Count Noble, born in 1879 and living until 1891, frolicked across this lawn and was called the greatest dog that ever lived. Bred by Richard Llewellin, imported from England, and owned by Benjamin Frederick Wilson, Count Noble sired generations of field and show champion English Setters and became a pillar of the breed in America. Wilson, born in Wales in 1830 and dying in 1896, was a banker and captain of industry in Pittsburgh. The B.F. Wilson house and the adjacent J. Barr Haines house were razed in 1973 for construction of Osborne Elementary School. A life-sized portrait of Count Noble by E.H. Osthaus hangs in the Duquesne Club in downtown Pittsburgh. The New York Times reported Count Noble's death on January 22, 1891. His body was mounted and displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and in 1999 the Count Noble exhibit was transferred to the National Bird Dog Museum in Grand Junction, Tennessee. On this site stood the residence of B.F. Wilson in what was originally called Osborne Station. His wife, Susannah Roberts Wilson, who lived from 1847 to 1919, owned Mildmay Park Beauty, the first English Toy Spaniel registered by the American Kennel Club in 1886. Beauty was born in 1883 in Mildmay Park, a district of London, England, and traveled many days by ship and then rail to Pennsylvania. Like her husband, Mrs. Wilson bred and exhibited her dogs in the earliest years of the sport of purebred dogs. The breed, still known in other nations by its historic name King Charles Spaniel, was a favorite pet of the nobility and high society for many centuries. Among Toy breeds in America, only the Pug and Yorkshire Terrier, recognized in 1885, precede the English Toy Spaniel in seniority.