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Status:
Published

Last Updated:
7 September 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

12 Apr 1875
13 Apr 1875
14 Apr 1875
15 Apr 1875
17 Apr 1875
24 Apr 1875
10 May 1875
15 May 1875

Performers and/or Works Performed

Citations

1)
Article: New York Sun, 12 April 1875, 1.

Death of pneumonia at his home in New York.

2)
Article: New York Herald, 13 April 1875, 5.
3)
Article: New York Sun, 14 April 1875, 3.
4)
Article: New-York Times, 15 April 1875, 5.

Obsequies at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle; pall-bearers, description of the service, funeral address, noted mourners.

5)
Article: New York Sun, 15 April 1875, 2.
6)
Article: New York Herald, 15 April 1875, 12.
7)
Article: New York Clipper, 17 April 1875, 22.

Biographical sketch of the late comedian; program for the last evening he performed at his own opera house; death and funeral arrangements. List of other prominent minstrels who have died with the past two years.

8)
Article: New York Clipper, 24 April 1875, 30.
9)
Article: New York Sun, 10 May 1875, 4.
10)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 15 May 1875, 54.