He was with Haverly’s Minstrels in 1868, leaving that organization on December 8, that year.
September 12, 1870, he opened with Welch, Hughes and White’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, N. Y., being billed as the “Great Western Comedian,” subsequently he played an engagement with Simmons and Slocum’s Minstrels in Philadelphia. And for several seasons at Pastor’s Theatre in New York City, he played black-face parts in the stock.
Mr. Barry was married to Miss Fanny Fordham, and at the time of his death was survived by seven children—Lydia, Emma, Clara, Robert, Frank, Charles and William J.
Billy Barry was born in Ireland; he died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 15, 1898; age 48 years.
Billy Diamond (Bates), a good general performer, was connected with several of the older minstrel organizations, notably the Morris Brothers, with whom he made his first appearance in his native city at the age of 10.
In 1881 he married Minnie Blaich, at Newark, N. J.
He died at Boston, Mass., January 14, 1893.
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| “PONY” MOORE | EPH. HORN | FRED. WILSON (The oldest living minstrel) | LEW. BENEDICT | DAN. BRYANT |
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Bobby McGown was a first-class clog dancer, and was the first partner of George Primrose, whom he joined in E. Saginaw, Mich., about 1870. With Primrose he played the variety houses, and an engagement with O’Brien’s Circus.
He died (drowned), at Holyoke, Mass., August 22, 1875.