William Weisser was a well-known character around the city and was called “Philadelphia’s Biggest Man” by newspapers, not because he was tall– but because he was obese. In 1912, the 480-pound Weisser insisted on establishing his death bed in the back room of his saloon because he knew that no door in his house would be wide enough to move him through after he died. Once he passed, he was placed in his casket in the saloon and had to be moved by truck to the cemetery due to being too large for a conventional hearse.