Fat Folk

The Ladies • The Men • Babies

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Professional Fat Folk of an earlier age lived to astound a public for whom not having enough to eat was a real possibility, and even a commonplace.

From the 18th Century to the beginning of the 20th Century being fat was a sign of health and prosperity.

Seemingly devouring a constant plentitude of food that their audiences may not have had, the showbiz of girth and jiggle was a universal attraction in carnival sideshows, dime museums and circuses.

Today Morbid Obesity is considered a disease, very much a phenomenon of the western world, and yet as American as five apple pies washed down with a six-pack of Pepsi Cola.

(Look for Lipohistorian Karl Niedershuh's full article here soon.)

 

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Ackley, Kate  (482 lbs. at age 22; 5'9" tall) [e]
Akers, Carrie "Midget Fat Lady" 309 lbs, 3' 3" tall [kn] [d]  [e]
Alice From Dallas (see Alice Dunbar) née Wade, (b. Dallas, TX, 1894; 
d. Dallas, November 25, 1955; 
m. Italian circus tattooed man Frank T. Julian, 1922. 685 lbs. - 
dieted town to 425 after retirement)
fl.1930s - 1950s; 685 lbs, 40" thigh, 84" bust with RBBB Circus [blk 0-757][kn] [d] [e] Allison, Isabelle [d] Alice From Dallas (see Alice Dunbar) née Wade [kn] Alpine [blk 0-630,d] Miami, FL Age 20, Weight 702, Knee 40", Thigh 75", Waist 8-ft. aka "Little Alpine," "Baby Alpine" - Alpine Blitch, from
Miami, FL , b date unknown, d Richmond, VA, Oct. 9, 1932; 732 lbs, 5'
4" tall, 84" waist, 74" around both thighs
[kn] [d] Armitage, (Mrs.) Elizabeth; 445 lbs at age 29, 5' 8" tall, measured 72-47-65 [kn] Baby Ann 500 lbs [blk 0-140][kn] [d]
Baby Anna [blk 0-731]
Baby Betty possibly (Mrs) Betty Horell (née Perry?), b ca 1897, d
New Orleans, LA, Feb 23, 1948 (Kobel says Mar 1949); 600 - 751 lbs,
sister of Baby Irene
[blk 0-162]
Baby Bliss (Mr.) - b Astoria, NY, Feb 1892; 596 lbs at age 18, 84" hips [d] [kn] Baby Bunny, "Helen the Fat," Bunny (Helen) Robinson, née
Smith,
b ca 1901, m
Pete Robinson, human skeleton, 1924; 486 lbs
[blk 0-174]
[kn] Baby Carrie"- fl. 1917 [kn] Baby Doll Waites "Pulchritude Queen of the Avoirdupois"; 480 lbs "Baby Flo" - Flora Mae Jackson, née King, b Shuqualak (or Meridian),
MS, 1930, m (1) Clifton Johnson, (2) George Jackson, d Dec 1965; 841
lbs (authenticated), 5' 9" tall.
[blk 0-674]
[kn] Baby Frances - (Mrs) Frances Josephine Voges, b ca 1920, d Tampa,
FL, ca 1977; 826 lbs (authenticated), 5' 1" tall, 73" waist, 88 1/2" hips
[kn] Baby Irene Irene Harris, née Perry, fl. 1940s - 1950s; 685 lbs,
sister of Baby Betty
alias of Amanda Siebert, nee Quinn (b. 1880, d. Nov. 1940, m. George Siebert, employee at the Hotel Clement where Amanda often stayed)[blk 0-809, mm 35]
[e] Baby Jane Timmons (aka Stark?), fl. 1930s - 1940s; 618 lbs [blk 0-168] Baby Jim - Jim Simons, from Texas, fl ca 1900; 800 lbs at age 37 [blk 0-727] Baby June fl 1935; 595 lbs, 5' 9" tall 552lbs. Baby Lee [blk 0-628] Baby May," aka "America's Fat Girl" - possibly May Exley, fl 1928;
480 lbs, Exley credited with 300 lbs at the age of 8 years
[kn] Baby Rose [kn] Baby Ruth Pontico aka "Ima Waddler," "Lady Beautiful" Ruth Pontico, née Smith, b Kempton, IN, Feb 8, 1904, m Joe Pontico, Madison Square Garden concession manager, d Tampa, FL, Nov 29, 1941; 697 in 1932, 702 in 1933. 815 lbs (772 1/2 lbs authenticated), 5' 5 1/2" tall, measurements [kn] 81 1/2-76 1/2-91, daughter of a 720 lb fat lady [blk 0-133-637] Baby Thelma Thelma Amend (aka Williams) of Miami, FL, b ca 1915,
d Syracuse, NY, Sep. 2, 1961; 655 lbs
[kn] Baby Viola Barton (born in Michigan, ca. 1883; married Arthur C. Barton, carnival "noveltyman" with Hagenback-Wallace; 510 lbs.) [e] Ballou, Lizzie A. (580 lbs.) [e] Barton, (Miss) Susan, fl 1849; 576 lbs, 5 ft tall, measured 69-59-87 [kn] Battersby, Hannah, née Perkins, b Maine or Vermont, 1842, m. John Battersby, living skeleton, d. Philadelphia, PA, Apr 15, 1889; 688. 800 lbs, "nearly" 7 ft tall [age24,weight712,5'11", May1876,born inMaine] [d750] [kn] Bauer, Ed M. [blk 0-155] Baujan, Peter "The Biggest Democrat in Illinois" (born in Prussia, 1851; died in Arenzville, Illinois, March 27, 1914; 510 lbs. Baujan immigrated to the US with his family as a young boy. Before becoming a fat man, he worked in the family brickyard.) Sister was Fat Lady Mary Rosa Thron (nee Baujon) [e] Baum, Edward M., from Cambellsport, WI, retired from exhibition
ca 1949; 748 lbs at age 41, 5' 4" tall (Kobel gives his name as Bauer
and credits him with 780 lbs)
[kn] Beautiful Marie," aka "Fat Marie," "The English Fat Girl" - Marie
Lill (aka Lil or Lille),
b Hull, Yorkshire, fl 1903; 385 lbs, 5' 1"
tall, daughter of a hospital nurse who weighed 500+ lbs
[kn]
Beck, Della
[kn] Bell, Annie (Anna), "The Ohio Giantess," b Columbus, OH, 1873, m
Chauncy Morlan, fat man, NYC, Nov 30, 1892, d NYC Mar 30, 1904; 560 -
582 lbs, 6' 2" tall
[kn] Bellmount, Florence (exhibited with average-sized sister) Big Alice [kn] Baby Ann [blk 0-736-737] Big Baby Bell "Fattest Girl on Earth" Age 16, 412lbs, 1929. [d] Big Bertha" (1) - Bertha Curtis, née Quinby, fl 1940s, m Robert
Curtis, living skeleton
[kn] Big Bertha" (2) - Emma Creighton, b ca 1924, fl 1960s - 1980s; 374
lbs, 5' 2" tall, appeared in several films and TV shows
[kn] Big Boss Henry - 694 lbs at age 38 [kn]
Big Eliza, aka "Big Liza" or "Captivatin' Liza," fl. 1880s; 657 -
700 lbs, 118" bust
[kn] Big Fat Mama" - Bertha Williams, b East St. Louis, MO, 1932, fl 1970s; 851 lbs [kn] Big Hattie, fl 1891; "close to" 700 lbs (Bowen) [kn] [e] Big Jim" (1) - Jim Minatra, fl 1961; 732 lbs, 5' 7" tall [kn]
Big Jim" (2) - Harold Spohn, fl 1979
[kn] Big Joe, aka "Jolly Joe" - Joe Grimes [kn]
Big Jumbo," aka "Jumbo Redding" - F. E. Redding, fl. 1925 -
1950s; 600 lbs, began his career as "World's Fattest Boy"
[kn] Big Laura, toured with Big Hattie as "The two heaviest people, white and colored, in the known world ... combined weight 1,622 1/2 pounds!" [kn] Big Lee," aka "The Unbelievable Man" - Lee Whipperman, b Akron,
PA, 1965, first exbibited ca 1982, d ca 1992; 607 lbs (billed at 707),
82" waist, died from complications of gastroplasty
[kn] Big Tex - b 1902, fl 1956; 924 lbs (confirmed), 6' 1" tall [kn] Billy Bonno, "The American Fat Boy" (598 lbs.) [e]
Billy "8 Yrs. 190 Lbs." Bishop, Samuel M. (278 lbs. at age 8) [e] Blackhall, Dorothy C. "Dottie"(600 lbs.; committed suicide at Gibsonton on May 17, 1960) [e] Bland, Jane, b Oldbury, Worcestershire, 1852, d London, 1900 [kn] Bonita, "Midget Fat Girl" "Bonita" or "Jolly Bonita" - b Ireland, fl. 1910s; exhibited as both fat girl and midget, billed as "World's Greatest, Smallest Fat Lady" [blk 0-160-733] [kn]
Bonnie Bess [d]Jellico, TN29yrs742 lbs,Exhibited with JollyBabe
Bonnie Jean - Jean Murdock
[kn]
Boxing Fat Girls [ajax101] Bras, Hermanes (or Hermans), "The Gigantic Prussian Youth," b
Tecklenbourg, Prussia, 1801, exhibited England 1819; 500 lbs, 5' 11"
tall, 77" waist
[kn] Bright, Edward "The Fat Man of Maldon" (b. Maldon, Essex, England, 1721; d. Nov. 10, 1750; 602 lbs.) [e] Briggs, Adah (or Ada), fl 1890; 570~590 lbs [kn][d] Brobst, Tom "Tiny Tom" (born ca. 1911; 400 lbs.; with Barnum & Bailey) [e] Brooks, Prim (born & died in Highbee, Missouri, 1889-1915; 700 lbs.) [e] Brown, Anroe "The Georgia Giantess" (born Grovania, Houston County, Georgia, 1844; 500 lbs. Anroe was born into slavery on the Dick Johnston Plantation.) [e] Brown, Ella C, b Vermont ca. 1847 [kn] Brown, Fannie, fl 1970; 500 lbs, performed as go-go dancer in "Beef
Trust of America" with Rose Felton
[kn] Brown, Tina, aka "Tiny Tina Brown," fl. 1940s - 1950s (550lbs. with RBBB Circus) [kn] Brunnell, Hannah, fl 1890 [kn] Bryson, Fannie, contemporary; 532 lbs with Ken Harck's Brothers Grim Sideshow [kn] Burk, Gertrude [e] Burnett, Henry (Henery) Boston (born in Prescott, Arkansas, August 25, 1895; claimed to be 694 lbs. but was actually 450.) [blk 0-173] [e] Buster & Nellie Butterfield, Isaac (b. Leeds, England, 1781; 100 lbs. at age 1) [e] Byrne, Roger (b. Rosenalis, Queen's County, Ireland; 728 lbs.) [e] Caldwell, Bob alias of George Comstock (died at Venice, Italy, May 29, 1913; 408 lbs.) [e] Cagle, Walt [blk 0-136] Campbell, Miss Jane, "Connecticut Giantess" fl 1860s; 628 lbs [blk 0-820] [kn] Campbell, William "The Scottish Giant" (born in Glasgow, 1856; 728 lbs.) [e] Cane, Mary [e]
Cannon, Egon (also Erven, real name Henri Maurice Cannon), "The Dutch
Colossus," "Cannon Colossus" (b. Holland, May 7, 1884; 804 lbs.)
or b Lake Constance, Switzerland, ca 1850, exhibited in U.S. ca 1898; 600 - 738 lbs, 5' 7" tall, 70" chest, 101" waist, had a 380lb brother and a sister who exhibited as a fat girl
[kn] [e] Cardoso (Cardozo), Pedro, b Rosario, Argentina, ca 1903, d
Buenos Aires, Oct 22, 1935; 638 lbs at age 30, 5' 6" (or 5' 9 1/2")
tall, 72" chest, 89" (or 94") waist
[kn]
Carroll, Neta
[kn] Captivatin Liza [blk 0-677-678-759] Carlson, Dot (Dorothy) and Flo (Florence), fl 1920s - 1930s; twin
sisters, each weighing 500+ lbs, billed as "The Half Ton Twins"
Boxing Fat Sisters
[kn] Carroll, Neta Celon, Edie [e] Chambers, "Baby Mamie" (76 lbs. at 11 months) Cherry, Alice "World's Fattest Girl" [kn] Clare (or Clary), Katy (aka Caddie, Addie or Ada), fl. 1880s - 1910s; 480 lbs, 5' 2" tall. Performed as a boxer-age 19-395lbs., had sister Rose (or Rosa) stood 2' 8" and exhibited as a "Lilliputian" married name Rone, birth name Amick (died at Fort Scott, Kansas, June 28, 1898. After her midget sister Rose died at the age of 28, Caddie did a fat-lady bicyclist act with another fat lady.) [kn][d] [e] Clarke, Maggie; 615 lbs (alias of Margaret Ann Rogers) [kn] [e] Cleary, Daniel Cleary, (Mrs) Ellen, m Daniel Cleary, fat man, d Philadelphia, PA,
1891; 670 lbs
[kn] Coins, Mabel [e] Coleman, "Handsome Harry" (born at Shelbourne Falls, MA, 1876; d. Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 1915; 750 lbs.) [e]
Collier, Dorothy, from northern England, 18th c.; 420 lbs
[kn] Collignon, Victorine (French; 416 lbs.) [e] Collins, Ada (b. ca. 1912; married Jack Collins, circus banner painter; divorced 1947) [e]
Conley, Fanny, "The Zulu Giantess," of Mansfield, OH, b ca 1849, d
Salamanca, NY, Jun 22, 1883; 470 lbs (billed at 597)
[kn] Connatto, Delores [blk 0-136] Connor, Jack (also Conner, Connors)"World's Fattest Boy" 791lbs. Conrad, Susie, fl 1891 [kn] Conway, Jack [blk 0-148] Cordiana, Louise, fl 1880s [possibly = Madame Cardona] [kn] Cortina, Mary. fl 1885 [kn] Cowan, W.D. "Tiny" 18yrs. 584lbs. 6ft. tall, 23yrs, 741lbs.b Erie, PA, ca 1920, d Apr or May 1956; 741lbs, 6' tall, married 360 lb bride 3 weeks before his death [blk 0-764] Craig, John Hanson, b Kentucky, ca 1856, m Mary Jane Kessler, fat
lady (?), Danville, IN, d Danville, IN, 1894; 907 lbs, 6' 5" tall
[kn] Crouse, Hannah, "The Ohio Fat Girl," b Palmyra, OH, 1834, d
Philadelphia, PA, ca 1855; 600 lbs
[kn] Cumberland, Mrs. Fannie (d. Minneapolis, 1921; 600 lbs. at death) [e]
Curso, Bell [kn] Curtis, "Big Baby Bertha" (married Robert "Slim Jim" Curtis, 68-lb. thin man) [e]
Dainty Dotty (see Mrs. Owen Jenson) Dorothy Jenson, m. Owen Jenson,
tattoo artist, d. Dec 19, 1952; 630 lbs
[blk 0-169-170]
[kn] Dale, "Fat Hannah" (b. England, 1883, d. 1894) [e]
Darden, Mills (or Miles), b North Carolina 1798, d Henderson Cty,
TN, 1857; 1,000+ lbs
[kn] Dausera, Justin
[kn] Davis, Gertie Mae (b. ca. 1902; 596 lbs.) [e] Davis, Peter (b. Cut Bank, Montana, ca. 1913; 499 lbs.) [e]
Dicken Bella (German, 450 lbs.)
[e]
Dowling, "Baby Lee" (aka Jolly Lee)
[e] Dee Dee Spencer, aka "Jolly Dolly," "Miss Peggy" - Suzy Farmer (aka
Harris),
b Sacramento, CA (?) ca 1949, fl 1970s - 1980s; 558 lbs, 5'
1" tall, consumed 42,194 calories in 5 hours to win National Enquirer
eating contest
[kn] Diamond, Kitty aka "Jolly Kitty from Boston" - b Boston, MA; 714
lbs at age 20, weighed 92 lbs at age 6 months
[kn] Dietel, Tillie, née Wren (?), m John Dietel, fat man; 596 3/4 lbs [kn] Dolly Dimples (see Geyer, Celesta )age 21, 550lbs. aka "Bonnie Sonora," "Jolly Dolly Geyer" - Celesta Geyer, née Herrmann, b Cincinnati, OH, Jly 18, 1901, exhibited 1927 -1949; 555 lbs, 5' tall, measurements 74 1/2-68-84, lost 401 lbs in one
year
[blk 0-758, mm p.33]
[kn] Dunbar, Alice (see "Alice From Dallas") [blk 0-757] Dunn, Phebe J., b Elgin, Illinois ca 1850; 487lbs at age 17, 407 lbs at age 17 [note: this
spelling always used in contemporary references]
[kn][gd] Eckert, Happy Jack b Lafayette, IN, ca 1877, exhibited
1887 - 1939, d Flomaton, AL, Feb 1939; 739 lbs, 87" waist
[kn] Elsa and Elvira (fat sisters, with third sister Berta) [e]
Everitt, Thomas Hill "The Enormous Baby" (b. England, 1779) [e]
Fairbrother, Clara E., née Tucker, b. Dorcester, NH, Aug 20, 1853, d
Westminster, VT, Mar 21, 1912
[kn]
Farmar's Fat Family "Total Weight 3773lbs." Fat Ernst [ajax101] Fat Twins (male boxers) [ajax101] "Meister Feig" (German) [e]
Felder, "Jolly Maizie"
[e]
Felton, Rose, fl 1970; 475 lbs [kn] Finn, "Big Jumbo" "World's Fattest Clown" [e] Fish, Paul, real name Fishbaugh [kn] Fletcher, Mary "The Giant Monster Schoolgirl", b. Blackpool, England [e]
Flora, "Germany's Heaviest Giantess" (450 lbs.)
[e]
Floyd, Joann, b ca 1935, fl. 1970
[kn] Francoise-Clay, Marie (pre-1800s) [kn] [e] Franklin, Jessie, b New Rochelle, NY, ca 1866; 430 lbs at age 17, 6' 6" tall. [kn] Fredericus, George (b. Bradenburg, Germany; 427 lbs.) [e] Gene [blk 0-165] Gerard, Ellen, b ca 1849, fl 1889; 400 lbs [kn]
Geyer, Celesta (see Dolly Dimples)[blk 0-758, mm p.33] Giant Chillcot (b. England; d. Trenaw, Cornwall, England, 1815; 460 lbs.) [e]
Gibbons, Jolly Bonita "The Irish Fat Midget" (b. Ireland, 1866; d. Chicago, 1934 of heart disease) [kn] [e]
Gilbert, Mrs. G.W. (d. 1899 of heart failure; travelled with Frank Shade, dwarf) [e]
Gold, Marieta (b. Split, Yugoslavia, 1868; d. Split, Yugoslavia, 1940; returned to native city in 1920 after retiring from circus career in the US) [e]
Goodin, Alexander A. "Bullet" (b. Harlan, Kentucky, June 14, 1940; d. Westland, Michigan, Feb. 22, 2002; 500 lbs.) [kn] [e] Goodwilly (or Goodwillie), "Sir" Marcus, real name I. Hanson, fl
1859; 907 lbs, 6' 6" tall
[kn] Grant, Lottie, alias of Elizabeth Whitlock, née Stice, fl 1870s - 1880s [kn] Green, Eli [e]
Greenwell, Charles Greer, Ethel, fl 1930, appeared in film "Rain or Shine" [kn] Griffin, Tiny [kn] Hall, Granville W., of Pokomoke City, MD, b ca 1901, d 1938; 700 lbs [kn]
Hall, Madam "tattooed Fat Lady" [d] Happy Carter" - Carter Lindsay, b Virginia ca 1923, fl 1952; 679
lbs, 6' 2" tall
[kn]
Happy Carter [blk 0-668] Happy Cherry," aka "Miss Cherry" (or Cherrie) - Alice Cherry, aka
Cherry Davis, fl 1910s - 1920s, 530 - 603 lbs
[kn] Happy Emma [blk 0-730] Happy Jennie (or Jenny) - fl 1948; 600 lbs [blk 0-131] [kn] Harding, Bell [kn]
Harris, Lizzie, fl 1862; 676 lbs
[kn] Harris, Willie, b DuQuoin, IL, ca 1886, fl 1904; 593 lbs, 5' 4"
tall, 67" chest, 71" waist
[kn]
Harold Huge, aka "Big Bruno" - Bruce Snowdon, b New Hampshire,
ca 1952, exhibited 1977 - ca 2005, retired; 650+ lbs (billed at 712)
[kn]
Heath, Lydia, fl 1889
[kn]
Helen Melon" - Katy Dierlam (Mrs Ned Sonntag), contemporary, b 1950;
500+ lbs, 5' 6" tall
[kn] Hill (or Hall), Amelia (or Emilie), "Ohio Cherub," b ca 1872, fl
1880s - 1890s; 300 lbs, 4' tall
[kn] Hoblit, Caton (b. Atlanta, IL, Dec. 2, 1840; d. Christoval, TX, Aug. 13, 1913; came to Clark County, SD, as a pioneer) [d] Clark, SD Weight 512 [e] Höhne (Hoehne), Emil, b Schneidemuhle, Switzerland, ca 1896; 594
lbs, exhibited in US ca 1925
[blk 0-765] [kn]
Höhne (Hoehne), Ernst, b Schneidemuhle, Switzerland, ca 1898
[kn]
Höhne (Hoehne), Hulda
[kn]
Höhne (Hoehne), Wilhelm (Walter?), b Schneidemuhle, Switzerland, ca 1889
[kn] [th] Holt, Carry (also "Carrie") [kn] Hope, Danny, of Luling, TX, b ca 1938, d Camden, AK, Sep 4, 1959;
702 lbs, 5' 5" tall, 92" waist
[kn]
Hopton, Elsie "The Giant Schoolgirl" [e] Horrell, "Baby Betty" (m. Charles Horrell, circus performer) [e]
House, Fat Billy [blk 0-139] Fred Howe (b. Kentucky, 435 lbs. at age 21) [e]
Huddleston, (Miss) Julia; 567 lbs at age 16 [kn] Hughes, Robert Earl b Monticello, MO, Jun 4, 1926, d Bremen, IN,
Jly 10, 1958; 1069 lbs (confirmed), 124" chest, 122" waist
[blk 0-762-763]
[kn] Ima Waddler (also see Baby Ruth and Pontico) [blk 0-133-637] Ima Whale - fl 1925 [kn] Jackson, Flora Mae "Baby Flo" nee Johnson (b. 1930; d. 1965; married to George Jackson, showman/train conductor, who had previously been married to Sylvia Porter) [e]
Jackson, D.H.
(608 lbs.; with Forepaugh-Sells in 1911) [e]
Jackson, "Fat Albert" alias of Kent Nicholson
[e]
Jackson, T.J. "Albert," real name Kent Nicholson, b Canton, MS,
ca 1941, exhibited 1972 - 1987, d Baton Rouge, LA, Dec 18, 1988; 898
lbs (confirmed), 6' 4" tall, 116" waist, 120" hips
[kn]
James, George (403 lbs.) [e]
James, Richard Jenson, Mrs. Owen (also "Dainty Dotty") [blk 0-169-170] Johnson, Flora May King (also see King) [blk 0-738-767-768] Johnson, Winnie [e] [gd]
Jolly Babe [blk 0-632-633]Born Jellico, TNAge19,635lbs[d] Exhibited with Bonnie Bess Jolly Bonita Jolly Dixie - fl 1927; 603 lbs [kn] Jolly Dolly Dimples, Lottie Barber, from Providence, RI, fl 1936 [kn] Jolly Trixie" (or Trixy) - fl 1927; 687 lbs, 5' 2" tall [kn]
Jolly Emma (500-648lbs, travelled with daughter)[d] Jolly Ethel, b Central Falls, RI, ca 1919, fl 1930s - 1940s; 540lbs, 5' 2" tall [blk 0-635-636-810, mm35][kn] Jolly Gene" (1) - fl 1914 [kn]
Jolly Gene" (2) - b ca 1929, fl 1948; 647 lbs
[kn] Jolly Irene - Amanda Siebert (aka Quinn), b Jersey City, NJ, ca
1880, m (2) George Siebert, talker, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, d
Coney Island, Nov 27, 1940; 689 lbs
[kn] Jolly Joe" - fl ca 1910, 640 lbs, 5' 11" tall, 54" waist, 74" waist [kn] Jolly Josephine Jolly Josie Born Ft. Wayne IN, HagenbeckWallace 1935 Age24, 525lbs, 5ft2in [d] Jolly Lee fl 1940; 600 lbs [blk 0-139] Jolly Mabel - fl 1913; 640 lbs [kn] Jolly Mazie (Maizie Fielder) [kn] Jolly Marie" - billed as "The World's Only Fat Girl Magician" on a Snap Wyatt banner [kn] Jolly Mary - 522 lbs at age 22 Jolly Nellie, Nellie Blanche Terrell, née Lane, b West Virginia,
May 1, 1898, m Carl Leon Terrell, motorcycle daredevil, Hawaii, 1926,
d Los Angeles, CA, Sep 5, 1953; 615 lbs (billed at 647), 5' 6" tall,
appeared in films as Nellie Lane or Kitty Lane, takes a bow in WB
cartoon "Daffy Duck in Hol
lywood"
[blk 0-638-645]
[kn] Jolly Ollie, 1920's-30's, 640lbs, Age 21. fl 1920s - 1930s; 538 - 603 lbs,
5' 8" tall, performed with Dolly Dimples and Jack Katz in "Wotta Fat
Family" vaudeville act, Palace Theater, NYC, 1929 [note: there may
have been a second performer with this name]
[d]
[kn] Jolly Pearl" - Pearl Stanley, née Wiley, b ca 1894, d 1929; 700+ lbs [kn] Jolly Ray fl ca 1918, 457 lbs (billed at 620) [d] [kn] Jolly Terrel [mm35] Jolly Trixie (or Trixy) - fl 1927; 687 lbs, 5' 2" tall (appeared at Living Curio Palace, NYC 1920's)[d][kn] Jolly Valera (627 age 22, 617 age 23)[d] Jolly Vera [kn] Back to top>> Continued on PAGE TWO (K-Z)

[kn] Karl Niedershuh
[e] Elizabeth Anderson
[gd] Gerald Drewicz
[blk] Bernard L. Kobel Catalogue
[dpm] Daniel P. Mannix
[d] doghouse
[rb] Robert Bogdan 
[kkk] Kunhardt 
[mm] Martin Monestier
[th] Tom Hernandez
 multi-talented, appears in more than one category
full article needed and/or forthcoming
Carrie Akers Carrie Akers Mamie Chambers Boxing Fat Lady
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Hannah Battersby

(1876)

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BattersbyCouple AdaBriggsEisenman.fat  
Hannah Battersby Ida Williams  Phebe Dunn  
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Ada Briggs

(ca. 1860's)

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  Alpine

(ca. 1925-28)

Baby June

(1940's) 

Jolly Josie

(1935)

Jolly Valera

(ca. 1916) 

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Henry Boston Burnett

(ca. 1925-28)

Happy Jenny

 W.D. "Tiny" Cowan

(ca. 1930's)

W.D. "Tiny" Cowan

(ca. 1940's)

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  Baby Thelma

(ca. 1940)

 
 Baby Thelma

(ca. 1935)

 Baby Thelma

(ca. 1935)

Dolly Dimples

(1928-29)

 
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Jolly Nellie

(ca. 1920)

Jolly Nellie

(ca. 1920)

Carrie Holt

(ca. 1920) 

Jolly Valera

(ca. 1915) 

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 Little Baby Viola

(1920's) 

 

Bonnie Bess

(1920's)

 

 Jolly Babe

(1920's)

Billy

(1910's) 

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Happy Jack Eckert

(1920's)

Happy Jack Eckert

(1920's)

Farmar's Fat Family

(1940's) 

Farmar's Fat Family

(1940's) 

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Jack & Jill

Jack & Jill Jolly Trixie

Jolly Trixie 

(1922-23?)

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Isabelle Allison Alice From Dallas

(1928-29)

Alice From Dallas

( 1928-29)

Alice From Dallas

(1941?)

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Jolly Trixie

Jolly Irene &

Baby Bunny
 

Walter, Ernst and Emile Hoehne Bros.

(1920's)

Baby Bliss

(1910)

 

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Jack Conner

(1950's) 

Caton Hoblit

(1915)

Jolly Emma

(1920's)

 Jolly Emma

(1920's)

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 Big Baby Bell

(1929)

 Big Bertha

Baby Thelma

 

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 Baby Ruth

(1932) 

 Baby Ruth

(1933) 

 Emil Hohne  
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 Tina Brown

(1930's)

Jolly Trixie

(1915-20)

Jolly Ollie

(1920's-30's)

 


Thanks to Elizabeth Anderson for identifying the following photos:

Mildred Monti with husband Jack Glicken
Ruby Westwood of the Westwood Fat Family of Foxton, New Zealand
Jolly Nellie Terrel (nee Lane)
("Miss Elma") = Alma Moore/Anne Chelton
Ada Briggs

Baby Thelma

Annie Redline

Rose Leslie-MacLaughlin

Rosina D. Woods-Richardson

Also, Elizabeth comments that "Alma/Elma Moore isn't the same person as Lucy Moore


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