His mother was 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 125 pounds.

The height of the father of Mrs.Anna Swann Bates was 6 feet and her mother was 5 feet and 2 inches high, weighing but 100 pounds.
A recent newspaper dispatch says: "Captain M.V.Bates, whose remarkable height at one time attracted the attention of the world, has recently retired from his conspicuous position and lives in comparative obscurity on his farm in Guilford, Medina County, O., half a mile east of Seville." In 1845 there was shown in Paris Joachim Eleiceigui, the Spanish giant, who weighed 195 kilograms (429 pounds) and whose hands were 42 cm.

(16 1/2 inches) long and of great beauty.

In 1882 at the Alhambra in London there was a giantess by the name of Miss Marian, called the "Queen of the Amazons," aged eighteen years, who measured 2.45 meters (96 1/2 inches).

William Campbell, a Scotchman, died at Newcastle in May 1878.
He was so large that the window of the room in which the deceased lay and the brick-work to the level of the floor had to be taken out, in order that the coffin might be lowered with block and tackle three stories to the ground.