GIFFORD MORGAN JR. 362
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| Scanned from Linsley's Morgan Horses. Contributed by Marsha Valance |
From American Morgan Horse Register Volume 1
GIFFORD MORGAN JR (SEYMOUR HORSE, CUSHING'S GIFFORD)
Chestnut, a little white on hind foot, 15 hands, 1150 pounds ; foaled 1848 ; bred by Epaphro Seymour, Brattleboro, Vt. ; got by Gifford Morgan : dam of great action, beauty and speed, bred by Gov. Paine, Northfield, Vt., got by Green Mountain Morgan, then called Young Woodbury ; 2ddam by old Rockingham (from an advertisement, 1852). Passed to David Goodell, Brattleboro, Vt., and was taken to Detour. 111., 1855, by Fred Barnard, who kept him there about four years, and in Sycamore, St. Charles and Elgin, the next four years, care of D. S. Gushing. He was returned to Brattleboro, 1865, and sold to a stock company for $1200. Very handsome, kind and gentle, and a noted parade horse. Stock stylish and fine roadsters. It is said that he did much to improve the stock of Kane county, 111.