The 10 of tallest man in the world in history
Ella Ewing is an tallest woman who born in La Grange, Missouri, the only child of Benjamin F and Anna Eliza Ewing. When a toddler, Ella's family moved to the small Scotland County community of rainbow, southeast of Gorin, Missouri. She was of normal size when still baby and when still young child, with the first signs of any abnormality appearing shortly after her seventh birthday.
At age fourteen she towered over then other children but also her parents and other adults, measuring 6 feet 10 inches. The people of the Rainbow and Gorin area were used to her fast growth and met it with compassion.
Asked to read the Declaration of Independence at a July 4th celebration in Wyaconda, Missouri, Ella was met with shocked gasps, snickers and laughter when she stood to read. Led away in tears, the incident would have a profound effect on her life.
Ewing's maximum height is a matter of dispute, but in several accounts she claimed to be over eight feet tall. Her mothers journal indicated that Ella's growth finally stopped when she was age twenty-two, at 8 feet, 4 inches tall.
However, this is not well documented and as such she is not mentioned in Guinness World Records. The Guinness Book of Records has stated she measured 7 feet 4 and a half inches tall and may have reached 7 feet 6 inches by the time she died.
As typical of many people who afflicted with pituitary gigantism Ella's arms were very long, with her hands and feet were exceptionally big. She wore a custom-made size 24 US shoe and often wore multiple rings on her fingers to mask her abnormal length sleeve.
Ella Ewing
At age fourteen she towered over then other children but also her parents and other adults, measuring 6 feet 10 inches. The people of the Rainbow and Gorin area were used to her fast growth and met it with compassion.
Asked to read the Declaration of Independence at a July 4th celebration in Wyaconda, Missouri, Ella was met with shocked gasps, snickers and laughter when she stood to read. Led away in tears, the incident would have a profound effect on her life.
However, this is not well documented and as such she is not mentioned in Guinness World Records. The Guinness Book of Records has stated she measured 7 feet 4 and a half inches tall and may have reached 7 feet 6 inches by the time she died.
As typical of many people who afflicted with pituitary gigantism Ella's arms were very long, with her hands and feet were exceptionally big. She wore a custom-made size 24 US shoe and often wore multiple rings on her fingers to mask her abnormal length sleeve.
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