by Michael Daly
buys American Museum (See also American Museum)
Car of Juggernaut and
Centennial Year and
childhood of
circuses of
Columbia and
considers purchasing Forepaugh’s circus6
Cooper & Bailey’s Great London Circus and
death of
Diamond and
East Bridgeport and
elected to Connecticut state legislature
Elephantine Expedition and
enforces law
exhibitions of in early years
father of
Fire Annihilator project and
Forepaugh-Barnum joint New York show
Forepaugh competition and
Forepaugh’s beauty contest and
Forepaugh’s first American-born elephant and
Forepaugh sues
Forepaugh truce of 1882
genius of
Hack Bailey and
Hawley and
Howe partnership and
Ivy Island and
Jerome Clock Company and
Jumbo and
lecture tour of
lessons in deception
life on the road and
merges with Cooper & Bailey’s Great London Circus
Forepaugh reaction to
obituary of
photographed by Brady
pro-Union stance of
publicity and
“rat bills” and
renames show
Vanderbilt and
Vivalla (Antonio) and
“white” elephant and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
elephants of, filmed by Edison’s crew
purchased by Ringling Brothers
Barnum Museum Company
Barnum’s Asiatic Caravan, Museum and Menagerie
Barnum’s Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome, at Madison Square
Barnum’s Museum, Circus and Menagerie. See also American Museum
Bartlett, Abraham
Basil
Battle of the Dwarfs
Bentley, Rev. William
Bergh, Henry
Berliner, Emile
Big Charley
Big Liz
Big Sid
Big Tom
Bismarck
Blitz, Signor
Blount, James Fielding
Bolivar
given to Philadelphia Zoo
Topsy and
Bostock, Frank
Boyton, Paul (Fearless Frogman)
purchases Topsy
Sea Lion Park and
Brady, Mathew
Brown
Harold P.
on danger of alternating current
Brown
designs electric chair
Edison and
electrocution experiments of
Kemmler execution and
Westinghouse and
Joshua Purdy
Brush electrical system
Bull hook (ankus, elephant hook)
Bunker, Chang and Eng (the Siamese Twins)
Cameroni
Canada. See Romeo
Captain Boyton’s Sea Lion Park
Car of Juggernaut (Great Car of Juggernaut)
Cataract Construction Company
Centennial Year
Barnum and Forepaugh circus performances during
Ceylon, Elephantine Expedition to
Charley
Chicago. See also Topsy
Chief (Forepaugh’s elephant)
Chief (Robinson’s elephant)
Children, treatment of those “adopted” by circuses
Chiquita the Doll Lady
Chunee
Circuses
appeal of
arrival of in new town
cruelty at
“fixers” at
lighting
movies at
pickpockets at
“privileges” at
“redcrossing,”
S.O.S. call in
striking tent
swindlers at
traveling (See also Elephants, travel and)
Civil War, circuses and
Clark, Bernard
Cleopatra
Clofullia, Josephine Boisdechene (the Bearded Lady)
Cockran, W. Bourke
Coffin, Charles
arranges Thomson-Houston merger with Edison General Electric Company
first electric chair and
industrial espionage and
Westinghouse and
Columbia
Coney Islad
Coney Island Museum
Conklin
George
Pete
William
Conlin, Thomas
Cooke
Jay
Louis
Cooper
James
Thomas Abthorpe
Cooper & Bailey’s Great London Circus
acquires Craven-trained elephants
acquires Great London Show
Bailey assumes part ownership of
Brush electrical system and
Rice response to electrifying
competition with Barnum
hires Craven
merges with Barnum’s circus
Forepaugh reaction to
tours with Hebe and Columbia,
Craven, Stewart
on Addie Forepaugh
Cooper & Bailey’s Great London Circus and
death of
elephant riding and
Forepaugh and
Hebe and
Howes’ Great London Show and
Isaac Van Amburgh’s menagerie and
Mabie Menagerie and Show and
Romeo and
Chicago escape of
meets for first time
mistreated by
relationship with
thoughts on
Topsy and
training philosophy of
Cremorne Garden Circus
Crowninshield, Jacob
Custer, George Armstrong
Czolgosz, Leon
Dan Rice’s Great Show. See Rice, Dan
Davis
Daniel
Edwin
J. H.
Dawron, Dora
Day, Charles
Deacon, Lily
Diamond, John
Dick (elephant)
Dickens, Charles
Dickens’ Place (Almack’s)
Diehl, Mayor Conrad
Dodero, Louis
Duncan
Dundy, Elmer “Skip,”
partners with Thompson at Pan-American Exposition
Topsy and
East Bridgeport, Connecticut
Edison, Thomas Alva (See also Edison General Electric Company; War of Currents)
“airship” Luna and
character of
childhood of
death of
Electrical Execution Act and
finances of
incandescent light bulb and filament trials
invents portable movie camera
iron ore separation project and
Kemmler execution and
kinetograph and
kine
toscope project and
miscellaneous projects of
Paris trip of
phonograph project
publishes anti–alternating current “rat bill,”
storage battery displayed
Tesla and
Thomson-Houston merger and name change and
Topsy’s execution and
view of himself and his work
visits Pan-American Exposition
vitascope and
War of Currents and (See also War of Currents)
on Westinghouse
Westinghouse’s engine spurned by
X-ray machine of
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, 277–78
Edison Electric Light Company, 184, 198. See also Edison General Electric Company
Edison General Electric Company. See also Edison, Thomas Alva; Edison Electric Light Company; General Electric Company
Cataract Construction Company and
early competition with Westinghouse
electric chair and
electricity’s mobility demonstrated
electrifies first private house
electrocution experiments
merges with Thomson-Houston
name changed to General Electric Company
publishes anti-alternating current “rat bill,”
tests first electrical system in New York City
Edison Tower (Tower of Light)
Egress, The
Electrical Execution Act
Edison and
special commission and
Electrical executions. See also Electric chair
Edison and
experiments with
Electric chair
Brown and Kennelly and
Edison funds building of first
Electrical Execution Act and
Kemmler
execution by
Westingthouse dynamo and
at World’s Columbian Exposition
Electric companies. See also Edison General Electric Company; Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
independents
Electricity
alternating current vs. direct (See also War of Currents)
Brush system
in Cooper & Bailey’s Great London Circus
Rice reaction to
demonstrated in parade
Edison’s system
demonstrated at Philadelphia Electrical Exhibition
exhibits of, at World’s Columbian Exposition
first central power system
New York’s 1879 system debut
Pan-American Exposition as celebration of
private homes and
safety of alternating current
Feeks’s death and
Tesla’s motor and
Elephant, The. See also Elephants
Elephant hook (ankus, bull hook),
Elephant Hotel (Elephant Colossus)
site leased by Thomas and Dundy
Elephantine Expedition
Elephants. See also name of specific elephant
aggression in males
musth and
alcoholic beverages and
apprehension signal of
behavior of under stress
birthing behavior of
bodies of
capturing wild
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and
death of herd members and
restiveness of, at Luna Park
in England
in Europe
family life in
family life of
matriarchal society of
feet of
females
birthing behavior of
matriarchal society and
reaction of to musth
first elephant in America
“kookies,”
mating in captivity
memory of
musth in male
protectiveness of
punishment methods
“burning method,”
“taking,”
railroad accidents and
sea transport and
separating mothers and babies
social relationships of
birthing behavior of
death of herd members and
family life of
males
musth and
swimming ability of
training philosophy of early trainers,
travel and
treatment of, by circus personnel
trunk and lungs of
“ugly,”
view of character in mid-1850s
“white”
Barnum’s
Forepaugh’s
Sanderson on
Elephant sanctuaries
Emery, William
Executions
accidental
of animals during tests
by electric chair
Electrical Execution Act and
Kemmler
McElvaine
as public spectacles
traditional methods
Fanny
big swim
encounters fishermen
escape attempt of
moved back to Luna Park
at police station
restiveness of at Luna Park
“Father of the American circus.” See also Howes, Seth B.
Feeks, John E. F.
death of
Edison’s response to
Westinghouse’s response to Edison
Fire Annihilator project
Flatfoots, The
Foot, Commodore
Forbach, Adam. See also Forepaugh, Adam
acquires Mabie Menagerie and Show assets with O’Brien
changes name to Forepaugh
early career of
purchases Romeo
retains Rice
Forepaugh
Adam (See also Forbach, Adam; Forepaugh’s Circus; Mabie Menagerie and Show)
“American-born” elephant and
America’s first beauty contest and
background of
Barnum and Cooper & Bailey merger and
Barnum competition
Bolivar given to Philadelphia Zoo
Centennial Year and
changes name from Forbach
circus-oriented crimes and
competition with Barnum
considers selling to Barnam & Bailey
Cooper & Bailey’s electrical innovations and
Craven and (See also Craven, Stewart)
death of
dishonesty of
dissolves O’Brien partnership
electricity and
Forepaugh
elephant acquisitions of
Great Centennial Show
Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and
joint New York show with Barnum (1886)
leases his elephants
leases Madison Square Garden site
Montague sues
railroad cars built for
“rat bills” and
renames show post-O’Brien split (See also Forepaugh’s circus)
Rice retained after O’Brien split
Romeo kept after O’Brien split
sues Barnum
Topsy and
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tries to buy Jumbo
truce with Barnum (1882)
western circus tour of 1877
“white” elephant and
Wild West Show of
Adam, Jr. (“Addie”)
animal-buying European trip
final circus days of
training philosophy of
“Patsy” (See Meagher, M. J. [“Patsy”])
Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Show (Bailey ownership)
created by Forepaugh-Sells merger
filmed by Edison crew
hit by major storm
movies shown at
Forepaugh-Meagher. See Meagher, M. J. (“Patsy”)
Forepaugh’s Circus
Barnum circus compared to
Barnum competition and
Barnum considers purchase of
Centennial Year and
circus-oriented crimes and
competition with Barnum
Craven and
exhibitions at
new name for
“redcrossing” and
Romeo and
size reduced
Trowalla and
western tour of
Williams and
Franconies Hippodrome
Fuller Electrical Company
Gaylord, J. B.
Gem of the Sky
General Electric Company
Cataract Construction Company Niagara Falls contract and
name changed from Edison General Electric Company
World’s Columbian Exposition and
Geronimo
Gerry, Elbridge T., 201
Electrical Execution Act and
electrocution experiments
Gillespie, George
Forepaugh’s “white” elephant and
Gilmore’s Garden. See also Madison Square Garden
Gold Dust
Goliath, Carl
Gramophone Company, phonograph of
Grant, Ulysses S.
Great Car of Juggernaut (Car of Juggernaut)
“Greatest Show on Earth, The,”
becomes “The Great Moral Show,”
Great London Show. See also Cooper & Bailey’s Great London Circus
acquired by Cooper & Bailey
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Griffin, Dr. J. (Levi Lyman)
Hagenbeck, Carl
Hamilton, Richard “Toby,”
“Handsomest Woman in the World,” contest
Hanno
Hansken
Happy Family, The, 61–62
Hawley, Henry,
Hebe
Heth, Joice
Howes, Seth B.
Barnum-Howe Elephantine Expedition
Barnum-Howes partnership begins
Barnum leaves and goes solo
Great London Show and
as overseer of Barnum’s 1850 road show
purchases assets of Barnum’s Grand Colossal Museum and Menagerie
Huffman, Henry
Immigration
Indian Congress
Iranistan
Iron ore
discovered in Minnesota
