JOHNSON, FRED

JOHNSON, FRED (DEACON). Music contractor/Entertainer (12 August 1878 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; 29 March 1944 in New York, New York). He obtained his musical education in Pine Bluff and at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He began his professional career as an entertainer at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. He was active in Montreal during the years 1893-1900, toured widely for the next three years with minstrel and vaudeville companies, then settled in New York about 1903...