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Alexander Cook was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He immigrated to the United States in 1851. In 1864, he settled in Kosciusko County, in northern Indiana where he purchased a 300 acre farm and imported the first black Aberdeen-Angus cattle to that region of the Midwest. He was the one of the foundational pieces of our family’s passion for purebred cattle and the beginning of an eighth-generation legacy. Today our family’s cattle operation, Harker Simmentals, is a 135 head cow-calf operation consisting of Angus, Hereford, and Simmental cattle. Females and bulls are marketed through annual sales with the focus on quality rather than quantity. Our operation has always been on offering reliable genetics to purebred and commercial cattlemen with an
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