Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Young Man Nearly 8 Feet Tall. [ARTICLE]

Young Man Nearly 8 Feet Tall.

The tallest man in the world, as hi claims, has been visiting different places in Maine and has attracted great attention.' His name is Edward Beaupre, and his exact height is 7 feet 10% Inches. Beaupre is twenty years of age and comes from the province of of Assinaboine, Northwest Territory. He says he is nothing but a boy, but there is enough of him to make half a dozen boys of ordinary size. He weighs 367 pounds and is a wellbuilt young chap. He wears a No. 21 shoe and a No. 21 collar, and everywhere he goes he attracts attention. In all the hotels where he has' ever stopped he has never found a bed long enough to accommodate him, so two mattresses are placed lengthwise on the floor, and on these he stretches out to sleep. Beaupre says he did not begin to grow until he was 7 years old. Then he began to shoot up and when he was sixteen years old he was seven feet in height. He says his parents are of ordinary height, his father being 6 feet 8 Inches in height, and his mother an inch shorter. Beaupre ib a great eater, smoked everything in the shape of tobacco, and is never sick. He takes pride in believing he is the tallest man that lives.—Lewiston, Me., Journal.