Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - A mụrụ Ketcham na July 16, 1838 nye ndị mụrụ Josiah Burton na Eliza Freeman Burton, ndị ọsụ ụzọ na Grand Rapids. Ketcham gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Saint Mark's College, Henrietta Academy na Mary B. Allen's school for girls. Mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na ise, Ketcham ghọrọ onye nkuzi ma ọ lụrụ nwa nwanne nna ya bụ Augustus Canfield Norton na Grand Rapids na Ọktoba 2, 1861. Mgbe ọ nwụsịrị, ọ lụrụ Smith G. Ketcham. O buru ụzọ tinye aka na mmegharị ụmụ nwanyị na 1873. O zutere Susan B. Anthony mgbe ọ bi na Rochester, wee zụlite ọbụbụenyi na-adịgide adịgide na ya na 1890s. N'afọ 1893 Ketcham kwuru okwu n'Ụlọ Nwanyi
na Chicago World's Fair. Na Eprel 27, 1899, Women's National Suffrage Association mere nzukọ kwa afọ ya na Grand Rapids, Michigan na-arịọ Ketcham, naanị oge a ga-enwe nzukọ na Michigan. Ketcham tinyere aka nke ukwuu na Grand Rapids Woman's Suffrage Association, The Political Equality Club, The Susan B. Anthony Club, The Women's Civic League na Women's and Children's Protective League. Onye otu onye otu nke Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, ọ ga-eje ozi dị ka onye isi ya site na 1892-1893, na ọzọ na 1900. Ọ nwụrụ na Jenụwarị 13, 1907 na Detroit, Michigan.