Joseph Martin

On February 27, 1824, the Grand Caravan joined with J. W. Bancker’s Circus for a combined exhibition. The public could visit both shows for the price of one admission. Never before had there been such an arrangement between a menagerie and a circus. This lasted until the animals went on tour in April, 1824. It was also during this winter that the name of John Martin, Tippoo Sultan’s keeper, was first mentioned in the bills.

By December, 1824, Joseph Martin had trained Tippoo to perform in the ring. The keeper would stand on the beast’s Tusks and be tossed by a movement of the animal’s head ten or twelve Feet in the air to alight again on the Tusks. Then, tossed again, Martin would perform a somersault and land on the elephant’s back.

In 1826, a license was taken out by Martin, Finch & Co, in Rochester, New York. This would be Joseph Martin, the keeper, and Edward Finch (1796-1849), the man who exhibited Hachaliah Baileys elephant from 1820 to 1823.
Stuart Thayers American Circus Anthology Part Two

Stuart Thayer, A History of the Traveling Menagerie https://classic.circushistory.org/Thayer/Thayer2b.htm