Joe Orth

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Joe Orth
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Personal details
Country	United States

Locations
Title	elephant trainer 1963
Location	at Murray Hill Enterprises in United States

Title	elephant head-keeper -
Location	at Brookfield Zoo in United States

Title	elephant trainer
Location	at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in United States

Biography details

Joe "Pockets" Orth , circus elephant trainer in United States

Born ? in United States .

Affiliation with 5 elephants

1: Tory (trainer from 1965) 2: Denny (trainer from 1963) 3: Kate (trainer from 1963) 4: Mogul (trainer from 1963) 5: Reed #1 (trainer from 1963 to 1965)

I originally imported her to sell. I advertised her and had all kinds of calls. Everyone was interested until I told them she was a bottle baby. I was stuck with her. The best thing that ever happened to me.

Denny was our first elephant in April of 1963. We knew nothing about elephants and hired several so called elephant trainers. We ended up with a man that had been a groom to Mac McDonald. His name was Joe Orth. Denise and I learned a lot from him and either of us could handle and work her.

We worked her as a single until 1966. When we decided to form a 3 act we used Denny as lead but she was much bigger than the other punks. We sold her in 1966 to Charlie Kelton of Wt. River.

Murray Hill Blogspot.

The gentleman in the picture is Joe Orth. //Buckles

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). elephant trainer Joe "Pockets" Orth in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=2870. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://murrayhillsblogspot.blogspot.com/2006/08/cat-girl-and-denny.html
Billboard 21 Mar 1942

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