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Circus owner Bill Ketrow

Bill R. Ketrow

AKA William Robert Peters

March 14, 1874 - April 8, 1951

 

Bill R. Ketrow (birth name William Robert Peters) was born March 14, 1874 in Wampum, Pennsylvania to Lodisa Elizabeth McCool and Frederick "Fred" Peters.

On August 23, 1898 Bill married Maude Ellen Southard, the wedding was held in in Mahoning, Ohio.

Bill Ketrow had a long history in various forms of traveling entertainment, country music shows, traveling motion pictures shows, and circuses.

During the 1930s Bill and the Ketrow (Peters) family operated the Kay Bros Circus.

William Robert Peters died on April 8, 1951, in Miami, Florida. His wife Maude died less than two months later on June 4, 1951.

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