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Willis Clark

Birth
Death
23 Dec 1899 (aged 41–42)
New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Actors' Fund
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Comedian; song writer; Editor of the New York Comic Ledger, or "Willis Clark's Joke Book"; connected with the minstrel team Emerson, Clark and the Dalys.
Survived by wife of twelve years and 10 year old daughter, Dollie

"Of the famous King High Kickers, clever Tommy Daly, brother of the lamented Dan, and Willis Clark are dead, the latter took his own life ten years ago; Cap. Bill Daly and Mort Emerson are living, the former long since retired from theatricals."
New York Clipper, 19 February 1910, page 3

Married Annie Fox, vocalist and ,[widow of Ned Fox the negro minstrel], 30 July 1879, Manhattan, NY. They separated September 5 of the same year.
Comedian; song writer; Editor of the New York Comic Ledger, or "Willis Clark's Joke Book"; connected with the minstrel team Emerson, Clark and the Dalys.
Survived by wife of twelve years and 10 year old daughter, Dollie

"Of the famous King High Kickers, clever Tommy Daly, brother of the lamented Dan, and Willis Clark are dead, the latter took his own life ten years ago; Cap. Bill Daly and Mort Emerson are living, the former long since retired from theatricals."
New York Clipper, 19 February 1910, page 3

Married Annie Fox, vocalist and ,[widow of Ned Fox the negro minstrel], 30 July 1879, Manhattan, NY. They separated September 5 of the same year.

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