George Lippert (1844,

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– July 1906,

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), was born with three legs and, as was discovered during his autopsy, two hearts. He worked as a curiosity for nearly 50 years, many of them for

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. Although he claimed that his third leg was fully functional until it was fractured in an accident, this has not been firmly established. In 1898, he began facing competition from a three-legged boy, Sicilian-born

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, who was touring with the

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. By 1899 he was penniless, but found a benefactor in a florist named Mary Riggs, with whom he lived in his final years.Biography
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in 1906. The Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs, held by

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, includes a photograph of a painting titled "George Lippert three legged man".

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