SWEATMAN, WILBUR C.

SWEATMAN, WILBUR C. Vaudeville entertainer/Bandleader (7 February 1882 in Brunswick, Missouri; 9 March 1961 in New York, New York). He began his career in Kansas City, Missouri, playing clarinet in circus bands, including that of P. G. Lowery's with the Forepaugh and Sells Brothers' Circus. In 1902 he played in W. C. Handy's band, associated at that time with Mahara's Minstrels . Thereafter he was active in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1902-08), where he directed his own groups...