The American Beagler Forum

Are there any beagle historians out there? Could it be that we are forgetting where our hounds came from? Listed below are famous beaglers from the last 100 years. See if you can match up the person with the correct kennel name. Let's see who can match up the most names!


George Nixon Wing Ridge
Arthur Little Shady Shores
Oliver Iselin Kishwaukee
Frank Reese Woodland
David "Bun" Sharp Masterly
Otho Padget Pleasant Run
Tom Dornin Pearson Creek
Ray Miller Afton
John Schuster Burrfield
Dad Powell Treweryn
Hiram Card Patch
Glenn Black Belray
L.G. Blunt Yellow Creek
Ike Carrel Wheatley
Reno Cole Wolver
E.A. Kopp Thorpe Satchville
M.D. "Butch" Cooley Little Ireland
L.M. Watson Superfine
P.A. Peterson Alibi
R. L. Vestal Gay
Willet Randall Elora
Raymond Belmont Kickapoo

let me jump right on that,






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nobody told me there was going to be a test willet randals forest patch dog ate my home work any way

denny606 wrote:nobody told me there was going to be a test willet randals forest patch dog ate my home work any way

Buddy

Here are the one I know, or think I know:

George Nixon - Pearson Creek
Frank Reese - Gay
Tom Dornin - Little Ireland
L.M. Watson - Yellow Creek
Willet Randall - Patch
M.D. "Butch" Cooley - Pleasant Run
Ray Miller - Woodland

George Nixon-Pearson Creek
Arthur Little
Oliver Iselin
Frank Reese-Gay
David "Bun" Sharp
Otho Padget
Tom Dornin- Little Ireland
Ray Miller-Woodland
John Schuster
Dad Powell
Hiram Card-Blue Cap
Glenn Black-Kickapoo
L.G. Blunt
Ike Carrel-Shady Shores
Reno Cole
E.A. Kopp
M.D. "Butch" Cooley-Pleasant Run
L.M. Watson-Yellow Creek
P.A. Peterson
R. L. Vestal
Willet Randall-Patch Elora

Good Job Gary and Gus! You knocked off quite a few of them. Anyone care to try the others?

Let me give you some hints for the remaining people on the list. These were all very famous people in their day, and most of them produced hounds that you would find in the pedigrees of your beagles today, should you trace their lines back far enough....

Arthur Little was huntsman of one of the most famous beagle packs of all time. In the period just before World War I, his pack dominated the shows across the country, and won in pack trials and brace trials as well. It was their practice to use sandpaper to thin the coats and tails of their hounds before a show. Probably every beagle in America today (show and field) has these hounds in their pedigrees.

Oliver Iselin was also a pack person who hunted a famous pack of hounds in Virginia from about 1914 into the 1970s. He was one of the people responsible for the National Beagle Club's purchase of their grounds in Aldie, Virginia.

Bun Sharp was another pack person from near Philadelphia. He had his own pack from the 1920s to the 1960s. In the 60s, his pack merged with the pack owned by his wife. They lived in Virginia until they died in the 1980s. Mr. Sharp was a frequent contributer to Hounds and Hunting magazine. He had a famous stud in the 1940s.

Otho Padget was the master of the most famous pack in England for about the first 30 years of the last century. His hounds are also found behind EVERY beagle in America today. Lots of them.

John Schuster was a famous beagler from the 1920s. His stock was very popular with brace trial men.

Dad Powell bred a hound called "Billy" that you will find behind ALL of today's field beagles. He was from Illinois and was famous for wearing six shooters at the trials. Quite a character.

L.G. Blunt, from Port Huron, Michigan, owned a famous pack headed by a famous stud named "Ebony". Ebony and his get made headlines at the brace and pack trials. In the 1930s, Blunt often took his pack into southern Ontario to hunt the European Hare found there. His hounds would run the big (10-12 lb.) hares to exhaustion and kill them.

Reno Cole was a famous author, field trial and show beagler from about 1896 to 1940. His hounds are also in every pedigree today. His articles were often about the early midwestern field trials, like the Western Club at Bass Lake, Indiana. Cole was from the Illinois/Wisconsin area.

E.A. Kopp was a Minnesota beagler from the 1920s to the 1960s. He and Ike Carrel didn't get along, so Kopp started his own magazine called "The Beagle Hound Sportsman" to compete with Carrel's "Hounds and Hunting". Near the end of Kopp's life, he suffered from blindness due to diabetes. He installed miles of wires running from his kennels into the swamps of his farm so that he could turn out hounds to run and be able to go with them. By holding onto the wires, he was able to find his way back.

P.A. Peterson was a partner of Reno Cole's, and a frequent competitor at the early midwestern brace trials. His most famous hound was one called "Uncle Sam", who is also in every field beagle's pedigree today.

R.L. Vestal, from Indiana, bred some tough brace hounds in the 1920s and 1930s. His hounds were know to be fiery, aggressive hounds. Some would knock their bracemates aside to grab the track and go with it. Elmer Gray crossed a great female from this line onto FC. Gray's Linesman and produced some of Linesman's first big winning offspring. The fire from Vestal's line crossed well with the more laid-back Linesman.

Otho Padget would have to be Thorp-Satchville as that line was named after a village in England

Dad Powell's Billy hound would haved to be Alibi Billy

I would certainly include Briarpatch Beagles, originated by Mr. Roy Kennedy of Chelsea, Vt. He got his first beagle in 1948 and has produced some of the finest snowhounds I've seen. Just my 2 cents.

Beagle Huntsman wrote:Let me give you some hints for the remaining people on the list. These were all very famous people in their day, and most of them produced hounds that you would find in the pedigrees of your beagles today, should you trace their lines back far enough....

Arthur Little was huntsman of one of the most famous beagle packs of all time. In the period just before World War I, his pack dominated the shows across the country, and won in pack trials and brace trials as well. It was their practice to use sandpaper to thin the coats and tails of their hounds before a show. Probably every beagle in America today (show and field) has these hounds in their pedigrees.

The Wheatly were owned by Harry Phipps, Little was the huntsman

Oliver Iselin was also a pack person who hunted a famous pack of hounds in Virginia from about 1914 into the 1970s. He was one of the people responsible for the National Beagle Club's purchase of their grounds in Aldie, Virginia.

Iselin was from the Wolver

Bun Sharp was another pack person from near Philadelphia. He had his own pack from the 1920s to the 1960s. In the 60s, his pack merged with the pack owned by his wife. They lived in Virginia until they died in the 1980s. Mr. Sharp was a frequent contributer to Hounds and Hunting magazine. He had a famous stud in the 1940s.

Mr. Sharpe was master of the Treweryn Beagles, the marriage of he and his wife created the Nantucket-Treweryn Beagles

Otho Padget was the master of the most famous pack in England for about the first 30 years of the last century. His hounds are also found behind EVERY beagle in America today. Lots of them.

One of my favourites, Mr. Padget was one of the most helpful in sending hounds to America.
His first couple of hounds were a pair of 13" blue mottled hounds named Bitter & Brevity, in the yr. 1890 and were the start of his Thorpe Satchville Beagles.

[quoteJohn Schuster was a famous beagler from the 1920s. His stock was very popular with brace trial men.[/quote]

[quoteDad Powell bred a hound called "Billy" that you will find behind ALL of today's field beagles. He was from Illinois and was famous for wearing six shooters at the trials. Quite a character.[/quote]

Alibi Billy, a son of Driver, of Thorpe Satchville blood, from Blue Diamond, a line bred Blue cap bitch.

L.G. Blunt, from Port Huron, Michigan, owned a famous pack headed by a famous stud named "Ebony". Ebony and his get made headlines at the brace and pack trials. In the 1930s, Blunt often took his pack into southern Ontario to hunt the European Hare found there. His hounds would run the big (10-12 lb.) hares to exhaustion and kill them.

Reno Cole was a famous author, field trial and show beagler from about 1896 to 1940. His hounds are also in every pedigree today. His articles were often about the early midwestern field trials, like the Western Club at Bass Lake, Indiana. Cole was from the Illinois/Wisconsin area.

E.A. Kopp was a Minnesota beagler from the 1920s to the 1960s. He and Ike Carrel didn't get along, so Kopp started his own magazine called "The Beagle Hound Sportsman" to compete with Carrel's "Hounds and Hunting". Near the end of Kopp's life, he suffered from blindness due to diabetes. He installed miles of wires running from his kennels into the swamps of his farm so that he could turn out hounds to run and be able to go with them. By holding onto the wires, he was able to find his way back.

P.A. Peterson was a partner of Reno Cole's, and a frequent competitor at the early midwestern brace trials. His most famous hound was one called "Uncle Sam", who is also in every field beagle's pedigree today.

Aftons Uncle Sam

R.L. Vestal, from Indiana, bred some tough brace hounds in the 1920s and 1930s. His hounds were know to be fiery, aggressive hounds. Some would knock their bracemates aside to grab the track and go with it. Elmer Gray crossed a great female from this line onto FC. Gray's Linesman and produced some of Linesman's first big winning offspring. The fire from Vestal's line crossed well with the more laid-back Linesman.

Elmer talked of breeding Linesman to the fiery bitchs of the "Burrfield."

L.G. Blunt would have to be afton

No, Blunt wasn't Afton. See Patch's post above. He worked out that Peterson was the Afton master. Only six more to go. Here's what we have so far:


George Nixon - Pearson Creek
Arthur Little - Wheatley
Oliver Iselin - Wolver
Frank Reese - Gay
David "Bun" Sharp - Treweryn
Otho Padget - Thorpe Satchville
Tom Dornin - Little Ireland
Ray Miller - Woodland
John Schuster
Dad Powell - Alibi
Hiram Card
Glenn Black - Kickapoo
L.G. Blunt
Ike Carrel - Shady Shores
Reno Cole
E.A. Kopp
M.D. "Butch" Cooley - Pleasant Run
L.M. Watson - Yellow Creek
P.A. Peterson - Afton
R. L. Vestal - Burrfield
Willet Randall - Patch
Raymond Belmont

What's left are these 6 kennel names:

Masterly
Kishwaukee
Belray
Superfine
Elora
Wing Ridge

I think Hiram Card was Elora-sorry that's all I got!

R. Belmont - Belray

Penncraft
Colonel
Toney