Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
James Brown
BROWN, JAMES (1854–1930), inducted circa 1909
Head cattle buyer for Armour and Company’s national operations for decades—until his retirement in 1924— James Brown was born near Springfield, Illinois. He moved to just outside Buffalo, Wyoming, in 1880, but returned to Illinois in 1889, where he joined the firm of Ward and Brown, before taking a position with Armour. In 1908, Brown purchased the first Shorthorns for his Thaxton Farms, in Dundee, Illinois, and added a Shropshire sheep program in 1915. He was a director of the International Live Stock Exposition for many years.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 54