John F. Robinson Jr.

From the list of elephant persons Family: Robinson

☨ John F. Robinson Jr.
Profession	circus director
Personal details
Born	1843 in United States
Country	United States

Locations
Title	owner 1871-1921
Location	at John Robinson Circus in United States

Biography details

John Franklin Robinson Jr., circus director in United States

Born 1843 in United States dead 1921 , son of director John Robinson Sr. .

Took over management of John Robinson’s with his brothers, 1871, when his father retired.

When the old John Robinson Circus went under new management in 1896, Robinson combined with Franklin Bros. to form Robinson & Franklin Circus. In 1909, he sold the circus to his son, John G. Robinson.

John F. Robinson died 1921, but his widow also kept the elephants for some years. One by one they died, and in the end, the last one, Old Pitt, was sold to Cole brothers circus.

Family

Total: 1 children

John G. Robinson. Born: 1872-91-12. Dead: † 1935-07-30

Siblings

Siblings through the father John Robinson Sr. (1807-07-22? -- 1921):

Gilbert Robinson Born 1845-07-15 Dead: † 1928-08-17

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Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director John Franklin Robinson Jr. in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1711. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

http://www.classic.circushistory.org/Olympians/OlympiansR2.htm

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