April 17, 1871, he married Eva De La Motta, at Mansfield, Ohio, and on February 17, 1881, in New York City, he married Miss Fanny Mouris.
Of late years Mr. Benedict has been playing vaudeville.
Lew Benedict was born in Kingston, Canada, December 6, 1839.
Carl Rudolph (Wilbur Fiske Barrell), one of the most prominent balladists in minstrelsy, began his career in St. Louis, Mo., doing concert work; from which it was but a short step to burnt-cork honors.
| LEW.—HAWKINS & COLLINS—BEN. | LAMONT & DUCROW |
| GEO. & WILLIE GUY (1866) | JNO. P.—HOGAN & HUGHES—RUEY (1871) |
Mr. Rudolph was one of the original members of Billy Emerson’s Minstrels, February 11, 1870.
In the Summer of 1872 he was with Sam Sharpley in New York, and that same year in the same city rejoined Emerson.
In August, 1877, Mr. Rudolph was with Barlow, Wilson, Primrose and West’s Minstrels at the initial performance of that organization.
Season of 1873 he joined Bryant’s Minstrels in New York City; the major portion of the balance of his theatrical career was spent in Philadelphia with Carncross’ Minstrels.
Carl Rudolph was born in Aspenham, Mass., October 29, 1839; he died in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 8, 1909.