FEBRUARY 22, 1918, ROBERT PERSHING WADLOW WAS BORN, AT HOME AT 6:30 A.M. ON MONROE STREET IN ALTON, ILLINOIS. HE WEIGHED 8 AND ONE-HALF POUNDS. AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH, HIS FATHER WAS WORKING FOR A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AT AN OIL REFINERY. MOST LIBRARIES PROBABLY HAVE THE BOOK :"THE GENTLEMAN GIANT" BY FREDERIC FADNER (ASSISTED BY HAROLD F. WADLOW). MY SISTER BOUGHT MINE FOR $12.50.IT WAS PUBLISHED BY :BRUCE HUMPHRIES, INC. PUBLISHERS OUT OF BOSTON, MASS. YOU MAY ALSO BE ABLE TO FIND ONE THROUGH "ALTON AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, P.O. BOX 971 ALTON, ILLINOIS 62002. IT IS ALSO A "WHIPPORWILL PUBLICATION". THERE IS A MEMORIAL TO ROBERT WADLOW ON COLLEGE AVENUE IN ALTON, ILLINOIS ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE OLD SHURTLEFF COLLEGE, NOW AN EXTENSION OF SOUNTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. GOOD LUCK. ---------- > From: Vyronica@aol.com > To: ILMADISO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Big in Madison County > Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 1:16 AM > > In a message dated 98-09-17 03:03:21 EDT, you write: > > << Do you know anything about "The Alton Giant"?I understand he was related > to my > MO. family and was at one time in Guinness Records.The time period would > be > about 1930. > Thanks, > RoEllen Adalene (Puckett) Henry >> > > > I do, my mother had talked about going to see his shoes on display. I'm going > out of town and will ask her when I gett back. I've seen newsreel footage of > him, I believe, if I'm not just thinking of the picture in an old 70's Guiness > book. > > > ==== ILMADISO Mailing List ==== > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >