WILLIAMS, CLARENCE. Music publisher ( in Plaquemine Delta, Louisiana; in New York, New York). His family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, when he was a child. He began performing professionally at the age of twelve, first touring with a minstrel troupe, then playing piano in the Storyville district of New Orleans. About 1915 he joined with Armand Piron to form a music publishing business, and the men frequently performed together, particularly in plugging their...