Little Diamond
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show) in United States

Biography

☨ ♂ Little Diamond
Diamond on the left and Jap/Japino on the right.

Identification


Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Male ♂
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1927-09-30
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show), in United States

Date of arrival

1922-00-00	Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show) from Orange Brothers and Moon Brothers (Newton)

1913-00-00	Orange Brothers and Moon Brothers (Newton) from Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show)

1925-00-00	Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show) from Lucky Bill Wagon Show

1923-00-00	Lucky Bill Wagon Show from Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus

1913-00-00	Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus from William P. Hall Animal Farm

Record history
History of updates	2012-04-22

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24
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† Little Diamond is a dead Male ♂ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1927-09-30 at Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show), in United States, .

Origin

Little Diamond was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Records about Little Diamond from Bob Cline

DIAMOND ( Little )
Male Asian
1914 to 1915 - Wm. P. Hall farm
1916 to 1922 - Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1923 to 1927 - Honest Bill Show
Died - Sept. 30, 1927 in Orick, CA.

Bob Cline, author of the book "Americas elephants".

Records about Little Diamond from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
DIAMOND (one tusk)
1912 Wm. P. Hall Animal Farm
1913-22 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1923-24 Lucky Bill Newton Show
1925 Honest Bill Newton Show
1926 Orange Bros. & Moon Bros. (Newton)
1927 Honest Bill Newton Show
(Died 9/30/27 at Orek, California)

This "Diamond" was added to the H-W Herd following the 1913 Peru flood.
My dad was on the show in 1922 and mentioned him to me several times, he said that as far as he knew he only grew one tusk.
I think the Newtons lost several, if not all of their elephants, in an epidemic of Hoof & Mouth disease in California.

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Little Diamond, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Bill Newton (Lucky Bill Show, Honest Bill Show) in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3121. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2008/07/to-john-pult.html

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