tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post1322997035313557061..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Frank Harris: 'Had he not been a thundering liar...'Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-45537102953978137172018-03-03T12:43:54.583+00:002018-03-03T12:43:54.583+00:00Just caught up with this post a year late, but sin...Just caught up with this post a year late, but since I'm going to talk about the date of Harris's birth that would seem fit.<br />There is actually little doubt about the 1856 date because of the 1871 census, where Harris is listed at his school in Wales and assigned an age of 15 years. This evidence also serves to put the kibosh on much of his early adventures because it's the same year as the Chicago fire so there's no way he could have spent a year as a hotel clerk AND have become a cowboy between coming to the US in (say) June and witnessing the fire that same October.Alfred Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03605130674115747847noreply@blogger.com