GEO. M. CLARK entered the field of minstrelsy about 1860; subsequently with his partner he organized Whitmore and Clark’s Minstrels, and traveled successfully for many years. He was born in 1833, and died in Felchville, Vt., June 6, 1885. [Illustration: BYRON CHRISTY HUGHEY DOUGHERTY JAMES UNSWORTH HARRY PELL FRANK MORAN BOB. HART BILLY RICHARDSON FRANK BELL LEW BENEDICT ORATORS OF THE OLD DAYS.] CHARLES PETRIE was one of the old time banjoists, and one of the first to open a variety theatre in Chicago. He was associated with the minstrel companies of Arlington, Kelly, Leon and Donniker, Lew Benedict’s and others. He was born in Lockport, N. Y., in 1833; he died in Dallas, Texas, November 12, 1881. J. E. GREEN was known as “Mocking Bird Green,” from the fact that he was so long identified with singing of the song of that name, and whistling imitations of same. He entered the profession about 1856, as a member of the minstrel firm of Shorey, Carle, Duprez and Green; subsequently it became Duprez and Green’s Minstrels, and continued until 1865 under that trade-mark, when he sold his interest to Lew Benedict. He subsequently had several companies of his own and was associated in another with “Hop Light Loo” Charley Gardner. At the time of his death he was musical director with Archie White’s “Duprez and Benedict’s” Minstrels. J. E. Green was born in Portsmouth, N. H., April 9, 1833; he died in New York, November 30, 1886. BILLY WRAY, the father of Mrs. John Wild, was one of the most versatile of performers; as an end man and stump speaker he excelled; he was likewise a clever magician. With his wife (Louise Payne) and daughter, Ada, already referred to, he traveled in 1862, giving an entire performance by themselves. Billy Wray was born in New York, July 25, 1833; he was lost in the wreck of the Steamer “Evening Star” between New York and New Orleans, October 3, 1866. E. FREEMAN DIXEY--his was a household word in Philadelphia, where practically his whole professional career, and the major portion of his life was spent. His first engagement was in Boston, at the age of eighteen; subsequently he went to Philadelphia, and opened there at Cartee’s Lyceum, the present site of the 11th Street Opera House, with the Julien Serenaders, December 4, 1854. On April 23, 1855, the house was opened as Sanford’s Opera House, by Sam Sanford, and Mr. Dixey was a member of the company, and continued with Sanford until the latter drew away from its management, April 14, 1862, when Mr. Dixey and Mr. Carncross opened it under the name of Carncross and Dixey’s Minstrels; Robert Simpson was the financial man. The firm of Carncross and Dixey continued until June 17, 1871; Mr. Carncross retiring on that date.