Edwin Schooley

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☨ Edwin Schooley
Profession	circus visitor
Personal details
Born	? in United States
Dead	1950-03-26 RBBB winter quarters, Sarasota in United States
Country	United States

Locations
Title	visitor 1950-1950
Location	at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States

Biography details

Edwin Rogers Schooley , circus visitor in United States

Born ? in United States dead 1950-03-26 in United States .

Affiliation with 1 elephants

1: Dolly (fatal attack)

Casualties

1 casualties

1950-03-26: visitor Edwin Schooley fatal attack by Dolly. While in Sarasota the winter of 1949-50 while people were visiting the elephant area, a small child wandered under the guard rail and startled "Dolly" who was dozing, she then kicked out fatally injuring the child. Edwin Rogers Schooley † Edwin Schooley Died 1950-03-26, RBBB winter quarters, Sarasota. As the result of public outcry, she was shot 3/29/50 and for Unknown reasons "Minnie" was sold to the Mills Show in the fall.

Contradictory records:

At the Sarasota, Florida winter quarters of Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus, Dolly snatched Edwin Rogers Schooley from the side of his horrified parents and crushed his head with one of her ponderous Feet. Three days later Dolly was led into a pit, [...] where the 27-year-old elephant was given a huge dose of cyanide.

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Records about Edwin Schooley from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
1950-03-26: While in Sarasota the winter of 1949-50 while people were visiting the elephant area, a small child wandered under the guard rail and startled "Dolly" who was dozing, she then kicked out fatally injuring the child. As the result of public outcry, she was shot 3/29/50 and for Unknown reasons "Minnie" was sold to the Mills Show in the fall.

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Edwin Schooley is mentioned on 1 elephant record pagesDolly,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). visitor Edwin Rogers Schooley in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 1 April 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=3454. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

*BB, https://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2007/12/photo-sharing_29.html

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