MAGGIE MINOT DEAD
She Was the Queen of the Midgets and Had Traveled Widely
N. Y. Sun - Syracuse Herald - Special
CHICAGO, JAN. 25 - Maggie Minot, one of the strangest and most remarkable midgets in the world, died at the home of her sister here to-day. She had won the esteemed friendship of Kings and Princesses.
"Maggie," as she was known, was
48 years old. Her latter years had been spent in retirement.
To hundreds of midgets throughout the country the death of Maggie comes as a shock, for in midget society she was a reigning queen, and her opinions and sayings were quoted wherever little people exhibit. Maggie was born in Belle Plains, Ia in 1859. She reached the height of 27 inches and then stopped growing. Until she was past 30 years old, she weighed only twenty-five pounds. At the time of her death she weighed thirty-one pounds. Her mental faculties were perfectly developed and in her travels around the world she acquired knowledge of three languages.
She Was the Queen of the Midgets and Had Traveled Widely
N. Y. Sun - Syracuse Herald - Special
CHICAGO, JAN. 25 - Maggie Minot, one of the strangest and most remarkable midgets in the world, died at the home of her sister here to-day. She had won the esteemed friendship of Kings and Princesses.
"Maggie," as she was known, was
48 years old. Her latter years had been spent in retirement.
To hundreds of midgets throughout the country the death of Maggie comes as a shock, for in midget society she was a reigning queen, and her opinions and sayings were quoted wherever little people exhibit. Maggie was born in Belle Plains, Ia in 1859. She reached the height of 27 inches and then stopped growing. Until she was past 30 years old, she weighed only twenty-five pounds. At the time of her death she weighed thirty-one pounds. Her mental faculties were perfectly developed and in her travels around the world she acquired knowledge of three languages.
MAGGIE MINOT DEAD
She Was the Queen of the Midgets and Had Traveled Widely
N. Y. Sun - Syracuse Herald - Special
CHICAGO, JAN. 25 - Maggie Minot, one of the strangest and most remarkable midgets in the world, died at the home of her sister here to-day. She had won the esteemed friendship of Kings and Princesses.
"Maggie," as she was known, was
48 years old. Her latter years had been spent in retirement.
To hundreds of midgets throughout the country the death of Maggie comes as a shock, for in midget society she was a reigning queen, and her opinions and sayings were quoted wherever little people exhibit. Maggie was born in Belle Plains, Ia in 1859. She reached the height of 27 inches and then stopped growing. Until she was past 30 years old, she weighed only twenty-five pounds. At the time of her death she weighed thirty-one pounds. Her mental faculties were perfectly developed and in her travels around the world she acquired knowledge of three languages.
She Was the Queen of the Midgets and Had Traveled Widely
N. Y. Sun - Syracuse Herald - Special
CHICAGO, JAN. 25 - Maggie Minot, one of the strangest and most remarkable midgets in the world, died at the home of her sister here to-day. She had won the esteemed friendship of Kings and Princesses.
"Maggie," as she was known, was
48 years old. Her latter years had been spent in retirement.
To hundreds of midgets throughout the country the death of Maggie comes as a shock, for in midget society she was a reigning queen, and her opinions and sayings were quoted wherever little people exhibit. Maggie was born in Belle Plains, Ia in 1859. She reached the height of 27 inches and then stopped growing. Until she was past 30 years old, she weighed only twenty-five pounds. At the time of her death she weighed thirty-one pounds. Her mental faculties were perfectly developed and in her travels around the world she acquired knowledge of three languages.
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