Phineas Taylor Barnum, an American politician, entrepreneur and showman was born in Connecticut in 1810. He is probably best remembered for co-founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus, an enterprise ...

The cracker’s namesake, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, spent decades traveling the country with its troupes of animals and performers — although neither namesake Phineas Barnum or ...

The cracker's namesake, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, spent decades traveling the country with its troupes of animals and performers - although neither namesake Phineas Barnum or the ...

Hugh Jackman plays P.T. Barnum in 'The Greatest Showman,' a family musical inspired by the life of the legendary 19th-century ringmaster, which also features Zac Efron, Michelle Williams and Zendaya.

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show dates back to the mid-1800s when Phineas Taylor Barnum joined forces with the five Ringling brothers to create the modern circus.

Excellent triple threat. Age: 30+. Phineas Barnum's smart, funny, practical and very loyal wife. A strong, independent, caring woman with skills of perception, discretion and charm.

Throughout it all, he found one way or another to seize the gaze of the media, often by slipping to the press short bits of provocative writing, then known as squibs. His name was Phineas T. Barnum.

But some people are more responsible than others. A good place to start is with the most famous promoter of the actual three-ring circus, Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Phineas Taylor Barnum! And his wife was Charity Barnum, and his sister, Minerva Barnum: all in a concatenation accordingly, as Tony Lumpkin and Sir Walter would have it.

THE FABULOUS SHOWMAN (317 pp.)—Irving Wallace—Knopf ($5). It might be fitting if, at the time of their greatest embarrassment, the high-salaried humbuggers of TV were to observe a moment of ...