Anna Haining Bates
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Exhibited by P. T. Barnum and married Martin Van Buren Bates, himself 7 ft 9 in. Her second child, born 1879, weighed 23 lb 12 oz and measured 30 in - the largest newborn ever recorded. Attended and documented by physicians.
People of giant stature measured under modern conditions, with a named cause where one is known. This is the only class on the page where the height itself is verified.
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