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1830 William Barney Carroll joins a small show at age 12, apprenticing to George Sweet (W. B. Carroll Olympians of the Sawdust)
1831 William Barney Carroll with Yeoman’s
1835 William Barney Carroll with French, Hobby & Co. (W. B. Carroll Olympians of the Sawdust)
1836 William Barney Carroll performs with Palmer’s Circus, (W. B. Carroll Olympians of the Sawdust)
1837 – 1838 William Barney Carroll– Winter Season with Waring and Raymond, New Orleans. (W. B. Carroll Olympians of the Sawdust)
1840 William Barney Carroll –Ludlow & Smith, American Theatre, New Orleans. (W. B. Carroll Olympians of the Sawdust)
1842 William Barney Carroll –Howe’s (W. B. Carroll Olympians of the Sawdust)
1843 William Barney Carroll, Equestrian manager, Rockwell & Stone
1843 William Barney Carroll, Rider, (John Tryon’s, Bowery Amphitheater, NY
1842-1844 William Barney Carroll performs with James Raymond’s Circus (W. B. Carroll Olympians of the Sawdust)
1843-44 Equestrienne debut of Mary Ann Sprague at James Raymond’s Olympic Circus William Barney Biography by Stuart Thayer
1844 William Barney Carroll creates a sensation by riding bareback and carrying a boy on his head, supposedly the first time the feat had been done.
1844- 1846 William Barney Carroll, Dr. Gilbert R. Spalding’s
1845 Mary Ann Sprague with Dr. Gilbert R. Spalding’s Circus
1846 William Barney Carroll, Rider, (John Tryon’s, Bowery Amphitheater, NY
1846 William Barney Carroll, Sands, Lent & Co.
1847 William Barney Carroll, Howes & Co.
1848 Mary Ann Carroll and Barney Carroll in Equestrian and Zoological Circus and Menagerie “Rise of the American Circus”, Kotar Gessler
1850-1851 William Barney Carroll, Sands, Lent & Co.
1853 06 15 Washington Circus “History of NY Stage” p21 William Barney Carroll, Mrs Carroll and Miss Carroll (now Mrs. Ben Maginley)
1855 11 07 Carroll Family & Bailey Circus Contract (transcript from Rhoda-Glenn Collins)
1859 Mary Ann Sprague and Barney Carroll with Davis & Crosby
1859 05 28 NY Clipper Madame-Carroll, Mdlle Marie and W.B. Carroll
1859 08 Marie Elize, Mary Carroll, Elopes with John J. Brand, at age 15
1861 01 Civil War begins when the south secedes.
1861 08 25 The Daily Milwaukee News Sunday
1862 Fall Season Barney Carroll with Nixon’s, Washington, DC.
1863 08 11 Key Pages here* from “Enroute to The Great Eastern Circus” by William Slout
1863 Fall Season William Barney Carroll James M. Nixon’s Alhambra, NYC
1863 William Barney Carroll with Madame Macarte’s European Circus (James M. Nixon, proprietor)
1863 William Barney Carroll Equestrian director, Maginley & VanVleck
1864 Madame Carroll (Mary Ann Sprague) and William Barney Carroll with Old Cary’s, traveling up and down the Mississippi River area by boat and railroad
1864 William Barney Carroll with Maginley & Bell
1864 06 04 Mary Ann Sprague marries to Benjamin Rush Maginley
1864 05 19 Bryan’s Hall Robinson and Howe’s Circus Chicago
1864 05 19 p 3 Centralia Sentinel
1865-66 William Barney Carroll George W. DeHaven’s, operated by Andrew Haight
1865-66 Winter Season Barney Carroll Thayer & Noyes
1866 William Barney Carroll Haight & Chambers
1866 05 25 Alton Weekly Telegraph Friday
1867-68 William Barney Carroll Teamed with Ben Maginley in a circus venture, Maginley, Carroll & Co.
1867 Book of Songs issued of favorite songs “A Collection of Favorite Songs as Sung By Ben Maginley, the Clown and Jester of Great Consolidation”. (See also 1870)
1867 Circusnews.com-Circus_Songsters
1867 Circus Songster located in San Antonio TX
1867 Benjamin Maginley Song Book at Brown University
1867 A collection of Songs as sung by Ben Maginley circusnews.com-Circus_Songster
1867 03 23 Semi-Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI) Maginley, Carroll & Co.
1867 05 08 Sparta Eagle (WI) Great Consolidation Circus!
1867 06 13 Cedar Valley Times Marie Carroll & Ben Maginley
1867 06 22 Maginley Carroll & Co. at Clinton (Indiana?) newspaper advertisement is from “Circus World”
1867 07 31 Daily OHIO Statesman Columbus, Ohio Maginley and Carroll Circus Announcement
1867 10 09 Ben Maginley in Brownsville
1867 10 10 Maginley and Carroll
1867 10 10 Nashville Union Nashville TN Maginley Carroll Circus Advert
1867 10 18 Nashville Union & Dispatch Nashville TN Maginley Carroll Circus Advert Ben Maginley, Manager
1867 10 29 Public Ledger Memphis TN Maginley and Carroll Circus
1867 Madame Carroll with “Maginley, Carroll & Co.” –during the latter year, was thrown from her horse and injured to the extent that her career was considered finished.
1867-1868 Maginley teamed with father-in-law Barney Carroll– “Maginley, Carroll & Co.”
1868 Maginley Leaves Circus Business for the stage (but it didn’t stick)
1868 03 20 Maginley and Carroll’s Circus Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN) Maginley & Carroll’s Circus p 3
1868 05 22 Maginley & Carroll Kansas Daily Tribune, Lawrence, Page2
1868 06 Maginley & Carroll take show to Kansas
1868 06 01 Maginley’ Great Legitimate Circus in Topeka, KS “Only Big Show Coming: Volume I, 1853 – 1878” By Orin Copple King
1868 06 02 Maginley’ Great Legitimate Circus in Lawrence, KS
1868 06 04 Nebraska Advertiser Brownsville, Nemeha County Maginley & Carroll Circus
1868 08 01 The Highland Weekly Ohio Maginley and Carroll Circus
1868 08 06 The Highland Weekly Ohio Maginley and Carroll Circus
1868 09 01 Staunton Spectator, Virginia Maginley and Carroll’s Circus
1868 09 15 Staunton Spectator, Virginia Maginley and Carroll’s Great Legitimate Circus
1868 09 22 Staunton Spectator, Virginia Maginley and Carroll’s Circus-news of an accident
1868 10 11 The Daily Phoenix, Columbia SC, Maginley and Carroll’s Great Legitimate Circus
1868 10 13 The Daily Phoenix, Columbia SC, Maginley and Carroll’s Great Legitimate Circus
1868 10 15 The Daily Phoenix, Columbia SC, Maginley and Carroll’s Great Legitimate Circus
1868 10 15 The Daily Phoenix Columbia, SC Maginley and Carroll’s Circus Advert
1868 10 16 The Daily Phoenix Columbia, SC Maginley and Carroll’s Circus Advert
1868 10 17 The Daily Phoenix, Columbia SC, Maginley and Carroll’s Great Legitimate Circus
1868 10 17 Nashville Union Dispatch, Maginley and Carroll’s Great Legitimate Circus
1868 10 18 The Daily Phoenix C olumbia, SC Maginley & Carroll’s Circus
1868 10 22 The Daily Phoenix, Columbia SC, Maginley and Carroll’s Great Legitimate Circus
1868 10 23 The Daily Phoenix C olumbia, SC Maginley & Carroll’s Circus
1868 11 06 Petersburg Index (VA) Maginley & Carrolls suspends Operations
1869 Barney Carroll Equestrian director, George W. DeHaven’s
1869 Fall Season Barney Carroll Mike Lipman’s
1869 Ben Maginley is Ringmaster “Bailey’s Circus”, gave up stage after 1 season
1869-70 Winter Season Barney Carroll H. W. Smith’s
1870 Ben Maginley is Equestrian Manager/Director George F. Bailey’s Circus commenced in Danbury, CT – Bailey & Co.
1870 Barney Carroll Equestrian director, James W. Robinson’s
1870 Published by Turkey Bros Printers New York: 1870 Ben Maginley’s Songster (An original located at Brown University) possibly aka “Another songster, entitled “A Collection of Favorite Songs as Sung by Ben Maginley, the clown and jester of the Great Consolidation,” also contained advertisements of a score of patent medicine companies, and was 64 pages in size, with words of 40 to 60 songs included.
1871-1872 (Winter) Barney Carroll Haight & Co.
1872 01 28 Haight & Co’s Columbia, S. C. The Daily Phoenix “The Great Carroll Family”
1872 02 02 Haight & Co’s Unionville, S. C. The Daily Phoenix
1872 02 03 Haight & Co’s Spartanburg, S. C. The Daily Phoenix
1872 02 05 Haight & Co’s Greenville, S. C. The Daily Phoenix
1872 02 06 Haight & Co’s Anderson, S. C. The Daily Phoenix
1872 02 07 Haight & Co’s Newberry, S. C. The Daily Phoenix
1872 02 08 Haight & Co’s Camden, S. C. The Daily Phoenix
1872 02 09 Haight & Co’s Orangeburg, S. C. The Daily Phoenix
1873 Ben Maginley is Manager, “Great Eastern Circus”
1873 10 18 NY Clipper Great Western Circus under Manager Ben Maginley
1873 11 08 NY Clipper Great Western Circus at Foot of Houston Street in New York City, Ben Maginley manager
1873 12 13 NY Clipper Maginley & Co.’s Circus, Menagerie, Museum and Trained Animal Show- name of new venture for the 1874 Season
1873-1874 Barney Carroll Rider, Haight’s Great Eastern
1874 “Maginley & Co. with John O’Brien and G.R. Spalding, “Maginley Circus and Managerie” often the clown “Maginley and Carroll’s Circus” and “Maginley Royal Circus”
1874 01 17 NY Clipper Ben Maginley & Co.’s
1874 Barney Carroll Establishes a circus performing school on his farm in Westchester, NY enrolling pupils during the winter seasons, specializing in training bareback riders.
1874 01 Mary Carroll gives birth to a daughter– Viola Alberta Maginley
1874 01 31 Ben Maginley & Co.’s Circus, Museum, Menagerie and Trained Animals is the be the title of the show owned by Ben Maginley, Dr. Spaulding and John O’Brien, which will be put on the road during the tenting season of 1874
1874 02 28 NY Clipper Prince Sadi d’Jalma, the “Man of Mystery,” is engaged for the coming season with Ben Maginley & Co.’s circus and menagerie.
1874 04 04 NY Clipper- Maginley & Co. have purchased, during the past week, a golden leopard, a tapir, and a collection of monkeys, birds….
1874 04 18 NY Clipper Maginley & Co.’s Circus, Museum, Menagerie and Trained Animals
1874 03 14 Mary Carroll and Ben Maginley’s Viola Alberta Maginley dies in infancy at 2 months old
1874 06 10 Newport Daily News Maginley & Co.’s Circus, Museum, Menagerie and Trained Animals
1874 06 13 NY Clipper Ben Maginley & Co.’s Circus in Boston
1874 06 16 Boston Post Maginley & Co.’s Museum, Circus, Menagerie and Trained Animals
1874 08 18 Ben Maginley’s wife, Equestrienne M’lle Mary Carroll Maginley, dies at 29 in Westchester, NY (1844-1874)
1874 11 07 NY Clipper Ben Maginley & Co.’s Circus Closed for Season
1874 Benjamin Maginley in “Circus History”
1874 NY Clipper Exerpts
1875 William Barney Carroll Equestrian director, Cameron’s
1875 08 14 Melville Maginley & Cook Rockland County Journal
1875 08 21 Melville Maginley & Cook Rockland County Journal Advert
1875 08 21 Melville Maginley & Cook Rockland County Journal Article
1875 08 21 Melville Maginley & Cook Rockland County Journal
1875 08 21 Melville Maginley & Cook Rockland County Journal Article
1875 08 21 Melville Maginley & Cook Rockland County Journal Advert
1875 08 14 Melville Maginley & Cook Rockland County Journal
1875 “Melville, Maginley & Cooke’s Continental Circus and Thespian Company”. Co-Proprietor and manager with John O’Brien and Dr. Gilbert R. Spalding.
1875 01 16 NY Clipper- Benjamin Maginley withdraws from the Circus and Menagerie which bore his name last season p. 335
1876 William Barney Carroll VanAmburgh’s
1876 02 05 NY Clipper Ben Maginley’s circus property for sale
1876 07 16 Brunswick newspaper circus: The Carroll Family
1876 Barnum’s Circus –Equestrian Director, Ben Maginley
1876 “Howes’ Great London” — Equestrian Director, Ben Maginley
1876 Benjamin Maginley Circus Advisor to “Bailey Circus” promoter, Circus Owner
1876 “Maginley and Co. Circus”
1877 William Barney Carroll John H. Murray’s
1877 07 11 Rockland County Journal- The Peerless Equestrienne Annie Carroll
1879 William Barney Carroll Adam Forepaugh’s
1879 04 08 Marion Star Ohio “What Became of Circus Men?” Page 1
1879 04 10 Elyria Republican Ohio “What Became of Circus Men?” Page 5
1882 William Barney Carroll VanAmburgh’s
1883 PT Barnum’s Annie Carroll performs
1884 03 Annie Carroll
1888 03 16 NY Times PT Barnum’s Show Attended by Delighted Crowds (Annie Carroll)
1888 Barney Carroll Equestrian director, Frank A. Robbins’
1888 06 03 Benjamin Maginley dies of heart trouble Westchester, Bronx NY, at home of his granddaughter and her husband, Frank and Josephine Maginley Buckel. Buried in family plot at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church Westchester Sq. Bronx, NY.
1888 06 02 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Death Notice Maginley Page 6
1888 06 03 Benjamin Maginley NY Times obit
1888 06 03 Death Benj. R. Maginley Freemason Manhattan No. 184
1888 06 04 Benjamin Maginley Death
1888 06 04 New York Times Benjamin Rush Maginley Obituary Page 2
1888 06 04 NY Times Benjamin Maginley’s Professional Vicissitudes
1888 06 04 NY Times Benjamin Maginley Clip Page
1888 06 04 NY Times Benjamin Maginley Clip Page 2
1888 06 06 Benjamin Maginley funeral
1888 06 10 Benjamin Maginley Death Notice Daily Alta
1889 William Barney Carroll last appearance, ringmaster, at a circus Fourth Avenue and 14th Street, NYC.
1889 07 14 William Barney Carroll dies in Van Ness, Westchester, NY at the age of 74. He began apprenticing at age 12, so his career lasted 62 years.
1889 07 21 Galveston Daily News Barney Carroll Obituary Page 9
1892 04 19 Annie Carroll Divorce NY Times
1892 04 19 Annie Carroll Divorce NY Times
1892 04 20 Annie Carroll “divorce from her clown” The Evening World NY NY EXtra 2 O’clock
1892 04 20 William Barney Carroll
1892 04 23 The Pittsburgh Press apr 23, 1892
1892 04 23 The Pittsburgh Press apr 23, 1892
1919 04 15 Bronx Women The Evening World
1920 01 02 Variety 1920 – 0229 Annie Carroll Destitute