MCINTOSH, TOM

McINTOSH, TOM. Minstrel/Vaudeville entertainer (c1841 in Lexington, Kentucky; 3 March 1904 near St. Paris, Ohio). He began his professional career during the 1870s, touring with Henry Hart's Alabama Minstrels (1872), Callender's Georgia Minstrels, and Haverly's Genuine Colored International Minstrels . His attempt in 1883 to organize a minstrel troupe under black management, along with Charles Hicks and A. D. Sawyer, was unsuccessful. A second effort in 1884 resulted in the McIntosh...