In 1904 he joined Dumont’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, where he remained several seasons.
Jerry Cunningham was born in Boston, Mass., September 27, 1859.
Henry E. Dixey (Dixon), America’s most versatile actor, did the black-face act of “Funny Old Gal” in imitation of Billy Ashcroft, in Boston, Mass., about 1872.
Mr. Dixey was born in Boston, Mass., January 6, 1859.
E. N. Slocum, famous as an interlocutor, sat on the end with Simmons and Slocum’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, April, 1874.
“Jack” (E. L.) Williams, of the once prominent black-face team of Lester and Williams, died in New York, July 31, 1901.
C. Edward Dicken, a well-known interlocutor and singer of the present generation, who was with Cleveland’s Minstrels in 1895, and subsequently with Vogel’s Minstrels, died at La Salle, Ill., May 19, 1900.
George Marion, recognized as one of America’s most efficient producers and stage-managers, played the “bone end” with Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels located in New York, in 1888.