About two years later Mr. Bryant withdrew, and subsequently played mostly in the variety houses.
As a cornettist he ranked with the best.
Fred Bryant died in New York City, June 22, 1894.
Joseph Brooks, the well-known theatrical magnate, now located in New York City, was formerly a minstrel magnate. When? August 24, 1881, the season of Brooks, Dickson and Clapham’s Minstrels was inaugurated.
Frank Howard (Parlimenta), once of the Clipper Quartette, and also of the famous minstrel act of Adams, Casey and Howard, is in business in New Jersey.
Dave Foy was several years as a clown with Robinson’s Circus, commencing about 1876; subsequently he was with the “Two John’s” Company; as late as 1887, with Lizzie Foy, he played the principal vaudeville houses.
Season of 1891-92 he was with Primrose and West. In 1890 he joined Carncross’s Minstrels in Philadelphia; during the World’s Fair in Chicago, he played with Haverly; subsequently returning to Carncross, where he was quite popular; his excessive avoirdupois contributed in a small measure to his success.
Dave Foy was born in Philadelphia, where he died October 16, 1900.
Jabez Freeth, interlocutor and bass singer in the California Quartette, was prominently identified with the minstrel companies of Haverly, Emerson and several others.
He died in San Francisco, Cal., July 11, 1882.