West Liberty History 1838-1938

Source: One Hundred Years of History
* Commemorating a Century of Progress in the West Liberty Community * WEST LIBERTY, IOWA
IOWA SHORTHORN BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION

The Iowa Shorthorn Breeders' Association was organized January 24-25, 1882, in the old opera house which occupied the second story of the McClun building at the corner of Third and Calhoun streets. Among the men prominent in this organization were C. S. Barclay, A. T. Judd, Pliny Nichols, James Morgan, Zed Ellyson, John Evans, and S. W. Jacobs.

In an address of welcome given by C. S. Barclay at a meeting of the association held in West Liberty in December 1897, he said that the first Shorthorn cattle had been brought to West Liberty from Kentucky in 1857 and that more Shorthorn cattle for breeding purposes had been sent out from West Liberty than from any other point in the country.

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