Strathallan, for $2,050 gold, then the equiva- 
lent of $2,500 currency. This was his introduction to the Scotch 
sorts, and while he was not arbitrary in his promotion of them, 
he ever after combined Scotch bloods with his Booth founda- 
tions. His most noted bull following Lord Strathallan was 
Baron Lavender 3d, which he purchased in the spring of 1899. 
This bull proved an excellent sire for him and he never 
obtained from his service a bad or indifferent calf. Most nota- 
ble of these was Lavender Viscount, champion of the American 
Royal, Goldfinch, Royal Avalanche, Golden Crest and Sun- 
flower 4th. 
In 1874 Mr. Locxripce was elected secretary of the Ameri- 
can Association of Breeders of Shorthorns, which position he 
held until 1882. From 1881 to 1883 he was a member of the 
state senate of Indiana, and later became so strongly identified 
with Grand Army affairs as to be elected Commander of the 
Greencastle Post, and aide-de-camp on the staff of GENERAL ELI 
TORRENCE, when the latter was Commander-in-Chief of the 
Grand Army of the Republic. In 1882 he was prominent 
among the founders of the American Shorthorn Breeders’ Asso- 
ciation, being elected a director, a position he retained for 
twenty-seven years. In 1899 he was a delegate to the Farmers’ 
National Congress in Boston, and in 1900-01 was president of 
the Central Shorthorn Breeders’ Association. The following 
year he was elected president of the American Shorthorn Breed- 
ers’ Association, to which he was subsequently twice re-elected. 
