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I have a question concerning the 8'9 height another article states that john f carroll was the second tallest after robert p wadlow carrolls height is given at 8'7.75 is this accurate? also the 8'9 height and 175# weight seems unbelievable is this accurate too?24.178.84.130 13:37, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
I have a REALLY hard time believing he was only 175 lbs. at 8 foot 9. I have a friend who's 6'1 and 125 lbs. and he's a stick.
Lets cover all these concerns real easy-like. John Rogan was a black man at the turn of the 20th century. People know almost nothing about him, so it is obvious that he may be left off some lists.
Second, the 8'9" and 175 lbs is not that unbelievable if you see pictures of him. Plus he dies young ( I question the years on this article), so of course he had problems!!! If he had been of a different "ethnic orientation" he may have lived a few more years, but that was the Jim Crow years.
I think I covered everything. Have fun! Ainbro 07:52, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
1980s Guinness editions had him at 8 ft 6 in (259 cm) with the footnote "measured in sitting position", so apparently this was no estimate. Later editions upgraded him to 8 ft 8 in (264 cm) with no explanation. I think the weight of 175 lb (79 kg) was included in some editions (for certain, I did see it in a Swedish edition), and indeed he looks downright skeletal in his pictures (tennessean.com, World's tallest people ever website), but even still the weight seems incredibly low – but perhas he lost even more weight prior to his death. --Anshelm '77 (talk) 15:33, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
"...his foot measured 13 inches in length..."
Is this supposed to be notable? I am 5 feet 11 inches tall and wear size 9.5 shoes, and my feet are 10.75 inches long. Phizzy 17:09, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
The info box says 8 foot 10, the article says 8 foot 9, List of tallest people says 8 foot 9 1/2, one of the citations says 8 foot 8, and one of them says 8 foot 7.
You know, the consistency here could be ever so slightly better... Thegreatluigi (talk) 01:55, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Is this a genuine picture of Joe Rogan, or just an "example" of an extremely tall black man?
The data with the picture has a lot of problems. The picture is titled Uncle Drew, which is hard to imagine as a nickname for John William Bud Rogan. The coded years: birth 1890, and death 2019 [obviously a typo] do not match Rogan's, which are 1868 to 1905. The locations are absolute junk. Two Clevelands? Really? The article says he was born in Hendersonville TN.
name = Uncle Drew
image = John-Rogan.jpg
birth_date =
February 16, 1890birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio
death_date = death date and age|2019|9|12|1890|2|16
death_place = Cleveland, Tennessee
I realize that data may be obscured by time, and/or by his ethnicity, but I hope we can do better. I do not have access to the only reference listed. Tkech (talk) 03:12, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
@SCPdude629, do you happen to have a source for the exact birth date you added? AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 02:46, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps this could help? https://lom.blackgold.org/Author/Home?author=%22Rogan%2C%20John%22SCPdude629 (talk) 20:03, 6 December 2023 (UTC)SCPdude629