BOWMAN, ELMER

BOWMAN, ELMER. Vaudeville songwriter (1870s in Charleston, South Carolina (?); 22 July 1916 in New York, New York). Little is known of his early life. He left home with Chris Smith some time during the 1890s to tour with a medicine show, which became stranded. He and Smith then went to New York, where they formed a vaudeville act that eventually became successful and toured widely on the leading vaudeville circuits. One of the songs they wrote, I ain't poor no...