Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
In a June 20, 1909 interview with the Pittsburgh Post, Ketchel stated that he was born in Butte, Montana on 9-14-1887 and not in Grand Rapids Michigan in 1886 as the record books say. Do any of the historians here have any clue as to why he would say this ?
Re: Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
Bad journalism 
Re: Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
Are you saying the quote attributed to Ketchel was manufactured ?
Re: Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
The use of shorthand by journalists in the USA had peaked by 1890. It could have been badly written notes, a badly remembered interview, hastily sub edited, clumsily typeset etc etc etc
Re: Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
very interesting, thanks.
Re: Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
Just a quick FYI...the 1900 US Census for Grand Rapids lists:
Thomas Ketchel (b. Germany) - father
Julia (b. Michigan) - mother
Stanly (b. Michigan) - son (born October 1886)
John (b. Michigan) - son
Alexander (b. Michigan) - son
Leonard (b. Michigan) - son
Thomas Ketchel (b. Germany) - father
Julia (b. Michigan) - mother
Stanly (b. Michigan) - son (born October 1886)
John (b. Michigan) - son
Alexander (b. Michigan) - son
Leonard (b. Michigan) - son
Re: Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
According to Ketchel's death certificate, his father was born in Poland.
Re: Stanley Ketchel's place of birth and date of birth
Sulmierzyce was German when he was born there, at that time it was called Sulmirschütz and has a large Prussian / German population.