R. M. Carroll was born in New York City April 10, 1832.
W. L. Hobbs, the well known minstrel “leader” was associated with Frank Moran’s Minstrels in Philadelphia in 1872; he was also with Carncross and Dixey’s Company in the same city, and for several seasons was connected with Bryant’s Minstrels in New York.
W. L. Hobbs died in Philadelphia, July 12, 1874; age 45 years.
Bob Hall, who had been connected with many minstrel companies during his long career, and who had also been with Harrigan and Hart, died in Baltimore, Md., June 29, 1882; age 50 years.
Andrew Wyatt, an old-time minstrel leader, who was with Sanford’s Minstrels in Philadelphia as early as 1856, and for eight years prior to his death with Whitmore and Clark’s Minstrels, died in Salem, Mass., August 5, 1874; age 41 years.
A. M. Hernandez was famous as a pantomimist and acrobat; but it was as a guitarist and vocalist he was best known; he was capable of playing practically every known instrument.
In 1852 he was with Hayworth and Horton’s variety show doing a knife throwing act. The following year he was with Parrow’s Minstrels and subsequently with Matt. Peel’s and Sniffen’s Campbell’s Minstrels.
Mr. Hernandez was born in Havana, Cuba; he died in Montevideo, Uruguay, S. A., October 25, 1874.
J. B. Studley, the famous old legitimate actor, played, “Pomp, or Cudijos Cave” in New York, April 11, 1864, and in the same city played Uncle Tom, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, October 20, 1879.
Mr. Studley was born in Boston, Mass., October 8, 1832; he died in New York, August 6, 1910.