20—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 9, 1973
100th Birthday Celebration of
Angus in U.S. Celebrated
Beef cattle breeders and in
dustry leaders from the United
States, Canada, Scotland and
Guatemala gathered in Victoria,
Kansas, May 17 to celebrate the
100th anniversary of the im
porting of the first Angus cattle
into the United States.
The first Angus arrived in
Victoria from their native
Scotland on May 17, 1873. They
were imported by George Grant,
a retired London silk merchant
who had started an agricultural
colony in Kansas and founded the
town of Victoria. Special guest at
the festivities was W. D.
McLaren, president of the
Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society
from Scotland who read a letter
of congratulations to Angus
breeders from the Queen Mother
of Great Britain. She is the
patroness of the Aberdeen-Angus
Cattle Society and has an Angus
herd.
Some 800 people attended the
special ceremonies on the out
skirts of Victoria The
celebration, sponsored by the
American Angus Association was
held in the old English cemetery
where George Grant is buried
and where a large limestone
monument was erected in his
honor in 1943. The activities
included the re-dedication ot the
monument and the unveiling of a
limestone statue of a modern
Angus bull that was placed atop
it The sculpture was done by
Fritz Felten, a native Kansas
artist who lives at Hays.
In charge of the re-dedication
activities was Glen Pickett,
president of the Kansas Angus
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troduced two relatives of George
Grant who are still living in
Kansas, and then tried on a top
hat they had brought that was
owned by Grant.
Later William McLaren placed
a large floral replica of the
“Union Jack” at the Grant
monument while a group of
bagpipers in regimental Scottish
kilts played for the ceremony.
Keynote speaker at the bir
thday celebration was Dr. A. D.
Weber, executive vice-president
of the Kansas Livestock and Meat
Industry Council and vice
president emeritus of Kansas
State University.
Guest speaker was John
Trotman, president, American
National Cattlemen’s Association
from Montgomery, Alabama. He
congratulated Angus breeders on
their 100 years of progress then
told of a $6l million ANCA drive
to educate the nation’s
housewives about the beef in
dustry. Housewives need to know
that beef prices are not going
down any more than are the
wages of their husbands, Trot
man emphasized.
Twenty national organizations
that have contributed to the
development of the beef industry
were honored with special
awards by the American Angus
Association. They are: American
Agricultural Editors Ass’n;
American Meat Institute,
American National Cattlemen’s
Ass’n, American Society of
Animal Science; Beef Im
provement Federation; Beef
Industry Council; Future Far
mers of America; National
Association of Farm Broad
casters; National Ass’n of Food
Chains, National Ass’n of Meat
Purveyors, National Ass’n of
Retail Grocers; 4-H Clubs of
America, National Independent
Meat Packers Ass’n, National
Live Stock and Meat Board,
National Livestock Feeders
Ass’n, National Restaurant Ass’n
National Society of Live Stock
Record Ass’ns; Newspaper Farm
Editors of America; U. S. Beef
Breeds Council; and United
States Department of
Agriculture.
Kansas Senator Robert Dole
was a special guest at the
ceremony.
Master of ceremonies for the
program was Robert Giess, a
director of the American Angus
Association from Arnold, Kan
sas.
Momentos of 100 years of
Angus history in the United
States will be locked in a Cen
tennial Time Capsule and planted
in front of the American Angus
Association headquarters on
Sunday, June 10. The event will
be in conjunction with the
quarterly meeting of the
Association’s board of directors
at St. Joseph, Missouri.
Material ranging from early
day sale catalogs to present-day
advertising campaigns will be
microfilmed and placed in the
time capsule and buried beneath
a huge limestone fence post from
the original George Grant Ranch.
Other highlights will include a
presentation from Frank Rea,
Carrollton, Missouri, owner of
the Moss Creek Angus Herd, one
of the truly “Pioneer Herds” in
the United States The Moss
Creek Herd was started in 1879
from one of the original four herd
bulls imported into the U S by
George Grant Rea is the third
generation of cattlemen in his
family to continue the herd
Other presentations will be
made by Lloyd D Miller,
executive secretary of the
American Angus
prior to the dedication and
planting of the Centennial Time
Capsule
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