He died at Boston, Mass., January 14, 1893. [Illustration: “PONY” MOORE EPH. HORN FRED. WILSON (The oldest living minstrel) LEW. BENEDICT DAN. BRYANT “GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED.”] BOBBY MCGOWN was a first-class clog dancer, and was the first partner of George Primrose, whom he joined in E. Saginaw, Mich., about 1870. With Primrose he played the variety houses, and an engagement with O’Brien’s Circus. He died (drowned), at Holyoke, Mass., August 22, 1875. ARCHIE WHITE (Moak), known to patrons of minstrelsy for over forty years, began his professional career in the late 60’s, and early took as a partner, Frank White, of Auburn, N. Y., with whom he did double songs and dances; later they formed an amateur minstrel show, visiting nearby towns. His first regular engagement was with the Park Theatre Company of Brooklyn, N. Y.; it lasted one consecutive week. In 1870 he became a member of Blaisdell Brothers and Courtright’s Minstrels, opening at Portage City, Wis.; it was with this company that chance gave him an opportunity to do an “end”; and he did it well; this engagement lasted thirteen months. Next came a series of variety engagements. In 1873 he became a “member” of the famous Peak Family of Bell Ringers, doing a genteel song and dance. His next prominent engagement was with Harry Robinson’s Minstrels; with this company he formed a partnership with the late Charles T. Ellis, of “Casper, the Yodler” fame. After this Mr. White played variety theatres for two years, then a short trip with one of Haverly’s Minstrel companies. After Lew Benedict withdrew from the Duprez and Benedict organization, Mr. Duprez, who continued to use the trade-mark, chose Mr. White as his late partner’s successor; he joined the company at Scranton, Pa., September 17, 1877, and remained eight years. Of late years Mr. White has been successful in rural drama, appearing in the plays “Joshua Simpkins” and “Uncle Josh, in Chinatown.” At the present time he is actively engaged in vaudeville, giving his old darky delineations, of which he is a master. In the early minstrel days Mr. White ranked high as a tambourine manipulator. Archie White was born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., January 20, 1850. PRESS ELDREDGE (Preston W. Eldredge), whose sobriquet of “The Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Fun” is known wherever the vaudeville language is spoken, began his stage career at the New Bowery Theatre in 1863, at a benefit for J. W. Lingard; his offering was “Johnny Schmoker,” in Dutch dialect.