Vintage Cabinet Card John T. Raymond American stage actor,Sarony Photo NY

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See My other itemsJohn T. Raymond (1836-1887), whose original name was John O'Brien , was an American stage actor, born in Buffalo , New York, on August 5, 1836; he died in Evansville , Indiana on April 10, 1887. His first appearance was made on June 27, 1853, at a theatre in Rochester , New York, under the management of Messrs., Carr and Henry Warren, as Lopez , in "The Honeymoon." Afterwards, he went to Philadelphia , Baltimore , Charleston , Savannah , Mobile and New Orleans . In 1858 he had his early success with Sothern in Tom Taylor's Our American Cousin , in which he later appeared in London and in Paris . Raymond first became known in New York in 1861, when he appeared at Laura Keene's Theatre , succeeding Joseph Jefferson in low comedy parts, and at that time he acted Asa Trenchard in " Our American Cousin ." His greatest popular hit was as Col. Mulberry Sellers in a dramatization of Mark Twain 's Gilded Age' (1873), a character that became completely identified with his own breezy optimism. Raymond's professional career extended over a period of thirty-two years, in the course of which he acted in all the parts that usually fall to the lot of a low comedian.Raymond was twice married, first to actress Marie E. Gordon , known on the stage after 1864. Their marriage was unhappy and they were legally separated. His second wife read more