Bailey & Finch in United States

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Bailey & Finch
Type	circus
Founded	1819
Closed down	1822
Country	United States
Related persons
Owner	1823: Edward Finch 1823: Hachaliah Bailey


Directors	1819-1822: Christopher Brown

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Record history
History of updates	2022-04-12

Latest document update	2022-04-12 07:06:48

Description

Bailey & Finch, United States , was founded in 1819. Bailey & Finch closed down in 1822.

Comments / pictures

Records about Bailey & Finch from A History of the Traveling Menagerie at https://classic.circushistory.org/Thayer/Thayer2b.htm
Finch, in 1819 was exhibiting a caged African lion in Ohio and it would appear that it was the animal from the William. In 1820, Finch traveled with the lion and Hachaliah Bailey’s elephant Betty, the second of the name Benjamin Brown, an old showman, said in an 1879 interview that “Hachaliah Bailey and Ed Finch had an elephant and lion, which they used to show through the country.” Brown’s brother, Christopher Brown, was in charge of the exhibition. The combination was on tour at least through 1822.

Stuart Thayer, A History of the Traveling Menagerie

References for records about Bailey & Finch

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Bailey & Finch, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3605. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Stuart Thayers American Circus Anthology, A History of the Traveling Menagerie, online at https://classic.circushistory.org/Thayer/Thayer2b.htm
The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899 by S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler

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