PRESERVING THE BREED AND THE FIRST MORGAN HORSE CLUB

D.C. LINSLEY

D. C. Linsley, realizing how important these "horses of Morgan blood" were, wrote his book - the first effort to place the history and genealogy of Morgans in writing. His book, now many printings later, (and available through the Museum Gift Shop) remains a treasure of information.

Linsley's book gave Joseph Battell the beginnings to complete Volume I of the American Morgan Horse Register in 1894. Volume II followed in 1905. Battell gave a thousand acres in Weybridge, VT to the U. S. Government for the breeding of Morgan Horses. That property is today the University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm.

JOSEPH BATTELL

Watercolor by Brenda Myrick US Government Farm, Now UVM Morgan Horse Farm

Founding members of the Morgan Horse Club at the Vermont State Fair, White River Junction, VT, Thursday, September 23, 1909. Click here for a list of the First Members. This club grew and developed into what is today's American Morgan Horse Association.

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