Eph Horn
American blackface minstrel performer
About Eph Horn
Eph Horn, born Evan Evans Horn, (1818-January 1, 1877) was a blackface minstrel performer from the United States. Born in Philadelphia, he became successful and toured including in England. He gave a sarcastic soliloquy on women's rights in one of his routines. His son Eoh Horn Jr. also became a minstrel performer.
He formed Horn and White's Minstrels with Charley White.
A woodcut portrait was made of him. He died in New York.
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