Lavinia warren biography of donald
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Lavinia warren biography of donald
Warren, Lavinia (1841-1919)
American performer who turned her genetically endowed dwarfism to her advantage through the showmanship of P.T. Barnum . Name variations: Mrs. Tom Thumb; Mrs. Charles Sherwood Stratton; Mercy Lavinia Stratton.
Born Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump or Bumpus on October 31, 1841, on a farm in Middleboro, Massachusetts; died of chronic interstitial nephritis on November 25, 1919, in Middleboro; daughter of James S. Bump and Huldah (Warren) Bump; married Charles Sherwood Stratton (also known as General Tom Thumb), on January 10, 1863; married Count Primo Magri, in 1885; children: none, though one was reported.
There are two general types of genetic dwarfism, one involving a body that usually develops normally, but with truncated limbs; Lavinia Warren belonged to the other type, accurately described by the showman P.T.
Barnum, who found her to be "a perfectly developed woman in miniature." She was born Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump or Bumpus in 1841 in Middleboro,