P. T. Barnum

He added pro-Unionist exhibits lectures and dramas and he demonstrated commitment to the cause. " It went through various names: "P. He embarked on an entertainment career first with a variety troupe called "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater" and soon after by purchasing Scudder's American Museum which he renamed after himself.

and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me" and his personal aims were "to put money in his own coffers. Barnum died in his sleep at home on April 7 1891 and was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery Bridgeport Connecticut a cemetery he designed.