SHIPP, JESSE A.

SHIPP, JESSE A. Librettist/Vaudeville entertainer (c1869 in Cincinnati, Ohio; 1 May 1934 in New York). In his early career he toured with a singing group, the Beethoven Quartet. Thereafter he was active in show music, touring with Draper's Uncle Tom's Cabin company; the Eureka Minstrels; Primrose and West's minstrels, Forty Whites and Thirty Blacks; John Isham's Octoroons company, which also included at the time the Hyers Sisters, Fred Piper, and Hattie and Tom McIntosh; and the...