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Josh Billings was 'a character'. Until recently, there has been little information about him online - or in reference books for that matter, but in the 1920s and 1930s he was there with the Chicago and New York jazz musicians we know so well. That is possibly because he has not been seen as a bona fide musician, but there is more to Josh than meets the eye.

Until 2020 information about Frank 'Josh' Billings was sketchy and at times a little misleading, but last year Gerry Paton in America started to draw together information about Josh that was scattered among various publications - click here for Gerry's article - Frank Josh Billings, A Suitable Case For Treatment. It is an interesting read but there are a few things that we are able to add here.

Sandy Brown Jazz reader Colin Brown has checked the 1910 United States Census for us and notes that Frank R. 'Josh' Billings was born in Chicago on 14th February 1905. His parents were Thomas E Billings and Rebecca R Billings. Thomas was not a doctor as stated in some articles, but rather a printer. This would tie in with Frank later becoming a lithographer. His mother was a Physi

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Josh Billings

American humorist (1818–1885)

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.
Died	October 14, 1885 (aged 67) Monterey, California, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Spouse	Zipha E. (Bradford) Shaw ( – November 12, 1901)[1] (m. 1845)[2]
Children	Grace Anna Shaw Duff ( – 1923),[3] Kate Alice Shaw Santana[4][5]
Parent(s)	Henry Shaw (1788–1857), Laura Wheeler Shaw ( – 1883)[6][7]

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

Biography

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Shaw was born in Lanesborough, Massachusetts on April 21, 1818. His father was Henry Shaw, who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821,^[8][9] and his grandfather Samuel Shaw who also served in the U.S. Congress from 1808 to 1813. His uncle was John Savage, yet another Congressman.

Shaw attended Hamilton College, but was expelled in his second year for removing the clapper of the campus bell.^[2][10] He married