of the 1939 Grand Champion Kentucky Jersey Cattle Club Trophy -Best Female (Mighty Patsy). In 1941, Kentucky Governor Keen Johnson presented Tway with the Tattersall Trophy having the two best Jersey cattle bred by an exhibitor at the Kentucky State Fair. Plainview Farms was considered the largest dairy in the region. Tway was a very successful breeder and exhibitor of American Saddlebred Horses. On his Plainview Farm, over 50 horses would be annually stalled under his direction. He was most famous for his ownership of Plainview's Julia, the 1959 and 1960 World's Grand Champion Five-gaited American Saddlebred and Plainview's Sophia Van Cleve, the 1960 World's Reserve Champion Three-Year-old Five-gaited American Saddlebred. He was a former director of the National Saddle Horse Breeders Association. The name of the farm is credited to his wife, Mrs. R.C. (Estelle S. Bennett) Tway. When Estelle was asked to name the farm, she noted the farm simply had a plain view, thus "Plainview" became the name for the former potato farm. R.C. Tway Coal Company Tway was founded in 1912 as Tway operated a coal company from 1914 to 1948 which employed 250 miners and staff in Harlan County, Kentucky. The coal company formed a nearby coal camp named Tway, Kentucky roughly 1 mile south of Harlan. An additional coal camp, also called Tway, was located in Southern Knox County, between Kay-Jay and Anchor. He was also a former owner of the James Coal Company. He served as a member of the Southern Appalachian Coal Operators Association and the Harlan County Coal Operators Association president for sixteen years. Awards Tway was named to the 1964 World's Championship Horse Show Hall of Fame. Personal Tway was raised on his mother's Plainview Farm (formerly Garr farm) home. In 1923, Tway built a Greek Revival home and remained there until his death. He was married to the former Estelle S. Bennett. R.C. Tway, Sr. and Estelle had three children: Robert C. Tway, Jr who inherited the oversight of Kentucky Trailer, William T. Tway (married the daughter of Churchill Downs CEO/Board Chair "Willam H. Veeneman") who inherited oversight of the Plainview Farms, and Helen Harriet Tway (Robertson). Tway is a 1902 graduate of the Louisville Male High School and attended Kentucky Military Institute for college studies. He was a member and benefactor of Middletown Methodist Church. Tway served on the Kentucky Board of Agriculture and as a University of