Charles Sherwood Stratton was paid $3 a week as a member of Barnum’s touring act under the name Tom Thumb. (61/68)

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Charles Sherwood Stratton was paid $3 a week as a member of Barnum's touring act under the name Tom Thumb.

He would eventually marry in 1863 (pictured), before dying at the age of 45 two decades later.

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