About
Composer of Wabash Avenue After Dark, Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet, and When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose.
Before Fame
He attended Chicago Music College.
Trivia
He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Family Life
He married vaudeville performer Dolly Connolly.
Associated With
He collaborated with Edward Madden on Red Rose Rag in 1911, which was a hit for his wife.
