FLETCHER, TOM

FLETCHER, TOM. Entertainer (16 May 1873 in Portsmouth, Ohio; 13 October 1954 in New York, New York). As a child he sang in local talent shows and played in the Portsmouth fife corps. He began his professional career at fifteen and thereafter performed with various groups, including Howard's Novelty Colored Minstrels , the In Old Kentucky show, Ed Winn's minstrel company, and Richard and Pringle's Georgia Minstrels , among others. About 1898 he entered a new career in vaudeville...