Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — The Heaviest Man in the World. [ARTICLE]

The Heaviest Man in the World.

Sanson Craig, of Kentucky, is prob- __ ’ the heaviest man in the world. His, weight is given at 792 pounds, and it requires thirty-seven yards of cloth to make him a suit. He is six feet four and a half inches in height, isthirty-onq years old, and weighed eleven pounds at birth. When two years old he took a SI,OOO prize in New York, tipping the beam at 206 pounds at that time. His father weighed 115 pounds and his. mother 122.