Jerome, William
(1865–1932)> TURN-OF-THE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY · LYRICIST · MUSIC PUBLISHER
William Jerome Turn-of-the-twentieth-century lyricist and music publisher Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, New York, September 30, 1865 Newburgh, New York, June 25, 1932. Jerome was a vaudeville singer and dancer in his youth, working with various companies including Avory’s Hibernicon (beginning in 1882), followed by a stint with Barlow Wilson’s Minstrels, and then came to New York to work, first at Tony Pastor ’s Fourteenth Street Theatre as a parody singer (in the late 1880s) and then with E. F…