Kentucky State Fair BoardLouisville, Kentucky

Saddle & Sirloin ClubPortrait Collection Guidebook

About the Cover –The cover features “Bull in Defiant Stance,” by Isidore Bonheur, a bronze sculpture in the University Art Collection, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. That University won possession of the coveted trophy by winning the International Collegiate Judging Contest in 1901, 1902, and 1903. The sculpture became the trademark of the International during its 76 year history and has continued to be associated with the Saddle & Sirloin Club, since the collection moved to the Kentucky Exposition Center.

NAILE 40th Anniversary Edition, 2013

Believed to be the world’s largest portrait gallery commemorating a single industry, the Saddle & Sirloin Club Portrait Collection honors leaders in all facets of the American livestock industry—leaders chosen by their peers. The Collection was established at Chicago’s Union Stock Yards in 1903, where the International Live Stock Exposition resided; and in 1976, the Collection moved to the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, home of the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE). With this printing of the 2013 guidebook—a brief history of the Collection and its inductees—368 individuals have been honored with a Saddle & Sirloin Club portrait. On the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the NAILE, we offer this tribute to these industry leaders.

Published byKentucky State Fair Board

Louisville, Kentucky

Clifford “Rip” RippetoePresident and CEO

ISBN 978-0-9634756-4-0Library of Congress Card Number 2003106951

2013 Edition

Cover and text printed in the USA byAdvertiser Printers Inc.Lexington, Kentucky

For additional copies send $10 per copy to Kentucky Exposition Center, P.O. Box 37130, Louisville, Kentucky 40233-7130. Phone 502.367.5000

Contents

Inductees into the Saddle & Sirloin Club, an alphabetical list .................................................... 5

Preface & Acknowledgements ................................................................................................ 8

Historical Overview:

The Foundations of the American Livestock Industry ..................................................11 Chicago: Crossroads of the Nation and “Slaughterhouse to the World” ........................13 The International Live Stock Exposition .....................................................................14 The North American International Live Stock Exposition .............................................16 A Portrait Gallery to Honor the Greats of the Livestock Industry ..................................18 The Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville ..............................................................22 The Artists of the Saddle & Sirloin Club .....................................................................23

Saddle & Sirloin Club Portrait Collection Biographies ...............................................................31

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Adams, Henry Cullen by 1920 31Adams, John betw. 1920-36 38Adams, William Phipps, II 1970 38 Alexander, Robert Aitcheson 1903 38Allen, Lewis Falley by 1915 39Allerton, Samuel Waters, Jr. by 1920 39Andrew, Jess C. betw. 1920-36 39Armour, J. Ogden by 1920 40Armour, Kirkland Brooks 1952 or 1953 41Armour, Philip Danforth, Jr. by 1920 40Armour, Philip Danforth, Sr. by 1920 40Armsby, Henry Prentiss 1921 41Babcock, Stephen Moulton by 1920 42Baker, Frank H. 1986 42Bakewell, Robert 1903 42Barclay-Allardice, Robert 1903 43Barker, Elbert Jeremiah 1939 43Barnhart, Charles E. 1987 43Bates, Thomas 1903 44Battles, Otto V. 1930 44Bayard, Edwin Stanton betw. 1920-36 44Bell, Samuel, Jr. betw. 1920-36 44Bellows, George by 1920 45Bennett, Samuel E. betw. 1920-36 45Benson, Ezra Taft 1960 37Bermingham, Walter A. 1954 45Besuden, Henry Carlisle 1971 46Biggar, Walter 1946 46Blizzard, Warren Lale 1939 46Bohstedt, Gustav 1951 46Bond, Franklin betw. 1936-48 47Booth, John 1903 47Booth, Richard 1903 47Booth, Thomas 1903 47Booth, Thomas Christopher 1903 47Boss, Andrew 1929 48Bradfute, Oscar Edwin betw. 1920-36 48Briggs, Hilton Marshall 1978 48Brown, Henry Francis by 1915 48Brown, James by 1920 49Brown, James Nicholas betw. 1911-1915 49Buchanan, William Insco by 1920 49Buel, Munson Parker by 1920 50Bunn, John Whitfield by 1920 50Burnett, Edgar Albert 1930 50Burnett, Samuel Burk betw. 1936-48 51Butler, William John betw. 1936-48 51Butz, Earl Lauer 1974 37Caine, John Thomas, III 1952 51Campbell, Melville Clark betw. 1920-36 52Carlyle, William Levi betw. 1903-09 52Carnes, Norris Kenneth 1969 52Carpenter, Reid by 1920 53Casement, Dan Dillon 1939 53Chisholm, Jesse 1941 53Christie, George Irving betw. 1920-36 54Clark, Thomas by 1920 54Clarke, Nehemiah Palmer by 1915 54

Clay, John, Jr. betw. 1920-36 55Clay, John Sr. betw. 1920-48 55Cobb, Emory by 1915 56Coburn, Foster Dwight by 1920 56Cochel, Wilber Andrew 1937 56Coffey, Walter Castella 1936 57Cole, Leon Jacob 1939 57Colling, Charles 1903 57Colling, Robert 1903 57Colvin, Louis M. 2009 58Conner, James Dicken, Jr. betw. 1936-48 58Constant, Robert Franklin 1950 58Cook, Andrew Braid betw. 1920-36 59Coolidge, Calvin 1929 32Cooper, John Sidney by 1920 59Cowan, Bryant Owsley betw.1920-36 59Cowan, Samuel Houston betw. 1936-48 60Cozzens, Samuel by 1920 60Craig, John Alexander by 1920 60Crouch, Jeptha by 1920 61Crowell, Henry Parsons 1940 61Cruickshank, Amos 1903 61Cudahy, Edward Aloysius, Sr. betw. 1936-48 62Cudahy, Michael betw. 1936-48 62Culberson, Charles M. betw. 1920-48 62Cummings, William Charles, Sr. betw. 1936-48 62Curtiss, Charles F. by 1915 63Daniel, O’dell G. 2001 63Darlow, Albert Edward 1958 63Davenport, Eugene by 1920 64Davidson, James Ironside 1915 64Davison, G. Howard by 1920 64Day, George E. betw. 1936-48 65Day, John betw. 1920-48 65DeRicqles, Alphonse Edward betw. 1936-48 65Detmers, Heinrich Janssen 1919 66Dick, George Frederick betw. 1920-41 66Dodge, James Edward betw. 1920-36 66Donovan, James F. 1965 67Dorney, Maurice J. 1944 67Dorset, Marion by 1920 67Dryden, John by 1920 68Dryden, William Arthur 1948 68Duggan, Carlos M. by 1920 68Dunbar, Charles C. 1949 69Dunham, Mark Wentworth by 1920 69Dunlap, Renick William betw. 1920-36 69Duthie, William betw. 1920-41 70Ensminger, Marion Eugene 1985 70Evans, Robert Jones betw. 1920-48 70Fairbairn, Robert Ashley betw. 1920-36 71Fairfax, Henry by 1920 71Farwell, Walter betw. 1934-48 71Favill, Henry Baird by 1920 71Ferrin, Evan F. 1961 72Forbes, Ernest Browning 1934 72Forbes, Sarah Paine 2008 72Ford, Robert Simpson betw. 1936-48 73

Inductees into The Saddle & Sirloin Clubin alphabetical order, with induction years, if known

nameYear InduCted Page name

Year InduCted Page

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Foster, Thomas Dove betw. 1920-48 73Francis, John by 1920 73Franklin, Benjamin by 1920 73Fullerton, Samuel Clyde, Sr. betw. 1948-51 73Funk, Eugene Duncan, Sr. 1941 74Funk, Isaac by 1920 74Funk, Marquis de Lafayette by 1915 74Galbraith, Alexander betw. 1920-36 75Gammon, Warren 1979 75Garrigus, Harry Lucian 1943 75Garrigus, Wesley Patterson 1983 75Gay, Carl Warren 1950 76Gentry, Nicholas Hocker by 1915 76Gibson, Henry Noel 1947 76Gibson, Richard Albert by 1915 76Gilbey, Walter 1915 77Gillett, John Dean by 1915 77Goggins, Patrick 2011 77Good, Don L. 1987 77Good, Edwin Stanton 1940 78Goodnight, Charles betw. 1920-36 78Goodwin, William Ransdell, Jr. by 1920 78Gore, Howard Mason betw. 1920-36 35Grafton, Robert Wadsworth betw. 1936-48 24 Grant, Ulysses S. by 1920 32Grant, William J. by 1920 79Gray, Carl Raymond, Sr. betw. 1936-48 79Groves, John W. by 1920 79Haggin, James Ben Ali by 1920 80Hamilton, Alexander by 1920 80Hammond, George Henry 1953 or 1954 80Harding, Frank W., Jr. 1982 81Harding, Frank W., Sr. 1915 81 Harding, George H. 1905 81Harris, William Alexander by 1915 82Hart, George H. 1947 82Hatch, William Henry by 1920 31Hawkins, David R. 2013 83 Hazlett, Robert Harmon betw. 1920-36 83Heide, Bernard H. betw. 1920-36 83Henkle, Orvis T. betw. 1920-36 84Henry, William Arnon 1903 84Hewer, John betw. 1920-41 84Hill, James Jerome 1937 85Hill, John A. betw. 1920-36 85Hill, John Arthur 1949 85Hillier, James Calvin 1993 86Hoard, William Dempster 1914 86Holbert, J. C. 1973 86Holloway, Robert Thomas by 1920 87Hoover, Herbert betw. 1929-48 32Hord, Thomas Benton by 1920 87Houston, Ben R. 2002 87Humphrey, George Colvin 1935 88Hunsley, Roger E. 2005 88Hutchinson, Benjamin Peters by 1920 88Hyde, Arthur Mastick betw. 1920-36 36Ingwerson, Charles H. by 1920 89Ingwersen, Emil Henry betw. 1920-41 89Ingwersen, Henry C. by 1920 89Jardine, William Marian betw. 1920-36 36Jarnagin, Milton Preston, Jr. 1951 90Jefferson, Thomas by 1920 90Johnson, Frederick Hurst, Jr. 1999 90Johnson, Will betw. 1936-48 91

Judy, James W. by 1915 91Keefer, Louis by 1920 91Kildee, Henry Herbert 1938 92King, Franklin George 1944 92Kinzer, Roland J. 1939 92Kleberg, Robert Justus, Jr. betw. 1920-36 93 Kleberg, Robert Justus, III 1959 93Kline, Allan B. 1963 94Knapp, Seaman Asahel betw. 1920-36 94Kohrs, Carsten Conrad by 1920 94Lantz, Simon Everett 1946 95Law, James 1918 95Leachman, Lester James 2006 95Leavitt, Wellington betw. 1920-36 96Legge, Alexander betw. 1920-36 96Leonard, Arthur G. by 1920 96Leonard, Charles E. by 1915 97Levering, Mortimer by 1920 97Lincoln, Abraham by 1920 97Little, Andrew betw. 1936-48 97Litton, George Washington 1980 98Lockridge, Simpson Farrow by 1915 98Lovejoy, Andrew James by 1920 98Lowden, Frank Orren betw. 1920-36 99Lush, Jay Laurence 1956 99Lynn, Charles Jackson 1954 99Lytle, John Thomas, III betw. 1920-41 100Mabry, Seth W. betw. 1920-48 100MacKenzie, Murdo by 1920 100MacNeilage, Archibald betw. 1920-48 101Macpherson-Grant, George betw. 1920-48 101Marshall, Duncan McLean by 1920 101Marshall, Henry W. betw. 1920-36 102Marshall, John by 1920 102Martin, George Edgar by 1920 102Martin, James Warfield betw. 1920-36 102May, Leland D. betw. 1920-36 103McCombie, William betw. 1920-36 103McGregor, James Duncan betw. 1936-48 103McKerrow, George 1941 103McNair, Henry betw. 1936-48 104Melvin, Alonzo Dorus 1918 104Mercer, Joseph Hooker 1941 104Meredith, Edwin Thomas betw. 1920-36 35Miller, John, Sr. by 1917 105Miller, Robert F. betw. 1920-36 105Miller, William, Jr. by 1917 105Minish, Gary L. 2012 106Mitchell, Albert Knell 1949 106Mitchell, Everett G. 1966 106Mohler, John Robbins 1918 107Mollin, Fernand Edwin 1957 107Montgomery, Andrew M., Sr. by 1920 107Morrill, Justin Smith by 1920 31Morris, Edward by 1920 108Morris, Nelson by 1920 108Morrison, Frank Barron 1938 109Morton, Julius Sterling by 1920 34Mossman, Burton Charles, Sr. 1941 109Mucks, Arlie Max, Sr. 1958 109Mumford, Frederick Blackmar 1928 110Mumford, Herbert Windsor 1928 110Musser, Clifton Robert 1936 110Nash, William Guy 1981 111 Neff, Jay Holcomb betw. 1920-36 111

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Nelson, Ronald H. 1990 111Newton, Isaac betw. 1920-41 33Nobis, Otto G. 1962 112Noble, Guy L. 1947 112Nyholm, Arvid Frederick by 1945 24O’Connor, William J. 1953 112Ogilvie, Robert Burns by 1920 113Orr, Richard T. 1927 113Pabst, Frederick, Jr. 1957 114Pabst, Frederick, Sr. by 1920 114 Palmer, Foster C. 1964 115Pearson, Leonard 1918 115Pemberton, Roland L. 1952 115Penn, William by 1920 115Peters, Walter Harvest 1948 116Petry, Nicholas Robert 1995 116Pew, William Harper 1937 116Pickrell, James Henry by 1915 117Pierce, Abel Head betw. 1936-48 117Pierce, Blandford Rude 1905 118Pierce, Stanley R. 1940 118Plaza Lasso, Galo 1968 119Plumb, Charles Sumner by 1915 119Plummer, Oakes Mortimer 1941 119Pollock, R.C. 1948 120Potter, Charles Steele 1967 120Prather, J. Frank by 1915 120Prince, Frederick Henry betw. 1920-36 121Prince, William Henry Wood 1954 121Purdy, Herman Reger 1984 122Purnell, Fred Sampson betw. 1920-36 122Ragsdale, John C. 1992 122Rathje, Frank C., Sr. 1947 122Renick, Felix circa 1903 123Renick, George betw. 1920-36 123Renk, William F. 1948 124Richards, Frank 1971 124Ritchie, Harlan D. 1994 124Rodibaugh, John A. 2007 125Roosevelt, Franklin Delano betw. 1948-51 125 Rosenbaum, Joseph by 1920 125Rothrock, Frank Miles betw. 1934-48 125Runnion, Dale F. 1988 126Rusk, Henry Perly 1946 126 Rusk, Jeremiah McLain by 1920 33Russell, Harry Luman 1922 126Russell, Thomas Alexander, Jr. betw. 1937-48 127Rutherford, John Gunion 1918 127Ryan, Joseph Edward Guinane by 1920 127Salmon, Daniel Elmer 1918 128Sanders, Alvin Howard betw. 1915-20 129Sanders, James Harvey 1904 129Schreiner, Louis Albert 1939 130 Scofield, Frank L. betw. 1948-51 130 Shaw, Ralph Martin betw. 1920-48 130Shaw, Robert Sidney 1933 130Shearer, Phineas Stephens 1953 131Shepperd, John Henry 1921 131Sherman, John B. by 1920 131Sieben, Henry betw. 1920-36 132Simpson, F. M. 1955 132Sims, Ray 2010 132Skinner, John Harrison by 1915 132Skinner, William E. by 1920 133Smith, Howard Remus betw. 1920-36 133

Smith, R. Lawrence betw. 1920-36 133 Smith, Theobald betw. 1920-36 133 Snyder, Charles Edwin 1938 134Soule, Andrew McNairn betw. 1920-36 134Spoor, John Alden betw. 1920-48 134Stone, E. C. 1939 135Swan, Alexander Hamilton betw. 1934-48 135Sweet, Orville K. 1998 135Swift, Edward Foster betw. 1920-41 136Swift, Gustavus Franklin, Jr. betw. 1948-51 136Swift, Gustavus Franklin, Sr. by 1920 136Swift, Louis Franklin betw. 1920-41 136Taylor, Edmund Haynes, Jr. 1922 138Terrill, Clair E. 1989 138Thompson, Arthur Weimar 1951 138Thomson, Robert Boyd by 1920 138Thorne, Oakleigh betw. 1920-48 139Tilden, Edward Milton by 1920 139Tod, W. J. betw. 1920-36 139Tolan, John Garrett 1948 139Tomhave, William Henry 1941 140 Tomkins, Benjamin, Sr. betw. 1920-48 140Tomson, Clinton Keith 1996 140Tomson, John Ross by 1920 140Torr, William 1903 141Totusek, Robert 1997 141Trowbridge, Edwin Alfonso 1941 141Trowbridge, Perry Fox 1937 142True, Gordon Haines 1927 142Truman, Jonathan Hall by 1920 142Turner, Jack 1955 142Van Meter, Benjamin Franklin by 1915 143Van Natta, William S. by 1920 143Vilas, William Freeman by 1920 143Wadsworth, James Wolcott, Jr. 1951 144Walters, Lowell Eugene 2000 144Warfield, William Caldwell betw. 1920-41 144Warren, Francis Emroy betw. 1920-48 145Washington, George by 1920 145Waters, Henry Jackson by 1920 145Watson, Hugh betw. 1920-36 146Weaver, Luther Abraham 1954 146Webb, Jonas circa 1903 146Weber, Arthur D. 1952 146Webster, Daniel by 1920 147Wentworth, Edward Norris 1940 147Wertheimer, A.T. betw. 1936-48 147Wetherell, William 1903 147White, Elijah B., Sr. betw. 1920-36 148White, Frank Edson betw. 1920-36 148Willham, Richard L. 2004 148Williams, Charles Henry betw. 1936-48 149Wilson, James by 1920 34Wilson, Thomas Edward by 1920 149Wing, Joseph Elwyn betw. 1920-48 149Woodward, Ray Roberts 1991 150Workman, Harold F. 2003 150

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Preface & Acknowledgements

This current edition of the Saddle & Sirloin Club Portrait Collection Guidebook is published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the North American International Livestock Exposition, and it captures a great deal of new information gathered during a research project begun in 2010. The introductory essay provides an overview of the collection’s history and includes, for the first time, significant information about the collection’s artists, many of whom were among the most celebrated portraitists of their time.

The brief biographies of the Saddle & Sirloin Club inductees reflect information drawn from primary sources whenever possible, to provide an accurate summary of the individuals’ accomplishments. Many biographies have been expanded, and a number have been featured in a grouping of policy leaders, United States Presidents, and U. S. Secretaries of Agriculture at the beginning of the directory, to further highlight their outstanding contributions to agriculture. Some of the biographies, however, are still incomplete, and we welcome any information that would strengthen the collection archives.

The Saddle & Sirloin Club Portrait Gallery was founded in 1903 by three men—Arthur F. Leonard, Robert B. Ogilvie, and Alvin H. Sanders—who wished to honor significant leaders in the livestock industry on the grounds of Union Stock Yards in Chicago, where the International Live Stock Exposition was held. Henry F. Brown financed the first portraits, painted by artist James Reeve Stuart. Alvin Sanders documented the origins of the collection in the 1915 publication, At the Sign of the Stock Yard Inn. In 1920, Edward N. Wentworth published A Biographical Catalogue of the Portrait Gallery of the Saddle and Sirloin Club, featuring essays on each of the 127 men who had been inducted in the first years of the collection.

The collection continued to grow until the unthinkable happened in 1934: a fire destroyed all of the paintings and the records of the portrait gallery. The primary Club artist at the time, Robert Wadsworth Grafton, accomplished the Herculean task of repainting many of the works. Although he worked very quickly, his portraits are of high quality and represent 160 of the 358 paintings in the collection today. Many fine paintings were lost in the fire, and some portraits were never repainted, but Robert Grafton’s contributions to rebuilding this historic gallery must not be overlooked. He is one of only two collection artists to be honored as a Saddle & Sirloin inductee.

Alvin Sanders, mindful of the great losses of 1934, created a written inventory of all of the works in the collection right before his death in 1948. This inventory was updated and republished periodically, as new inductees were added.

Decades later, in the final days of the International Live Stock Exposition, the Saddle & Sirloin Club leaders, led by Frank Harding, selected the Kentucky Exposition Center as the new home for the portrait collection. The tradition of selecting new livestock industry honorees each year was transferred from the International to the North American International Livestock Exposition. Charles Barnhart and Harold Workman oversaw this transition to Louisville in 1975, and Harold Workman became the Saddle & Sirloin Club’s principal champion. Wesley Garrigus wrote new biographies of the inductees in 1978 and prepared the text for the 1981 collection guidebook.

Over the years, Harold Workman, David Snider, Jeff Zinner, and Corinne Fetter have worked to oversee care for the portraits in the Saddle & Sirloin gallery and the collection records. Many other staff members of the Kentucky State Fair Board have helped maintain, display, and interpret the works, including Joe McGee, Barry Dozier, and Melissa Cooper.

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Dale F. Runnion, Harlan D. Ritchie, and Richard Willham collaborated to author the 1992-2009 editions of the guidebook; and many individuals have participated in the design, editing, and proofing of this 2013 edition, especially Lauren Beckley, Jeff Zinner, Leah Pfeister, Bonnie Johnson, Brenda O’Bryan, Linda Brock, Kylie Smith, Corinne Fetter, and Harold Workman.

The 2013 Saddle & Sirloin Club Portrait Collection Guidebook is possible due to the contributions of each of those individuals named above and many more. We hope you enjoy this guided tour through the halls of the world’s largest portrait gallery to chronicle a single industry—the great leaders of American livestock in the Saddle & Sirloin Club Portrait Collection.

--Stephanie Wilding Darst Historian, Kentucky State Fair Board