Artist: Ernest Sigmund Klempner (1867–1941)
William Caldwell Warfield
WARFIELD, WILLIAM CALDWELL (1827–1907), inducted between 1920–1941
William Warfield was a well-known Shorthorn breeder who produced the Loudon Duchess line of Shorthorns on Grasmere farm near Lexington, Kentucky, one of the oldest Shorthorn herds on earth. He was the son of attorney and Shorthorn breeder Benjamin Warfield and the nephew of Dr. Elisha Warfield, who bred the famous Thoroughbred stallion named Lexington. William Warfield wrote the celebrated early stockbreeding text, The Theory and Practice of Cattle-Breeding, in 1889. He also wrote American Shorthorn Importations (1884) and served as a staff correspondent for The Breeder’s Gazette. The Grasmere herds of Shorthorns and Berkshire swine were sold at auction months after his death in 1907.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 195