Further Antedating of "Billionaire"

[Shapiro, Fred]

billionaire (OED 1861)

1844 _Knickerbocker_ Mar. 288 (American Periodicals Series)  A 'millionaire;' or, for that matter, a 'billionaire,' if we had him, would not hesitate to take out of his mouth a moiety of his last 'chew' and give it to an itinerant Lazarus.

Fred Shapiro

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