Antedating of "Billionaire"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:13:08PM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> billionaire (OED 1861)
>
> 1847 _Cabinet_ (Schenectady, NY) 23 Mar. 2 (GenealogyBank)  The following story was related of John Jacob Astor, the New-York Billionaire.
>

Fred, you're regressing! In 2005 you posted an 1844 example!

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0507D&L=ADS-L&P=R9597&I=-3&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches

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