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 1844 - 1924
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| Born |
28 Sep 1844 |
Almont, Lapeer, Michigan, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
14 Jun 1924 |
Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA |
| Notes |
- Letter to Frances Nelson Tillman
Brooklyn, May 29, 1924
My dear Niece--
I was glad to get yours of recent date.
Publisher hopes to have the first two (2) volumes during June, and the third volume, a little. Third vol. Shop Talk will contain only Selections from my old Shop Talks.
These will probably soon be out a circular from the Publishers with more detail.
My forebears were all New Englanders -- Vermont. Grandma, whom you think you once saw, married twice. First husband's name Johnson. Second Welton; Mother was by the first, Sense were name was Johnson, Jane. She was sixteen and my father, Matthew Taisey, 23 when they were married at some little town in Vermont. They emigrated at once to Almont, Michigan and lived there and in St. Clair, Michigan. xxxx on thirteen years, where their four children, of which I am the youngest, and only survivor, were born. I was born Sept. 28, 1844. In '1847 we emigrated to Minnesota. Settling at Stillwater, St. Paul had just been laid out, and the site of Minneapolis was an Indian reservation. My father died in 1881. He was a blacksmith. My Mother. here. in 1887.
Grand the Welton died here with us in 1875.
The Nobles family, including Cal-Bill Nobles, Freemont's Lieutenant for whom Nobles Pass in the Rockies is named, emigrated to Minnesota with our family. I had been christened for one of the brothers.
Throughout my professional life, I have been haunted by the Noble and Nobles clans, all trying to be relations.
Hope the boys may find a string here to tie a kite to.
I have been under the weather, and the doctor--for some days. I have a bad heart. Have known it for ten years, and have not been as careful as I should. Appear about normal today and have been out.
A bunch of us youngsters, including H.E. Dixey & myself expect play week of June 9th at the Empire Theatre in "The Players" annual art production. This will be the third. First was the Rivals. Last year School for Scandal, this year She Stoops to Conquer. They have been wonderfully successful in every way.
Dolly joins in love, and is looking forward to that visit.
Your Affectionate Uncle Milton.
Almont Michigan 48003
Almont was first settled in 1827 by James Deneed. The town was originally named Bristol, after Oliver Bristol, the second settler. It was renamed Newburg in 1836. Finally, in 1846, James Thompson donated the town clock and had the town name changed to Almont to honor the Mexican general, Juan N. Almonte.
Almont is located in the southeastern corner of Lapeer County, near the borders of St. Clair, Macomb and Oakland counties.
St Clair Michigan
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NYT Obituary: June 15, 1924, p.23, col. 2
MILTON NOBLES, ACTOR
Had Been Playing, Up to Friday, in "She Stoops to Conquer"
Milton Nobles, actor and playwright, who had been playing in the Players' Club revival of "She Stoops to Conquer" at the Empire Theatre, died yesterday at his home, 139 First Place, Brooklyn, following a stroke of apoplexy. He last appeared in his role of Mat Muggins in "She Stoops to Conquer" on Thursday night last.
Mr. Nobles was 76 years old. He retired from the stage in 1905, but returned in 1920 in Frank Bacon's part in "Lightnin'," one of the most successful of the many actors who essayed the part, in which he continued until his health gave way in March of last year.
Following his debut in 1867, Mr. Nobles was for several years in stock companies throughout the West, and in 1875 produced the dramatization of "Jim Bludsoe" in Philadelphia. He starred himself in this piece and in his own play. "The Phoenix," and toured the country in them for twenty-five years. In "The Phoenix" occurred the line "and the villain still pursued her," a fair sample of the melodramatic character of its author's writing. He wrote a dozen or so plays of this type, and in his acting, too, followed the same school of melodrama.
In 1881 he married Dollie Woolwine, an actress in his company. For some years following 1895 they appeared together in vaudeville.
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New York Public Library Research Libraries Performing Arts Theatre catalog holds Milton Nobles' "Shop talk" - stage stories, anecdotes of the theatre, reminiscences.
Call #: MWED [RBS] 97-10 (Nobles, M. Milton Nobles' Shope talk")
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| Person ID |
I1692 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
11 Jun 2012 |
| Father |
Matthew Taisey, b. 29 May 1812, Groton, Caledonia, Vermont, USA , d. 24 Apr 1881, Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, USA |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Mother |
Jane Johnson, b. 1818, Vermont, USA , d. 04 May 1887, New York, New York, USA |
| Relationship |
Natural |
| Married |
15 Nov 1834 |
Groton, Caledonia, Vermont, USA |
| Family ID |
F721 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Dollie Woolwine, b. Abt 1863, Cincinnati, Clermont, Ohio, USA , d. Oct 1930, New York, New York, USA |
| Married |
29 Jun 1881 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F519 |
Group Sheet |
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