Anna Haining Bates
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Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan (August 7, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, Colchester County, Nova Scotia famed for her unusual height: between 8 feet and 8 feet 1 inch tall (about 2.45 m).
When visiting a circus in Halifax with which Martin Van Buren Bates — another enormously tall person — was travelling, she was spotted by the promoter and hired on the spot. The giant couple became a touring sensation and eventually fell in love and married. See the article on Martin Van Buren Bates for a biography of the rest of her life until her death in 1886 in Seville, Ohio.
External Link
- A giant of a woman: Anna Haining Swan (http://www.geocities.com/weallcamefromsomewhere/Women/anna_swan.html)
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39981)
- A photograph of Swan (http://www.tngenweb.org/scott/images/bates_anna_hannon.jpg)
