Ringling brothers

Ringling brothers

There were seven Ringling brothers, who worked in the circus. [cite web |url=http://www.iowageology.org/gb70/Ring_Bros.htm |title=The Ringlings in the McGregor Area |accessdate=2008-07-21 |quote=Beginning their tented circus in 1884, Alf T. Ringling, Al Ringling, Charles Ringling, John Ringling, and Otto Ringling soon became known as Kings Of The Circus World. A sixth brother, Henry Ringling, joined the show in 1886. In 1889 the seventh Ringling brother, A.G. "Gus" Ringling, joined the show ... |publisher= ] They were the children of Heinrich Friedrich August Ringling (1826-1898) of Hanover, Germany and Marie Salome Juliar (1833-1907) of Ostheim, France. They created the Ringling Brothers Circus which merged to become the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

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*Albert Ringling (1852-1916). He divorced his wife in 1914 and died of Bright's Disease in Wisconsin. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Ringling Seeks Divorce. Albert, 63, Eldest of Five Brothers of Circus Fame, Begins Suit. |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/243242572.html?dids=243242572:243242572&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=MAY+08%2C+1914&author=Special+to+The+Washington+Post.&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=RINGLING+SEEKS+DIVORCE.&pqatl=google |quote=A sensation was caused here this afternoon by the announcement that suit for divorce had been started by Albert Ringling, aged 63 years, oldest of the five brothers of circus fame. |work=Washington Post |date=May 8, 1914 |accessdate=2008-07-22 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Al. Ringling Dead. Veteran Circus Man Stricken with Bright's Disease In Wisconsin. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E04E1D71739E233A25751C0A9679C946796D6CF |quote= |work=New York Times |date=January 2, 1916|accessdate=2008-07-23 ]
*Augustus G. Ringling (1854-1907)cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Augustus Ringling Dead. Head of Tented Shows In America Dies in New Orleans. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800E1DF113EE033A2575AC1A9649D946697D6CF |quote=When the Ringling Brothers bought the Barnum Biley show they ... got a monopoly on the circus business in America. They now own outright three ... |work=New York Times |date=August 19, 1907 |accessdate=2008-07-20 ]
*Otto Ringling (1858-1911). He died on April 2, 1911 at the home of his brother, John on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. They were in New York for a show at Madison Square Garden. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Tribute to the Memory of Otto Ringling. His Body Taken to Wisconsin. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401EEDD1431E233A25751C0A9629C946096D6CF |quote= |work=New York Times |date= April 2, 1911|accessdate=2008-07-22 ]
*Alfred Theodore Ringling (1861-1919), was a juggler
*Charles Edward Ringling (1863-1926)cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Charles Ringling, Circus Owner, Dies. Member of World's Greatest Show Organization. One of Six Famous Brothers. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10711FC3E5912738DDDAD0894DA415B868EF1D3 |quote= One of the famous "six brothers of Baraboo," Charles Ringling was the son of a harness maker of Baraboo, Wisconsin. The brothers, John, Charles, Otto, Al, ... |work=New York Times |date=December 4, 1926 |accessdate=2008-07-21 ]
*John Nicholas Ringling (1866-1936), could sing and clown
*Henry Ringling (1869-1918) died on October 10, 1918 [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Henry Ringling Dead |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9800E1DD1539E13ABC4A52DFB6678383609EDE |quote=Henry Ringling, youngest of the six brothers who during the last 25-years have been prominent in the circus world died yesterday of heart and other internal disorders. |work=New York Times |date=October 12, 1918 |accessdate=2008-07-23 ]
*Ida Loraina Wilhelmina Ringling (1874-1950) who married Harry Whitestone North (1858-1921) in 1902. Their sons were John Ringling North and Henry Ringling North. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Died. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959229,00.html |quote=John Ringling North, 81, flamboyant, fast-talking showman who from 1937 to '43 and from 1947 to '67 ran "The Greatest Show on Earth," the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, started by his five uncles in 1884; of a stroke; in Brussels. North took over the debt-spangled show after the death of his last uncle, John Ringling, and modernized it with such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the "vehemently vicious" 550-lb. gorilla that drew more than 40 million circusgoers. In 1956, North folded the big top and reincarnated the show for new arenas of the air-conditioned era. |work=Time (magazine) |date=17 June, 1985 |accessdate=2008-07-20 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Henry Ringling North, 83, Dies; Owner Who Modernized Circus |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0DE1E3BF930A35753C1A965958260 |quote= Henry Ringling North, a former owner and manager of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus founded by his uncles, died yesterday at a hospital in Switzerland. He was 83 and lived in Begnins, near Geneva. He died after a long illness, said his lawyer, Richard Cunningham. |work=New York Times |date=3 October, 1983 |accessdate=2008-07-22 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Mrs. Ida Ringling North Dies in Sarasota |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/225998802.html?dids=225998802:225998802&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&date=DEC+22%2C+1950&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Mrs.+Ida+Ringling+North+Dies+in+Sarasota&pqatl=google |quote= |work=Washington Post |date=December 22, 1950 |accessdate=2008-07-23 ]

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