Monday, July 07, 2014

Bobby #5


Posted by Buckles at 7/07/2014 05:05:00 AM

1 comments:

Dick Flint said...

I just hope some people know who Seth B. Howes was even if he was a long-ago figure in the circus business. His brother Nathan was the earliest American-born rider and show owner of any note. The younger Seth was extremely successful as a circus owner both in this country and in England where you toured his huge show for a number of years on a couple of different trips (and found a wife there as well). He was a partner of PT Barnum in the early 1850s and remained a confidant for many years. Is last venture was in the US with the Howes Great London Circus and Sangers Royal British Menagerie in the early 1870s. Such was the power of his name that it was used on circus titles for another half-century. He lived in a magnificent stone mansion in Brewster, New York, and is buried in the local cemetery. It was nice that the two of you visited and paid tribute to this long-ago circus great.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

07 July, 2014 09:26

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