Columbia (Victoria) an Asian elephant at William P Hall Animal Farm

☨ ♀ Columbia (Victoria)

Identification


Description

Species:	Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:	Female ♀
Origin
Born:	* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead date:	† 1933
Death reason:	unknown:
Locations
Present / last location:	William P Hall Animal Farm, in United States

Date of Arrival (Presently sometimes errors!)

1932-00-00	William P Hall Animal Farm from Robbins Brothers Circus (Fred Buchanan) Robbins Brothers Circus (Fred Buchanan) 1924-00-00 from World Brothers Wild Animal Circus World Brothers Wild Animal Circus 1923-00-00 from Kansas City Zoo Kansas City Zoo 1920-00-00 from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus 1919-00-00 from Ringling Brothers Circus Ringling Brothers Circus 1912-00-00 from Forepaugh-Sells Show Forepaugh-Sells Show 1910-00-00 from Gollmar Brothers Circus Gollmar Brothers Circus 1908-00-00 from Forepaugh-Sells Show Forepaugh-Sells Show 1896-00-00 from Adam Forepaugh Circus

Document updated	2009-10-04:
Random literature

Description

† Columbia (Victoria) is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at William P Hall Animal Farm, in United States, of from unknown reasons in 1933. (see detailed list).

Origin

Columbia (Victoria) was born wild .

Comments / pictures

One of the Forepaugh Dancing Eight.

Died at Halls farm from what the newspaper snipets said.

Records about Columbia (Victoria) from Bob Cline
COLUMBIA
Female Asian 1882 to 1894 - Adam Forepaugh Circus ( was called Victoria )
1895 to 1907 - Adam Forepaugh / Sells Bros. Circus
1908 to 1909 - Gollmar Bros. Circus ( Leased by the Ringlings )
1910 to 1911 - Adam Forepaugh / Sells Bros. Circus
1912 to 1918 - Ringling Bros. Circus
1919 to 1920 - RBBB
1920 to 1923 - Swope Park Zoo
1923 - World Bros. Circus ( Owned by Wm. P. Hall )
1924 to 1931 - Robbins Bros. Circus
1932 to 1933 - Wm. P. Hall farm
Died - 1933 at the Hall farm

Records about Columbia (Victoria) from William "Buckles" Woodcocks Blog at http://www.bucklesw.blogspot.com/
From Buckles Woodcocks blog:

Reference listKoehl, Dan, (2021). Columbia (Victoria), an Asian elephant at William P Hall Animal Farm in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 11 April 2021 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=3132. (archived at the Wayback machine)