Josh Billings

This article is about the humorist. For other uses, see Josh Billings (disambiguation).

Josh Billings
Born(1818-04-21)April 21, 1818
Lanesborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedOctober 14, 1885
(aged 67)
Monterey, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter
SpouseZipha E. (Bradford) Shaw ( – November 12, 1901) (m. 1845)
ChildrenGrace Anna Shaw Duff ( – 1923), Kate Alice Shaw Santana
Parent(s)Henry Shaw (1788–1857), Laura Wheeler Shaw ( – 1883)

Henry Wheeler Shaw (April 21, 1818 – October 14, 1885), better known by the pen name Josh Billings, was a 19th-century American humorist and lecturer.

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