Human Skeletons

Skinny Folk

Thin Men

Atherton, Artie (t/n Arthur Moll; b. Saginaw, Michigan, January 30, 1890; d. Pontiac, Michigan, 
July 14, 1920, car accident. Married Blanche Buckley, snake charmer; had a daughter, Mary Adelaide.)[e]
Avery, Martin P.  (aka J.D. Avery; b. New Berlin, New York, 1836; d. New York City, July 1882, 
complications from "dyspepsia".)[e]
Barrow, William (Barlow?)William Barlow, "The Human Corkscrew" (m. Mamie Wilcox,
"Happy Maymee", fat lady.)[blk 0-442] [nd][e]
Battersby, John  (b. England, 1832; m. Hannah Perkins, fat lady; had a daughter, Rachel, b. 1859)[e]
Castagna, Dominique "The Mummy Man" (b. Saligny, France, 1869; d. Leige, 
France, 1905, suicide.) [mm38][e]
Coffey, James W."The Skeleton Dude" "The Ohio Skeleton" 
(b. Ohio, March 11, 1852; m. Eva Courtright in Detroit, Dec. 27, 1887; had a child in 1902)[d][e]
Cole, Walter R. [e]
Curtis, Robert "Slim Jim"(m. Bertha Curtis, fat lady) [blk 0-747] [d] [e]
Darrington, John  (with Huber's Museum, 1900)  [e]
Duke "The Skeleton Dude" (Strand Museum, 1928)  [e]
Edson, Calvin "Jeremiah Thin" (b. Stafford, Conn., 1788; d. 1833) [fd340] [e]
Ex-Ray (Coney Island, 1925)   [e]
Feralto, Eugene (aka Perry, Charles H.)  "The Skeleton Strongman" [nd] [ah36] [mh] [gd]  [e]  
Fowler, Eugene "Slats" [blk 0-449]  [e]
Garrison, James B.  (m. Bertha Clear of Philadelphia 1884; d. 1884 of heartbreak after she filed 
for an annulment.) [e]
Granville, D.F.  (Central Park Menagerie, 1872)  [e]
Hopp, Geo. W. "The Starved American"
Jenkins, Eliza  "The Skeleton Woman"   [e]
Jones, Harry (b. Lebanon, Missouri, 1860) [blk 0-448,mr84] [e]

Kelley, "Happy Jack" "The Strange Man" (t/n Lewis James Stallo; b. Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 1876; d. 
Elwood City, Ohio, 1932, car accident. Was perhaps more properly an ossified man.)  [e]
Larry "Cigarette Fiend" [d]
Lewis, Harry V. "Shadow Harry"(b. Leon, Iowa, Aug. 15, 1896) [blk 0-443-728,mr152]  [e]
Lindoff, George [e]
Malone, Milton "Slim Jim" "Slim John"[blk 0-451, mm38,dpm80,mr80]
Masher, Eddie(t/n Edward G. Hagner; b. Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 16, 1892; d. 1962) [blk 0-445-446] [e]
Montarg, Alexander  (b. Italy; married a bearded lady; played the violin)  [e]
Moore, George  (allegedly 7'2" tall; photographed boxing fat man William Howe) [e]
Noisee, Carl  (b. Austria, 1861) [e]
Pape, Percy (b. 1932; m. Dolly Regan, Ossified Girl.)  [d] [e]
Plemons, Rosa Lee  [e]
Price, George (Also Prise) [e]
Prince Budda  
Pulley, Glen [mm38]
Robinson, Pete   
Rogers, "Shadow"  
Seurat, Claude Ambroise  "L'anatomie vivant" 
(b. Troyes, France, April 10, 1789; d. April 6, 1826)[fd339] [e]
Shouse, John 
Smith, John J.  [e]

Southwick, Mme. May  (aka Zelda?)   [e]

Sprague, Isaac W. "The Original Thin Man" (b. East Bridgewater, Mass., May 21, 1841; d. Chicago 
IL, Jan. 14, 1887, asphyxia; m. Minnie Thompson and had three sons.)  [d] [e]
Transparent Williams [blk 0-444]
Tröbs, Richard  [e]
Vaustelli, Signora  (b. Naples, Italy, 1859; exhibited in London, 1884) [e]
Warren, Rhonda  (sister of Carrie Warren, fat lady)[d] [e]
Wickware, Dr. R.O.  (Was a postmaster for the state of Illinois before he began losing weight) [e]
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Unidentified Reclining Thin Man (see photo above)

[blk] Bernard L. Kobel Catalogue
[dpm] Daniel P. Mannix
[d] doghouse
[e] Elizabeth Anderson
[mh] Marc Hartzman
[rb] Robert Bogdan 
[kkk] Kunhardt 
[mm] Martin Monestier

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•Full article needed and/or forthcoming.

Cabinet Card of Unidentified Thin Man by WENDT, circa 1890's.

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This page Updated April 16. 2006.