A Young Texas Giant.
Los Angeles Times
Oct. 4, 1883, page 2

A Young Texas Giant.
Texas Herald.

  Z. W. Moore, of Kaufman county, and his son, a veritable novelty and a boy giant, arrived in the city yesterday morning.  The boy, who is only 7 years old, and weighs 105 pounds and has six distinct and well-developed toes on each foot and five fingers, exclusive of the thumb, on the left hand.  His stature is pretty much in keeping with a boy of his years.  The peculiarity of his dimensions, however, is not attributable to his being so fat, but the enormous size of his bones, which are much larger than those of the ordinary man.  Mr. Moore says that the unnatural growth of his son began when but a babe three months old and that when only three years old he tipped the scales at seventy-five pounds.  The lad is intelligent, in good health, and his father says he was never sick a day in his life.