Old Bet

[2][3] The first elephant brought to the United States was in 1796, aboard the America which set sail from Calcutta for New York on December 3, 1795.

[2] The first references to Old Bet start in 1804 in Boston as part of a menagerie.

[1][5] In 1808, while residing in Somers, New York, Hachaliah Bailey purchased the menagerie elephant for $1,000 and named it "Old Bet".

[6][7] On July 24, 1816, Old Bet was killed while on tour near Alfred, Maine by local farmer Daniel Davis who shot her, and was later convicted of the crime.

[10][11] In the 1960s a monument was approved and laid outside of the York County Emergency Management Agency on Route 4, where she was killed.