Horace Weston (c. 1825 – May 22, 1890) was an American musician, regarded as one of the finest banjo players of all time. A free-born African American...
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Dan Emmett (1864) "Rob Ridley", Charles White (1855) "Rock Susana", Horace Weston (1887) "Roll Out! Heave Dat Cotton", William Shakespeare Hays (1877)...
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Claude Horace Weston DSO KC (28 December 1879 – 10 November 1946) was a New Zealand lawyer, a lieutenant-colonel in World War I, and effectively the first...
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some of the better banjo players of his time, including E. M. Hall, Horace Weston, John H. Lee and William A. Huntley, promoting them in his journal and...
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practice peaked in about 1872, having produced such stars as banjoist Horace Weston and comedian Billy Kersands. A component of minstrel shows, blackface...
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Harriet Lummis Smith: The Uncertain Glory, cover by Horace Weston Taylor, published in Boston, 1926...
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(1794–1871), American educator Horace Weldon Gilmore (1918–2010), American judge Horace Wells (1815–1848), American dentist Horace Weston (1825–1890), American...
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Orford (/ˈwɔːlpoʊl/; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian...
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George Frederick Root (1820–1895) George Frederick Bristow (1825–1898) Horace Weston (1825–1890) Stephen Foster (1826–1864) Edmond Dédé (1827–1903) Charles...
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1912–1938), his widely publicized suicide inspired the movie Fourteen Hours. Horace Weston (1825–1890), banjo player Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins (1849–1908), musician...
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