Allen C. Tudor
The breeding of thoroughbred Belgian and Percheron horses has been developed to an important industry by Mr. Tudor at Upland, where he has his farm and stables, and all the facilities for successful management of this interesting and profitable branch of the live stock industry. At the head of his stables, is the Belgian stallion Noirhat Damier now seven years old and imported from abroad in 1908. This horse took the second premium at the International Stock Show in Chicago. He weighs 2,060 pounds. Mr Tudor also owns a Jaddus, a Norman stallion imported in 1912, and which has already made a fine record as a breeder. Jaddus is a four year old, and weights 1,800 pounds. Another imported horse found at the Tudor place is Taupin, which has been in service several years, is favored by a large number of farmers in this section of the state, and the general average of his colts is perhaps as high as can be credited to any other breeding stallion in this country. As a background to his breeding stables, Mr. Tudor owns a fine little farm of forty acres, adjoining the village of Upland. He purchased and located there in 1912, moving from Monroe township, where for a number of years he had been engaged in the same line of business.
Allen C. Tudor was born in Fayette county, Ohio, November 6, 1868. His father was William Tudor and his grandfather, Stephen Tudor, the latter a native of Pennsylvania and the the former of Ohio. The grandfather died in Ohio and William Tudor died in Grant county in December 1910, at the age of seventy-one years. William married Margaret Pierce, who died aged thirty-two in 1874 in Grant county. They settled in Grant county not long after the birth of their son Allen who was reared and educated here. He was the second in a family of four sons, leaving school he identified himself with agriculture, and his influence had a successful experience in the breeding of horses.
In 1900 at Upland, Mr. Tudor married Miss Mary Mariah Thomas, who was born and reared in Decatur county, Indiana, a daughter of Edward Thomas, who died in Ohio, but whose widow now lives in Boone county, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Tudor have the following children: Pearl, Lucy, William,Opal and Orris.
From Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana, 1912-1912, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1914