Marie Cahill (December 29, 1866 – August 23, 1933) was a Broadway stage actress and vocalist. Her parents were Irish immigrants Richard and Mary (née Groegen) Cahill. She appeared in comic operas including Judy Forgot . She was also in films.
80-521: Cahill began her career in the late 1880s first in her native Brooklyn and then on Broadway. She starred opposite Eddie Foy in the 1902 Broadway musical The Wild Rose . That same year she starred in the show Sally in Our Alley in which she introduced the song " Under the Bamboo Tree ". It became her signature song and one of the most famous songs from the turn of the century. Also in 1902 in
160-521: A city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in town and to disarm the Cowboys. Wyatt was only a temporary assistant marshal to his brother. In 1874, Earp arrived in the boomtown of Wichita, Kansas , where his reputed wife opened a brothel . Wyatt was arrested more than once for his presence in a brothel where he may have been a pimp. He was later appointed to the Wichita police force and developed
240-649: A heart attack at the Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City, Missouri. All of Foy's children except Bryan are buried with their father and mother, Madeline, at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in New Rochelle, New York . Wyatt Earp Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman in the American West , including Dodge City , Deadwood , and Tombstone . Earp
320-633: A heart attack while headlining on the Orpheum circuit in Kansas City, Missouri , at age 71. The seven children reunited for a 1928 Vitaphone short #2580, "Chips of the Old Block". Six of the seven appeared onscreen, doing a portion of their song-and-dance act, and Bryan directed. The film opens with the girls singing and dancing to "I'll Just Roll Along (Havin' My Ups and Downs)" while Bryan plays ukulele. Charley, Eddie Jr., and Irving then perform
400-415: A brothel on February 24, 1872, and arrested Wyatt and Morgan Earp, George Randall, and four women including Jane Haspel. The men were charged with "keeping and being found in a house of ill-fame," and later fined $ 20 and court costs. In Root's Peoria City Directory for 1872–73 , published on March 1, 1872, Wyatt is a resident in the home of Jane Haspel at Washington Street near the corner of Hamilton. When he
480-522: A brush making business. Cahill married Daniel V. Arthur on June 18, 1903, a union that lasted until she died on August 23, 1933. Daniel Arthur survived his wife by six years, dying on December 6, 1939. Eddie Foy Edwin Fitzgerald (March 9, 1856 – February 16, 1928 ), known professionally as Eddie Foy and Eddie Foy Sr. , was an American actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian . Foy's parents, Richard and Mary Fitzgerald, emigrated to
560-549: A casting director with Columbia Pictures for over 40 years. Between 1901 and 1912, Foy played the leading comic roles in a series of musical comedies in New York City and on tour, including The Strollers (1901), The Wild Rose (1902), Mr. Bluebeard (1903), Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!! (1904), The Earl and the Girl (1905), The Orchid (1907), Mr Hamlet of Broadway (1908/9), Up and Down Broadway (1910), and Over
640-518: A comedy routine. Next, Eddie Jr. does an eccentric dance routine, there's a short song interlude, and the film ends with soft shoe routine in which each has a solo bit. After the "Seven Little Foys" stopped performing together, they pursued separate careers. Eddie Foy Jr. had a successful acting career on stage and screen. Bryan composed show music, wrote for Buster Keaton , and directed and produced films in Hollywood. Richard continued to operate
720-563: A deputy by his brother, then passed his Wells Fargo job as shotgun messenger to his brother Morgan. Wyatt did his job well, and his name was mentioned nearly every week from August through November in The Tombstone Epitaph or the Nugget newspapers. On October 28, 1880, Tombstone town marshal Fred White attempted to break up a group of five late-night, drunken revelers shooting at the moon on Allen Street. Deputy Sheriff Earp
800-483: A euphemism for coward, implying that Wyatt had gone to California to avoid serving in the Civil War. Although Wyatt had attempted to join the army when he was 13 and been stopped by his father, he took offense at Piner's remarks. They fought inside Walton's Hotel, a brothel owned by John T. Walton, and Wyatt tossed Pinard outside. Pinard drew his gun and so did Wyatt. The two men exchanged shots; Wyatt wounded Pinard in
880-552: A fist-fight and was fined $ 30. The local newspaper reported, "It is but justice to Earp to say he has made an excellent officer." Meagher won the election, but the city council voted against rehiring Earp. Texas Longhorn cattle carried a tick that spread Texas cattle fever to other cattle breeds. Alarmed Kansas farmers persuaded the Kansas State Legislature in 1866 to establish a quarantine line in central Kansas. This prohibited Texas Longhorns from entering
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#1732780953441960-678: A girl with fellow actor Charles Chaplin (not the later film star), who was drunkenly taking pot-shots at Foy. The gunfire awakened Wyatt Earp , who disarmed the actor and sent both the players home to sleep it off. Foy is also rumored to have been in Tombstone, Arizona , in October 1881, appearing at the Birdcage Theater when the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurred on the 26th of that month. In 1879, Foy married Rose Howland, one of
1040-604: A gold rush to Eagle City, Idaho, where they owned mining interests and a saloon. Back in San Francisco, Wyatt raced horses, but his reputation suffered irreparably when he refereed the Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey boxing match and called a foul, which led many to believe he fixed the fight. Earp and Marcus joined the Nome Gold Rush in 1899. He and Charlie Hoxie paid US$ 1,500 (equivalent to $ 55,000 in 2023) for
1120-424: A hundred other people in a plan to relocate to San Bernardino County, California , where he intended to buy farmland. Just 150 miles (240 km) west of Monmouth on the journey, their daughter Martha became ill. The family stopped and Nicholas bought a new 160-acre (65 ha) farm 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Pella, Iowa . Martha died there on May 26, 1856. Nicholas and Virginia Earp's last child Adelia
1200-586: A hundred people living in tents and a few shacks. The Earps arrived with their wives on December 1, 1879, while Doc Holliday remained in Prescott where the gambling afforded better opportunities. Tombstone had already grown to about 1,000 residents. Wyatt brought horses and a buckboard wagon which he planned to convert into a stagecoach, but he found two established stage lines already running. He later said that he made most of his money in Tombstone as
1280-655: A liquor license to open the Dexter, a two-story saloon, and made an estimated $ 80,000 (equivalent to $ 2,930,000 in 2023). But, Josephine had a notorious gambling habit and the money didn't last. Around 1911, Earp began working several mining claims in Vidal, California , retiring in the hot summers with Josephine to one of several small, modest cottages they rented in Los Angeles. He made friends among early Western actors in Hollywood and tried to get his story told, but he
1360-548: A muscular prostitute named Frankie Bell, who "heaped epithets upon the unoffending head of Mr. Earp to such an extent as to provide a slap from the ex-officer," according to the account. Bell spent the night in jail and was fined $ 20, while Earp's fine was the legal minimum. In October 1877 outlaw Dave Rudabaugh robbed a Santa Fe Railroad construction camp and fled south. Earp was given a temporary commission as deputy U.S. Marshal and left Dodge City, following Rudabaugh over 400 miles (640 km) through Fort Clark, Texas , where
1440-522: A new brothel, and Wyatt soon followed them. After 1875 Dodge City, Kansas , became a major terminal for cattle drives from Texas along the Chisholm Trail . Earp was appointed assistant marshal in Dodge City under Marshal Lawrence Deger around May 1876. At some point he met prostitute Mattie Blaylock , who became his common-law wife until 1881. He and Morgan left Dodge for Deadwood in
1520-548: A pimp. Earp and Walton were fined $ 44, more than any others who were arrested. The size of the fines may indicate that the judge considered them to be pimps and not merely customers. Wyatt soon left Peoria for Wichita, Kansas. During a conversation with Earp years later, Stuart N. Lake took notes in which Earp claimed that he'd been hunting buffalo during the winter of 1871–1872. Earp told Lake that he "arrived in Wichita direct from my buffalo hunt in '74," but there's no evidence that he ever hunted buffalo. He may have made up
1600-650: A professional gambler. The three Earps and Robert J. Winders filed a location notice on December 6, 1879, for the First North Extension of the Mountain Maid Mine. They also bought an interest in the Vizina mine and some water rights. Jim worked as a barkeep, but none of their other business interests proved fruitful. Wyatt was hired in April or May 1880 by Wells Fargo agent Fred J. Dodge as
1680-748: A shotgun messenger on stagecoaches when they transported Wells Fargo strongboxes. In late July 1880 younger brother Morgan arrived, leaving his wife Lou in Temescal, California (near San Bernardino). Warren Earp moved to Tombstone. Doc Holliday arrived from Prescott in September with $ 40,000 (equivalent to $ 1,263,000 in 2023) in gambling winnings in his pocket. On July 25, 1880, Army Captain Joseph H. Hurst asked Deputy U.S. Marshal Virgil Earp to assist him in tracking outlaw Cowboys who had stolen six Army mules from Fort Rucker, Arizona . Virgil requested
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#17327809534411760-482: A silver boom was underway. The Earps clashed with a group of outlaws known as the " Cowboys ". Wyatt, Virgil, and younger brother Morgan held various law enforcement positions that put them in conflict with Tom McLaury , Frank McLaury , Ike Clanton , and Billy Clanton , who threatened to kill the Earps on several occasions. The conflict escalated, culminating in the shootout at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881, where
1840-666: A solid reputation as a lawman but was fined and "not rehired as a police officer" after getting into a physical altercation with a political opponent of his boss. Earp immediately left Wichita, following his brother James to Dodge City, Kansas where his brother's wife Bessie and Earp's common-law wife Sally operated a brothel. He later became an assistant city marshal. In late 1878, he went to Texas to track down an outlaw, Dave Rudabaugh , and met John "Doc" Holliday , whom Earp credited with saving his life. Throughout his life, Earp moved between boom towns. He left Dodge in 1879 and moved with his brothers James and Virgil to Tombstone where
1920-478: A teamster transporting cargo for Chris Taylor. From 1866 to 1868, he drove cargo over 720 miles (1,160 km) on the wagon road from Wilmington through San Bernardino , then Las Vegas, Nevada , to Salt Lake City , Utah Territory. In spring 1868 Earp was hired to transport supplies needed to build the Union Pacific Railroad . He learned gambling and boxing while working on the rail head in
2000-747: A television version of The Seven Little Foys with Mickey Rooney as George M. Cohan (1964). The first stage musical version of The Seven Little Foys, written by Chip Deffaa , premiered at the Seven Angels Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut , in 2007. In 2008, it was revived in New York at the New York International Fringe Festival; the cast included Ryan Foy, Foy's great grandson and grandson of Irving Foy. On February 16th, 1928, at age 71, Foy died of
2080-1014: A theater chain business in Dallas that he had started with Foy. Irving wrote and managed cinemas in Dallas and Albuquerque . Charley and Mary operated the Charley Foy Supper Club in Sherman Oaks, California , in the San Fernando Valley , where comedians such as Jackie Gleason , Dan Rowan , Dick Martin , and Phil Silvers appeared early in their careers. The family's story was filmed in 1955 as The Seven Little Foys with Bob Hope as Foy and James Cagney as George M. Cohan ; Charley Foy narrated. Eddie Foy Jr. appeared as his father in four films – Frontier Marshal (1939), Lillian Russell (1940), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and Wilson (1944) – as well as in
2160-429: Is not a resident of this state, that Wyatt S. Earp has absconded or absented himself from his usual place of abode in this state so that the ordinary process of law cannot be processed against him." Peoria had grown to a city of 22,000 in the 1870s and had earned a reputation as a wide-open city whose community leaders mostly ignored illegal alcohol use, gambling, prostitution, and other vices. But Peoria police raided
2240-514: The Dakota Territory on September 9, 1876, with a team of horses only to find that all the land was already tied up in mining claims, so Morgan decided to return to Dodge. Earp remained and made a deal to buy all the wood that a local individual had cut and put his horses to work during the winter of 1876–1877 hauling firewood into camp. He made about $ 5,000 in profit but was unable to file any mining claims, so he returned to Dodge City in
2320-612: The Long Branch Saloon . In late 1875 the Wichita Beacon published this story: On last Wednesday (December 8), policeman Earp found a stranger lying near the bridge in a drunken stupor. He took him to the 'cooler' and on searching him found in the neighborhood of $ 500 on his person. He was taken next morning, before his honor, the police judge, paid his fine for his fun like a little man and went on his way rejoicing. He may congratulate himself that his lines, while he
2400-577: The Wyoming Territory . He developed a reputation from officiating boxing matches and refereed a fight between John Shanssey and Prof. Mike Donovan on July 4, 1869, in Cheyenne, Wyoming , in front of 3,000 spectators. In spring 1868 the Earps moved east again to Lamar, Missouri , where Wyatt's father Nicholas became the local constable. Wyatt rejoined the family the next year. Nicholas resigned as constable on November 17, 1869, to become
2480-468: The "U.S." brand into "D.8." Stealing mules was a federal offense because the animals were government property. Cowboy Frank Patterson made an agreement with Captain Hurst, and Hurst persuaded the posse to withdraw, with the understanding that the mules would be returned. The Cowboys showed up two days later without the mules and laughed at Hurst and the Earps. In response Hurst printed a handbill describing
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2560-529: The American Theatre c. 1952 relates that Cahill was a very proper woman who didn't tolerate naughty behavior or salaciousness. However, in contrast she could don a pair of tights in a musical and exude sex appeal. In appearance she resembled rival Della Fox . Cahill recorded her voice and routines at several Gramophone recording sessions in the years 1917 to 1924 all in the acoustical recording method. She also had recorded her signature song "Under
2640-405: The Bamboo Tree" in 1902. In 1915 Cahill appeared in her first silent film, Judy Forgot , based on her musical comedy of the same name performed on Broadway in 1911. In 1917 she appeared in three more silent films; Gladys' Day Dreams , When Betty Bets and Patsy's Partner before giving up on the medium. Several of Cahill's voice recordings (monologues), made between 1916 and 1924, are on file at
2720-562: The Earps and Doc Holliday killed three Cowboys. During the next five months, Virgil was ambushed and maimed, and Morgan was murdered. Wyatt, Warren Earp , Doc Holliday, and others formed a federal posse that killed three more Cowboys whom they thought responsible. Wyatt was never wounded in any of the gunfights, unlike his brothers Virgil and Morgan or Doc Holliday, which added to his mystique after his death. After leaving Tombstone, Earp went to San Francisco where he reunited with Josephine Marcus , and they lived as husband and wife. They joined
2800-483: The Foys toured successfully for over a decade, appearing in one motion picture. His wife Madeline died in 1918. The children began to go their separate ways after Foy married Marie Reilly Coombs in 1923, but four of the younger children (Charley, Mary, Madeline and Irving) performed together until the mid 1930s. Foy continued to appear in vaudeville and starred in the hit Broadway comedy The Fallen Star in 1927. He died of
2880-629: The Justice of the Peace. Wyatt was appointed constable in his place. Virgil soon went to Missouri and Wyatt to Beardstown, Illinois, 70 miles (110 km) south, where he spent the summer of 1869. Beardstown was undergoing a boom thanks to a rail line being laid through town. During that summer in Beardstown, a railroad brakeman named Tom Pinard mocked Wyatt, calling him "the California boy",
2960-581: The Library of Congress' National Jukebox. They include "Washing baby" (1921), "The symphony concert" (1923) and "At the theatre" (1924). "At the theatre" takes the form of a telephone conversation with an unheard party in which Cahill, as "Mrs. Pinthrop," describes goings-on—including the appearance of Marie Cahill ("Irish, I guess... well, maybe she is Jewish")—at the Palace Theatre. She had an older brother named Richard. Both her father and brother ran
3040-519: The National Register of Historic Places 1999. The Illinois Historic Preservation Agency visited the home at 406 So. 3rd St. and submitted the nomination. Wyatt had seven full siblings – James, Virgil, Martha, Morgan, Warren, Virginia, and Adelia – and an elder half-brother and half-sister, Newton and Mariah-Ann Earp , from his father's first marriage. In March 1849, or in early 1850, Nicholas Earp joined about
3120-463: The River (1912). It was while on tour with Mr. Bluebeard that he became a hero of Chicago's infamous Iroquois Theatre fire , December 30, 1903. A malfunctioning spotlight set fire to the scenery backstage, and Foy stayed onstage until the last minute, trying to keep the audience from panicking. Survivors later praised Foy for his bravery in trying to keep the crowd calm, even as burning debris fell onto
3200-629: The United States from Ireland in 1855 and lived first in New York City 's Bowery neighborhood and then in Greenwich Village , where Eddie was born. After Richard died in an insane asylum in 1862 from syphilis -induced dementia , Mary took their four children (Eddie was second oldest) to Chicago , where at one time she reportedly tended the mentally ill widow of Abraham Lincoln . Six-year-old Eddie began performing in
3280-426: The annual cattle drive ended and the cowboys left, Earp searched for something else to do. The Wichita City Eagle reported on October 29, 1874, that he had helped an off-duty police officer find thieves who had stolen a man's wagon. Earp officially joined the Wichita marshal's office on April 21, 1875, after the election of Mike Meagher as city marshal (or police chief), making $ 100 per month. He also dealt faro at
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3360-484: The assistance of his brothers Wyatt and Morgan, along with Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams, and they found the mules at the McLaurys' ranch. McLaury was a 'Cowboy,' a term in that region that generally referred to a loose association of outlaws, some of whom also were land-owners and ranchers. Legitimate cowmen were referred to as cattle herders or ranchers. They found a branding iron that the Cowboys had used to change
3440-535: The county. On March 28, 1871, Earp, Edward Kennedy, and John Shown were charged with stealing two horses from William Keys while in the Indian country , "each of the value of $ 100". Only three days later on March 31, James Cromwell filed a lawsuit against him alleging that he had erased and rewritten a dollar figure on a judgement against Cromwell and that Earp had collected and kept the difference. The court seized Cromwell's mowing machine and sold it for $ 38 to make up
3520-432: The difference between what Earp turned in and what Cromwell owed. Cromwell's suit claimed that Earp owed him $ 75, the estimated value of the machine. On April 6, Deputy U.S. Marshal J. G. Owens arrested Earp for the horse theft. Commissioner James Churchill arraigned him on April 14 and set bail at $ 500. Wyatt was summoned to appear at a hearing on the matter. Before he could appear, Wyatt sold his property, escaped through
3600-451: The eastern part of Pima County, Arizona , on July 28, 1880, which included Tombstone. The sheriff's position was worth more than $ 40,000 (equivalent to $ 1,263,000 in 2023) per year, because he was also county assessor and tax collector, and the board of supervisors allowed him to keep ten percent of the amounts paid. Former Democrat state legislator Johnny Behan , a future rival of Wyatt's, arrived in September 1880. Wyatt, appointed
3680-663: The family home in Lamar, Missouri . Wyatt returned to the Peoria area. On September 10, 1872, he was arrested aboard the Beardstown Gunboat , a 50-foot keelboat fitted with a ramshackle, eight-bedroom house and used as a floating brothel. To evade the local authorities, the boat picked up passengers and made slow runs along the Illinois River, tying up at various points along the way. It was owned by John T. Walton,
3760-432: The ground, then he grabbed Brocius by the collar and told him to get up. Brocius asked, "What have I done?" Fred Dodge recalled in a letter he wrote to Stuart Lake in 1928 what he had witnessed: Wyatt's coolness and nerve never showed to better advantage than they did that night. When Morg and I reached him, Wyatt was squatted on his heels beside Curly Bill and Fred White. Curly Bill's friends were pot-shooting at him in
3840-487: The heavily settled, eastern portion of the state. In 1876, farmers in central Kansas renewed pressure on the Kansas State Legislature to move the quarantine line further west, eliminating Wichita and the other cowtowns from the cattle trade. As a result, Dodge City became the "queen of the cow towns." Wyatt's brother James and his wife moved in 1876 150 miles (240 km) west to Dodge City and opened
3920-676: The hip. In late 1869 Earp courted 20-year-old Urilla Sutherland, daughter of William and Permelia Sutherland who operated the Exchange Hotel in Lamar, Missouri, the Barton County seat. They were married by Earp's father on January 10, 1870. Wyatt bought a lot on the outskirts of town for $ 50 where he built a house in August 1870. Urilla was about to deliver their first child when she died from typhoid fever . In November, Earp sold
4000-416: The lot and house for $ 75. Earp went through a downward spiral after Urilla's death, and he had a series of legal problems. On March 14, 1871, Barton County filed a lawsuit against him in the amount of $ 200 (about $ 4,500 today) and his sureties which included his father. He was in charge of collecting license fees for Lamar, which were designated to fund local schools, but had failed to turn the money over to
4080-486: The middle of his act. Fortunately, no one was injured. Assistant Marshal Earp and policeman Bat Masterson responded, along with several citizens, and opened fire with their pistols at the fleeing horsemen. The riders crossed the Arkansas River bridge south of town but Hoyt fell from his horse, wounded in the arm or leg. Earp later told biographer Stuart Lake that he saw Hoyt through his gun sights, illuminated against
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#17327809534414160-531: The morning horizon, and he fired a fatal shot that killed him that day; but the Dodge City Times reported that Hoyt developed gangrene and died on August 21 after his leg was amputated. Dodge City had been a frontier cowtown for several years, but by 1879 it had begun to settle down. Virgil Earp was the town constable in Prescott , Arizona Territory, and he wrote to Wyatt about the opportunities in
4240-467: The musical The Wild Rose she premiered another hit song, " Nancy Brown ". In 1903 the popularity of "Nancy Brown" was expanded into its own musical, Nancy Brown , for Cahill, and became her favorite role. She had a jolly demeanor, and in addition to being a singer she presented herself as a conversationalist in a style that at best anticipates the later Gracie Allen . Daniel Blum in Great Stars of
4320-592: The newspaper reported his presence on January 22, 1878, and then on to Fort Griffin , Texas. In Fort Griffin, located between the military fort bearing the same name and the Clear Fork of the Brazos River , he went to the Bee Hive Saloon. It was the largest in town and owned by John Shanssey , whom Earp had known since he was 21. Shanssey told Earp that Rudabaugh had passed through town earlier in
4400-467: The roof of the jail, and headed for Peoria, Illinois. On May 15, an indictment was issued against Earp, Kennedy, and Shown. John Shown's wife Anna claimed that Earp and Kennedy got her husband drunk and then threatened his life to persuade him to help steal the horses. On June 5, Kennedy was acquitted while the case remained against Earp and Shown. The new constable wrote that he had "good reason to believe [and] does believe that Wyatt S. Earp def[initely]
4480-405: The same man who three years earlier operated the brothel in Beardstown where Wyatt had his first gunfight. A prostitute named Sally Heckell was arrested with him, and she called herself his wife; she was likely the 16-year-old daughter of Jane Haspel. The Peoria Daily National Democrat reported: Some of the women are said to be good looking, but all appear to be terribly depraved. John Walton,
4560-568: The silver-mining boomtown of Tombstone. He later wrote, "In 1879 Dodge was beginning to lose much of the snap which had given it a charm to men of reckless blood, and I decided to move to Tombstone, which was just building up a reputation." Earp resigned from the Dodge City police force on September 9, 1879, and traveled to Las Vegas in New Mexico Territory with his common-law wife Mattie, his brother Jim, and Jim's wife Bessie. There they reunited with Holliday and Big Nose Kate, and
4640-559: The singing Howland Sisters, who were traveling the same circuit. Three years later, Foy and troupe relocated to Philadelphia and joined the Carncross Minstrels. That same year Rose died in childbirth, as did the child she was delivering. Foy lingered with the troupe for two seasons and then returned to the road. He joined David Henderson's troupe and traveled all around the U.S., dancing, doing comedy, and acting in farces. In San Francisco, still in 1882, he met Lola Sefton and
4720-654: The six of them went on to Prescott. Virgil was appointed deputy U.S. marshal for the Tombstone mining district on November 27, 1879, three days before they left for Tombstone, by U.S. Marshal for the Arizona Territory Crawley P. Dake . Virgil was to operate out of Tombstone, 280 miles (450 km) from Prescott. His territory included the entire southeast area of the Arizona Territory. Wyatt, Virgil, and James Earp traveled to Tombstone . Tombstone had been founded on March 5, 1879, with about
4800-503: The skipper of the boat and Wyatt Earp, the Peoria Bummer, were each fined $ 43.15. Sarah Earp, alias Sally Heckell, calls herself the wife of Wyatt Earp. By calling Earp the "Peoria Bummer," the newspaper put him in a class of "contemptible loafers who impose on hard-working citizens", a "beggar" and worse than tramps. They were men of poor character who were chronic lawbreakers, and Peoria constables probably considered him to be
4880-685: The spring. On Sunday, January 9, 1876, while sitting in the back room of the Custom House saloon, Earp's revolver slipped from his holster. He had left the hammer on a loaded chamber and when the gun hit his chair, a .45 caliber round discharged, leaving a hole in Earp's coat. The shot "got up a lively stampede from the room." Earp rejoined the Dodge City police in spring 1877 at the request of Mayor James H. Kelley . The Dodge City newspaper reported in July 1878 that he had been fined one dollar for slapping
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#17327809534414960-460: The stage all around him. The theater's safety features were inadequate, the theater personnel untrained, and some of the exits locked from the outside, and at least 600 people died. Foy escaped by crawling through a sewer. Between 1910 and 1913, he formed a family vaudeville act, "Eddie Foy and The Seven Little Foys", which quickly became a national sensation. While Foy was a stern disciplinarian backstage, he portrayed an indulgent father onstage, and
5040-509: The story to account for the time he was pimping in Illinois and Missouri. In early 1874 Earp and Sally moved 500 miles (800 km) southwest to the growing cow town of Wichita where his brother James ran a brothel with his wife Nellie "Bessie" Ketchum. Local arrest records show that Sally and Nellie managed a brothel there from early 1874 to the middle of 1876. Wyatt was likely a pimp, although historian Gary L. Roberts believes that he
5120-770: The streets and local saloons to support his family. At 15 he began to use the stage name Foy, and with a partner began dancing in bars, traveling throughout the western United States. He worked for a time as a supernumerary in theatrical productions, sharing a stage at times with such leading men of the time as Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson . With another partner, Jim Thompson, Foy went west again and gained his first professional recognition in mining camps and cow towns. In one such town, Dodge City, Kansas , Foy and his partner lingered for some time and Foy became acquainted with notable citizens Wyatt Earp , Bat Masterson , and Doc Holliday . In later years, Foy told of an altercation over
5200-1010: The theft, and he charged McLaury with hiding the mules. He also reproduced the handbill in The Tombstone Epitaph on July 30, 1880. McLaury angrily printed a response in the Cowboy-friendly Nuggett , calling Hurst "unmanly," "a coward, a vagabond, a rascal, and a malicious liar," and accusing him of stealing the mules himself. Hurst later cautioned the Earp brothers that the Cowboys had threatened their lives. Virgil reported that McLaury had accosted him and said, "If you ever again follow us as close as you did, then you will have to fight anyway." A month later, Earp ran into Frank and Tom McLaury in Charleston, and they told him that they would kill him if he ever followed them as he had done before. County Sheriff Charles A. Shibell appointed Virgil Earp as deputy sheriff for
5280-472: The town, galloping down Front Street. They entered the Long Branch Saloon, vandalized and harassed the customers. Hearing the commotion, Earp burst through the front door to find numerous guns pointing at him; another version of the story has it that only 3-5 cowboys were there. In both versions Holliday was playing cards in the back and he put his pistol at Morrison's head, forcing him and his men to disarm. Earp credited Holliday with saving his life that day, and
5360-399: The two became life-long friends. While in Dodge City Earp became acquainted with brothers James and Bat Masterson and gambler Luke Short . George Hoyt (spelled sometimes "Hoy") and other drunken cowboys shot their guns wildly around 3:00 am on July 26, 1878, including three shots into Dodge City's Comique Theater, causing comedian Eddie Foy, Sr. to throw himself to the stage floor in
5440-402: The variety circuits for years in a series of song and dance acts. In 1896, Foy married his third wife, Madeline Morando, a dancer with his company. She gave him eleven children, of whom seven survived childhood: Bryan (1896–1977); Charley (1898–1984); Mary (1901–1987); Madeline (1903–1988); Eddie Jr. (1905–1983); Richard (1905–1947); and Irving (1908–2003). Eddie Jr.'s son, Eddie III, was
5520-574: The week, but didn't know where he was headed. Shanssey suggested that Earp ask gambler Doc Holliday , who played cards with Rudabaugh. Doc told Earp that Rudabaugh was headed back into Kansas. By May 11, 1878, the Dodge newspapers reported that Earp had returned. The Dodge City Times noted on May 14 that he'd been appointed Assistant Marshal for $ 75 per month, serving under Charlie Bassett . Doc Holliday also showed up in Dodge City with his common-law wife Big Nose Kate during mid 1878. Ed Morrison and another two dozen cowboys rode into Dodge and shot up
5600-456: Was an enforcer or bouncer. When the Kansas state census was completed in June 1875, Sally was no longer living with Wyatt, James, and Bessie. Wichita was a railroad terminal and a destination for cattle drives from Texas. The town would fill with drunken, armed cowboys celebrating the end of their long journey when the cattle drive arrived, and lawmen were kept busy. Most drovers arrived in town in June and completed shipping by early fall. When
5680-419: Was arrested, he was not merely a customer. Both Earps were arrested for the same crime again on May 11. "Wyat [ sic ] Earp and his brother Morgan Earp were each fined $ 44.55 and as they had not the money and would not work, they languish in the cold and silent calaboose ..." They were freed in time for their sister Adelia's eleventh birthday on June 16, 1872. Wyatt and Morgan visited her in
5760-622: Was born in June 1861 in Pella. Newton, James, and Virgil joined the Union Army on November 11, 1861. Their father was busy recruiting and drilling local companies, so Wyatt and his two younger brothers Morgan and Warren were left in charge of tending 80 acres (32 ha) of corn. Wyatt was only 13 years old, too young to enlist, but he tried on several occasions to run away and join the army. Each time, his father found him and brought him home. James
5840-406: Was drunk, were cast in such a pleasant place as Wichita as there are but a few other places where that $ 500 bank roll would have been heard from. The integrity of our police force has never been seriously questioned. Earp's stint as a Wichita deputy came to a sudden end on April 2, 1876, when former marshal Bill Smith accused him of using his office to hire his brothers as lawmen. Earp beat Smith in
5920-531: Was in Owens Saloon a block away, though unarmed. Morgan and Fred Dodge were in a cabin nearby. Wyatt heard the shooting and ran to the scene. He borrowed a pistol from Fred Dodge and went to assist White. As he approached White, he saw White attempt to disarm Curly Bill Brocius and the gun discharged, striking White in the groin. Throughout the shooting Earp was standing by a chimney that was struck repeatedly by gunfire. He buffaloed Brocius, knocking him to
6000-416: Was involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral , during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys . While Wyatt is often depicted as the key figure in the shootout, his brother Virgil was both Deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone City Marshal that day and had considerably more experience in law enforcement as a sheriff, constable, and marshal than did Wyatt. Virgil made the decision to enforce
6080-587: Was named after his father's commanding officer in the Mexican–American War , Captain Wyatt Berry Stapp, of the 2nd Company Illinois Mounted Volunteers. Some evidence supports Wyatt Earp's birthplace as 406 S. 3rd St. in Monmouth, Illinois , though the street address is disputed by Monmouth College professor and historian William Urban . The Wyatt Earp Birthplace, Inc., 1986, was placed on
6160-490: Was portrayed during his lifetime only very briefly in one film: Wild Bill Hickok (1923). Earp died on January 13, 1929. Known as a Western lawman, gunfighter, and boxing referee, he had earned notoriety for his handling of the Fitzsimmons–Sharkey fight and his role in the O.K. Corral gunfight. This changed only after his death when the extremely flattering biography Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake
6240-440: Was published in 1931, becoming a bestseller and creating his reputation as a fearless lawman. Since then, Earp's fame and notoriety have been increased by films, television shows, biographies, and works of fiction. Long after his death, he has many devoted detractors and admirers. Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was born on March 19, 1848, in Illinois, the fourth child of Nicholas Porter Earp and his second wife, Virginia Ann Cooksey. He
6320-652: Was romantically involved with her for ten years until her death in 1894; the two never married, but had a daughter named Catherine who was raised by Foy's sister, Mary. Foy returned to Chicago in 1888 as the star comedian in variety shows and revues, initially for his own company. In 1889 he had a tremendous success as the star of the musical Blue Beard, Jr. when it premiered at the Grand Opera House, Chicago He then toured with that production nationally; including stops at Boston's Tremont Theatre (1889) and Broadway 's Niblo's Garden (1890). He also played
6400-644: Was severely wounded in Fredericktown, Missouri , and returned home in summer 1863. Newton and Virgil fought several battles in Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and later followed the family to California. On May 12, 1864, Nicholas Earp organized a wagon train and headed to San Bernardino, California, arriving on December 17. By late summer 1865, Virgil found work as a driver for Phineas Banning 's stage coach line in California's Imperial Valley , and 16-year-old Wyatt assisted. In spring 1866, Wyatt became
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