Albert
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Ketrow Brothers Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♂ Albert


Identification


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

People killed:	1
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†
Death reason:	disease: pneumonia
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Ketrow Brothers Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1924-00-00	Ketrow Brothers Circus from William P. Hall Animal Farm

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

Record history
History of updates	0000-00-00

Latest document update	2021-11-20 19:01:06

† Albert is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died at Ketrow Brothers Circus, in United States, . Official death reason described as pneumonia.

Origin

Albert was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

During the 1924 season Benjamin C. Davenport was with William Peters (Ketrow) on what was the first tour of the Ketrow Bros. Circus. Ketrow bought an elephant from the Hall farm and after the elephant man left Davenport took over the bull.
Bandwagon

Records about Albert from Bob Cline

ALBERT
Male Asian 1923 - arrives from the Pacific coast with Don, Katie, Jennie, Babe, Trilby, Mary, & Sidney
1924 - Wm. P. Hall leaaes to William Peters for $2000.00
1924 - Hall sold to William Ketrow.
1925 - Ketrow Bros. Circus
same year - killed a man in Belle Center, Ohio
Died - ???? Of Pnuemonia while still owned by Wm. Ketrow.

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

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Albert, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Ketrow Brothers Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2763. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

http://circusnospin.blogspot.se/2012/10/unknown_7820.html
Leland L. Antes, Jr. Bandwagon, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Jul-Aug), 1970, pp. 4-11.
Bob Cline, Cheraw, South Carolina, United States. Autor of the book Americas elephants
Chang Reynolds files @ CWM.

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