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Title: History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds
Identifier: cu31924081040077 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, T. L. (Timothy Lathrop), 1817-1900; Sotham, Wm. H. (William H. )
Subjects: Hereford cattle
Publisher: Chillicothe, Mo. : T. F. B. Sotham
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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APPENDIX 543 by lightning and the second conflagration was believed to be the work of an incendiary. Ulti- mately he disposed of all his Herefords, and sold the Beecher'property. In order to escape the cold winters of the North, the last years of his life were spent in Florida. An indefatigable worker always, his energies were hy no means confined to looking after his farm and the breeding of cattle. He became the mainstay of the church at Beecher and of its pastor at a time when the little com- munity was too poor to provide for their own things, and to none without some measure of success. At an age when most men are content to rest, he was still strenuously working, and the last work of his life, a task which he had only just completed when he met with his fatal accident, was to write a "History of Hereford Cattle," thus showing that his old interest in the "white faces" had not abated. Of him it may truly be said, as Chas. Dickens once said of himself, "that he never put one hand to anything, on which he could not throw his whole self."—Hereford (Eng.) Times.
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A FARM SALE. Movable amphitheater. Weavergrace Farm of T. F. B. Sotham. religious requirements. But his religious activ- ities did not consist solely in . giving liberal financial support, for both in Chicago and Beecher he was ever a regular and earnest Sun- day school teacher. No stress of weather or bad- ness of roads sufficed to keep him and his faithful wife—whom he always found an able seconder in all his plans—from his work in connection with the church. He contributed largelv to the agricultural press, and eventually himself established a printing office and ran a newspaper mainly in the interest of Herefords for some years, and to which he subsequently added a monthly publication. It was also at Beecher, under his own editorship, much of the work being done by his own hands, that he started the "American Herd Book of Hereford Cattle," and continued until the work became too large to be carried on by private enterprise, and was therefore transferred to the manage- ment of the societ)' in Chicago. Altogether he was a fine specimen of the type of men who have made the United States the great and prosperous and progressive nation that it is to-day. A man of strong will and untiring energy, he put his hand to many RESOLUTIONS. Unanimously adopted by a rising vote of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Asso- ciation at Chicago, December 5, 1901: Whereas, Through the mysterious working of a Divine Providence, one of the most promi- nent and enterprising of the pioneer members of this association, Mr. T. L. Miller, has been summoned to other fields; therefore, be it re- solved by this association, in Annual Conven- tion assembled: First. That we freely and unhesitatingly accord to him the position of originator and leader in the propaganda of the Hereford in America. . Second. That to his enterprise and courage is largely due the position the Herefords have attained in this country. Third. That as a breeder of Herefords and a citizen, we commend him and deplore his loss. Fourth. That we condole with his family in their bereavement and sympathize with them in their affliction. Fifth. That this association appropriate the sum of $500 to erect a monument as a tribute to his memory. Sixth. That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this meeting. Charles Gudgell, W. S. Yan Natta, T. F. B. Sotham, Committee. Chicago, 111., December 5, 1901. DEATH OF T. L. MILLER. Mr. T. L. Miller died on Thursday, March 15, 1900, at De Funiak Springs, Fla., at the ripe age of 83 years. To the cattle breeding world he was universally known as T. L. Miller, of Beecher, 111., and his Highland Stock Farm was the Mecca of all admirers of Hereford cattle for manv vears, ,

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