Name/Title
Dairy League Parade Float - Bull ConnectionEntry/Object ID
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Bull FamilyScope and Content
MIDDLETOWN TIMES HERALD, MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1936.
Winning Floats in Dairy League Parade Here
[Three photographs of parade floats]
Brightest spots in Middletown's gray, rainy Saturday were the floats that enlivened the great parade of dairy farmers who came here to celebrate the 20th birthday anniversary of their Dairyman's League. At the top is shown the Ulster County unit's float, containing a cow, milk pails and a bevy of fair young milkmaids in costume. The float was awarded fourth prize. In the center is shown the float, illustrative of milk classifications, entered by the Orange County unit, which won second prize of $15. The various uses of milk
were depicted in the attractive display on the truck. And at the bottom is the first prize winner, the entry of Blooming Grove local, with John Y. Gerow, League Founder and first president, seated in the buggy aboard
the truck. In high topper of the period of 1907, Mr. Gerow was given a great ovation along the parade route. The float contained a horse and buggy, with a cargo of milk cans. Judges of floats were Mayor Charles C.Chappell, Miss Vera McCrea and Thomas Milliman, first manager of the County Farm Bureau.
Historical Notes
By A. ELWOOD CORNERS
New York Telephone Co. has issued a tone-colored illustrated booklet embracing a description of 41 "century" farms in the State. Of these
four are in Orange County: the Alfred Booth farm at Campbell Hall, the Charles B. Hill farm at Montgomery, the Bartow Wright Bull farm at
Stony Ford, and the Raymond W. Hill farm at Pine Bush.
It appears the four Orange County farms were cited as "century" farms ten years ago, when a dinner was held by State Agricultural Society at
which the then governor, Herbert H. Lehman, presented citations. This custom has been followed since by the State's chief executive.
Now there comes along this most attractive booklet not
only picturing these ancient farms, but detailing much biographical material concerning owners and ancestors. Also the booklet contains striking
bits of historical information.
Of the Booths of Campbell Hall we learn they can trace
their line back to "Ensign John Booth, who with his two
brothers came to Long Island in the 1640s, becoming one of
the owners of Shelter Island." It was John Booth's grandson
Charles who moved first to Orange County in the early
1720s. The Booth farm has never been out of the family's possession.
The Bull farm has been written up so often, and the name
of William Bull and his wife, Sarah Wells, so well known
that we pass on to the other owners of the farms singled
out for reference, namely, the two Hill farms, miles apart
and in different townships of Orange County. The Raymond
W. Hill farm is the older of the two, but the history of both
is equally interesting. The booklet is well gotten up, a
credit to its instigators.