Henry Wheeler was born in Lanesborough, Massachusetts back in 1818. He attended Hamilton College but was expelled his second year for removing the clapper of the campus bell. He worked as a farmer, coal miner, explorer and auctioneer.In 1858 he found himself in Poughkeepsie, New York making a living as a journalist and writer. He wrote in an informal voice full of the current slang of the day, using eccentric phonetic spelling dispensing wit and folksy common-sense wisdom. Wouldn’t it be nice if some people use that same common-sense wisdom today? Anyway, lets continue with the story. he died in 1885 near Monterey, CaliforniaMaybe just maybe you know him better as Henry Wheeler Shaw? Hmm, name still doesn’t ring a bell, how about his pen name of John Billings? Historians has said perhap...
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