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See also:BARNUM, PHINEAS See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
TAYLOR (1810-1891) , See also:American show-See also:man, was See also:born in See also:Bethel, See also:Connecticut, on the 5th of See also:July 1810, his See also:father being an See also:inn- and See also:store-keeper. Barnum first started as a store-keeper, and was also concerned in the lottery See also:mania then prevailing in the See also:United States. After failing in business, he started in 1829 a weekly See also:paper, The See also:Herald of Freedom, in See also:Danbury; after several See also:libel suits and a See also:prosecution which resulted in imprisonment, he moved to New See also:York in 1834, and in 1835 began his career as a showman, with his See also:purchase and exploitation of a coloured woman, Joyce Heth, reputed to have been the See also:nurse of See also:George See also:Washington, and to be over a See also:hundred and sixty years old. With this woman and a small See also:company he made well-advertised and successful See also:tours in See also:America till 1839, though Joyce Heth died in 1836, when her See also:age was proved to be not more than seventy. After a See also:period of failure, he See also:purchased Scudder's American Museum, New York, in 1841; to this he added considerably, and it became one of the most popular shows in the United States. He made a See also:special See also:hit by the See also:exhibition, in 1842, of See also:Charles Stratton, the celebrated " See also:General Tom Thumb " (see See also:DWARF). In 1844 Barnum toured with the dwarf in See also:England. A remarkable instance of his enterprise was the engagement of Jenny See also:Lind to sing in America at $See also:I000 a See also:night for one hundred and fifty nights, all expenses being paid by the entrepreneur. The tour began in 1850. Barnum retired from the show business in 1855, but had to See also:settle with his creditors in 1857, and began his old career again as showman and museum proprietor. In 1871 he established the " Greatest Show on See also:Earth," a travelling amalgamation of See also:circus, See also:menagerie and museum of " freaks," &c. This show, incorporated in the name of " Barnum, See also:Bailey & See also:Hutchinson," and later as " Barnum & Bailey's " toured all over the See also:world. In 1907 the business was sold to Ringling See also:Brothers. Barnum wrote several books, such as The Humbugs of the World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and his Autobiography (1854, and later See also:editions). He died on the 7th of See also:April 1891.
End of Article: BARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR (1810-1891)
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