He was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Edmund S. Newell and Sarah Ellen Jimmerson.

Edmund married Minnie Warren in July 1877 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

Minnie was also a dwarf, and so was her sister, Lavinia Warren, wife of General Tom Thumb.

[1][2][3][4] Minnie died in childbirth in 1878, and was buried in Nemasket Hill Cemetery, Middleborough, Massachusetts.

[5] After her death, Edmund moved to England and married Mary Ann Drake, a woman of normal stature, on April 5, 1888, in St. Giles, London, England.