SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (18181885)

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SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (18181885) , American humorist, known by the pen-name of " Josh Billings," was born of Puritan stock at Lanesborough, Massachusetts, on the 21st of April 1818, the son of

Henry

Shaw (17881857), who was a representative in Congress in 18171821. The son left Hamilton College to go West. In 1858 he settled in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as a land - agent and auctioneer, and began writing newspaper articles, especially for the Poughkeepsie Daily Press. His " Essa on the Muel bi Josh Billings" (186o) in a New

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was followed by many similar articles, chiefly in the New

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Weekly and the New York Saturday Press, and by several popular volumes, among which are Josh Billings: His Sayings (1866), Josh Billings on Ice (1868), Everybody's Friend (1876), Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1876), Trump Kards (1877), Old Probabilities (1879), Josh Billings' Spice-Box (1881), and Josh Billings' Farmers'Allminax, burlesquing the Old Farmers' Almanac, issued annually between 187o and 188o, and collected into a volume in 1902 under the title Josh Billings' Old Farmers' Allminax. He died in Monterey, California, on the 14th of October 1885. His platform lectures, such as " Milk," "

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Horse," " The Pensive Cockroach," and " What I kno about Hotels," his mannerisms and apparently unstudied witticisms made him conspicuous.
See Life and Adventures of Josh Billings (New York, 1883), by Francis S.

Smith

.

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