George Hull
1821–1902
American tobacco dealer and hoaxer. Creator of fake fossils and collaborator with W. A. Conant in promoting the fake Colorado Giant as a Darwinian missing link.
Sources
Tribble 2009, pp. 35, 231
United States Federal Census 1880 (Fenton, Broome, New York 46/308B) (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 September 2016)
Bibliography
Tribble, Scott. 2009. A colossal hoax: the giant from Cardiff that fooled America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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