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Jumbo ( 1861 - September 15, 1885) was arguably the most famous elephant ever, and is the root of the adjective 'jumbo'. Jumbo was an African elephant, born in 1861 in the French Sudan from where he was imported to France and kept in the old Zoo Jardin des Plantes close to the South railway station Gare de Sud in Paris . In 1865 he was transferred to the London Zoo, where he became famous through the riding operations. It was the London zoo-keepers that gave Jumbo its name. It is a slightly garbled version of the word jambo, which is Swahili for "hello".

He was sold in 1882 to P. T. BarnumPhineas Taylor Barnum ( 5 July, 1810 7 April, 1891), American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. He was born in Bethel, Connecticut,, owner of "The Greatest Show on Earth", the Barnum & Bailey Circus . Barnum's publicity made the name Jumbo synonymous with "huge". Estimated to be 3.25 metres high in the London Zoo, it was claimed that Jumbo was approximately 4 metres tall by the time of his death. Jumbo died at a train station in St. Thomas, OntarioThomas ( 2001 population 33,236) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. The city, located at the intersection of two historical roads, was first settled in 1810. It was named the seat of the new Elgin County in 1844 and was incorporated in 1852. It of, CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe, where he was crushed by a locomotive. A statue now at the site commemorates the tragedy.[1]

Jumbo's skeleton was donated to the American Museum of Natural HistoryThe American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark of Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York, at 79th Street and Central Park West. The museum has a staff of more than 1,200. The museum sponsors over 100 special f in New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York,. Jumbo's hide was stuffed and traveled with Barnum's circus for a number of years. In 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown, Barnum donated the stuffed Jumbo to Tufts UniversityTufts University is a university located in Medford, Massachusetts (near Boston). In 1852, Charles Tufts founded Tufts College, and donated the land for the campus on Walnut Hill, the highest point in Medford. Tufts said that he wanted to set a "light on, where it was displayed until destroyed by a fire in 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i. In honor of Barnum's donation, Jumbo became the Tufts mascot.

See also: List of historical elephants