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She did not grow after birth and died at the age of nine. Patrick Cotter, the successor of O'Brien, and who for awhile exhibited under this name, claiming that he was a lineal descendant of the famous Irish King, Brian Boru, who he declared was 9 feet in height, was born in 1761, and died in 1806 at the age of forty-five.
His shoe was 17 inches long, and he was 8 feet 4 inches tall at his death. In the Museum of Madame Tussaud in London there is a wax figure of Loushkin, said to be the tallest man of his time.
It measures 8 feet 5 inches, and is dressed in the military uniform of a drum-major of the Imperial Preobrajensky Regiment of Guards.
To magnify his height there is a figure of the celebrated dwarf, "General Tom Thumb," in the palm of his hand.
Figure 158 represents a well-known American giant, Ben Hicks who was called "the Denver Steeple." Buffon refers to a Swedish giantess who he affirms was 8 feet 6 inches tall.
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