Edmund Newell better known as General Grant Jr. or Major Edward Newell, was a 19th century dwarf

Dwarfism

Dwarfism is short stature resulting from a medical condition. It is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 4 feet 10 inches  , although this definition is problematic because short stature in itself is not a disorder....

 who gained fame as an associate of P.T. Barnum. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to Edmund S. Newell and Sarah Ellen Jimmerson.

He married another dwarf, Minnie Warren

Minnie Warren

Huldah Pierce Warren Bump , better known as Minnie Warren, was a 19th century dwarf who gained fame as an associate of P.T. Barnum. Her sister, Lavinia Warren, was married to General Tom Thumb....

, whose sister, Lavinia Warren

Lavinia Warren

Lavinia Warren was an American proportionate dwarf and the wife of General Tom Thumb.-Early life:Warren was born at Middleborough, Massachusetts as Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump, a descendant of a French Catholic family named Bonpasse, of Governor Thomas Mayhew, and five Mayflower passengers: John...

, was married to General Tom Thumb

General Tom Thumb

General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton , a dwarf who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.-Early life:...

. Minnie died in childbirth in 1878, and was buried in Nemasket Hill Cemetery, Middleborough. After her death, Edmund moved to England where he "miraculously" grew to normal stature and remarried to Mary Ann Drake, a woman of normal stature, on April 5, 1888 in St. Giles, London, England. They had two children: Edmund Charles Jeffreys Newell and Daisy Louise Newell.

He died on December 23, 1915 in Marylebone, London, England.