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Isaac W. Sprague : ウィキペディア英語版 | Isaac W. Sprague
Isaac W. Sprague (January 5, 1841 - January 5, 1887) was an entertainer and sideshow performer, billed as the living human skeleton.〔 ==Biography== He was born on May 21, 1841, in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts.〔(Human Skeletons )〕 Although normal for most of his childhood, Sprague began losing weight at age 12 after feeling ill after swimming.〔〔(I. W. Sprague: Steven Bolin's Vintage Sideshow Photographs )〕 In 1865, he joined a circus sideshow, becoming "the Living Skeleton" or "the Original Thin Man".〔〔(The Human Marvels: Isaac W. Sprague ) 〕 The next year P. T. Barnum hired Sprague to work at his (newly reopened) American Museum until it burned down in 1868, continuing off and on to tour him throughout the country.〔 By the age of 44, he was 5 feet and 6 inches tall with a weight of only 43 pounds.〔 He died on January 5, 1887, in poverty, of asphyxia in Chicago, Illinois.〔〔
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