Louis Aldrich

Louis Aldrich, né Salma Lyon, However, George Earlie Shankle records in his 1955 book on American nicknames that Aldrich was born at sea while his mother was sailing from Germany to the United States. Shankle also writes that Aldrich was later adopted by a family living in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He joined the juvenile March Players of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1858 through 1863, being billed as "Master Louis"; went with them in 1860 to California; and thence to Australia and New Zealand, where they remained two years and a half. In 1863 the troupe returned to California and disbanded after playing in San Francisco for four weeks. He subsequently appeared in Her Atonement and other plays, with occasional returns to his popular success My Partner.

In 1893 he appeared in "The Senator" at the Grand Opera House in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Actors' Fund of America In 1897, he became the president of the Actors' Fund of America, a position he remained in until the year of his death, 1901, in Kennebunkport, Maine.