From Kenton Cornish #1

Dear Sir, I thought you may be interested in viewing two old photographic images that were taken of the mounted hide and skeleton of the elephant "Emperor'when the specimens were still on display at the Academic Hall of University of Missouri at Columbia MO. the elephant Emperor died May.17.1885 at Liberty Missouri while with the S.H Barrett Circus it fell off a gang plank as it was being loaded into a boxcar. it died a few hours later.Its carcass was purchased by the president of MU who had it sent to Ward's Natural Scientific Establishment to be mounted. The hide was discarded around 1914 and the skeleton was put into storage after 1949. It is unclear as to what became of the entire skeleton but there is on display at Stewart Hall an articulated fore-limb and some other bones which are believed to be Emperor's.