Zebedee Macomber

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Zebedee Macomber
Profession circus director
Personal details
Born
Country United States
Locations
Title owner 1835-1837
Location at The Zoological Institute in United States
Title owner 1834-1835
Location at Macomber & Welch Zoological Institute in United States
Title owner 1833-1835
Location at Purdy, Welch & Co in United States
Title owner 1830-1832
Location at Macomber and Birchard in United States
Title owner 1830-1830
Location at Macomber & Howe in United States
Title owner 1829-1829
Location at Macomber and Co. in United States
Title owner 1826-1839
Location at Great India Elephant Caravan in United States
Biography details

Zebedee Macomber , circus director in United States

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Records about Zebedee Macomber from A History of the Traveling Menagerie at https://classic.circushistory.org/Thayer/Thayer2b.htm
Zebedee Macomber was one of the leading menagerie impresarios of the nineteenth century. He not only operated animal shows, but was involved in importing directly from Africa, and went there himself on at least two occasions to bring back large groups of animals and birds.

In 1825, in Providence, Rhode Island, Zebedee Macomber applied for the license from the city and for the first time we can link that pioneer showman to an exhibition. He was active until at least 1839 and was part of the Group that imported more exotic animals than any other. Macomber himself made at least two trips to Africa for shiploads of animals, returning with fifty to seventy specimens each time. The jackal that the firm acquired in 1823, the first to be shown in this country, was termed “the lion’s provider.” Later menageries also used this description. Curiously, the knowledge that lions lived on kills made by jackals was lost somewhere along the line and has been trumpeted as a great discovery by some twentieth-century zoologists.

Zebedee Macomber was owner of a zoological caravan in 1826-1831. In 1826, it was "Natural Curiosities," and in 1827, "Great India Elephant Caravan," and in 1829, National Caravan. He reformed it in 1827, when it was called the "Great India Elephant Caravan." A female elephant, later named Flora, was the center piece of the show. She was twenty-four years old and nine Feet high and newly imported. In 1828 and 1830 the title was National Menagerie.

For 1831, the caravan became the property of June & Titus and we follow it under June, Titus, Angevine and Co. The elephant Flora went to the Howe & Birchard menagerie.

Stuart Thayer, A History of the Traveling Menagerie


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References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). director Zebedee Macomber in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 25 April 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1549. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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