Fred Alispaw

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Fred Alispaw
Profession	circus elephant trainer
Personal details
Country	United States

Locations
Title	elephant superintendent 1909-1917
Location	at Sells-Floto Circus in United States

Biography details

Fred "Shorty" Alispaw , circus elephant trainer in United States

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1909-1917: Fred Alispaw was in charge of the Sells-Floto elephants.

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

As near as I can determine Fred Alispaw spent his entire career with Sells-Floto starting out as a menagerie hand with the Otto Floto Dog & Pony Show.

He took over the elephant Herd from the original trainer Christian Zeitz in 1909 and remained in charge thru 1917. This is the first time I have shown this full set of the elephant act while being photographed in the back yard in 1912. Elephants are "Mary", "Snyder", "Trilby", "Alice", "Frieda" and "Floto".

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Records about Fred Alispaw from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
I never met Shorty Alispaw but I have trouped with a lot of old timers who were with him on S-F and I gather he was a mediocre elephant man like the writer.
He was definately not in the class with Arky, Walter McLain, Bill Emery, Cheerful Gardner et. al.
Seems to have been a farmer and his chief interest in life was to get enough dough together to buy a farm and get out of show business.
Letter from Bill Woodcock to Otto Scheiman from the Cole Show quarters in Louisville 1/18/45

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). elephant trainer Fred "Shorty" Alispaw in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 22 November 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=509. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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