Through the years since his death, Robert Pershing Wadlow, known as the tallest man ... Robert's highly publicized wake and funeral enveloped Alton during those oven-baked July days, drawing ...

“Robert Wadlow, Alton’s young giant ... Harold’s brother, a funeral director, built Wadlow’s casket with the help of his workers, a metal casket placed inside a rosewood box.

This is the incredible life of Robert Wadlow, whose hands measured a foot long and whose arms spanned 9 feet 5 inches. Robert Pershing Wadlow was born February 22, 1918, and weighed a healthy 8 ...

File photo Robert Wadlow was 22 ... fatal blister to form in Manistee. Wadlow died on July 15, 1940 in his sleep and was returned to Alton, where his funeral was held and over 40,000 people ...