Peter F. Dailey
Peter F. Dailey was an American burlesque comedian and singer who became popular over the era remembered as the Gay Nineties.
Peter Francis Dailey was born at New York City and was raised in Brooklyn along the banks of the East River. Dailey was the youngest of two sons and a daughter born to New York natives, Owen and Mary Dailey. In later years friends of his father, who was a fishmonger and active in city politics, would say of his son Peter, that the apple did not fall far from the tree. By time of the 1880 census Dailey and his siblings were being raised by their widowed mother. She supported her family working as a dressmaker, while William, her sixteenyearold son helped out as a salesman. Dailey had a much younger brother, Robert L. Dailey , who became a vaudeville player active in the early years of the twentieth century. As a young boy Dailey enjoyed hanging about the docks and piers that populated the banks of the East River at that time, often bantering with the odd assortment of stevedores, sailors and steamship passengers that would cross his path.
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