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	P. T. Barnum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barnum retired from the show business in 1855, but had to settle with his creditors in 1857, and began his old career again as showman and museum proprietor.
		Barnum died on April 7, 1891 and is buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
		Barnum was significantly involved in the politics surrounding race, slavery, and sectionalism in the period leading up the American Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phineas_Taylor_Barnum (616 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Barnum was born in Bethel where his father owned a tavern.
		Barnum wrote anonymous newspaper articles attaching her as a fraud while at the same time publicly defending her.
		In 1871 Barnum organized a circus, the chief attraction of which was Jumbo, the elephant.
	www.ctheritage.org /encyclopedia/ct1818_1865/barnum.htm (529 words)

	AllRefer.com - Phineas Taylor Barnum (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He made his first sensation in 1835 when he bought and exhibited Joice Heth, a slave who claimed she was 161 years old (she was about 80) and had been the nurse of George Washington.
		In 1850, Barnum managed the American tour of the Swedish singer Jenny Lind and, with his talent for publicity, made it a huge financial success for her and for himself.
		The stellar attraction of the circus was Jumbo, the 6 1/2 -ton African elephant that Barnum purchased from the London Zoo despite the furious protests of English elephant fanciers, including Queen Victoria.
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	Station Information - Phineas Taylor Barnum
		Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), American showman and sniggler who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and more importantly founding the biggest and most important circus in the world which eventually became Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus.
		With this woman and a small company he made well-advertised and successful tours in America till 1839, though Joyce Heth died in 1836, when her age was proved to be not more than seventy.
		In 1844 Barnum toured with the dwarf in England.
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	Phineas Taylor Barnum [1810 - 1891],Legend,Phineas Taylor Barnum [1810 - 1891],The "Greatest Show on Earth," the famous ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A consummate showman, Barnum maintained, "There's a sucker born every minute." Barnum made a fortune exhibiting such sensational attractions as Siamese twins, midgets, and exotic animals...
		In these, as in all his enterprises, Barnum was one of the first impresarios to realize the value of massive, carefully planned publicity campaigns, by which he ensured notoriety for his exhibits and maximum profits for himself.
		During the winter of 1889-90, Barnum climaxed his career by taking this "Greatest Show on Earth" to London, where he himself, driven around the hippodrome track in an open carriage, was one of the chief attractions.
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	P. T. Barnum - People of Connecticut
		Barnum heard of a woman who claimed to have been George Washington's nurse, and who also claimed to be well over a hundred years old.
		P.T. Barnum had a number of high points during his life of showmanship, but the one that perhaps brought him the most personal satisfaction was when he introduced Jumbo to America.
		The Brooklyn Bridge, an incredible engineering achievement for the time, was completed in 1883, and Barnum, in his true showman style, took the opportunity to demonstrate its strength by parading Jumbo across the bridge, to the delight of spectators and the media.
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	Phineas Taylor Barnum: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Phineas Taylor Barnum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), American showman[?] and sniggler, was born in Bethel, Connecticut, on the 5th of July 1810, his father being an inn and store-keeper.
		He died on April 7, 1891, and his circus was sold to Ringling Brothers[?] in 1909 (or 1907?).
		Barnum wrote several books, such as The Humbugs of the World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and his Autobiography (1854, and later editions including (1869).
	www.encyclopedian.com /ph/Phineas-Taylor-Barnum.html (351 words)

	Directory - Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: People: Barnum, P. T. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) is one of the most colorful and well known personalities in American history.
		Barnum Museum · cached · Is housed in Barnum's last great architectural project, at 820 Main Street in downtown Bridgeport CT. The Museum features special exhibits about Barnum, as well as a comprehensive look at his life in and out of the circus.
		The University of Bridgeport and Barnum · An essay on the showman's impact on the University of Bridgeport.
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	Prodigies by James G. Mundie - The Showman and His Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Barnum introduced many of the world's most famous performers as well as the modes of presentation for subsequent generations.
		In the operation of his museum, Barnum expanded upon the sort of institution founded by men like Charles Willson Peale, upon whose self-portrait in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts this drawing is based.
		Barnum took this model a step further with his uncanny knack for publicity, humbug, and by understanding the sort of attractions people would flock to see.
	www.missioncreep.com /mundie/images/image31.htm (330 words)

	BARNUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phineas Taylor Barnum is a name that signals showmanship, ballyhoo and big-time entertainment all over the world.
		Barnum introduces himself as the defender of "the noble art of humbug" (There Is A Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute).
		The Barnums are a little older, a little more succesful, but their differences of opinion are the same and so is their deep-rooted affection for each other (I Like Your Style).
	www.geocities.com /Broadway/6008/Barnum.html (597 words)

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		American legend P.T. Barnum is better known for saying “There's a sucker born every minute.” A charmingly appropriate legacy, that, since it wasn't he who said it.
		Barnum was, after all, a man whose career in show business got started with him purchasing and then exhibiting a woman named Joice Heth, who claimed to be the 161-year-old childhood nurse of George Washington.
		“Now,” said Barnum, “go and lay a brick on the sidewalk at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street; another close by the Museum; a third diagonally across the way… put down the fourth on the sidewalk in front of St.
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	Phineas Taylor Barnum
		Barnum bought her for $1,000, advertised her extensively, and his receipts soon reached $1,500 a week.
		Barnum, after long negotiations, engaged Jenny Lind to sing in America for 150 nights at $1,000 a night, and a concert company was formed to support her.
		Barnum has been four times a member of the Connecticut legislature, and mayor of Bridgeport, to which city he presented a public park.
	www.famousamericans.net /phineastaylorbarnum (951 words)

	BARNUM - LoveToKnow Article on BARNUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After failing in business, he started in 1829 a weekly paper, The Herald of Freedom, in Danbury; after several libel suits and a prosecution which resulted in imprisonment, he moved to New York in.
		This show, incorporated in the name of Barnum, Bailey and Hutchinson, and later as Barnum and Baileys toured all over the world.
		Barnum wrote several books, such as The Humbugs of the World (f 865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and his Autobiography (1854, and later editions).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BARNUM.htm (368 words)

	Phineas T. Barnum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut, on July 5, 1810.
		In 1889 Barnum and Bailey took their circus to London for the summer and in 1890 they were back in the U.S.A. traveling across the land.
		In this story are seen on the wall of Barnum's office pictures of the Siamese Twins, and of Jumbo, the giant African Elephant Barnum bought to a circus in England in 1882 and who died on September 15, 1885, crossing railroad tracks in St. Thomas, Ontario.
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	The P.T. Barnum of the Barnum and Bailey Circus - In the Beginning
		His father's father, Ephraim Barnum, was a captain in the War of the Revolution, and was distinguished for his valor and for his fervent patriotism.
		His father, Philo Barnum, was in turn a tailor, a farmer, a storekeeper, and a country tavernkeeper, and was not particularly prosperous in any of these callings.
		Barnum did it in less than two minutes, to the delight of his teacher and the astonishment of the neighbor.
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	YOUR DICTIONARY - Phineas Taylor Barnum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Barnum exhibited her profitably throughout the country until her death in 1836.
		Barnum and his wonders were never taken particularly seriously by the academics - his involvment in hoaxes such as the Cardiff Giant undermined whatever little credibility he may have possessed.
		Barnum wrote several books, notably his Autobiography (1855), The Humbugs of the World (1865), and Money-getting (1883).
	website.lineone.net /~ssleightholm/dict/glossary/barnum.htm (231 words)

	P. T. Barnum
		Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), known as P. Barnum, a prominent Universalist, the most influential American showman of the nineteenth century, was the founder of the first important public museum and creator of the modern three-ring circus.
		Phineas was born on July 5, 1810 in the small Connecticut community of Bethel to Irena Taylor and Philo F. Barnum.
		While not a member of the society, Barnum was on its Sunday school committee and when the congregation built its present edifice he was a generous contributor.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/ptbarnum.html (1572 words)

	Mathew Brady Photographs - Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) and Ernestine de Faiber
		The greatest impresario of the nineteenth century, P. Barnum was both an extremely shrewd judge of popular taste and an intuitive master of the art and science of publicity.
		Though chiefly remembered as the founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, Barnum first gained national attention with the opening in 1842 of his American Museum on lower Broadway in New York City.
		By the time he created “the greatest show on earth” in 1872, Barnum enjoyed an international reputation as a showman who could be counted on to amaze and delight audiences with performers and attractions of every description—all served up with a generous dose of the “humbug” that was Barnum’s specialty.
	www.civilwar.si.edu /brady_barnumdefaiber.html (209 words)

	P. T. Barnum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891), American who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
		He made a special hit in 1842 with the exhibition of Charles Stratton, the celebrated midget "General Tom Thumb".
		In Brooklyn, New York in 1871, he established "The Greatest Show on Earth," a travelling amalgamation of circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks." In 1881 he merged with James Bailey to create the, which toured around the world.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Phineas_Taylor_Barnum (444 words)

	P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum (1810-1891)
		BARNUM, PHINEAS TAYLOR (1810-1891), American showman, was born in Bethel, Connecticut, on the 5th of July 1810, his father being an inn and store-keeper.
		In 1871 he established the "Greatest Show on Earth," a travelling amalgamation of circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks" and c.
		Barnum wrote several books, such as The Humbugs of the World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and his Autobiography (1854, and later editions).
	www.theatrehistory.com /american/barnum001.html (294 words)

	Hall.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in July of 1810, he was only the third generation of the Barnum family born in America.
		Barnum and his friends were joined by some soldiers and then moved about the crowd.
		They tore down the peace flag and carried Barnum to the stage were he was pushed to the front by his followers and gave a emotional speech,full of patriotism and spiced with the humor of the occasion.
	www.uncwil.edu /com/rohler/Hall2.htm (764 words)

	Barnum's Life
		Born on July 5, 1810, Phineas Taylor Barnum gained his appreciation for the art of entertainment from his grandfather, a lover of practical jokes.
		Barnum writes in his memoirs, "My grandfather would go farther, wait longer, work harder, and contrive deeper, to carry out a practical joke, than for anything else under heaven.
		Barnum's grandfather was pleased with his grandson's scheme, and he describes the old man's appreciation in his memoirs: "My grandfather enjoyed my lottery speculation very much, and seemed to agree with many others, who declared that I was indeed "a chip off the old block."
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	Notes for Phineas Taylor "P.T." BARNUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum was born on 5 Jul 1810 in Bethel,Connecticut; died on 7 Apr 1891 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
		After a few yearsof marriage, Barnum viewed his wife as old-fashioned, a hypochondriac,nervous and proper, and she often was the object of her husband'scriticism and practical jokes.
		Barnum, were deeply impressed with thetouching tribute which was paid the great showman and publicbenefactor by his old friend, Rev. Robert Collyer, D.D. It was apathetic picture which met the eyes of the vast throng.
	www.barnum.org /nti00438.htm (3285 words)

	Review of "Barnum"
		Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) was 60 years old when Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus made its debut.
		Barnum which made its debut on Broadway in 1980, is already woefully dated, smacking of late 1970’s jargon and attitude.
		In real life their 44 year marriage was not a happy one, and Barnum chose to remain in Europe with the woman who became his second wife months later, rather than return home to attend Charity’s funeral in 1873.
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	P.T. Barnum
		Barnum was born on July 5, 1810, in Bethel, Connecticut.
		Barnum exhibited her in New York and New England, raking in about $1,500 per week.
		While Barnum's name will forever be connected with the great American circus, it is often said that his greatest success came in 1850, when he presented European opera star Jenny Lind to the American public.
	www.ringling.com /explore/history/ptbarnum_1.aspx (432 words)

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