Stebbins June

Brother of John J. June and James M. June and nephew of Lewis June. Co-proprietor, June, Titus & Co., 1833; co-proprietor, June, Titus, Angevine & Co.’s menagerie, 1834; manager, Grand Zoological and Ornithological Exhibition, 1836; American Arena Co., 1837; 1850, along with George Nutter, was sent to Ceylon by P. T. Barnum to purchase a Herd of elephants; returned to NYC, May 4, 1851, with 9 specimens. Stuart Thayer reports he was the only one of the June family to sign the Zoological Institute agreement, 1835.

1834: manager of Grand Zoological and Ornithological Exhibition: Stebbins B. June

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

In 1838 Benjamin Brown traveled to the Great Kalahari Desert in Africa with Stebbins June, to purchase giraffes. June left a written account of traveling with the animals and his illness resulting from being bitten by a lion. Brown also wrote of his various illnesses contracted while traveling in the desert. Copies of his correspondence are in the Somers collection. Brown & June returned to America with five giraffes, which were exhibited in New York in the summer of 1840.