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[[File:Minnie Warren c1865.jpg|thumb|Minnie Warren c. 1865]]
{{Short description|American entertainer (1849–1878)}}
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[[Image:Nutt and Warren 1865.jpg|thumb|right|Minnie Warren with a fellow performer, [[Commodore Nutt]], c. 1865]]
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'''Huldah Pierce Warren (Bump) Newell''' (June 2, 1849 – July 23, 1878),<ref name="kennedy">{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Dan |title=Little People: A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism -- and What It Means to Be Different |url=http://www.littlepeoplethebook.com/ |accessdate=September 24, 2009 |edition=revised |year=2010 |origyear=2003 |chapter=Chapter Three: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues |chapterurl=http://littlepeoplethebook.com/online-edition/chapter-03/}}</ref> better known as '''Minnie Warren''', who was a [[Dwarfism#Characteristics|proportionate dwarf]] and an entertainer associated with [[P. T. Barnum]]. Her sister [[Lavinia Warren]] was married to [[General Tom Thumb]]. They were very well known in 1860s America and their meeting with [[Abraham Lincoln]] was covered in the press.<ref name="times">{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE3D8133CEE3ABC4E51DFB366838A699FDE|title="COMMODORE NUTT" DEAD.; THE HISTORY OF THE WELL-KNOWN DWARF.|date=May 26, 1881|work=New York Times|accessdate=March 4, 2011}}</ref><ref name="kunhardt">Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr., Kunhardt, Philip B., III and Kunhardt, Peter W., Alfred A. (1995) ''P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman''. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-43574-3.</ref><ref>[http://www.civilwar.si.edu/brady_nutt_warren.html George Washington Morrison Nutt and Minnie Warren]. Smithsonian Institution</ref>
| name = Minnie Warren
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| caption = Warren c. 1865
| birth_name = Huldah Pierce Warren Bump
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1849|6|2}}
| birth_place = [[Middleborough, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1878|7|23|1849|6|2}}
| death_place = Middleborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
| resting_place = [[Nemasket Hill Cemetery]] Middleborough, Massachusetts
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| spouse = [[Edmund Newell]]
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[[Image:Nutt and Warren 1865.jpg|thumb|upright|Warren with a fellow performer, [[Commodore Nutt]], c. 1865]]
[[File:The Fairy Wedding group - From photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery, from photographic negative by Brady. LCCN2017659631.jpg|thumb|upright|The Fairy Wedding group: Charles Stratton ("[[General Tom Thumb]]") and his bride [[Lavinia Warren]], alongside her sister Minnie and George Washington Morrison Nutt ("[[Commodore Nutt]]"); entertainers associated with [[P.T. Barnum]]]]

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'''Huldah Pierce Warren Bump''' (June 2, 1849 – July 23, 1878),<ref name="kennedy">{{cite book |last1=Kennedy |first1=Dan |title=Little People: A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism -- and What It Means to Be Different |url=http://www.littlepeoplethebook.com/ |access-date=September 24, 2009 |edition=revised |year=2010 |orig-year=2003 |chapter=Chapter Three: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues |chapter-url=http://littlepeoplethebook.com/online-edition/chapter-03/}}</ref> better known as '''Minnie Warren''', was an American [[Dwarfism#Classification|proportionate dwarf]] and an entertainer associated with [[P. T. Barnum]]. Her sister [[Lavinia Warren]] was married to [[General Tom Thumb]]. They were very well known in 1860s America and their meeting with [[Abraham Lincoln]] was covered in the press.<ref name="times">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE3D8133CEE3ABC4E51DFB366838A699FDE|title="COMMODORE NUTT" DEAD.; THE HISTORY OF THE WELL-KNOWN DWARF.|date=May 26, 1881|work=New York Times|access-date=March 4, 2011}}</ref><ref name="kunhardt">Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr., Kunhardt, Philip B., III and Kunhardt, Peter W., Alfred A. (1995) ''P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman''. Knopf. {{ISBN|0-679-43574-3}}.</ref><ref>[http://www.civilwar.si.edu/brady_nutt_warren.html George Washington Morrison Nutt and Minnie Warren]. Smithsonian Institution</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==
She was born in [[Middleborough, Massachusetts|Middleborough]], [[Massachusetts]] into a respected family whose roots went back to the beginning of the colony. Minnie and her sister had both been born at a normal birth weight but then stopped growing early in their lives. Their siblings were of a normal stature.<ref name="Thumb1874">{{cite book|author=Thumb, Tom |title=Sketch of the life: personal appearance, character and manners of Charles S. Stratton, the man in miniature, known as General Tom Thumb, and his wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, including the history of their courtship and marriage ... Also, songs given at their public levees|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XxJgAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7|accessdate=February 3, 2013|year=1874|publisher=S. Booth|pages=7–}}</ref>
Warren was born in [[Middleborough, Massachusetts]], the daughter of Huldah Pierce (Warren) and James Sullivan Bump.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOYLAwAAQBAJ&q=Huldah+Pierce+(Warren)+and+James+Sullivan+Bump&pg=PA1674|title = Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts|isbn = 9785874801328|last1 = Beers|first1 = J. H.| publisher=Рипол Классик }}</ref> She was from a respected family whose roots went back to the beginning of the colony. Minnie and her sister had both been born at a normal birth weight but then stopped growing early in their lives. Their siblings were of a normal stature.<ref name="Thumb1874">{{cite book|author=Thumb, Tom |title=Sketch of the life: personal appearance, character and manners of Charles S. Stratton, the man in miniature, known as General Tom Thumb, and his wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, including the history of their courtship and marriage... Also, songs given at their public levees|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XxJgAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7|access-date=February 3, 2013|year=1874|publisher=S. Booth|pages=7–}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
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==Death==
==Death==
Warren died from complications in childbirth on July 23, 1878. The baby, which weighed 6 pounds, died a few hours later<ref name="Saxon1989">{{cite book|author=Saxon, A. H. |title=P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HsEHOkSK8HAC&pg=PA210|accessdate=February 3, 2013|year=1989|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-05687-8|pages=210–}}</ref>
Warren died from complications in childbirth on July 23, 1878. The baby, a girl who weighed 6 pounds, died a few hours later.<ref name="Saxon1989">{{cite book|author=Saxon, A. H. |title=P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HsEHOkSK8HAC&pg=PA210|access-date=February 3, 2013|year=1989|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-05687-8|pages=210–}}</ref>


She was buried in [[Nemasket Hill Cemetery]], [[Middleborough, Massachusetts]].<ref name="kennedy"/>
She is buried in [[Nemasket Hill Cemetery]], Middleborough, Massachusetts.<ref name="kennedy"/>


==References==
==References==
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Minnie Warren
Warren c. 1865
Born
Huldah Pierce Warren Bump

(1849-06-02)June 2, 1849
Middleborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJuly 23, 1878(1878-07-23) (aged 29)
Middleborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting placeNemasket Hill Cemetery Middleborough, Massachusetts
SpouseEdmund Newell
Warren with a fellow performer, Commodore Nutt, c. 1865
The Fairy Wedding group: Charles Stratton ("General Tom Thumb") and his bride Lavinia Warren, alongside her sister Minnie and George Washington Morrison Nutt ("Commodore Nutt"); entertainers associated with P.T. Barnum

Huldah Pierce Warren Bump (June 2, 1849 – July 23, 1878),[1] better known as Minnie Warren, was an American proportionate dwarf and an entertainer associated with P. T. Barnum. Her sister Lavinia Warren was married to General Tom Thumb. They were very well known in 1860s America and their meeting with Abraham Lincoln was covered in the press.[2][3][4]

Early life

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Warren was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, the daughter of Huldah Pierce (Warren) and James Sullivan Bump.[5] She was from a respected family whose roots went back to the beginning of the colony. Minnie and her sister had both been born at a normal birth weight but then stopped growing early in their lives. Their siblings were of a normal stature.[6]

Career

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In addition to the public interest in her tiny stature, Minnie performed as a singer. She married Edmund Newell, who was also a dwarf and paid performer for P. T. Barnum.

Death

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Warren died from complications in childbirth on July 23, 1878. The baby, a girl who weighed 6 pounds, died a few hours later.[7]

She is buried in Nemasket Hill Cemetery, Middleborough, Massachusetts.[1]

References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Minnie Warren.
  1. ^ a b Kennedy, Dan (2010) [2003]. "Chapter Three: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues". Little People: A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism -- and What It Means to Be Different (revised ed.). Retrieved September 24, 2009.
  2. ^ ""COMMODORE NUTT" DEAD.; THE HISTORY OF THE WELL-KNOWN DWARF". New York Times. May 26, 1881. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  3. ^ Kunhardt, Philip B., Jr., Kunhardt, Philip B., III and Kunhardt, Peter W., Alfred A. (1995) P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-43574-3.
  4. ^ George Washington Morrison Nutt and Minnie Warren. Smithsonian Institution
  5. ^ Beers, J. H. Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts. Рипол Классик. ISBN 9785874801328.
  6. ^ Thumb, Tom (1874). Sketch of the life: personal appearance, character and manners of Charles S. Stratton, the man in miniature, known as General Tom Thumb, and his wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, including the history of their courtship and marriage... Also, songs given at their public levees. S. Booth. pp. 7–. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
  7. ^ Saxon, A. H. (1989). P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man. Columbia University Press. pp. 210–. ISBN 978-0-231-05687-8. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
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