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Apr 27, 2024 · MFH Benjamin H. Hardaway III, the man who developed the Hardaway crossbred hound and started the Midland Fox Hounds, died at 3:45 a.m. at home in Columbus, Ga., on Oct. 19. He was 98.
- Series 2 - Business/Financial
- Series 3 - Genealogy
- Series 4 - Personal
- Series 5 - Speeches
- Series 6 - Sports
Folder 1 - Bank books, Cancelled Checks, etc. 1896-1935 These are accounts in the name of the Hardaway Foundation, Watkins & Hardaway, Mrs. B.H. Hardaway, Sr., B.H. Hardaway, Jr. and B.H. Hardaway III. Also included is a 1935 bond between Benjamin Hurt Hardaway, Jr. and J. W. Martin for the purchase of property in Wynnton, Columbus, Georgia. Folder...
This series consists of two types of material. The first several folders are items collected by both Benjamin Hurt Hardaway Jr. and Benjamin Hurt Hardaway III concerning the Hardaway and related families. These include family trees, correspondence related to genealogy, applications to Sons of the American Revolution and Daughters of the American Re...
This series contains materials relating to BHH III's activities apart from his business and sporting interests. These include his church involvement; non-sporting events, philanthropies, genealogy, and general correspondence. Correspondence [Processor's note: Included here are letters from a box called "Old Letters". These included letters that pre...
This series consists of speeches made by Benjamin Hurt Hardaway III, filed chronologically, as well as background materials used for those speeches including joke files, newspaper and magazine clippings, and the speeches of others. They are filed in the order they were found, including his Sunday school presentations. Folder 14 - Speeches, 1948-197...
This series includes information on the recurring sporting activities of Benjamin Hurt Hardaway III and family, principally foxhunting; grouse shooting; polo; fishing; horse, hound, puppy and other shows; and equestrian events. These materials are filed alphabetically by name of event or organization, if recurring, and thereunder chronologically. O...
1919 – 2017. A member of the Huntsmen’s Room of the Museum of Hounds & Hunting North America in 2009, Benjamin H. Hardaway passed away on October 19, less than a month after celebrating his 98th birthday. Hardaway served as living proof the hunting gene exists in human DNA.
Ben Hardaway's breeding program continues to this day by his son-in-law and grandson is well known in the foxhunting world globally. Ben Hardaway is also the author of the book Never Outfoxed, a history of his life in foxhunting and his experiences in England, Ireland, France and elsewhere.
In Hardaway’s well-written autobiography, Never Outfoxed, he describes the moment that would change his life when, at age eleven, on a night hunt outside Columbus, Georgia, he first encountered foxhounds. Photo: Andy Anderson. Ben Hardaway in full dress, delighted by the sounds of the hunt.
Oct 19, 2017 · Local. Ben Hardaway, legendary foxhound breeder, dies at 98. By Chuck Williams. Updated October 19, 2017 6:54 PM. Ben Hardaway on Mrs. Valentine's good hunter mare, "Split Level" in Bob...
Ben Hardaway is the father of modern foxhunting. He and his Midland hounds are inspirations to foxhunters all over the world. Ben was always eager to try something new: hard hats with harnesses, radios, tracking collars, new and different strains of hounds.
