unknown
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
J. B. Gaylord in United States

Biography
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Identification


Description
Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age:
Origin
Born:* wild
Birth place:
Death
Dead: 1883-05-22
Death reason: disease: poisoned
Locations - owners
Present / last location:J. B. Gaylord, in United States

Date of arrival

1883-00-00J. B. Gaylord
Record history
History of updates2010-05-10: 

Latest document update2020-10-18 06:25:24

† unknown is a dead Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1883-05-22 at J. B. Gaylord, in United States, . Official death reason described as poisoned.

Origin

unknown was born wild .


Comments / pictures

He (Barnum) sent an agent, J. B. Gaylord, to Siam, with orders to buy or hire from the King, one of these creatures. The Siamese court met the proposition with an indignant refusal. Nothing daunted, Mr. Gaylord heard of a white elephant owned by a Siamese nobleman. He agreed to pay 100,000 dollars for it. It was smuggled down to Moulmein (Mawlamyaing), Burma (Myanmar), but, when on the point of being being transshipped to Singapore, it died of poison intentionally administered by some unknown person
Scientific American, Supplement, New York, March 8, 1884

1883-05-22: P. T. Barnums secretary Henry Bowser recited a cable from Gaylord in Singapore advising the that the white elephant died.

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). unknown, Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at J. B. Gaylord in United States. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 20 July 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=5730. (archived at the Wayback machine)


Sources used for this article is among others:

  • Richard Reynolds
  • Henry Bowser through Pfening Archives, Columbus, Ohio
  • Scientific American, Supplement, New York, March 8, 1884

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