As Noah from the Ark sent the carrier dove
Out of the old world into the new.”
Ned Fox died at Hartford, Conn., March 28, 1875; age about 30 years.
W. S. Mullally was one of the best and most prominent of minstrel leaders.
As early as when he was fifteen years of age he was leader at a Boston theatre. His final minstrel engagement was about 1864 with Hy. Rumsey’s Company.
The following year he joined the San Francisco Minstrels in New York, and continued with them about fifteen years. In the summer of 1869 he played in Liverpool, England, with Smith and Taylor’s Minstrels. He was with Charley Reed’s Minstrels in San Francisco in 1884.
Subsequently he played an extended engagement with Dockstader’s Minstrels in New York, and later was with several legitimate and farcical attractions. He had composed considerable dramatic and popular music, and was the author of “Mottoes That Are Framed Upon the Wall.”
He was born in Manchester, England, in 1845; he died in Westboro, Mass., August 2, 1905.
Harry Percy (John H. Peabody) a prominent vocalist of many important minstrel companies, died at Jersey City, N. J., January 2, 1880.
Charles Goodyear was well-known as a capable and clever comedian.