He had VERY famous friends, but not relatives
Was he involved in a scandal?
In a way he was involved in scandalous incidents, but he never tried to hide anything he did, it was always done in public.
9 Q left
You can give a few more clues now - please? Like century; area.
(do you ever sleep?)
He was born into a wealthy family in Georgia, became a professional man, gained his college degree in pennsylvania.
John Wesley Hardin
(wild guess)
Not john wesley hardin, nice try ossobuco
not attorney fealola
8Q left
throwing last names -
Harrison
Harriman
Harding
dunno if that is cheating.
And, my the wind is whipping about, here. I sort of hope my side fence comes down, then the insurance might pay for reconstruction. dum de dum dummmmmm.
Ossobuco, I think that might be construed as "not fair play" otherwise we could simply go through the phone book each time until we got to the right one.
We're down to 8 Q or so and even the Murricans don't seem to have any idea...I wrote me off ages ago!
Time for more clues, I theeenk!
At a time when skilled workers were being paid a couple of dollars a day, he once won $40,000 in a poker game.
Yes, I guess it could be construed so. I come from a culture of initials game on car trips, where we did stuff like say, does it start with HU? and there were no '20' limits. The game went on, and on, and on, until we got it, occasionally spelling out letters of someone's name we never heard of, as miles passed, everybody in the car by then completely crabby.
Sooooooooooo, we have a card shark, last name starting in H.
Y'know, you might win this one!
It's weekend and I'm off now and may be gone some time, so as not to stop the game, I'll put you out of your misery, it was:
John (Doc) Holliday
