In any case, Barnum had Jumbo stuffed, and kept touring him around in the circus for a while before giving him to Tufts, where Barnum was a founding trustee. Mary Wren Swain grew up the granddaughter ...

Jumbo died that day, but Barnum had the elephant stuffed and donated it to Tufts, where Jumbo went on display in the Barnum Museum of Natural History, a building constructed with funds Barnum ...

MEDFORD, Mass. — Poor Jumbo. In P.T. Barnum’s hands he became the most famous African elephant in the world — lure to throngs of circus visitors and unknowing shill for countless products ...

Once retired from the circus, the stuffed Jumbo was on display for 86 years in Barnum Hall of Tufts College until April 14, 1975, when both Jumbo and the building were consumed in an electrical fire.

The sale of Jumbo the African elephant to P.T. Barnum by the London Zoological Society caused an uproar in England.

Jumbo remains embedded into the present-day St. Thomas community which has a massive statue of the elephant it built in 1985, for his 100th death anniversary.

The 11-foot-tall elephant reshaped our language, which has proved surprisingly apt Americans have long been fascinated with “jumbo” things: jumbo shrimp, jumbo jets, jumbotrons. Perhaps few ...