Jennie
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Clyde Brothers Circus (Howard Suesz) in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Jennie
Jennie with Harry Houdini, 1918

Alternative name:	Dixie

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†1957-01-00
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Clyde Brothers Circus (Howard Suesz), in United States

Date of arrival

1951-00-00	Clyde Brothers Circus (Howard Suesz) from Mills Brothers Circus

1950-00-00	Mills Brothers Circus from Polack Brothers Circus

	Polack Brothers Circus from Power's Dancing Elephant fame

	Power's Dancing Elephant fame from Mills Brothers Circus

	Mills Brothers Circus from Walter L. Main Circus

Record history
History of updates	2022-11-27

Latest document update	2022-11-27 18:06:51

† Jennie is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1957-01-00 at Clyde Brothers Circus (Howard Suesz), in United States, .

Origin

Jennie was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Harry Houdini in his longest engagement, lasting nineteen weeks in 1918, let Jennie from Walter L. Main Circus "disappear"on the The Hippodrome in New York.

Records about Jennie from Ryan Easleys Blog at https://showmeelephants.blogspot.com/
The Billboard elephant census published in 1952 shows she was sold to Suesz the year prior and renamed Dixie. A 1955 news article identifies the 60 year old along with 20-year-old Elise at his winter quarters in Edmond, Oklahoma. Robert Cline lists that she died there in January 1957.

Ryan Easley

"Jennie" was named after Baraboo's own Jennie O'Brien, who had been an equestrienne with the Ringling Bros. circus

Chris Berry, 2022

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Jennie, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Clyde Brothers Circus (Howard Suesz) in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 30 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3109. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Circus Historical Society (CHS), http://www.circushistory.org
https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2018/01/100-years-ago-houdini-vanished-elephant.html
Ryan Easley, USA
Chris Berry, 2022

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