Ancestry of
P.T. Barnum

Co-Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus

Philo Barnum

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• • Father of P.T. Barnum — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Ephraim Barnum Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Starr   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Apr 1778 
  • Birth Location:
  • Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Sep 1828 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Congregational Church Cemetery, Bethel, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Irena Taylor
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Dec 1808 
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  • Child:

  Phineas Taylor Barnum (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Additional marriages for Philo Barnum

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  • Spouse:
  • Polly Fairchild

• Sources for Philo Barnum

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Danbury, p. 12, Birth record for Philo Barnum.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/18/2017).
  • ³ 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.
  • ⁴ 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), 1119-1120.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ⁶ Starr, Burgis Pratt, A History of the Starr Family of New England, from the Ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr, of Ashford, County of Kent . . ., Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co. (1879), 329.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "P. T. Barnum", (accessed 01/03/2015).