Queen
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Downie Brothers Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Queen

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1938-12-00
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Downie Brothers Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1931-00-00	Downie Brothers Circus from Cole Brothers Circus

1929-00-00	Cole Brothers Circus from Walter L. Main Circus

1928-00-00	Walter L. Main Circus from Sangers Great European Shows-Hugo Bros-Harris Bros-Gentry Bros (Floyd and Howard King)

1925-00-00	Sangers Great European Shows-Hugo Bros-Harris Bros-Gentry Bros (Floyd and Howard King) from Gentry Brothers Shows (James Patterson)

1922-00-00	Gentry Brothers Shows (James Patterson) from Gentry Brothers Circus (Austin and Newman)

Record history
History of updates	2007-07-14

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Queen is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1938-12-00 at Downie Brothers Circus, in United States, .

Origin

Queen was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Died Dec. 1938 in Macon, Ga. //Bob Cline

Records about Queen from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
The elephants were named "Queen", "Babe" and "Pinto. Mr. Morris wrote on the back "Ocie and elephants" maybe his name was actually "O.C.". They were together throughout the 1920's and 30's owned by Newman & Austin, James Patterson, Floyd King, Andrew Downie and Charlie Sparks.

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Queen, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Downie Brothers Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2346. (archived at the Wayback machine)