Background
Barnes was born on September 1, 1862, in Lobo, Ontario, Canada, to Thomas S. Stonehouse (1826-1882) and Sarah Barnes (1825-1883).
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Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse
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Career
He started a relationship with Babe Eckhart. She played the calliope in his circus. When he refused to marry her, she shot herself just outside his private railroad car in Idaho in 1919.
In 1922 his divorce from Dollie Arminta was granted.
In January 1929, he sold his circus to the American Circus Corporation. He died on July 25, 1931 in Indio, California.
He had been ill for most of the past year with pneumonia.
