Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Oscar Edwin Bradfute
BRADFUTE, OSCAR EDWIN (1862–1929), inducted between 1920–1936
A member of the executive committee when the International Live Stock Exposition was founded, Oscar E. Bradfute was raised on Meadow Brook, a Xenia, Ohio, Shorthorn farm. Three years after graduating from Indiana University in 1884, he established an Angus herd at Meadow Brook and quickly became a leading breeder, winning several ILSE championships. He was president of the American Angus Association and the American Farm Bureau Federation. Bradfute judged at the International, the American Royal Live Stock Show, and many state fairs. He was a trustee of Ohio State University, Cedarville College, and the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 52