Billings, JOSH, the pseudonym under which Henry M. Shaw (1818–85), a land-agent at Poughkeepsie, New York, published facetious almanacs and collections of witticisms, the wit in which, however, was mainly due to their deliberate mis-spelling.
Billings, JOSH
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract
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