In conjunction with Charley White, they formed Horn and White’s Minstrels, opening in New York, April 2, 1851. Subsequently he was identified with practically all the famous permanent minstrel companies in the metropolis, including Wood’s, Campbell’s, Buckley’s, Bryant’s, and E. P. Christy’s; with the latter he went to San Francisco, Cal., in the Fall of 1854, where he remained eighteen months. Subsequently he appeared as clown in a circus, in black face. In 1858 he played an engagement with Ordway’s Aeolians in Boston. Mr. Horn was a fine end man in his day, and all-round general comedian. In the Summer of 1865 he went to London, where he played a brief engagement. Eph. Horn was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 1818; he died in New York, January 1, 1877. SAM GARDNER (Sylvester Gardner) was a prominent minstrel interlocutor for forty years; he was likewise a splendid bass singer, and had been identified with many prominent organizations, notably Wm. Henry Rice’s Minstrels in Cincinnati, with whom he opened September 2, 1872. He had been a resident of Omaha, Neb., where he died March 10, 1888, for many years. He was born in New York City about 1818. ZENAS RUMSEY was one of the early minstrel performers of the ’40’s. He possessed a good tenor voice, and from 1847 to 1850 he sang at the Bowery Theatre. That year he married Mary Van Keuren, and retired from the profession. He was born in Shawangunk. N. Y.; he died in Ellenville, N. Y., December 10, 1891, aged 73 years. MARSHALL S. PIKE was one of the pioneers of minstrelsy, as well as one of the first female impersonators. In 1843 in conjunction with the Powers Brothers and L. V. H. Crosby, they formed a little company, and appearing with whitened faces and flaxen wigs, styled themselves the Albino Family subsequently they changed to blackened features, and were known as the Harmoneon Family, afterwards the Harmoneons. It was this company that sang for President Polk in the White House in 1847. Mr. Pike married in 1849, and in that same year joined Ordway’s Aeolians in Boston, and continued with them for several seasons, leaving in 1857 and organizing “Pike’s Harmoneons.” Subsequently he was identified with various dramatic companies, Mr. Pike was the author of more than 100 songs, the most popular of which was “Home Again,” written in 1849. Marshall S. Pike was born in Westboro, Mass., May 20, 1818; he died in Upton, Mass., February 13, 1901. NAPOLEON W. GOULD, famous as a vocalist and guitarist in many minstrel companies, came to the United States in 1848. He joined E. P. Christy’s Company in New York about 1850, remaining about four years. In 1859 he became a member of Bryant’s Minstrels, same city, and continued there for several seasons. His last professional appearance was with George Christy’s Minstrels in New York about fifteen years previous to his death. Napoleon W. Gould was born in London, England, June 7, 1819; he died in New York, May 23, 1881.