Mary
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Clyde Beatty Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Mary

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†1950-03-28
Death reason:	disease: pneumonia
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Clyde Beatty Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1945-00-00	Clyde Beatty Circus from Clyde Beatty-Russell Brothers Circus

1944-00-00	Clyde Beatty-Russell Brothers Circus from Clyde Beatty-Wallace Brothers Circus

1943-00-00	Clyde Beatty-Wallace Brothers Circus from Johnny J. Jones Exposition

	Johnny J. Jones Exposition from Hamid Circus (Hamid-Morton Circus)

1940-00-00	Hamid Circus (Hamid-Morton Circus) from Clyde Beatty (private)

1939-00-00	Clyde Beatty (private) 1939-00-00 from Cole Bros. Circus (Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus)

1935-00-00	Cole Bros. Circus (Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus) from Schell Brothers Circus

1928-00-00	Schell Brothers Circus from Frank J. Taylor Circus

1928-00-00	Frank J. Taylor Circus from William P. Hall Animal Farm

1927-00-00	William P. Hall Animal Farm from John Robinson Circus

1927-00-00	John Robinson Circus from Heritage Brothers Circus

1926-00-00	Heritage Brothers Circus from Gollmar Brothers Circus

1925-00-00	Gollmar Brothers Circus from William P. Hall Animal Farm

1923-00-00	William P. Hall Animal Farm from Firma Ruhe

Record history
History of updates	2021-11-02

Latest document update	2023-09-17 11:48:35

† Mary is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1950-03-28 at Clyde Beatty Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as pneumonia.

Origin

Mary was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Records about Mary from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
Mary in <a href='person.php?id=125' title='Clyde Beatty'>Clyde Beatty</a>
Circus

Mary in <a href='person.php?id=125' title='Clyde Beatty'>Clyde Beatty</a>
Circus

Milt Herriott with the Schell Bros. elephants owned by George Engesser in the early 1930s. I have four listed during this time period "Ruth", "Mary", "Patsy" and "Bolo" a young male.

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Records about Mary from Bob Cline

MARY 1923 - one of 8 elephants delivered to Wm.P.Hall ( along with Trilby, Babe, Jenny, Katie, Albert, Don, and ???? )
Female Asian 1924 to 1925 - Gollmar Bros. Circus
1926 - Heritage Bros. Circus
1927 - John Robinson Circus
1927 - sold to Wm. Hall
1928 - Wm. P. Hall leased to Frank Taylor for ten weeks ending April 1st, 1928 per Hall papers @ CWM
1928 to 1934 - Schell Bros. Circus ( leased by Wm.P. Hall for 2500.00 in 1929 per Hall papers @ CWM. )
1935 - Sold to Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus
1939 - bought by Clyde Beatty
1939 -Atlantic City, NJ w/ Clyde Beatty
1940 - Hamid Morton Circus w/ Clyde Beatty
1941 to 1942 - Johnny J.Jones carnival w/ Clyde Beatty
1943 - Wallace Bros. -Clyde Beatty Circus w/ Clyde Beatty
1944 - Clyde Beatty - Russell Bros. Circus w/ Clyde Beatty
1945-1950 - Clyde Beatty Circus w/ Clyde Beatty
Died - March 28, 1950 in El Monte, Ca. of pneumonia

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

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Mary, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Clyde Beatty Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2762. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
<a href="https://classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1969May.htm">Chang Reynolds. Bandwagon, Vol. 13, No. 3 (May-Jun), 1969, pp. 10-19.</a>

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