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Salem Tutt and J. Homer Tutt

Tutt Brothers
 Salem Tutt Whitney ( Salem Tutt; 1875–1934) was married three times.  Whitney's first marriage was to Emma A. Baynard (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: William Andrew Baynard (1869–1941), first tenor and painist Charles Henry Puggsley (1868–1932), second tenor and soloist C. Wellington Barrette, aka George W. Bartlett, first bass and baritone soloist Salem T. Whitney, lion basso and comedian Emma A. Baynard, prima donna, first soprano and soloist Nettie Taylor (1882–1963), contralto, cornet, guitar, banjo, mandolin. Nettie married, 1901 in Philadelphia, William A. Baynard. Jennie Taylor, Nettie's sister, soprano, cornet, banjo, guitar, mandolin 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. Miss Brown, vocalist Montrose Douglass, bicycle and unicycle stunt artist Ben Toledo, juggler Alice Castel, prima donna Mabel Brown Sam Gardner <li>Sank Sims</ol> 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. <li> Whitney then married Emma Jackson <li> Whitney then married Nina Marshall</ol> <li> Jacob Homer Tutt (1882–1951)</ol> Half-brother <li> Sheridan Davis</ol>

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

Original copyrights


<li> Vol. 10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 10 (1915). "Love Me Anywhere". © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NUghAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1176&lpg=PA1176&dq=%22george+washington+bullion 15 October 1915. 2 c. 27 October 1915. E371361. p. 1176.] <li> Vol. 10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 10 (1915). "Manyanna" ("Land of To-morrow"). © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NUghAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1056&lpg=PA1056&dq=%22manyanna 13 October 1915. 2 c. 27 October 1915. E373166. p. 1056.] <li> Vol. 10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 11 (1915). "Old Kentucky Blues". © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NUghAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1067&lpg=PA1067&dq=%22old+kentucky+blues 30 October 1915. 2 c. 30 October 1915. E373167. p. 1056.] <li> Vol. 10; Part 2, October 1915; No. 12 (1915). "Dear Old Southern Moon". © Jos. W. Stern & Co., New York; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NUghAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1141&lpg=PA1141&dq=%22dear+old+southern+moon 13 October 1915. 2 c. 27 October 1915. E371362. p. 1141.]</ol>

Puggsley Brothers
They started out with the Puggsley Brothers: <li> Louis E. Puggsley, operatic tenor soloistChildren: <li> Irvin Clythwaite Puggsley, who, according to his World War I draft registration, was a traveling musician with Drake, Walker Co. of New York.</ol> <li> Richmond C. Puggsley, actor (who preferred scenes from Shakespeare)Children: <li> 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.</ol> <li> Charles Henry Puggsley (1868–1932), tenor, dancer, acrobat, and Philadelphia piano teacher</ol>

...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 ( 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 ( 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 ( Helen Isabell Beaty; 1889–1981), was a music teacher in White Hall. Jean's father, Fleet Barnett ( Ralph Fleetwood Barnett; 1895–1981), owned and operated a pottery shop in White Hall.

Filmography

 * Birthright (1924)