Queen (Obrien Queen)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Frank A. Robbins Circus in United States

Biography

☨ ♀ Queen (Obrien Queen)

Identification

SSP nr	689

Description
Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀

People killed:	1
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:	in Asia unspecified location
Death
Dead:	†1910-10-26
Death reason:	euthanised:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:	Frank A. Robbins Circus, in United States

Date of arrival

1910-04-00	Frank A. Robbins Circus from Sells and Downs Shows (Sells and Gray New United Shows)

1903-00-00	Sells and Downs Shows (Sells and Gray New United Shows) from Gollmar Brothers Circus

1902-00-00	Gollmar Brothers Circus from Harris Nickel Plate Shows

1896-00-00	Harris Nickel Plate Shows from George W. Popcorn Hall

1893-00-00	George W. Popcorn Hall from Ringling Bros. Circus

1891-00-00	Ringling Bros. Circus 1891-00-00 from Clark Brothers Circus

1888-00-00	Clark Brothers Circus from O'Brien Circus

Record history
History of updates	2013-04-16:ï¿½mankiller 2013-04-16:ï¿½ 2016-01-05: SSP nr 2022-04-03: Born in Asia

Latest document update	2022-04-03 08:20:40

† Queen (Obrien Queen) is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1910-10-26 at Frank A. Robbins Circus, in United States, .

Origin

Queen (Obrien Queen) was born wild at Asia unspecified location.

Comments / pictures

Records about Queen (Obrien Queen) from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
QUEEN (O'Brien Queen)
1870 J.N French Circus
1871-87 John "Pogey" O'Brien Circus
1888-90 Clark Bros. Circus
1992 Ringling Bros. Circus
1993-95 George W. Hall Shows
1896-01 Harris Nickel Plate Shows
1902 Gollmar Bros. Circus
1903-09 Sells & Downs Circus
(Killed Robert White in 1885 with the O'Brien Show while in Phila. Quarters)

William "Buckles" Woodcock

Records about Queen (Obrien Queen) from SSPNorth American Studbook for Asian elephants state following records for the asian elephant Queen (Obrien Queen):

689 F ???? WILD WILD ASIA ???? NONE Capture Queen
SELL-GRAY ???? QUEEN Transfer
COLE CIRC ???? QUEEN Transfer
FRANK CIR ~ Apr 1910 QUEEN Transfer
26-Oct-10 Death

Source: SSP studbook for Asian elephants online

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2026). Queen (Obrien Queen), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Frank A. Robbins Circus in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 19 January 2026 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3029. (archived at the Wayback machine)