Baby Bridgeport
1882 – 1886
Originally named "America", the Asiatic elephant known as Baby Bridgeport was the second elephant born in America. She was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, at the Winter Quarters of P.T. Barnum's circus.
Baby Bridgeport's birth was a source of great pride to P. T. Barnum, who lived in Bridgeport and was immediately summoned to the Winter Quarters after the baby's birth. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lays claim to the firstborn elephant in the United States, an Asian elephant that was named Liberty, who weighed 236 pounds at birth in March 1880. Liberty was born into the Bailey, Cooper and Hutchinson circus partnership. In 1886 Baby Bridgeport died at the age of four, the cause said to be a brain tumor. Barnum paid Henry Ward of Rochester, New York, to mount the hide, and Barnum then gave the taxidermied elephant to the Bridgeport Scientific Society Ward had performed the taxidermy work on Barnum's famous African elephant Jumbo, who died in September 1885, having been struck by a train. Today the Barnum Museum owns the mounted remains of Baby Bridgeport
Baby Bridgeport's birth was a source of great pride to P. T. Barnum, who lived in Bridgeport and was immediately summoned to the Winter Quarters after the baby's birth. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lays claim to the firstborn elephant in the United States, an Asian elephant that was named Liberty, who weighed 236 pounds at birth in March 1880. Liberty was born into the Bailey, Cooper and Hutchinson circus partnership. In 1886 Baby Bridgeport died at the age of four, the cause said to be a brain tumor. Barnum paid Henry Ward of Rochester, New York, to mount the hide, and Barnum then gave the taxidermied elephant to the Bridgeport Scientific Society Ward had performed the taxidermy work on Barnum's famous African elephant Jumbo, who died in September 1885, having been struck by a train. Today the Barnum Museum owns the mounted remains of Baby Bridgeport
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