Charles Sherwood Stratton

Charles Sherwood Stratton , known as “General Tom Inch”.

Général Tom Thumb was the name of scene of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838 - 1883), a famous dwarf of the Barnum circus. Stratton was 14 years old, measured 64 cm and weighed 7 kilograms when it met Phineas Taylor Barnum. Barnum learned how to him to sing, dance and to occur on scene and made of him a international Célébrité. Its marriage in February 1863 with another dwarf, Lavinia Warren did the one of the newspapers. In Europe, they met the English and French sovereigns.

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