Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1879 — Heaviest, Tallest, and Oldest Men [ARTICLE]

Heaviest, Tallest, and Oldest Men

Chicago Journal: The tallest men of whom record is made were a German named Hans Bar and a Hungarian soldier, name not given, who lived several centuries ago, each of them being eleven feet hign; their weight is not known. The heaviest man of whom record is made was Miles Darden, the Tennessee giant, who was seven and one-half feet high and weighed over one thousand pounds: he died in 1857. Daniel Lambert, the English “mass of flesh” was five feet and eleven inches Jin height, and weighedeseven hundred and thirtynine pounds. In 1565 there was buried at Bengal, India, a man named Cugu*» who claimed to be three hundred ana fifty years of age. The oldeetpe&o who died during thejpre?®”* was a Frenchman In Part*;*** . «- . Golem beski, who *35 °° A man nained iSr who claimed to be one hundred and Mixteen years old. * Thebs was no horse-racing at the UllnoisState Fair this year/and yet, with one exception, It was the most successful exhibition ever held in the State.