MCCLAIN, BILLY

McCLAIN, BILLY. Minstrel/Producer (12 October 1866 in Indianapolis, Indiana; 19 January 1950 in Los Angeles, California) He began his professional career in 1883 with Lew Johnson's Minstrels, but had played cornet as early as 1881 in a local band at Crone's (Crown's?) Gardens. In 1886 he toured with the Sells Brothers and Forepaugh's Circus , including a residency in Hawaii. Later during the 1880s-90s he toured with various other groups, including the Hicks and Sawyer Refined Colored...