HOGAN, ERNEST

HOGAN, ERNEST (REUBEN CROWDUS). Minstrel/vaudeville entertainer (1865 in Bowling Green, Kentucky; 20 May 1909 in New York, New York). He began his career touring as a pickaninny in an Uncle Tom's Cabin company. Thereafter he toured with various minstrel companies throughout the nation and abroad. In 1890 he was a co-owner of [Henry] Eden and Hogan's Minstrels at Chicago, Illinois. In 1897 he joined Black Patti's Troubadours as the leading comedian, and the next year he was...