DEATH OF MRS. CONWAY OF THE BROOKLYN THEATER
NEW YORK, April 28, Mrs. Sarah J. Conway, of the Brooklyn Theater, died at five minutes past seven o'clock to-night at her residence in Brooklyn, of gastric fever and enlargement of the liver. Her last public appearance was on the 15th inst., when she played at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn in aid of St. Mary's Hospital.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Thursday, April 29, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 9
A FAVORITE ACTRESS DEAD
CLOSE OF THE BUSY LIFE OF ONE WHO WILL BE MISSED FROM THE STAGE.
Mrs. Sarah G. Conway, the actress, and manager of the Brooklyn Theater, died last evening after a short illness. On April 15th, she played for the last time in a benefit for St. Mary's Hospital in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mrs. Conway was the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Crocker, of Lichfield, Connecticut, and the sister of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, the actress. Her father died when she was twelve years old. At fifteen Sarah Crocker made her debut in Du Flen's Military Garden, in Brooklyn, and a year later played for John E. Owens in Baltimore. She next appeared in the National Theater in New York.
In 1851 she joined the Broadway Theater company, met F. B. Conway, and English actor, and became his second wife. The next year she was in the company at Wallack's Benedict, and Lester Wallack's Pedro in "Much Ado About Nothing." She suceeded Laura Keene as leading lady at Wallack's. In 1853 she played with her husband, Mrs. Bowers, John E. Owns, and Caroline Richings, in the Arch Street Theater, Mrs. Conway and her husband spent ten years starring. They opened the Park Theater, Brooklyn, in April 1864, and conducted the theater successfully for six years.
In 1870, Mrs. Conway assumed the management of the Brooklyn Theater, which had been built for her by members of the Long Island Club, under the name of a building association. She made her theater the parlor of drama for Brooklyn, and divided the public pafronage of the best theaters in New York. She attracted all of the leading actors to her theater.
The funeral is to be in the Church of Our Father, at Clermont and Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn, on Sunday afternoon. The Rev. H. R. Nye will preach the sermon - N. Y. Sun, April 29.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tuesday, May 4, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 3
NEW YORK, April 28, Mrs. Sarah J. Conway, of the Brooklyn Theater, died at five minutes past seven o'clock to-night at her residence in Brooklyn, of gastric fever and enlargement of the liver. Her last public appearance was on the 15th inst., when she played at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn in aid of St. Mary's Hospital.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Thursday, April 29, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 9
A FAVORITE ACTRESS DEAD
CLOSE OF THE BUSY LIFE OF ONE WHO WILL BE MISSED FROM THE STAGE.
Mrs. Sarah G. Conway, the actress, and manager of the Brooklyn Theater, died last evening after a short illness. On April 15th, she played for the last time in a benefit for St. Mary's Hospital in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mrs. Conway was the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Crocker, of Lichfield, Connecticut, and the sister of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, the actress. Her father died when she was twelve years old. At fifteen Sarah Crocker made her debut in Du Flen's Military Garden, in Brooklyn, and a year later played for John E. Owens in Baltimore. She next appeared in the National Theater in New York.
In 1851 she joined the Broadway Theater company, met F. B. Conway, and English actor, and became his second wife. The next year she was in the company at Wallack's Benedict, and Lester Wallack's Pedro in "Much Ado About Nothing." She suceeded Laura Keene as leading lady at Wallack's. In 1853 she played with her husband, Mrs. Bowers, John E. Owns, and Caroline Richings, in the Arch Street Theater, Mrs. Conway and her husband spent ten years starring. They opened the Park Theater, Brooklyn, in April 1864, and conducted the theater successfully for six years.
In 1870, Mrs. Conway assumed the management of the Brooklyn Theater, which had been built for her by members of the Long Island Club, under the name of a building association. She made her theater the parlor of drama for Brooklyn, and divided the public pafronage of the best theaters in New York. She attracted all of the leading actors to her theater.
The funeral is to be in the Church of Our Father, at Clermont and Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn, on Sunday afternoon. The Rev. H. R. Nye will preach the sermon - N. Y. Sun, April 29.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tuesday, May 4, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 3
DEATH OF MRS. CONWAY OF THE BROOKLYN THEATER
NEW YORK, April 28, Mrs. Sarah J. Conway, of the Brooklyn Theater, died at five minutes past seven o'clock to-night at her residence in Brooklyn, of gastric fever and enlargement of the liver. Her last public appearance was on the 15th inst., when she played at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn in aid of St. Mary's Hospital.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Thursday, April 29, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 9
A FAVORITE ACTRESS DEAD
CLOSE OF THE BUSY LIFE OF ONE WHO WILL BE MISSED FROM THE STAGE.
Mrs. Sarah G. Conway, the actress, and manager of the Brooklyn Theater, died last evening after a short illness. On April 15th, she played for the last time in a benefit for St. Mary's Hospital in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mrs. Conway was the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Crocker, of Lichfield, Connecticut, and the sister of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, the actress. Her father died when she was twelve years old. At fifteen Sarah Crocker made her debut in Du Flen's Military Garden, in Brooklyn, and a year later played for John E. Owens in Baltimore. She next appeared in the National Theater in New York.
In 1851 she joined the Broadway Theater company, met F. B. Conway, and English actor, and became his second wife. The next year she was in the company at Wallack's Benedict, and Lester Wallack's Pedro in "Much Ado About Nothing." She suceeded Laura Keene as leading lady at Wallack's. In 1853 she played with her husband, Mrs. Bowers, John E. Owns, and Caroline Richings, in the Arch Street Theater, Mrs. Conway and her husband spent ten years starring. They opened the Park Theater, Brooklyn, in April 1864, and conducted the theater successfully for six years.
In 1870, Mrs. Conway assumed the management of the Brooklyn Theater, which had been built for her by members of the Long Island Club, under the name of a building association. She made her theater the parlor of drama for Brooklyn, and divided the public pafronage of the best theaters in New York. She attracted all of the leading actors to her theater.
The funeral is to be in the Church of Our Father, at Clermont and Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn, on Sunday afternoon. The Rev. H. R. Nye will preach the sermon - N. Y. Sun, April 29.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tuesday, May 4, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 3
NEW YORK, April 28, Mrs. Sarah J. Conway, of the Brooklyn Theater, died at five minutes past seven o'clock to-night at her residence in Brooklyn, of gastric fever and enlargement of the liver. Her last public appearance was on the 15th inst., when she played at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn in aid of St. Mary's Hospital.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Thursday, April 29, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 9
A FAVORITE ACTRESS DEAD
CLOSE OF THE BUSY LIFE OF ONE WHO WILL BE MISSED FROM THE STAGE.
Mrs. Sarah G. Conway, the actress, and manager of the Brooklyn Theater, died last evening after a short illness. On April 15th, she played for the last time in a benefit for St. Mary's Hospital in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mrs. Conway was the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Crocker, of Lichfield, Connecticut, and the sister of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, the actress. Her father died when she was twelve years old. At fifteen Sarah Crocker made her debut in Du Flen's Military Garden, in Brooklyn, and a year later played for John E. Owens in Baltimore. She next appeared in the National Theater in New York.
In 1851 she joined the Broadway Theater company, met F. B. Conway, and English actor, and became his second wife. The next year she was in the company at Wallack's Benedict, and Lester Wallack's Pedro in "Much Ado About Nothing." She suceeded Laura Keene as leading lady at Wallack's. In 1853 she played with her husband, Mrs. Bowers, John E. Owns, and Caroline Richings, in the Arch Street Theater, Mrs. Conway and her husband spent ten years starring. They opened the Park Theater, Brooklyn, in April 1864, and conducted the theater successfully for six years.
In 1870, Mrs. Conway assumed the management of the Brooklyn Theater, which had been built for her by members of the Long Island Club, under the name of a building association. She made her theater the parlor of drama for Brooklyn, and divided the public pafronage of the best theaters in New York. She attracted all of the leading actors to her theater.
The funeral is to be in the Church of Our Father, at Clermont and Atlantic avenues, Brooklyn, on Sunday afternoon. The Rev. H. R. Nye will preach the sermon - N. Y. Sun, April 29.
The New Orleans Bulletin
New Orleans, Louisiana
Tuesday, May 4, 1875
Vol: 2 Page: 3
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