Further Antedating of "Hillbilly"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Feb 28 03:15:22 UTC 2012


hillbilly (OED 1900)

1891 _Freeman_ (Indianapolis, Ind.) 17 Jan. 8 (America's Historical Newspapers)  Since our agent has attracted so much attention every "hill billy" and his cousin want to be an agent.

Fred Shapiro

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