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SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (1818–1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 813 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHAW, See also:HENRY See also:WHEELER (1818–1885) , See also:American humorist, known by the See also:pen-name of " Josh Billings," was See also:born of Puritan stock at Lanesborough, See also:Massachusetts, on the 21st of See also:April 1818, the son of Henry Shaw (1788–1857), who was a representative in See also:Congress in 1817–1821. The son See also:left See also:Hamilton See also:College to go See also:West. In 1858 he settled in See also:Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as a See also:land - See also:agent and auctioneer, and began See also:writing newspaper articles, especially for the Poughkeepsie Daily See also:Press. His " Essa on the Muel bi Josh Billings" (186o) in a New See also:York See also:paper was followed by many similar articles, chiefly in the New York Weekly and the New York Saturday Press, and by several popular volumes, among which are Josh Billings: His Sayings (1866), Josh Billings on See also:Ice (1868), Everybody's Friend (1876), Josh Billings: His See also:Works, See also:Complete (1876), See also:Trump Kards (1877), Old Probabilities (1879), Josh Billings' Spice-See also:Box (1881), and Josh Billings' Farmers'Allminax, burlesquing the Old Farmers' See also:Almanac, issued annually between 187o and 188o, and collected into a See also:volume in 1902 under the See also:title Josh Billings' Old Farmers' Allminax. He died in See also:Monterey, See also:California, on the 14th of See also:October 1885. His See also:platform lectures, such as " See also:Milk," " See also:Hobby See also:Horse," " The Pensive Cockroach," and " What I kno about Hotels," his mannerisms and apparently unstudied witticisms made him conspicuous. See See also:Life and Adventures of Josh Billings (New York, 1883), by See also:Francis S. See also:Smith.

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