Description
(excerpted from longer article) - - And Thornton the true, tried, and honest old servant of the Judges family, who with his children have remained with the Judge through every vicissitude of the past 13 years (~1860), comes in for his meed of praise, in this the hour of triumph.
This faithful old black servant declares, that our Poland China “Black Ben” must not be sold, but must remain the property of a Platte County citizen, until his career is honorably and profitably closed, and then his stuffed hide will be as valuable for a sign to some immense metropolitan pork packing establishment, as that of the famous mare’s Lady Suffolk, is to the Harness and Saddle Emporium on Broadway, New York.Date(s) of Creation
10/10/1873
