tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post112522713000378957..comments2023-10-30T06:50:17.036-04:00Comments on Buckles Blog: Robbins Bros. Circus/ Bill Woodcock and "Ding"Buckleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06114738213931098664noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-1126387978647771812005-09-10T17:32:00.000-04:002005-09-10T17:32:00.000-04:00I just remebered the other elephant name"Jumbo".Fo...I just remebered the other elephant name"Jumbo".<BR/>For me and many others there is only one Jumbo,and that was the one killed by the locomative of the Grand Trunk Railway September 15th 1885.<BR/>The were several Jumbo II's<BR/>Frank Bostock's(which was a huge Asian male) and the Cole Bros.<BR/>Jumbo 2 who died in Rochester Indiana around 1936,either from tuberclocis or eating a glass bottle.<BR/>Don Marck's also lists a elephant called Jumbo who died at the National zoo around 1916,perhaps that was the one from the Patterson show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-1125439565547777292005-08-30T18:06:00.000-04:002005-08-30T18:06:00.000-04:00You may be right, "Fanchon" and "Lou" were with 4-...You may be right, "Fanchon" and "Lou" were with 4-Paw-Sells Circus (Ringling owned)in 1911 and I have no further record of them after the show was taken off the road in 1912.Buckleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06114738213931098664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897242.post-1125438171015952782005-08-30T17:42:00.000-04:002005-08-30T17:42:00.000-04:00In Don Marcks Elephant historypublished in the Cir...In Don Marcks Elephant history<BR/>published in the Circus Report<BR/> <BR/>He mentions Fanchon and Lou with the Great Patterson show being poisoned at Michigan in 1912.<BR/>I dont remeber if he listed that they died though.There was also another elephant with the show at the time beside Modoc,I cant rember its name<BR/>off hand .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com