About Edmund Newell
Lived 1857 – 1915 (aged 58). Edmund Newell was an American circus performer.
Edmund Newell (July 27, 1857 – December 23, 1915), better known as General Grant Jr. or Major Edward Newell, was a 19th-century dwarf who gained fame as an associate of P. T. Barnum.
Life He was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Edmund S. Newell and Sarah Ellen Jimmerson.
Edmund married Minnie Warren in July 1877 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Minnie was also a dwarf, and so was her sister, Lavinia Warren, wife of General Tom Thumb. Minnie died in childbirth in 1878, and was buried in Nemasket Hill Cemetery, Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Edmund died on December 23, 1915, in Marylebone, London, England.
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Who was Edmund Newell?
American entertainer (1857–1915)
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Edmund Newell was born on 27 July 1857 in Chicago.
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Edmund Newell died on 23 December 1915 in London.
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Edmund Newell was a circus performer.
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Edmund Newell was American.
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