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Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut on July 5, 1810, and died in Bridgeport, CT on April 7, 1891. During the intervening years, he was a small business owner, a newspaper publisher, a mayor, a state legislator, and of course, the founder of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bail
It is unknown if, when Col. J.H. Wood arrived with his motley troupe in New Orleans in January 1856, he did so atop a rickety, horse-drawn medicine wagon, a la