WHITMAN SISTERS, THE. Vaudeville troupe/company (org. in Kansas City, Missouri; fl. early twentieth century). the
Whitman Sisters
were Mable, Essie Barbara, Alberta or Bert
, and Alice. The father,
Albert A. Whitman
, was a minister; the three older girls traveled with him at an early age, singing in churches where he preached. They obtained their musical education through private study and at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, and the New England Conservatory in Boston,...
