In May, 1871, Mr. Hogan joined the Hooley Minstrels in Chicago for a supplemental traveling season; with this company he did a specialty with J. K. Campbell.
Subsequently with Jimmy Cummings, he played an engagement at Moran and Dixey’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, closing there about February 1, 1872, after which in a variety theatre in the same city he did “Let Me Be” with Harry Kernell, who afterward gained fame as an Irish comedian.
Hogan and Mudge’s Minstrels toured in 1872, likewise Hogan and Ella Chapman played in the principal variety houses.
In 1874 Mr. Hogan returned to Bryant’s Minstrels, and continued there until the death of Dan Bryant, April 10, 1875. A few months later he joined hands with Charley Lord, and as Hogan and Lord played an engagement with Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels.
John Hogan was born in Montreal, Canada, March 14, 1847.
Arthur Moreland. Instances of black-face performers going from the minstrel to the dramatic stage are of very frequent occurrence, but when a legitimate performer goes into minstrelsy, we are inclined to rub our eyes, sit up and take notice.
Such was the case of the subject of this sketch, whose professional debut was made in Troy, N. Y., at the Griswold Opera House, April 14, 1865, in the “Lady of Lyons”; this was not an animal show, as unthinking persons might surmise.
Mr. Moreland next went to London, England, where for five months, commencing in 1865, he played a stock engagement at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Returning to the United States extended engagements followed at St. Louis, New Orleans, Louisville, Cincinnati and New York City. In 1872 he assumed the management of Johnny Thompson, in “On Hand.”
Mr. Moreland’s next move was to the Olympic Theatre, in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1873; it was here that Mr. Moreland first became a “corker,” though he had been a corking good fellow fully a quarter of a century prior to that date—and ever since.
His first minstrel engagement was with Hooley in 1876; the following year he was with Maguire’s Company in San Francisco, and later with Emerson’s Minstrels, same city. In 1880 Mr. Moreland became a member of the San Francisco Minstrels in New York City, where he remained four years.