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Shaw, Henry Wheeler
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pseudonym Josh Billings
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| Writer, born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Hamilton College (1832–3) but was dismissed for removing the clapper from the chapel bell. He then travelled widely, held a variety of jobs, and settled in Poughkeepsie, NY where he became a realtor and auctioneer. Using his pen name, he wrote humorous aphorisms (with crude misspellings), as in Josh Billings, His Sayings (1865), and a parody annual, Farmer's Allminax (1869–80). Once he became successful, he moved to New York City. |
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