Talk:Frederick Coombs

A fact from Frederick Coombs appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 July 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, believing himself to be George Washington, the 19th-century phrenologist Frederick Coombs petitioned Congress to give him the Washington Monument?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/July.

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Place of birth[edit]

The article in Wikipedia is stating that F. Coombs was born in New York, however Wikimedia Commons has it as London.

~~I couldn't find any reliable source confirming his place of birth. Can someone with knowledge of San-Francisco history clarify it? Jacob0790 (talk) 01:34, 15 August 2020 (UTC)~~[reply]

- Got confirmation that Coombs was born in England. Jacob0790 (talk) 21:22, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]