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...boys in overalls, svelte geldings, grunting swine, bleating sheep, sleepy steers annoyed at constant currying. Judge Biggar saw familiar faces among the exhibitors-23 year-old Elliott Brown of Rose Hill, Iowa, to whose steer he had awarded the grand prize three years ago; Gentleman Farmer Oakleigh Thorne of Dutchess County. N. Y., to whom he had awarded the prize last year and who had with him Grandson Oakleigh Thorne II, now a young gentle man farmer...
...President Hoover carried his home town, Palo Alto, Calif., 176-to-45. Governor Roosevelt lost his native Dutchess County...
Gentleman Farmer Thorne, whose ancestral acres stretch over the high-rolling hills of Dutchess County, was highly pleased. "It proves," he said, "what I have been trying to convince Eastern farmers all along. . . . They can compete with other regions in beef cattle as well as in dairy herds...
Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made...
Came another period of depression. He went back to Dutchess County, gave up painting, went into politics, ran for county sheriff. Having his own ideas of practical politics he eschewed such devices as bribing the electorate with drinks, kissing babies. Robert Winthrop Chanler bought a bull, the finest bull he could afford, and serviced all the farmers' cows gratis. The bull not only won him the election but kept him in the State Legislature for six years. He left politics when his brother "Loulou" was defeated for Governor of New York State by middleaged, ginger-whiskered Charles Evans Hughes...