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Rafter The Family Moved: It is be-Bt the first four were born in MacGregor, I John, the youngest, was born in Baraboo, Rafter the family moved there. : five brothers began giving small concerts ', to which skits and clown acts were later 11884 they started a small traveling show i that contained animal acts and a band, they purchased their first elephant. the Ringling Brothers had become i & Bailey's biggest rivals as circus entre-> in the United States.
Chippendale was born about 1718 at Otley, Yorkshire, the descendant of a family of joiners and cabinetmakers. He served his apprenticeship under his father, who about 1727 moved the family business to London. Shortly after his marriage to Catherine Renshaw in 1748, Thomas Chippendale opened his own cabinet-making shop in Conduit Lane. In 1753 he moved to 60 St. Martin's Lane, a center of furniture making in London where he remained thereafter.
RACHEL, ra-sheT (real name £LISA FELIX), French actress: b. Mumpf, Aargau Switzerland, March 24, 1820 or Feb. 28, 1821 ; d. Le Cannet, Provence, France, Jan. 3, 1858. Her father, an Alsatian Jew, was an impoverished peddler who wandered about Europe in his trade and at some time before 1831 established his family at Lyon, where the eldest children, Sophie (later known as Sarah) and filisa (later Rachel), sang and begged in the streets and local cafes. Subsequently the family moved to Paris, where the girls sang on the boulevards. |
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