Eisenhart Purdy

From the list of elephant persons Family: Purdy

☨ Eisenhart Purdy
Profession	circus director
Personal details
Born	in United States
Dead	in United States
Country	United States

Locations
Title	owner 1835-1837
Location	at The Zoological Institute in United States

Title	owner 1833-1835
Location	at Purdy, Welch & Co in United States

Title	owner 1832-1833
Location	at Purdy, Welch, Finch and Wright menagerie in United States

Title	owner 1831-1832
Location	at Purdy, Carley & Bailey in United States

Title	owner 1830-1831
Location	at Carley, Purdy and Wright’s Menagerie in United States

Biography details

Eisenhart Purdy , circus director in United States

in United States in United States .

Records about Eisenhart Purdy from A History of the Traveling Menagerie at https://classic.circushistory.org/Thayer/Thayer2b.htm
Eisenhart Purdy was to join Rufus Welch in the operation of menageries through the years of the Zoological Institute. He was one of the members of the Boston Zoological Association that imported so many animals in the early thirties.

Stuart Thayer, A History of the Traveling Menagerie

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director Eisenhart Purdy in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1578. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Stuart Thayers American Circus Anthology, A History of the Traveling Menagerie, online at https://classic.circushistory.org/Thayer/Thayer2b.htm

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