Joe Secastin

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Joe Secastin

Personal details
Country	United States

Locations
Title	elephant trainer 1938-1940
Location	at Meems Bros. & Ward in United States

Title	elephant trainer 1937
Location	at Barnett Brothers Circus (Wallace Brothers Circus) in United States

Title	elephant trainer 1935-1936
Location	at Kay Brothers Circus in United States

Title	elephant keeper 1903-1907
Location	at Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States

Biography details

Joe Secastin , circus elephant keeper in United States

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Contradictory records:

Records about Joe Secastin from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
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

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Records about Joe Secastin from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
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

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). elephant keeper Joe Secastin in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 25 November 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1501. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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