Bughouse Alice
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Christy Brothers Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Bughouse Alice

Identification

SSP nr	376

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀ 51 years old
Origin
Born:	* 1882 wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1933
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Christy Brothers Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1923-00-00	Christy Brothers Circus from Gollmar Brothers Circus

1922-00-00	Gollmar Brothers Circus from Howes Great London Circus and Van Amburgs Trained Wild Animals

1921-00-00	Howes Great London Circus and Van Amburgs Trained Wild Animals from Howes Great London Circus (Mugivan and Bowers)

1920-00-00	Howes Great London Circus (Mugivan and Bowers) from Atterbury Brothers Circus

1919-00-00	Atterbury Brothers Circus from R.T. Richards Circus

1917-00-00	R.T. Richards Circus 1917-00-00 from Wheeler Brothers Circus

1916-00-00	Wheeler Brothers Circus from Unknown

1915-10-00	Unknown from Barton and Bailey Circus

1915-10-00	Barton and Bailey Circus from Unknown

1914-00-00	Unknown from Campbell Brothers Circus

1907-00-00	Campbell Brothers Circus from William P. Hall Animal Farm

1907-00-00	William P. Hall Animal Farm from Barnum & Bailey Circus

1888-00-00	Barnum & Bailey Circus from Firma Carl Hagenbeck

Record history
History of updates	2021-09-26

Latest document update	2023-08-11 22:42:50

† Bughouse Alice is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1933 at Christy Brothers Circus, in United States, .

Origin

Bughouse Alice was born wild 1882.

Comments / pictures

Contradictory records:

The North American Regional Studbook for the Asian Elephants lists Alices location from 1902 to 1917 as Unknown.

Records about Bughouse Alice from Bob Cline

Started with Barnum & Bailey
1888 to 1907 - Barnum & Bailey Circus
1907 - bought by Wm. P. Hall ( leased to Campbell Bros. )
1907 to 1912 - Campbell Bros. Circus
1913 - Sig Sautlette Show ( per Buckles blog May 29, 2008 )
1914 - Young Buffalo Ranch
1915 - Barton & Bailey Circus
1915 - Hugo Bros. Circus
1916 - Wheeler Bros. Circus
1917 to 1918 - R.T.Richards Circus
1919 - Atterbury Trained Wild Animal Show.
1920 to 1921 - Howes Great London Circus
1922 - Gollmar Bros. Circus
1923 to 1932 - George Christy / Christy Bros. Circus
Died - fall of 1932
Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Bughouse Alice, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Christy Brothers Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2799. (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
http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/05/from-jim-cole-1.html
<a href="http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/05/joe-metcalf-2.html">"Joe Metcalf #2," Buckles Web Log, 2008-05-27</a>
<a href="https://classic.circushistory.org/Bandwagon/bw-1964Sep.htm">Howes Great London Circus, Season of 1921 By Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 8, No. 5, 1964, pp. 4-13.</a>

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