Stewart Craven #1

While with 4-Paw, Craven is credited as being the first trainer in America to assemble groups of elephants performing pyramid type elephant acts. Up until then only single acts were used and consequently circuses began judging it's importance by the size of their elephant herds. He later became an animal importer, a man of means with a big ranch in Dallas and eventually died there Jan. 16, 1890.