Justin Morgan, founder of his race : $b the romantic history of a horseBurnham, Eleanor Waring
History
Justin Morgan, founder of his race : $b the romantic history of a horse
Burnham, Eleanor Waring
Morgan horse
The stable of the late George Houstoun Waring, of Savannah, at
Annandale Stock Farm, where the first Georgia Morgans were raised,
consisted of four Morgans brought from Vermont and New Hampshire.
They were, ENTERPRISE, No. 423, chestnut with flaxen mane and tail;
PARAGON BLACK HAWK, the handsomest horse I ever saw, black with
white star, very showy in tandem; CLIVE, beyond compare in Morgan
perfection, for whom, at four years of age Mr. Waring refused $4,000;
BAY COMET, perfect in form and disposition, dark with black points.
There were fifty mares, nearly all Morgans. The finest of these was
ROSALIE MORGAN, from Vermont. She was exhibited many years at the
Georgia State Fairs, and at each would take the prizes for the best
brood mare, best mare with colt at her side, and best trotting mare.
When she appeared in these three classes no other mare stood any
chance. Finally she was ruled out. She had nineteen colts, two of
which I know sold for $600 each. Rosalie died at thirty-two years of
age.
I bought from Mr. Waring a Bay Comet colt, daughter of AMANDA MORGAN,
and named her JEANNIE DEAN. Jeannie was like a member of my family
for thirty-one years. She was the perfect type in character and form.
FRANK, a grandson of ENTERPRISE, one of the later and best known
Morgans was owned and trotted by William Henry Stiles, in 2:18¼; he
inherited all the fine traits of “OLD JUSTIN MORGAN.”
ANNANDALE had a half-mile track, and every equipment for the care and
comfort of this transplanted race.
The farm was situated in Habersham Co., in a luxuriant rolling valley
of the beautiful mountainous section of Northeast Georgia; a section
almost exclusively occupied by the summer estates of the wealthy rice
and cotton planters of the Low Country.
J. W. BRYAN.
DILLON, GEORGIA, September, 1911.
Transcriber’s Note:
Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like
this_. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the
end of the chapter. Obvious printing errors, such as reversed order,
missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected.
Jargon, dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were not changed.
Five misspelled words were corrected:
“confusel” to “confused”
“again” to “against”
“afterenoon” to “afternoon”
“corroberated” to “corroborated”
“laugher” to “laughter”
The following were changed:
“them” to “him” … as Gipsey told him they were inevitable.
“be” to “he” … Scarcely had he begun …
Added word “to” … push the cover to one side …
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