Artist: Othmar J. Hoffler (1893–1954)
Kirkland Brooks Armour
ARMOUR, KIRKLAND BROOKS (1854–1901), inducted 1952 or 1953
A nephew of Philip D. Armour Sr., Kirkland B. Armour was born in Stockbridge, New York, and moved to Kansas City in 1870 to work in Armour & Company’s facilities there. Kirk Armour became vice president and general manager of the Kansas City plant in 1892 and president in 1898. He purchased a foundation Hereford herd from C. M. Culbertson of Newman, Illinois, and imported hundreds of English head, building the breed’s influence. He was President of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders’ Association in 1899, when the first National Hereford Show—the predecessor of the American Royal—was held.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 41