About Rose Flanders Bascom
Lived 1880 – 1915 (aged 34–35). Rose Flanders Bascom was a circus performer and lion tamer.
Rose Flanders Bascom, born in Contoocook (a village of Hopkinton), Merrimack County, New Hampshire, in 1880, was the first American woman lion tamer, who performed in the circus in the early 1900s.
In 1898, she married Alfred Bascom, who was of French Canadian ancestry but born in the United States. About 1905, Rose joined the circus life and became a lion tamer.
It is reported that she was clawed by a lion, resulting in an infection that led to her death around the year of 1915. She left behind her husband and their young daughter Agnes.
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Who was Rose Flanders Bascom?
American lion tamer
When was Rose Flanders Bascom born?
Rose Flanders Bascom was born in 1880 in Contoocook.
When did Rose Flanders Bascom die?
Rose Flanders Bascom died in 1915.
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Rose Flanders Bascom was a circus performer and lion tamer.
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