Van Amburg Circus in United States

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Van Amburg Circus

Type	circus
Founded	1838
Closed down	1889
Country	United States
Related persons
Owner	1838-1865: Issac Van Amburg 1865-1889: Hyatt Frost 1889: Ringling Brothers


Key People	1876-1878: James L. Hutchinson (agent)
Zoological department
Animal trainers
1840: Benjamin Brown

Elephant department
Head keepers of elephants
1857-1867: Frank Nash (elephant trainer) 1853-1860: Stewart Craven (elephant trainer) : Orrin Townsend (elephant trainer)

Record history
History of updates	2022-04-09

Latest document update	2022-04-09 17:43:30

Description

Van Amburg Circus, United States , was founded in 1838. Van Amburg Circus closed down in 1889.

Casualties

1 casualties

1859: elephant trainer Frank Nash attacked by Tippoo Sahib. struck at Nash while be was practicing the animal in the tent, there being no audience present. Frank Nash Survived.

Comments / picturesVan Amburgs circus was founded as Van Amburgs Mammoth Menagerie and Great Moral Exhibition by Issac A. Van Amburg (1801-65), after the collapse of The Zoological Institute.

Issac van Amburg worked as animal trainer at June, Titus, Angevine and Co in 1834.

After Van Amburgh\'s death 1865, Hyatt Frost, his manager since 1865, continued using the Van Amburgh name.
From him it was leased by the Ringling Brothers in 1889.

1876: Performing Elephants - Bolivar, Ajax, Pizarro, Hannibal Jr. and Jenny.

1881-11-28: VanAmburgh & Co.\'s great golden menagerie and circus will be sold at public sale on Thursday, November 22, at Amenia, New York, the present management having grown wealthy at the show business, now wish to retire. This show has been successfully managed by Hyatt Frost, a Fayette county man, for thirty-five years. Connersville Examiner (Connersville, IN), November 10, 1881, n.p.n.

Batcheller & Doris, whose circus showed here last July, have just closed a most successful seaon, and find their exchequer swelled to the tune of $200,000. They are already at work making arrangements to start with a mammoth concern next spring. Huntingdon Journal (Huntingdon, PA), November 25, 1881, n.p.n.

...There was quite a gathering of representative circus men at Armenia, Pa., last Tuesday when Van Amburgh sold his Great Golden Menagerie and Circus. The Gold was considerably tarnished by a season\'s hard wrok. There were seventy horses offered, with wagons, harness and circus paraphernalia, besides menagerie animals. Cole, Coupe, Hutchinson and others were present, but Forepaugh did most of the bidding and succeeded in securing nearly everything worth buying, including Bolivar, the elephant, for which he paid $7,100. He also bought the double-horned rhinocerous for $2,400. Decatur Daily Review (Decatur, IL), November 28, 1881, n.p.n.

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Brooklyn Evening Star 1848-11-30

References for records about Van Amburg Circus

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Van Amburg Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=761. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://classic.circushistory.org/History/1880sCircuses.htm

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