Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Phineas Taylor Barnum

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Philo Barnum 
  • Mother:
  • Irena Taylor   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Jul 1810 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bethel, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Apr 1891 
  • Death Location:
  • Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • aka P. T. Barnum, co-founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

• Marriages for Phineas Taylor Barnum

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  • Spouse:
  • Charity Hallett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Nov 1829

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  • Spouse:
  • Nancy Fish
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Sep 1874

• Sources for Phineas Taylor Barnum

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/18/2017).
  • ² Barnum, Eben Lewis and Rev. Francis Barnum, Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family Presenting a Conspectus of the Male Descendants of Thomas Barnum 1625-1695, Gardner, Massachusetts: Meals Printing Co. (1912), 22.
  • ³ Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part II, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor (1886), 1120.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "P. T. Barnum", (accessed 01/03/2015).