Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Thomas Clark
CLARK, THOMAS (1842–1927), inducted by 1920
Third-generation Hereford breeder Thomas Clark, born in Herefordshire, England, moved to America in 1866. He learned the butcher’s trade in Ohio and secured his first Herefords there, before purchasing Evergreen Stock Farm in Beecher, Illinois, in 1877. Partnering with neighbor, T. L. Miller, to build herds, the two men shipped carloads out West, to help establish the breed in expanded territories. They also worked on the American Hereford Herd Book. Thomas Clark was director and cattle superintendent of the International Live Stock Exposition and an officer of the Saddle & Sirloin Club at its founding in 1903.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 64