The past few years Mr. Henry has not been actively engaged with his company, owing to ill health.
Hi Henry was born in Buffalo, N. Y., August 22, 1844.
| WM. E.—HINES & BLOSSOM—NAT. (Portraits reversed) | LEW.—SIMMONS & WHITE—FRANK H. |
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William Foote, the well-known minstrel manager, began and ended his career in that branch of theatricals.
In 1861 he was treasurer with M. C. Campbell’s Minstrels; and in 1864 was agent for Haverly and Mallory; this being one of Haverly’s earliest minstrel ventures.
Subsequently he was associated with Sam Sharpley, La Rue and many of the earlier burnt cork troupes.
In conjunction with Mr. Haverly, on January 1, 1876, he re-organized the New Orleans Minstrels, and when Haverly amalgamated the famous Mastodons in 1878, Mr. Foote was manager, and continued in that capacity for several years.
William Foote was born in Utica, N. Y., February 22, 1844; he died in Albany, N. Y., March 2, 1899.
J. C. Campbell (George Keller St. John), better known as “Pomp” Campbell, from the fact that he portrayed the character of “Pomp” in the play of that name in 1871, was a printer by trade, in Dayton, Ohio.
He was an excellent comedian and equally clever as a tambourine or bone player. His first important engagement was with the Morris Minstrels in the middle 60’s; subsequently he was with Kelly and Leon in New York, opening there August 31, 1868; also with John Hooley and Hawxhurst’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1873.