One of numerous publicity photos of her available. According to her bios online she was born in Granite Falls, Minnesota on 8 Sep 1914. She started performing early on, with her mother as manager, in Wyoming with the Al G. Eventually this lead to her working with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey for some twenty-odd years. She went by the titles. The Living Venus De Milo.

A guy NOT deformed but who had trained himself into a marketable skill. Though most believed her to be a man. She was possibly born in Austria about 1913 and.

Alas, it was not to be for reasons explained later. Although he was easier in some respects compared to my other research blogs, he was also more difficult than the others. Peter is the 12th person down the list. On this one he is the sixth person down. Besides Peter, there were more two brothers list.

Between this digging and these family members sharing some great information with me, I felt that a partial re-write was in order instead of adding a ton of updates at the end. Check back soon for the new version. Meanwhile, please enjoy the original as follows. She was supposedly born in 1890 .