Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
George Purdy Bellows
BELLOWS, GEORGE PURDY (1862–1913), inducted by 1920
George Bellows was born near Champaign, Illinois, and attended the University of Missouri for two years before joining his father and brother, C. D., in Bellows & Sons in 1881. In addition to breeding Shorthorns, Bellows held a second career as a livestock advertising solicitor and then became an auctioneer of pedigreed stock in 1904. George and C. D. Bellows—doing business as Bellows Brothers of Maryville, Missouri—bred and exhibited Village Supreme, the 1916 International Grand Champion Shorthorn bull.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 47