Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Ketcham i te Hōngongoi 16, 1838 ki ngā mātua ko Josiah Burton rāua ko Eliza Freeman Burton, he pionia i Grand Rapids. I puta a Ketcham i te Whare Wananga o Saint Mark, i te Whare Wananga o Henrietta me te kura a Mary B. Allen mo nga kotiro. I te tekau ma rima o ona tau, ka noho a Ketcham hei kaiako, ka marenatia ia ki tana whanaunga a Augustus Canfield Norton i Grand Rapids i te Oketopa 2, 1861. Whai muri i tona matenga, ka marenatia ia ki a Smith G. Ketcham. I uru tuatahi ia ki te kaupapa pooti wahine i te 1873. I tutaki ia ki a Susan B. Anthony i a ia e noho ana i Rochester, a i whakawhanakehia he whanaungatanga pumau ki a ia i nga tau 1890. I te tau 1893 i korero a Ketcham i te Whare Wahine
i te Whakaaturanga o te Ao o Chicago. I te Paenga-whāwhā 27, 1899, i tū te National Suffrage Association o nga Wahine i tana hui ā-tau i Grand Rapids, Michigan i te akiaki a Ketcham, ko te wa anake ka tu te hui ki Michigan. I kaha a Ketcham ki te Grand Rapids Women's Suffrage Association, Te Karapu Tika Political, Te Karapu Susan B. Anthony, Te Rōpū Kaunihera Wahine me te Rōpū Tiaki Wahine me nga Tamariki. He mema tuuturu o te Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, ka mahi ia hei perehitini mai i te 1892-1893, ana ano i te 1900. I mate ia i te Hanuere 13, 1907 i Detroit, Michigan.