Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-12-24
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considerable portion of this wonderful
story.
\ reporter was in the university city
or Saturday, and incidentally hearing
OF the strange patient, secured the ma
jor portions OF his history. He had No
objections to his biography being pub
llshed, but does not, as he expressed it,
wish to become notorious" and was
very reticent ana reserved even after
having enforced promise that his
name should be withheld for the sake
of his family.
The individual who is tae subject OF
this sketch is Of medium height, small
| frame, aad has smooth face and dark
hair His forehead is horribly disiig-
ured by deep and ugly scar between
the eyes, and one optic is gone; other
wise his features are regular and not
unpleasing to the observer. Most OF
his teeth were knocked out in an en-
counter with the butt of falling tree.
and, Notwithstanding the fact that
nearly every bone in his body has been
! fractured AT some time or other. he is
far from stiff. He is man Of consid-
cradle information. and expresses him
self readily. The following are the
leading points in is life, substantially
III his own words:
i am going on A years of age and
have 4 family and property in Hills
dale county. | have travelled nearly
around the world, and have been sick
in almost every cline. When was five
years old fell through the roof Of i
shed and sustained injuries from which
/ thought ! could not possibly recover.
| was literally all broken up. | broke
all my ribs, both collar bones, my breast
bone, my right arm III two places, my
left arm above the elbow and nv left
hand across the back. There is not il
sound rib in my chest, and my blood is
so thin and weak that fear shall not
recover. / now weigh 10 pounds, but
once weighed 100 odd. When | was
nine years old | ran away from home
and went to sea. When | was twelve
years old | had Asiatic cholera in New
York, and was sick some weeks. When
fifteen years old my hip was thrown out
Of joint, and again dislocated the same
year. The last time my right ankle was
also broken. In my seventeenth
year had spotted for Central Ameri-
can fever in Central America. | was
sick four months, and peeled all over
like snake. In the following year
had yellow fever III New Orleans. III
1856 | was II member Of steamboat
crew on the Mississippi river, and dur
ing the melee was shot in the ankle
When the war broke out Joined the
army, and in the following year (1S62l
was bayoneted in the left knee at the
battle Of Gainesville or Ginea Hill,
whore | was captured by the rebels.
remained prisoner three months and
seventeen days, and during my captivi-
tn was sunstruck. Recovering from
this | was subsequently starved to
death, and was parolled when upon the
verge Of the grave. During a long
march the veins in both of my legs
burst, and | nearly died from hemor-
rhage At charlottesville | was
run over the head and body
by a six-pounder Nov. 10, 1865, | was
discharged from the army, and in the
following winter, while engaged in fel-
ling tree, the but flew up and struck
me on the head, knocking me forty
feet. | lay in the snow insensible, for
eight hours, and when | came to
found that my skull va. fractured and
that eight Of my teeth were gone. Ny
brain had oozed out on the snow
through the assure in my Uranium
but in three months | was as good rs
new. Besides the accidents have re-
lated have had hundred others, re-
sulting in general bruising up with.
out any bones having been broken, but
am quite hearty to-day, and can whip
any man of my weight. My blood
however, is awful thin. | am cold al
the time, and no amount Of clothing
will keep me as warm rs | would like
to be.