The Mabie Brothers U.S. Olympic Circus, then the largest in America, arrived in Delavan in 1847 and became the first circus to quarter in the Wisconsin Territory. Between 1847 and 1894, Delavan was home to 26 different circus companies, earning it the title "19th Century Circus Capital of the Nation." In the 1850's, one of the Mabie Brothers' agents acquired a very large elephant named Romeo, which stood 10 1/2 feet tall, weighed 10,500 pounds, escaped in towns the circus visited, destroyed barns, fences, orchards, building, and in Chicago, a theater, and was blamed for the deaths of at least five handlers. After the end of the Mabie Brothers' Circus, Romeo was purchased by Adam Forepaugh for his circus, where he spent the rest of his days; he was born about 1848 in Ceylon and died in Chicago in 1872. In May, 1966, the U.S. Postal Office Department released the five-cent American Circus Commemorative Postal Stamp from the Delavan Post Office after Delavan Postmaster W Gordon Yadon applied for the honor, and the stamp bore the face of Lou Jacobs, the first living person to have his portrait appear on an American postage stamp.