Draft:Lash Gideon
L. E. Gideon (died March 25, 1912, at about age 40) was a minstrel performer and show manager in the United States. He later sold insurance. He was married to Ida Gideon, had a daughter, and a brother Albert of Chicago. He lived in Harrisonville, Missouri.[1] Zarilda was described as an "aunt" to daughter Mrs. Lucy Brown.[2]
In 1899 he managed the Nashville Students Company, a group of performers. He advertised for players with a Unionville, Missouri address. He played the cornet.[3]
Robert and Zarilda Gideon were his parents.
In July 1906, he placed an advertisement seeking information on the whereabouts of his father Robert who he stated had served in the Kansas Colored Infantry.[4]
Mount Allison University has an L. E. Gideon recording from the Sackville Opera House in 1907.[5]
L. E. Gideon's Grand Afro American Mastodon Minstrels?
https://www.loc.gov/resource/var.0229/
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- ^ "Article clipped from Harrisonville Review and Cass County Leader". Harrisonville Review and Cass County Leader. 28 March 1912. p. 4.
- ^ https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/article/the-cass-county-democrat-missourian-deat/140347214/
- ^ Watkins, Clifford E. (2003). Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-555-4.
- ^ "Mr. L. E. Gideon searching for his father Robert Gideon · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery".
- ^ "New Brunswick's Black History - the Argosy". 11 February 2015.
- ^ Sampson, Henry T. (30 October 2013). Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8351-2.
- ^ Bernard L Peterson JR (25 October 1993). A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works by, About, or Involving African Americans. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-06454-8.
- ^ "Billboard Music Week". 1907.