LUCAS, SAM

LUCAS, SAM (née SAMUEL MILADY). Minstrel entertainer (7 August 1840 in Washington, Ohio; 9 January 1916 in New York, New York). He went to Cincinnati, Ohio, when he was nineteen; there he became a barber and taught himself to play guitar. After service in the United States Union Army during the Civil War, he entered into show business. He attended Wilberforce University in Ohio (1869) and later taught school for a short period at New Orleans, Louisiana. His first professional experience...