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Kate Castleton (1856-1892) stage actress, 'The idol of the fun loving public' was born 'Jane Freeman' in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, came to America as 'Kate Castleton' in 1876. She married 'Little Joe Elliott', aka Joe Clayton, aka Fred Elliott, aka Joe Reilly, who committed a serious insurance fraud. He escaped from prison and was recaptured during a burglary. She divorced, remarried then divorced him again before she married Harry Phillips who she also separated from in 1890. She died in Providence, Rhode Island of peritonitis in 1892 aged 36 and was buried at Wood Lawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.