Edmund Newell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdmund Newell
American entertainer
Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1857
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 23-Dec-1915
Profession: circus performer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Edmund Newell
- 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.
- 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.
- After her death, Edmund moved to England and married Mary Ann Drake, a woman of normal stature, on April 5, 1888 in St.
- Giles, London, England.
- They had two children: Edmund Charles Jeffreys Newell and Daisy Louise Newell.Edmund died on December 23, 1915 in Marylebone, London, England.
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