The Ringling Family
There were seven Ringling brothers and one sister (Ida), four of them (Alf, Al, Charles, and Otto) worked with John in the circus:
- Albert Charles "Al" Ringling (1852–1916)
- Augustus Gustav "Gus" Ringling, Jr. (1854–1907); also listed as Charles August (Gus)
- William Henry Otto "Otto" Ringling (1858–1911)
- Alfred Theodore "Alf" Ringling (1861–1919)
- Charles Edward "Charley" Ringling (1863–1926); also listed birth year 1864
- John Nicholas Ringling (1866–1936)
- Henry William George Ringling (1868–1918)
- Ida Loraina Wilhelmina Ringling (1874–1950)
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