A season with his son and daughter, known as the 3 Harrises followed; then he worked with his daughter Laura (now of Cartmell and Harris) for about four years, after which he joined Lew Simmons for a season; then a brief season as one of the 4 Cartmells, after which was Smith and Harris.
Tommy Harris was born in Philadelphia, February 3, 1855.
Harry Kennedy (W. H. Kennedy), the well-known ventriloquist and song writer, played many minstrel engagements, notably with Haverly’s Mastodons.
In the Fall of 1884 he was associated with Billy Birch with the San Francisco Minstrels.
Harry Kennedy was born in Manchester, Eng.; he died in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 3, 1894; age 39 years.
Charley Reed. “Just the Plain Comedian” he was termed, and he was a comedian, as anyone who remembers him will testify.
Charley Reed’s professional career began and ended in white-face, but the major portion of it was given to minstrelsy, where he was always a star.
About 1872 he went to the California Theatre in San Francisco, where he became successively call-boy, prompter and low comedian.
In 1873 he joined Maguire’s Minstrels at the latter’s opera house in the Western metropolis. August 31, 1874, he opened for the season in Philadelphia with Simmons and Slocum’s Minstrels; the following August he joined Emerson’s Minstrels in Cincinnati. In 1876 he returned to San Francisco, and for the next three years he continued there with the minstrels at Maguire’s Opera House and comedian at the Bella Union Theatre.
July 7, 1879, with a variety company under the management of Martin Simon, he sailed for Australia, remaining away for more than a year. On February 7, 1881, he began an engagement with Thatcher and Ryman’s Minstrels in Philadelphia.