Who is the circus pioneer who stuffed his elepant when it died?

Answer 1

P.T. Barnum and the elephant was called 'Jumbo'.
Poor Jumbo was killed by a railway locomotive in Ontario in Canada, 3 years after P.T. Barnum bought him from London Zoo for $10,000.
Jumbo's skeleton was donated to New York's Museum of American History, his heart sold to Cornell University and his hide stuffed and taken on Barnum's Circus travels.
In 1889, P.T. Barnum donated the stuffed Jumbo to Tufts University in the suburbs of Boston, Mass., where it was displayed until being destroyed in a fire in 1975.

Answer 2

Barnum

Answer 3

P.T. Barnum