Friday, August 21, 2009

Bill Emery #1


Scan12047, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posing with "Sid" circa 1902 with Forepaugh-Sells.
My dad always regarded him as one of the top elephant trainers of his day. His credentials are very impressive but for some reason, never seemed to remain at one place for very long.

BILL EMERY
1892 Adam Forepaugh Show (Elephant hand)
1896 Barnum & Bailey (Elephant hand)
1900-02 Forepaugh-Sells Show (Superintendent)
1903-04 Barnum & Bailey (Superintendent)
1905 Barnum & Bailey (Asst. Supt.)
1909 Sun Bros. Circus
1910-11 Ringling Bros. Circus (Superintendent)
1912 Al G. Barnes Circus
1913 Frank A. Robbins Circus
1914 Alf Wheeler Show
1915 Sun Bros. Circus
1919 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1922-23 Walter L. Main Circus (Andrew Downie)
1926-27 Walter L. Main Circus (Floyd and Howard King)
1928 John Robinson Circus
1929 Sells-Floto Circus
1931 Evansville, Indiana Zoo
1932-38 Ringling-Barnum (Asst. Supt.)
(Was in charge of the herd following George Denman's departure in 1933 due to illness as well as 1934.)
1940 San Antonio Zoo

Posted by Buckles at 8/21/2009 07:33:00 AM

6 comments:

john herriott said...

I note what you say about Bill Emery being an outstanding trainer. My father told me the same having been around the old timers in those days and of course we would hail Gardner, Reed, Woodcocks, MacDonald, Smokey, Rex, etc. Now in No stretch of imagination would the two persons involved in the latest disgusting Ringling video be remotely considered as "trainers".

21 August, 2009 09:12
J.C. Hall said...

Once again
"WOOOOOOW"

21 August, 2009 11:46
Anonymous said...

What is with the strap around the elephant?

21 August, 2009 16:09
Buckles said...

Check comments on picture #4

21 August, 2009 17:09
Wade G. Burck said...

Johnny,
Tell the folk's how you or nobody you know curses an animal. The deal about an elephant man not calling them "bulls", but instead, elephants if he was worth his salt was classic gold.
Wade Burck

22 August, 2009 17:33
mike zim said...

I'm very pleased to find your blog. My dad worked with Emery in 1933 with the Ringling Brothers. He was Tarzan of the Elephants.
I'm working on his wrestling story now.
WildBillZim.com
Thank you!
Mike

21 December, 2014 10:11

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