Returning to San Francisco in 1856, he remained there with different companies until 1858, when he joined George Christy’s Minstrels, returning to New York in May, 1859. The following year, with G. W. H. Griffin and R. M. Hooley, they organized Hooley and Campbell’s Minstrels. August 5, 1861, he opened with Bryant’s Minstrels in New York; he remained two years; this was his last minstrel engagement. Later the Castle-Campbell Opera Company was organized, and Mr. Campbell’s success in that form of entertainment was in every respect equal to his minstrel triumphs. Sher. Campbell was born in New Haven, Conn., May 16, 1829; he died in Chicago, November 26, 1874. GEORGE W. BAILEY, one of the early minstrel performers, who was with Sharpley’s and other first-class organizations, and who was a clever “straight” man and interlocutor, died at Milford, Mass., July 2, 1891; age 62 years. [Illustration: The 11TH ST. OPERA HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA. Now and for nearly sixty years a home of permanent minstrelsy.] [Illustration: MECHANICS HALL; 1857. 472 Broadway, New York City; for many years the home of Bryant’s Minstrels. Only a memory now. TWO FAMOUS MINSTREL EDIFICES; PAST AND PRESENT.] P. S. GILMORE, who organized and led for many years the famous band bearing his name, was a member of Ordway’s Aeolians in Boston, 1851, where he sat on the end and played the tambourine. June 24, 1851, he began an engagement in Hartford, Con., with the above company. P. S. Gilmore was born near Dublin, Ireland, December 25, 1829; he died at St. Louis, Mo., September 24, 1892. “DAD” SARRISSEY (William H. Blackledge), an old-time banjoist and comedian, played several engagements at Charley White’s in New York, also Bryant’s Minstrels in the same city. His last appearance was about 1869. He was born in New York City in 1829; he died there December 15, 1889. BEN MALLORY was especially well known as a dancer. He was with E. P. Christy’s Minstrels in New York, and in the same city was one of the original members of Bryant’s Minstrels in 1857. He was born in New York in 1829; he died in Savannah, Ga., November 2, 1859. BEN COTTON. One of the truly great names in minstrelsy was Ben Cotton--not so great in 1845, when running away from home, yet early in his teens, he joined the Amburgh Circus, as in 1906 he made his final appearance at Tony Pastor’s, New York City, doing, not the aged darky act, by which character he was most familiarly known, but the dandy of the present; the beard he had been wont to wear for many years was shorn for this occasion. It was no longer “old Ben Cotton,” but “young Ben Cotton” that the audience received and applauded. Only the initiated could have known that the “darkey” before them was 76 years of age, and it is the writer’s proud boast that he was at Pastor’s to give Ben Cotton a “hand” on his entrance, and remaining until the evening performance, again led with the veteran’s reception; and Ben Cotton “made good.”