Howard, Joe
(1867–1961)> COMPOSER · SINGER
Joe Howard Composer and singer New York City, February 12, 1867; Chicago, Illinois, May 19, 1961. Howard ran away from home when he was eight years old and made his way to St. Louis, where he eked out a living selling newspapers and singing in saloons. He soon entered vaudeville , and next found a job with a traveling stock company. When he was seventeen, he met Ida Emerson and formed a song-and-dance act with her. She would be the second of his nine wives. They traveled throughout the Midwest…