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Salem Tutt and J. Homer Tutt

Tutt Brothers

1. Salem Tutt Whitney (né Salem Tutt; 1875–1934) was married three times.
   1. Whitney's first marriage was to Emma A. Baynard (maiden; 1872–1908) – her second. They married May 6, 1903, in Philadelphia at Crucifixion Episcopal Church, Rev. Henry Laird Phillips (1848–1947), officiating. Rev. Phillips, in 1877, became the first African-American rector of the Crucifixion Church in 1877. Baynard was a sister of William Andrew Baynard, a pianist, who, with Salem and Emma, had, in 1900, been a member of the Oriental Troubadours, concert musicians composed of:
      1. William Andrew Baynard (1869–1941), first tenor and painist
      2. Charles Henry Puggsley (1868–1932), second tenor and soloist
      3. C. Wellington Barrette, aka George W. Bartlett, first bass and baritone soloist
      4. Salem T. Whitney, lion basso and comedian
      5. Emma A. Baynard, prima donna, first soprano and soloist
      6. Nettie Taylor (1882–1963), contralto, cornet, guitar, banjo, mandolin. Nettie married, 1901 in Philadelphia, William A. Baynard.
      7. Jennie Taylor, Nettie's sister, soprano, cornet, banjo, guitar, mandolin
      8. Walter Jones, dancer, late of Lew Dockstader's Minstrels
         Note: Nettie and Jennie's brother, Charles Taylor (1888–1963), was a Philadelphia musician. He had been featured on Keith's Circuit playing two violins, simultaneously. For many years, he was leader of the Standard Theatre Orchestra in Philadelphia.
      9. Miss Brown, vocalist
      10. Montrose Douglass, bicycle and unicycle stunt artist
      11. Ben Toledo, juggler
      12. Alice Castel, prima donna
      13. Mabel Brown
      14. Sam Gardner
      15. Sank Sims

      Emma previously, on March 17,1897, in Williamstown, Pennsylvania, married Lewis E. Puggsley (1858–1935), an operatic tenor soloist, with whom she had a son, Baynard Lewis Puggsley (1898–1956). Lewis Puggsley was a brother of Charles.

   2. Whitney then married Emma Jackson
   3. Whitney then married Nina Marshall
2. Jacob Homer Tutt (1882–1951)

Half-brother

3. Sheridan Davis

Works

• George Washington Bullion Abroad. Joseph W. Stern & Company (publisher) (Joseph W. Stern; 1870–1934)

Lyrics by J. Homer Tutt and S. Tutt Whitney; music by James J. Vaughan

Library of Congress

OCLC 497482855

Copyrights

Original copyrights

• George Washington Bullion Abroad. Music by James J. Vaughan (né James Joseph Jefferson Vaughan; 1874–1945). Lyrics by J. Homer Tutt and S. Tutt Whitney. Library of Congress. OCLC 497482855.

Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions, New Series Library of Congress, Copyright Office

1. Vol.  10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 10 (1915). "Love Me Anywhere". © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; 15 October 1915. 2 c. 27 October 1915. E371361. p. 1176.
2. Vol.  10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 10 (1915). "Manyanna" ("Land of To-morrow"). © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; 13 October 1915. 2 c. 27 October 1915. E373166. p. 1056.
3. Vol.  10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 11 (1915). "Old Kentucky Blues". © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; 30 October 1915. 2 c. 30 October 1915. E373167. p. 1056.
4. Vol.  10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 12 (1915). "Dear Old Southern Moon". © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; 13 October 1915. 2 c. 27 October 1915. E371362. p. 1141.

Puggsley Brothers

They started out with the Puggsley Brothers:

1. Louis E. Puggsley, operatic tenor soloist
   Children:
   1. Irvin Clythwaite Puggsley, who, according to his World War I draft registration, was a traveling musician with Drake, Walker Co. of New York.
2. Richmond C. Puggsley, actor (who preferred scenes from Shakespeare)
   Children:
   1. Harper Horatio Puggsley (1887–1918) was a comedic acrobatic dancer. He married Marion Williams January 18, 1914, in Philadelphia, during on performance, both on stage while, while both were doing an acrobatic turn.
3. Charles Henry Puggsley (1868–1932), tenor, dancer, acrobat, and Philadelphia piano teacher

... Louis as manager. Salem's stage surname, Whitney, was established by Louis Puggsley, who borrowed it from Myron W. Whitney (1836–1910), a famous concert basso.

Jean Barnett Stearns

Stearns was first married on October 18, 1931, in Yonkers, New York, to Betty Stearns (née Elizabeth Dixon; 1909–1996), whose father, Joseph Moore Dixon (1867–1934), was, from 1921 to 1925, the seventh Governor of Montana.

Stearns then married – in October 1956, in Manhattan, New York – Jean Stearns (née Jean Barnett; born 1922). Jean was from White Hall, Illinois, and had attended MacMurray College (class of 1943), but transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where, in 1945, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English. Her mother, Helen Barnett (née Helen Isabell Beaty; 1889–1981), was a music teacher in White Hall. Jean's father, Fleet Barnett (né Ralph Fleetwood Barnett; 1895–1981), owned and operated a pottery shop in White Hall.

Filmography

• Birthright (1924)

Bibliography

References

News media

• Baltimore Sun, The (October 10, 1920). "Some Green Room Gossip". Vol. Vol. 18, no. 1. pp. 4, 15 (section 4 at p. 15). Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

• Cincinnati Enquirer (June 12, 1915). "News of the Courts". Vol. Vol. 72, no. 163. pp. 7 (column 5, 7th paragraph – "A rather peculiar story ... "). Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

• Indianapolis Star (February 14, 1934). "Salem F. Whitney, Negro Actor, Dies" (obituary). Vol. Vol. 31, no. 254. p. 4. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

• New York Age (February 17, 1934). "Salem Tutt Whitney, Veteran Actor, Dies in Chicago; Long Ill" (PDF) (obituary). Vol. Vol. 48, no. 24. p. 1. Retrieved April 22, 2010 – via Fultonhistory.com. {{cite news}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

• Philadelphia Inquirer (July 30, 1963). "Charles Taylor" (obituary). Vol. Vol. 269, no. 30. p. 24 (column 4). Retrieved January 31, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

• Pittsburgh Courier; Calvin, Floyd J. (né Floyd Joseph Calvin; 1902-1939) (January 1, 1927). "Salem Tutt Whitney Scores Poor Stage Facilities". Vol. Vol. 18, no. 1. p. 1 (section 2). Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. {{cite news}}: |volume= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Books

• Abbott, Lynn (born 1946); Seroff, Doug (2007). Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, 'Coon Songs', and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. American Made Music Series (1st ed.). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 334. Retrieved January 22, 2021 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) OCLC 793384482. LCCN 2006-15009. ISBN 978-1-6170-3645-3, 1-6170-3645-5, 978-1-6047-3148-4; and ISBN 1-6047-3148-6

• Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (2007). "Tutt Brothers". Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performances in America. Vol. Vol. 1 of 2. Routledge. p. 1136. Retrieved April 22, 2010 – via Google Books (Cullen and McNeilly are founders of the American Vaudeville Museum). {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link) ISBN 0-415-93853-8. OCLC 162427627 (all editions).

• Hill, Errol; Hatch, James Vernon (1928–2020) (2003). A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 209. Retrieved April 22, 2010 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) OCLC 915960210 (all editions). ISBN 0521624436.

• Peterson, Bernard Lee, Jr. (1926–2000) (1990). Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers. Greenwood Press. p. 9. ISBN 0-313-26621-2 – via Google Books (Peterson retired in 1988 as Professor Emeritus of English and Drama, Elizabeth City State University){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link) OCLC 243697847 (all editions). LCCN 90-2961. ISBN 0-313-26621-2.

• Peterson, Bernard Lee, Jr. (1993). "Pugsley Brothers". A Century of Musicals in Black and White – An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works by, About, or Involving African Americans. Greenwood Press. pp. 208–209. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Google Books {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: postscript (link) OCLC 1050139804 (all editions). LCCN 92-41976. ISBN 978-0-3130-6454-8.

• Peterson, Bernard Lee, Jr. (1997). "Oriental Troubadours". The African American Theatre Directory, 1816–1960: A Comprehensive Guide to Early Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, Theatres, and Performing Groups. Greenwood Press. p. 159. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) OCLC 928434607 (all editions). LCCN 96-9534. ISBN 0-313-29537-9.

• Peterson, Bernard Lee, Jr. (2001). "Pugsley Brothers". Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816–1960. Greenwood Press. pp. 208–209. Retrieved January 29, 2021 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) OCLC 1126462332. LCCN 99-88456. ISBN 0-3132-9534-4.

• Oliver, Paul (2002). "Smith (née Robinson), Mamie". In Kernfeld, Barry Dean (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. Vol. 3 of 3 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J417000. ISBN 1-5615-9284-6. OCLC 5104788497. Retrieved April 22, 2010. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-url=, |lay-format=, |lay-date=, and |lay-source= (help)

• Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 348. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

• Stearns, Marshall Winslow, PhD (1908–1966); Stearns, Jean (1994) [1971; 1968]. Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance (1994 ed.).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

1. Collier-Macmillan (1968). OCLC 655466715 (all editions).
2. Macmillan (1971). OCLC 900269 (all editions).
3. Schirmer (1979). OCLC 720681903 (all editions), 1069868504 (all editions). ISBN 0-0287-2510-7, 978-0-0287-2510-9.
4. Da Capo Press (paperback) (1994). OCLC 610972997 (all editions). LCCN 93-40957. ISBN 0-3068-0553-7, 978-0-3068-0553-0.
(page nos. in the Da Capo edition, accessible via Archive.org – link)
1. "J. Homer Tutt". pp. 152, 255
2. "Salem Tutt-Whitney". pp. 76, 152, 156, 255

• "Jean Barnett". The Illio (student yearbook). Vol. Vol. 52. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. 1945. pp. 31 ("Class of 1945") & 369 ("Trelawney"). Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Internet Archive. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)

• George Washington Bullion Abroad (musical comedy). Manhattan: Joseph W. Stern & Company (publisher). OCLC 497482855. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-date=, |lay-url=, |lay-format=, and |lay-source= (help)