Matthew Buckley

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☨ Matthew Buckley
Profession	circus director
Personal details
Born
Country	United States

Locations
Title	owner 1838-1839
Location	at Buckley, Hopkins, Tufts & Co in United States

Title	owner -
Location	at Buckley, Weeks & Co in United States

Title	owner-1838
Location	at Buckley, Rockwell, Hopkins & Co in United States

Title	owner
Location	at Buckleys Circus in United States

Biography details

Matthew C. Buckley , circus director in United States

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Records about Matthew Buckley from the Circus Historical Society
The circus Buckley, Weeks & Co was owned by Mathew Buckley and Edward C. Weeks. Weeks was a brother of Chauncey R. Weeks,

James Raymond and his partners purchased the Lion Tavern in Boston in the winter of 1834-35 and converted it into the Lion Theatre. Their program was a mixed one, combining drama and circus. For the arena portion of the concern they bought or leased Buckley, Weeks & Co. In 1835 the show went on tour, minus the dramatic elements, under the title Boston Lion Circus and the Nathans were with it.

Records about Matthew Buckley from the Circus Historical Society
1838: During the tour with Buckley, Rockwell, Hopkins & Co, Henry Rockwell dropped out and Thomas Tufts took his place, thus Buckley, Hopkins, Tufts & Co. became the firm name.

Buckley, Hopkins, Tufts & Co spent the winter of 1838-39 exhibiting in Baltimore and Washington and Philadelphia and in the latter city J. J. Hall and John J. Nathans bought out the interest of Matthew Buckley and Hopkins’ and the title became Hall, Nathans, Tufts & Co.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director Matthew C. Buckley in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1669. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://classic.circushistory.org/Thayer/Thayer3b.htm

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