Patsy(Forepaugh)Meagher also boxed with John L. Sullivan(the elephant) on stage at clubs during the off season. Not to long after that they retired John L. Sullivan from this particular act as he was getting too big and starting to pack a real wallop with his trunk. Patsy Meagher would later be killed by the elephant"Big Sid" at the Sells-Brothers winter quarters December 1899.
I noticed this boxing elephants name is"Tom",so possibly this may have been from his 1906 elephant herd in which he also trained a boxing elephant. The original one was John L. Sullivan from 1884 to about 1888,when Eph Thompson left the Forepaugh show to go train a herd of elephants for a man in London.
I am trying to find as much information on my Great grandfather Ephraim Thompson as possible. I can be contacted at rayperkin@hotmail.com any info greatfully received.
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Bertha at the Nugget in Sparks Nev. Did this for promotions with celebrity entertainers. One supposedly she slugged pretty good and knocked him down.
Patsy(Forepaugh)Meagher also boxed with John L. Sullivan(the elephant)
on stage at clubs during the off season.
Not to long after that they retired John L. Sullivan from this particular act as he was getting too big and starting to pack a real wallop with his trunk.
Patsy Meagher would later be killed by the elephant"Big Sid"
at the Sells-Brothers winter quarters December 1899.
I noticed this boxing elephants name is"Tom",so possibly this may have been from his 1906 elephant herd in which he also trained a boxing elephant.
The original one was
John L. Sullivan from 1884 to about 1888,when Eph Thompson left the Forepaugh show to go train a herd of elephants for a man in London.
I am trying to find as much information on my Great grandfather Ephraim Thompson as possible. I can be contacted at rayperkin@hotmail.com any info greatfully received.
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