WRIGHT, P[RESTON] T.

WRIGHT, P[RESTON] T. Ministrel-troupe manager (1857 in Mexico, Missouri; 15 March 1898 in Cincinnati, Ohio). His family moved to McComb, Illinois, when he was a child. A barber by trade, he became involved with show business at an early age and in 1874 joined T. H. Bland's Carolinians, a minstrel troupe, as a basso profundo. About 1884 he organized Wright's Nashville Students and Colored Comedy Company—also called the Nashville University Students and/or P. T. Wright's Colored...