Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-26
HEAVIEST BABY IN THE WORLD.
weighing 80 Pounds at IL Months-Bisger
Than It, Mother.

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Than It> Mother.
Cincinnati TimsS-Saar.
New York, March 2I.-Ssmuel Reynolds
Tompkins, who, his parents confidently be-
lieve, is the biggest baby boy in the United
States, was thirteen mouths old on the Sd
of March, and weighs e~ighty-three pounds
and a few ounces over. When he was born
he didn't weigh FIVE pounds. At the age
of three months his weight had doubled.
Three more, quadrupled, and when the in
FAINT was ten months old he weighed sew
enty-two pounds, or almost as much as his
mother.
Charlotte Frazer was the mothers name
before she married Henry Tompkins. in
1875. She was born in 1856 at Sligo, Ire
land, and is a CHEEKY, blue eyed little woman,
about five feet high, and weighing seventy
seven pounds. Sammy's father was born
at Armonk, Westchester county, the same
year as his wife. He is over six feet high,
and weighs los pounds. Sammy Reynolds
is their first and Ouly chLd.
Sammy is a healthy child, and his fat is
solidly laid on in big rolls and chunks.
The only time he was ever sick in his life
was when he had a little touch of cholera
infantum, at the age Of two months. He
has an enormous appetite and a strong di-
gtStion. He is not yet weaned, but, never
thelesS, he manages TO eat every day at
noon a little rare and juicy steak and one
potato. He does not like cakes or candies,
and his natural appetite Graves just what
the doctors say everybody should live on.
Sammy held a reception yesterday. Call
ers climbed up the hill to the little house all
day, and Mrs. Tompkius vas kept busy ex-
planning about her son. His eyes are blue
and his hair long and taxen. There are
twenty teeth in his mouth, all Of them dou-
Die but the two top front teeth. Notwith-
standing his fat Sammy is a shapely child
and is quite good looking, as the fat is evil
IDENTIFY distributed. His hands and feet are
as small as those of any baby of his age.
Drs. Bronson, Hickey, Cummings and any
number of others have been investigating
him, and they say he is q healthy child.
They advise that no restraint be put upon
him, but be be allowed to grow naturally.
Ills waist and chest are ALREADY a yard
around
4 6I hat would fit his head. The cir
conference Of his leg is l6! inches above
the knee and II inches below, bigger than
his fathers. His skin is soft and clear. AS
he sat on the floor beside his crib, yesterday,
he lad three aatirons aud q heavy cane for
TOYS to play with. The irons weighed be,
tween five and seven pounds, and muscular
Sammy tossed them around as an ordinary
baby would play with wooden blocks. He
| is proud Of his strength and appreciates it
when anyone mentions it in his hearing
His development has been steady, although
it started all of q sudden when he was three
months old.
Sammy is ~pugnacious. Mamie Moore,
the little daughter of a neighbor, dropped in
on Thursday afternoon to play with Sam
my. They didn't get along very well and
Sammy hit Mamie in her eye and black
ened il. He had had a slight difference
with his mother and blackened her eye the
other day to. When he goes to hit he
clinches his teeth and congresses his lips.
"You son is the coming rival Of John L.
Sullivan" said q visitor to Mrs. Tompkins.
Sammy seemed to understand or it may
have been a coincidence; be said YES"
MY husband is q Methodist and / a
Catholic" said Mrs. ~Thompkins. 81 will
never exhibit my son or use him to make
money. He is self willed at times, aud
hauled off and hit ne the other day; but
on the whole he is q good boy though he is
a terror TO other children, and they are
afraid of him. People have asked me if l
wouldn't let them have my son, but
won't, not even if Barnum himself was to
come for him"