Tusi se faaauauga mo lenei palakalafa - Na fanau Ketcham iā Iulai 16, 1838 i mātua o Josiah Burton ma Eliza Freeman Burton, o ni paeonia i Grand Rapids. Na faauu Ketcham mai le Kolisi o Saint Mark, o le Henrietta Academy ma le aoga a Mary B. Allen mo teineiti. I le sefululima o ona tausaga, na avea ai Ketcham ma faiaoga ma faaipoipo ai i lona tausoga o Augustus Canfield Norton i Grand Rapids ia Oketopa 2, 1861. Ina ua maliu o ia, sa faaipoipo atu loa o ia iā Smith G. Ketcham. Na auai muamua o ia i le faiga palota a tamaʻitaʻi i le 1873. Na feiloaʻi o ia ma Susan B. Anthony a o nofo i Rochester, ma atiaʻe se faʻauo tumau ma ia i le 1890s. I le 1893 na lauga ai Ketcham i le Fale o Tamaʻitaʻi
i le Chicago World's Fair. I le aso 27 o Aperila, 1899, na faia ai e Ketcham le fonotaga faaletausaga a le Women's National Suffrage Association i Grand Rapids i Michigan, ma na pau lea o le taimi na faia ai lea fonotaga i Michigan. Sa tele le sao o Ketcham i le Grand Rapids Woman's Suffrage Association, The Political Equality Club, The Susan B. Anthony Club, The Woman's Civic League ma le Women's and Children's Protective League. O se sui faavae o le Michigan Equal Suffrage Association, na avea o ia ma peresitene mai le 1892-1893, ma le 1900. Na maliu o ia iā Ianuari 13, 1907 i Detroit, Michigan.