Antique RPPC Martin Van Buren Bates Captain Confederate Army Giant Dwarf Circus for Sale

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Antique RPPC Martin Van Buren Bates Captain Confederate Army Giant Dwarf Circus For Sale

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Antique RPPC Martin Van Buren Bates Captain Confederate Army Giant Dwarf Circus:
$50.00

Antique RPPC Martin Van Buren Bates Captain Confederate Army Circus Kentucky Giant. With his second wife Annette and dwarf Frank Bowman

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copyrighted by FW Ms. Dowell, Seville Ohio, Oct 21.08.

Posted Feb 1909.

Written on Bottom:

Captain MV Bates, 7 Feet 4 Inches

and wife Seville O. and Frank Bowman 47 yrs old. 4 ft. Medina, Ohio

His first wife was also a giant and they joined the circus together.

You can find some books on MV Bates and there is a page on wikipedia.

Wikipedia excert:

Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, Bates joined the 5th Kentucky Infantry Confederate States Army, as a private in 1861. His ferocity in battle and imposing figure saw him quickly promoted to the rank of captain. He was severely wounded in a battle near the Cumberland Gap and was captured and imprisoned at Camp Chase in Ohio, although he later escaped.

In 1889 he remarried, this time to a woman of normal stature, Annette LaVonne Weatherby, and lived a mostly peaceful life until his death in 1919 of nephritis.He was buried beside his first wife and their son in Seville.He is currently the tallest known person to live to be at least 80 years old.