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Cole Brothers Circus in United States
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Cole Brothers Circus
Type
circus
Owner
Founded
1906
Place
Peru, Indiana
Country
United States
Directors
Key People
-:
Milt Herriot
(manager)
-:
Viola Herriot
(animal trainer)
1935-1938:
Clyde Beatty
(animal trainer)
1950-1950:
John Herriot
(animal trainer)
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Description
Cole Brothers Circus, in Peru, Indiana,
United States
, was founded in 1906.
Comments / pictures
The Cole Bros. Circus (originally of Rochester, Indiana) was founded by Martin J. Downs in 1906. Downs named the circus for W.W. "Chilly Billy" Cole, the first man to make $1 million in the circus business.
Cheerful with "Myrtle", "Bonnie" and "Babe" on J. Augustus Jones' Cole Bros. Circus 1915.
Sold to Charlie Sparks at auction when the show folded in 1917.
Elephants from Cole Brothers Circus parade through downtown Los Angeles, 1953
1954: "This ("Little Babe", "Big Jennie" and "Tessie" 1954) was the end ring act my dad worked on the Cole Show. The other end was "Nellie", "Little Jenny" and "Wilma". Arky worked the Ranch
Herd
in the center "Big Babe", "Louie", "Carrie" and "Jean". And for some reason "Blanche", "Trilby" and "Katie" didnt perform, only worked in harness." //
Buckles Web Log, Cole Bros. Circus Elephants 1954
1957, the
ACME
Circus Corporation acquired the Cole Bros. name and the show became
Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus
.
1981:
John Pugh
became became President and owner of Cole Bros. Circus, Inc. in 1981.
References for records about Cole Brothers Circus
Recommended Citation
Koehl, Dan (2024). Cole Brothers Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at
https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=828
. (
archived
at the
Wayback machine
)
Sources used for this article is among others:
A History of the Cole Bros. Circus 1935-40 by Joseph T. Bradbury. Bandwagon, Vol. 9, No. 5 (Sep-Oct), 1965, pp. 4-8. Online at
https://web.archive.org/web/20101213221123/https://classic.circushistory.org/bandwagon/bw-1965Sep.htm
Handbook Cole bros.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150417155046/https://classic.circushistory.org/bandwagon/bw-1965Sep.htm
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