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- Oneonta Star
February 12, 1954
Dorr Westcott McLaury, 74, pioneer purebred cattle breeder and former chairman of the National Holstein Friesian Association, died late Wednesday in his home on the McLaury's famed River Meadow Farm between Portlandville and Milford.
Burial will be later in Portlandville Cemetery.
Mr. McLaury was one of the first to introduce purebred livestock in the Susquehanna Valley, and personally started the bovine tuberculosis eradication program in New York State. He was director of the National Holstein Friesian Association for 12 years and after the resignation of H. V. Noyes, became chairman of the executive committee of its board of directors. He was chairman from 1938 to 1940, and was still a member of the Association at the time of his death. He had been ill for a long time.
Mr. McLaury was born Sept. 14, 1879, in Milford, only son of Charles Dayton and Alta (Westcott) McLaury. He graduated from Hartwick Seminary and attended Cornell University, At Cornell, he was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and charter member of Alpha Zeta, Cornell's agricultural fraternity.
He married the former Florence Kinne of Hartwick Seminary in 1903 and, after extensive lumber operations near Ocala, Fla., returned to join his father and uncle in operating ten farms known as the River Meadow Farms. The first of which was purchased in 1884.
The McLaury brothers were pioneers in introducing purebred livestock into the Susquehanna area and during the first half of the 20th century, exported choice cattle to South America, Cuba, Porto Rico and much of the United States. In 1918, he was named director of New York State's Bureau of Animal Industry at Albany and continued in this position until the death of his father in 1923. While director, he put into effect the bovine tuberculosis eradication program which was credited with improving New York milk supply. He was also president of the Otsego County Farmers Cooperative Fire Insurance Co. for 25 years, and had resigned shortly before his death. Mr. McLaury was a member, steward and trustee of the Milford Methodist Church for many years.
Survivors include his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Thomas P. Hughson, 25 State St., Mrs. Warner R. Bouldin and Miss Jeanne McLaury, both of Scarsdale. Three grandchildren, Thomas McLaury and Florence Anne Hughson, 24 State St. and Dorr Warner Bouldin, Scarsdale and a cousin, Mrs. George Simons, Cincinatti, Ohio.
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