Big Jenny (Jennie)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Pink Elephants (Paul Kelly) in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Big Jenny (Jennie)

Identification


Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead:	†1976 or 1972
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Pink Elephants (Paul Kelly), in United States

Date of arrival

1955-00-00	Pink Elephants (Paul Kelly) from King Brothers Circus

1954-00-00	King Brothers Circus from Wallace and Clark Circus

1953-00-00	Wallace and Clark Circus from Unknown

	Unknown from Arthur Wirtz

1951-00-00	Arthur Wirtz from Cole Brothers Circus

1935-00-00	Cole Brothers Circus 1935-00-00 from William P. Hall Animal Farm

1932-02-06	William P. Hall Animal Farm from Robbins Brothers Circus (Fred Buchanan)

1925-00-00	Robbins Brothers Circus (Fred Buchanan) from William P. Hall Animal Farm

1923-00-00	William P. Hall Animal Farm from Firma Ruhe

Record history
History of updates	2009-01-03: Name, Death, Text, Source 2010-09-25: locations

Latest document update	2020-10-18 06:25:24

† Big Jenny (Jennie) is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1976 or 1972 at Pink Elephants (Paul Kelly), in United States, .

Origin

Big Jenny (Jennie) was born wild .

Comments / pictures

Big Jennie was the last survivor of the old Cole Herd at her death.

Contradictory records:

Records about Big Jenny (Jennie) from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
She was at Kelly's place until 1973, then with the Silverlakes thru 1977.

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Records about Big Jenny (Jennie) from Bob Cline

JENNIE ( Big )
Female Asian 1923 - one of 6 elephants delivered to Wm.P.Hall ( along with Albert, Don, Katie, Trilby, Sidney, Mary and Babe )
1925 to 1931 - Robbins Bros. Circus 1930 - 17 years old
Sold Feb.6,1932 by W.P.Hall
was 1of 6 from Robbins Bros. Circus
which was owned by Fred Buchanan
1935 to 1951 - Cole Bros. Circus
1951 to 1953 - owned by Arthur Wirtz 1950's sold to Engle Amusements
1953 - Wallace and Clark Circus
1954 to 1955 - King Bros. Circus
1955 to 1972 - Paul Kelly Elephants
Died - Sept. 9,1972 @ Paul Kelly farm

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

"This ("Little Babe", "Big Jennie" and "Tessie") was the end ring act my dad worked on the Cole Show. The other end was "Nellie", "Little Jenny" and "Wilma". Arky worked the Ranch Herd in the center "Big Babe", "Louie", "Carrie" and "Jean". And for some reason "Blanche", "Trilby" and "Katie" didn't perform, only worked in harness." //Buckles Web Log, Cole Bros. Circus Elephants 1954

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). Big Jenny (Jennie), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Pink Elephants (Paul Kelly) in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 21 May 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2881. (archived at the Wayback machine)