Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1888 — The Heaviest Man in the World. [ARTICLE]

The Heaviest Man in the World.

Hanson Craig of (Kentucky is probably the heaviest man in the world. His' weight is given at 792 pounds, and it reqtfines thirty seven yards ol clotb to make him a suit. He is six feet four and a half inches, is 31 years old, and weighed eleven pounds at bit th. When. 2 years old he took a *1,00(1 prize at the baby show in New York, tipping the beam at 906 .pounds at that time. His father weighed 11$ pounds and his mother 149-