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The Lucasies were paid well relative to other non-Barnum sideshow work, but there was tension between them and Barnum. Barnum called them "disagreeable" and threatened their manager, Dr. Oscar Kohn, that he would "put them in jail" if things did not improve. [1] [12] The Lucasies left New York when the original museum burned down in 1865. [5]
Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut, the son of innkeeper, tailor and storekeeper Philo Barnum (1778–1826) and Philo's second wife, Irene Taylor.Barnum's maternal grandfather Phineas Taylor was a Whig, legislator, landowner, justice of the peace, and lottery schemer who had a great influence upon him.
Nancy Fish Barnum Callias D'Orengiani, Baroness (née Fish; 22 April 1850 – 23 June 1927) was an English socialite, daughter of a successful cotton miller and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, 40 years her senior. After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following year in both London and New York City.
The Fairy Wedding group: Stratton and his bride Lavinia Warren, alongside her sister Minnie and George Washington Morrison Nutt ("Commodore Nutt"), entertainers associated with P.T. Barnum. Phineas T. Barnum heard about Stratton, and after contacting his parents, taught the boy how to sing, dance, mime, and impersonate famous people. Barnum ...
Bates conceived two children with Martin. [7]: 87–88 The first was a girl born on May 19, 1872; she weighed 18 pounds (8.16 kg) and died at birth. [9] While touring in the summer of 1878, Anna was pregnant for the second time. The boy was born on January 18, 1879, and survived only 11 hours. [10]
The earliest record of Battersby performing as a Fat Lady is in 1869 at P.T. Barnum's American Dime Museum. She was billed variously as both a "Giantess" and a "Mammoth Fat Lady". [4] Battersby, third from right, with a group of Barnum's performers around 1865. In 1883, she was said to weigh 760 pounds and earn a salary of $200/week. [5]
We recently watched "The Greatest Showman" movie (2017) starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), an American icon famous for his circus "The Greatest Show on Earth."
During this time, Barnum took the Museum on road tours, named "P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling American Museum". [13] The Museum burned down in July 1865. [14] Though Barnum attempted to re-establish the Museum at another location in the city, it too burned down in 1868, and Barnum opted to retire from the museum business.