WILLIAMS, EGBERT AUSTIN

WILLIAMS, EGBERT AUSTIN (BERT). Entertainer (12 November 1874 in Antigua, West Indies; 5 March 1922 in New York, New York). His family moved to New York when he was a child; later they settled in Riverside, California, where he attended high school. He began his professional career in San Francisco, singing to his own banjo accompaniment. He met George Walker , and in 1892 the two men formed a vaudeville act. They worked at Halahan and Homan's Midway in the city,...