Harry Evarts, who was associated with Johnny Booker with Booker and Evarts’ Minstrels in the 50’s, and was considered a good general performer, was in later years prominently identified with several companies in an executive capacity.
He was killed in a wreck near Hamilton, Canada, April 28, 1889.
Dick (Richard) Silver, was an early member of the famous Morris Bros., Pell and Trowbridge’s Minstrels in the 60’s.
At the time of his death he had been in the theatrical profession about seventy years.
Mr. Silver was born in Groton, Vt., he died in Traverse City, Mich., October 10, 1909.
Lew Rattler, long associated in the early days of minstrelsy in California, and a member of an organization of the same name in 1859, was a comedian of merit.
He died in San Francisco, Cal., March 27, 1905.
Theodore Gustave Bidaux who ranked with the great baritone singers of minstrelsy, came to America in 1858, and appeared with much success with the following well-known burnt cork organizations—Sanford’s, in Philadelphia; Lloyd and Bidaux’; Duprez and Green’s; George Christy’s; Manning’s; Haverly’s, and Wm. Henry Rice’s in Cincinnati.
Mr. Bidaux married a Mrs. Ayleen in 1867.
Theodore Gustave Bidaux was born near Paris, France, March 12, 1830; he died at Hatboro, Pa., March 5, 1886.