Joe Secastin

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JOE SECASTIN
1903- 07 Barnum & Bailey Circus
1913-16 Patterson Shows (carnival)
1917 Gollmar-Patterson
1918-21 Patterson Shows
1922 Patterson Circus
1923-25 Gentry-Patterson Circus
1926-27 Gentry Bros. Circus (Floyd King )
1928 Walter L. Main (Floyd King)
1930-31 Otis L. Smith Shows (with Mom, Danny and Eva)
1932-34 Maybelle's Elephants (Otis Smith's daughter)
1935-36 Kay Bros. Circus
1937 Barnett Bros. Circus

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Records about Joe Secastin from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog

I know an old elephant man named Joe Secastin a contemporary of Conklin, Abby Bates, Bill Emery, Harry Mooney, old Jumbo Scotty and George Denman. He was with the Barnum Show from the time it returned from Europe until the Ringling-Barnum combine.
Several years ago I called to his attention one of your articles in which you mention the "Myraphone". He remembered this musical oddity just as you described it.
The last I heard of Joe, both he and Bill Emery were with three small elephants called Ward's Baby Elephants. I don't keep up with zoos very well but it seems I have heard that these three bulls are now in Breckenridge Park but maybe I am wrong.
-Letter from Bill Woodcock. ..3/19/41...To Col Sturtevant

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