John W. Albaugh
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| John W. Albaugh | |
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| Born | September 30, 1837 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died | February 11, 1909 (aged 71) Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Stage actor |
John W. Albaugh (30 September 1837 – February 11, 1909) was an American actor and manager, born in Baltimore. It was there that he made his first real appearance on the stage as the title character in a play called Brutus, or the Fall of Tarquin (1855), on a stage managed by Joseph Jefferson. Of his many subsequent impersonations, perhaps the best-known is that of Louis XI, at what later became Daly's Theatre in New York. After 1868 he was manager of theatres in St. Louis, New Orleans, and Albany. He was the sole lessee and manager of the Albany Grand Opera House (1884-1894) in Washington, where he also built the Lafayette Square Theatre. He owned the new Lyceum in Baltimore, where he made is last appearance in 1899 before retiring from the stage.
Albaugh died at the home of his daughter in Jersey City from heart disease.
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- Clapp and Edgett, Players of the Present, Dunlap Society, publishers (New York, 1899)
- Obituary in the article titled "Funeral of Ernest Coquelin", The New York Times, 12 February 1909, p. 13. [ProQuest Historical Newspapers, New York Times (1857–Current file) Document ID 101733274]
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