There was a TV show made about his life years ago, called "Grizzly Adams".
He was a trapper and frontiersman in California with a rather strange penchant. He wore a head cap made of a wolf's head......
among other strange dress.
He hunted Grizzlys to extinction they say in California and worked for P.T. Barnum (the original circus man).,who paid for his funeral.
Grizzly Adams oftentimes was seriously bitten by a grizzly, one of them he raised as a cub, and both times they tore a part of his scalp off which exposed his brain
He actually died from complications developed after a monkey in the Barnum show "bit his brain"......thru his scalp.
I thought it's worth a look (no time of birth unfortunately).
His biography and photo here:
Adams made pets of several grizzlies and often wrestled with them. His most delinquent grizzly, named General Fremont (for John C. Fremont), during a playful wrestling match, struck Adams in the head, cracking it like an eggshell. The wound healed, only to be reopened by the "General". Although never fatal, by the fourth time the General severely injured James Adams' head, it left his brain exposed.
Adams died at about 53 years of age of meningitis from the open head wound that resulted from an accident while training a monkey on tour with P.T. Barnum in 1860. He was buried in Bay Path Cemetery, Charlton, Massachusetts. It is said that P. T. Barnum paid for his tombstone.
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