Theresa Vaughn (1867-1903) was a popular American singer and comedian in the 1890s.(5 October 1903)
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'' She was a hit on Broadway in ''

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'', where she played banjo and sang songs in German in the role of Fraulein, the Waif, and appeared in other productions including '' Excelsior Jr.''.(5 October 1903)
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Vol. 1] (1894) She also had success on tour with ''The Tourists in a Pullman Car''.(27 August 1889)
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''Pittsburgh Dispatch'' She was born Theresa Ott in

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, her family having a theatrical reputation in the Boston area. Of German descent, she studied music in New York City and

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. Her performance as Tessa in ''

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'' in Boston was her first operatic success.(November 1894)
Theresa Vaughn
''The Opera Glass'', p. 162 Her husband, William H. Mestayer (William Haupt by birth),(5 July 1912)
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''San Francisco Call'' (confirms that Mestayer's legal name was Haupt; this detail is not clear in all articles, which might cause confusion that they were different men) was an actor and her manager;(1 October 1891)
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''Oskaloosa Herald'' she first appeared is his company in ''We, Us & Co.'' in the 1880s. After he died in late 1896,
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'' she took a break from the stage. By 1899, she retired from the stage permanently, reportedly on account of a failing memory. In 1901 she was committed by her mother to an insane asylum, reportedly due to "melancholia" caused by the death of her husband and brother. She died at the Worcester Insane Asylum on October 5, 1903.(5 October 1903)
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Theresa Vaughn Is An Incurable
''Stark County Democrat''(27 April 1901)
Theatrical Corner
''Waterbury Democrat''(18 April 1901)
Theresa Vaughn in a Madhouse
''New York World''(20 November 1900)
Joseph Ott, Comedian, Dead
''Waterbury Democrat]'', p. 1, col 2 (Joseph Ott died in New York on November 19, 1900)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaughn, Theresa 1903 deaths 19th-century American actresses American stage actresses 1867 births