Mort. Emerson was born in Philadelphia, November 27, 1853.
Willis Clark died (suicide) in New York City, December 23, 1899; age 42 years.
The Daly Bros. Tom Daly’s early partner was Bob Birdue; they played an engagement at the Howard Athenaeum in Boston, where they met with pronounced success; subsequently he was joined by his brother Bill.
In April, 1871, as Master Willie and Tommy, they did their specialties with Newcomb and Arlington’s Minstrels in New York City; season of 1875 they played Carncross and Dixey’s Minstrels in Philadelphia; the next year they were with Haverly, and after the conclusion of that engagement the brothers joined Emerson and Clark, and the four were known as the King High Kickers.
The Dalys were brothers of the lamented Dan Daly; and Tom Daly’s second wife was Lizzie Derious, the well-known soubrette, now Mrs. Sam Tuck.
Tom Daly was a man of exemplary habits; his death was the result of a brutal assault received in Chicago a few years previous to it.
Bill Daly, or “Cap. Bill” as he is best known, has not appeared professionally in several years.
Tom Daly was born at Bathurst, N. B., in 1855; he died at Somerville, Mass., July 20, 1892.
ORIGINAL BIG FOUR—LESTER-ALLEN-SMITH-WALDRON.
Billy Lester (Albert Manasse) made his first appearance as a clog dancer with Sam Colville’s Variety Company, at the age of 13.