Nellie Keeler [SEP] occupation
Nellie Keeler
Nellie Keeler (April 6, 1875 – 1903) was an American child circus performer known as Little Queen Mab.
Nellie Keeler.
Nellie Keeler was born with dwarfism on April 6, 1875, in Kokomo, Indiana. She was the youngest of three daughters and a son raised by Ezra and Maria Keeler. Her father was a farmer and a Civil War veteran, having served with the 4th Indiana Cavalry. Ezra Keeler died in 1917 while in his seventies at a home for disabled war veterans in
Marion, Indiana. Maria Keeler lived to be in her late eighties, and died in 1937 in Kokomo.
By the age of three Nellie Keeler came to the attention of P. T. Barnum through local press articles about her diminutive stature. Nellie weighed only eleven pounds and stood just a few inches over two feet. After a successful four-week tryout in 1878 she began touring with Barnum’s circus, along with the company of her father, as the "sweet girl with radiant golden hair". Barnum placed her