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Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut, the son of innkeeper, tailor and storekeeper Philo Barnum (1778–1826) and Philo's second wife, Irene Taylor.Barnum's maternal grandfather Phineas Taylor was a Whig, legislator, landowner, justice of the peace, and lottery schemer who had a great influence upon him.
Nancy Fish Barnum Callias D'Orengiani, Baroness (née Fish; 22 April 1850 – 23 June 1927) was an English socialite, daughter of a successful cotton miller and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, 40 years her senior. After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following year in both London and New York City.
Hannah Jane Battersby (née Perkins); c. 1836 – November 25, 1889) was an American "Fat Lady" sideshow performer and the wife of "Human Skeleton" John Battersby (1829 – 1897). She performed for companies including the Barnum & Bailey Circus alongside Lavinia Warren and Charles Stratton ( General Tom Thumb ) between 1859 and 1889 and was ...
Barnum adds "freak" performers, such as bearded lady Lettie Lutz and dwarf man Charles Stratton ("Come Alive"). This garners higher attendance, but also protests and poor reviews from well-known critic James Gordon Bennett. Barnum renames his venture "Barnum's Circus" and recruits playwright Phillip Carlyle to help generate publicity ("The ...
We recently watched "The Greatest Showman" movie (2017) starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum (1810-1891), an American icon famous for his circus "The Greatest Show on Earth."
They had two children: a daughter, Hazel Kahn Golden (1892-1918) and a son, Gabriel Kahn (1896-1982). [ 1 ] [ 4 ] He died of the 1918 influenza pandemic at his home in White Plains, New York on October 28, 1918, aged 59 years.
Carol is Semien's grandmother's name and Anne is the middle name of his wife's mother. It was no surprise to Texas manager Bruce Bochy that Semien would schedule his baby's birth for an off day.
Church deacon and his wife murdered. In the spring of 1985, a man entered the Rising Daughter Baptist in Waverly, Georgia and shot Harold Swain and his wife, Thelma.