Prince
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Great Wallace Brothers in United States

Biography

☨ ♂ Prince
Prince and Joe Anderson, 1898.

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂

People killed:	1
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1898-07-03
Death reason:	euthanised: by execution, strangled
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Great Wallace Brothers, in United States

Date of arrival

1895-00-00	Great Wallace Brothers from Cook and Whitby Shows (Ben Wallace)

1892-00-00	Cook and Whitby Shows (Ben Wallace) from Wallace and Co Circus

1889-00-00	Wallace and Co Circus from Firma Reiche

1889-00-00	Firma Reiche from Glen Island menagerie

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-21:

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

† Prince is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1898-07-03 at Great Wallace Brothers, in United States, . Official death reason described as by execution, strangled.

Casualties

1 casualties

1898-06-03: elephant trainer Joe Anderson fatal attack by Prince. † Joe Anderson Died 1898-06-03, Racine, WI.

Origin

Prince was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Contradictory records:

Records about Prince from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
"Prince came to Peru in 1888 from a New York dealer. He killed Elephant Boss Joe Anderson at Racine, Wis. a bicycle rider rode between him and Joe & elephant struck at rider but hit Joe & followed him up & killed him.
Bull strangled that evening by ropes pulled by canvasmen."

http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2011/08/great-wallace-shows-1898.html

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Records about Prince from Bob Cline

PRINCE
Male Asian Glen Island Zoo
1889 - Hermann Reiche, Animal Dealer in New York
1889 to 1891 - Wallace & Co.
1892 to 1894 - Cook & Whitby
1895 to 1898 - Great Wallace Circus
( Killed Joe Anderson at Racine, WI. On June 3, 1898 )
Died - July 3, 1898 by execution

Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Prince, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Great Wallace Brothers in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2436. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

http://www.thecircusblog.com/?p=30453

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