Mary
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Sells and Gray 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
Imported:	1947 by Ben Davenport
Death
Dead:	†1974
Death location:	Sells and Gray Circus
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Sells and Gray Circus , in United States

Date of arrival

1972-00-00	Sells and Gray Circus from King Brothers Circus (Acme-Ned Toth)

1962-00-00	King Brothers Circus (Acme-Ned Toth) from Cole Bros. Circus (Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus)

1960-00-00	Cole Bros. Circus (Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus) from Cristiani Brothers Circus

1956-00-00	Cristiani Brothers Circus from Bailey Brothers-Cristiani Circus

1954-00-00	Bailey Brothers-Cristiani Circus from King Brothers and Cristiani Circus

1952-00-00	King Brothers and Cristiani Circus 1952-00-00 from King Brothers Circus (Acme-Ned Toth)

1951-00-00	King Brothers Circus (Acme-Ned Toth) from Dailey Bros. Circus

1948-00-00	Dailey Bros. Circus from Ben Davenport

1947-06-07	Ben Davenport from Karnataka unspecified location

Record history
History of updates	2021-09-14

Latest document update	2021-09-16 18:34:34

† Mary is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1974 at Sells and Gray Circus , in United States, .

Origin

Mary was born wild at Asia unspecified location. and imported 1947 by Ben Davenport

Comments / pictures

Records about Mary from Bob Cline

MARY 1943 - Brought to US by Louis Reed for Ben Davenport's Dailey Bros. Circus.
Female Asian 1948 to 1950 - Dailey bros. Circus
1950 - given to Norma Davenport Cristani as a wedding present.
1951 - King Bros. Circus
1952 to 1953 - King Bros. Cristiani Circus
1954 to 1955 - Bailey Cristiani Circus
1956 to 1959 - Cristiani Bros.Circus
1960 to 1961 - Clyde Beatty- Cole Bros. Circus
1962 to 1972 - King Bros. Circus
1972 to 1974 - Sells and Gray Circus
Died early in 1974
Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Mary, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Sells and Gray Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3118. (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

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