Frank McNish was born in Camden, N. Y., December 14, 1853.
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| BILLY LYONS | FRED. MALCOLM | CHAS. HEYWOOD |
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| JUSTIN ROBINSON | THE GREAT “EUGENE” | ERNEST LINDEN |
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| LINCOLN ELLWOOD | BURT. SHEPARD | PAUL VERNON |
| FAMED FAVORITES WHO FEATURED FEMININE FANCIES—SECONDEDITION. | ||
Gus Mills achieved considerable popularity as a female impersonator with Simmons, Slocum’s and Sweatnam’s Minstrels in Philadelphia; Dockstader’s in New York, as well as Emerson’s and other well known organizations; he died in Chicago, Ill., October 6, 1903; age about 55 years.
Johnny Mack entered the profession at an early age. He had as partners at various times Johnny Gardner, Billy Conway and Lew Dockstader. With the latter he played with Whitmore and Clark’s Minstrels in 1874, as Mack and Clapp.
He died at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., February 28, 1891; age 38 years.
Willie (Wm. H.) Guy was the first of the Guy boys to enter minstrelsy, making his initial appearance with Hooley in Brooklyn, N. Y., about 1863; the following year he was with M. C. Campbell’s Minstrels in New York.
Subsequently he joined his brother George, and as George and Willie Guy became quite popular at Hooley’s Minstrels in Brooklyn, where they remained for a considerable time.
The next few years he was with the minstrel organization of Kelly and Leon; Moore and Burgess, Harry Robinson’s, Welch, Hughes and White; Smith and Taylor’s, and George Christy’s.
In 1874 he became a member of Guy Brother’s Minstrels, and as such continued practically until his death. Mr. Guy ranked high as a song and dance performer and comedian.
Willie Guy was born in Hartford, Conn., October 16, 1853; he died in Springfield, Mass., February 26, 1906.








