It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

Many prominent civic, professional, and commercial leaders from around the United States participated in the financing, coordination, and management of the Fair, including Chicago shoe tycoon Charles H. Schwab, Chicago railroad and manufacturing magnate John Whitfield Bunn, and Connecticut banking, insurance, and iron products magnate Milo Barnum Richardson, among many others.

* Examples of military marches include Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa, Barnum and Bailey's Favorite by Karl L. King, and On the Mall by Edwin F. Goldman

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

The town was founded when Zebulon Barnum, Isaac Southwell, and John Morrison settled in the area in 1803.

Under the direction of Dr. John Bernard, the university was given several elephants for research, who had been poisoned by the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Many autograph collectors are found in this field, looking for signed certificates from John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil Company, Henry Carey of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Atari Corporation, Eddie Rickenbacker as president of Eastern Air Lines, Tucker Corporation and many others.

There, they also hosted receptions on Sunday evenings which drew notable figures including P. T. Barnum, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and his wife, Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard, Robert Dale Owen, Oliver Johnson, Mary E. Dodge, Mrs. Croly, Mrs. Victor, Edwin H. Chapin, Henry M. Field, Charles F. Deems, Samuel Bowles, Thomas B. Aldrich, Anna E. Dickinson, George Ripley, Madame Le Vert, Henry Wilson, Justin McCarthy ; in short, all the noted contemporary names in the different departments of literature and art might fairly be added to the list.

Gilmore lists a number of people who influenced LaVey's writings: Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche, H. L. Mencken, the members of the carnival with whom LaVey had supposedly worked in his youth, P. T. Barnum, Mark Twain, John Milton, and Lord Byron.

* P. T. Barnum's Greatest Show On Earth ; P. T. Barnum, John J. Nathans, George F. Bailey and Lewis June, proprietors ( and Avery Smith for part of 1876 only )

* 1919 John Ringling merges the two into " Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus "

In 1841, the letter alleges, Barnum went so far as to present his charge as the Irish-American performer John Diamond, the most celebrated dancer of the day.

* John Barnum

In 2008, Cameron Mackintosh had reportedly voiced interest in producing a London or Broadway revival of Barnum starring either John Barrowman or Neil Patrick Harris.

John W. Simpson, Thomas Thacher and William M. Barnum organized the firm as " Simpson, Thacher & Barnum " on January 1, 1884, with offices at 9 Pine Street.

Among the foremost of the Chicago industrialists, lawyers, financiers, and merchants were John Villiers Farwell, Edmund Dick Taylor, Potter Palmer, George Pullman, Charles Gray, Marshall Field, Richard Teller Crane, Martin Ryerson, John Jacob Glessner, Jacob Bunn, John Whitfield Bunn, John Graves Shedd, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Edward Avery Shedd, Charles Banks Shedd, Leander McCormick, Stanley Field, Charles Deering, James Deering, Robert Law, Francis Peabody, Leonard Richardson, Milo Barnum Richardson, Joseph Edward Otis, Frank Hatch Jones, Arthur Jerome Eddy, Arthur J. Caton, Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, Ezra Butler McCagg, Julius Rosenwald, Morris Selz, Harry Selz, William McCormick Blair, William Douglas Richardson, Charles Farwell, James Monroe Stryker and John Stryker of the Bunn-Richardson-Stryker-Taylor family ( See: John Whitfield Bunn and Jacob Bunn ), Samuel Insull, Max Adler, Lucius Fisher, Lucius Teeter, John Peter Altgeld, Walter Gurnee, Philip Danforth Armour, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Michael Morris, Jacob Best, Jonathan Y. Scammon, and many others.

* Cook, James W. The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum.

LaVey's primary dedication was to Bernardino Nogara ( misprinted as " Logara "), Karl Haushofer, Grigori Rasputin, Basil Zaharoff, Alessandro Cagliostro, Barnabas, Ragnar Redbeard, William Mortensen, Hans Brick, Max Reinhardt, Orrin Klapp, Fritz Lang, Friedrich Nietzsche, W. C. Fields, P. T. Barnum, Hans Poelzig, Reginald Marsh, Wilhelm Reich, and Mark Twain.

Samuel W. Gumpertz ( later director of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus ) was put in the park's top executive post.

The Garden hosted the annual French Ball, both the Barnum and the Ringling Brothers circuses, orchestral performances, light operas and romantic comedies, and the 1924 Democratic National Convention, which nominated John W. Davis after 103 ballots, but it was never a financial success.

R. W. Lindsay introduced her as the nurse of former President George Washington, but lacking success sold her in her old age to the upstart PT Barnum.

Thus, study of this Barnum / Forer effect has been mostly focused on the level of acceptance of fake horoscopes and fake astrological personality profiles.

* 1891 – P. T. Barnum, American showman, businessman, scam artist, and entertainer ( b. 1810 )

According to skeptics, clairvoyance is the result of fraud, self-delusion, Barnum effects, confirmatory biases, or failures to appreciate the base rate of chance occurrences.

The Patriot Center is also host to over 100 concerts and events throughout the year, annually attracting major performers like the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

In 1934, she earned a Ph. D. in mathematics from Yale under the direction of Øystein Ore .< ref > Though some books, including Kurt Beyer's Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, reported that Hopper was the first woman to earn a Yale PhD in mathematics, the first of ten women prior to 1934 was Charlotte Cynthia Barnum ( 1860-1934 ).

Barnum Award for Worst Cinematic Exploitation of a Physical Deformity: The Terror of Tiny Town, a Western film with an all-dwarf cast.

* 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.

* 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ( d. 1891 )

Barnum is also located 20 miles southwest of the city of Cloquet ; and 38 miles southwest of the city of Duluth.

There was also a rumor that Barnum had offered to buy it for $ 20, 000.

At 20, he became arranger and euphonium soloist with the Barnum & Bailey Circus Band and toured Europe from 1897 to 1902.

Barnum Genealogy: 650 Years of Family History.

* L. A. Law ( 1994 ) ( episode " McKenzie, Brackman, Barnum & Bailey ")

In 1889, Brice was chosen to replace the late William H. Barnum as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and served in that capacity until 1892.

Barnum's Greatest Show On Earth, And The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and The Grand International Allied Shows United ," soon shortened to " Barnum & Bailey's.

* Andronik, Catherine M. Prince of Humbugs, A Life of P. T. Barnum, New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.

The Village of Rosemont issued $ 19 million in bonds to finance the cost of the arena with exclusive contracts with Araserv, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and MFG International.

Kenneth Jeffrey Feld ( born 1948 in Washington, DC ) is the CEO of Feld Entertainment, which owns Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice !, Doodlebops Live !, Disney Live !, Monster Jam, International Hot Rod Association, and AMA Supercross Championship.

It was restored by the Barnum Festival Society and Mountain Grove Cemetery Association with funds raised by public subscription.

When she realized how much money Barnum stood to make from the tour, Lind insisted on a new agreement, which he signed on September 3, 1850.

The tour began with a concert at Castle Garden on September 11, 1850 and was a major success, recouping Barnum four times his investment.

( P. T. Barnum to Moses Kimball, September 1, 1843, Boston Athenaeum.

Irvin Feld ( May 9, 1918 – September 6, 1984 ) was the head of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and founder of Feld Entertainment.

Gunther Gebel-Williams ( September 12, 1934-July 19, 2001 ) was an animal trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus from 1968-1990.