- Songwriter ("And the Green Grass Grew All Around"), singer, actor and author, a charter member of ASCAP (1914) and one of its directors (1914-1925). He appeared in minstrel shows and later became a music publisher. His wife was Maude Nugent Jerome. His Broadway stage scores include "Piff! Paff! Pouf!", "Lifting the Lid", "The Ham Tree" and "Up and Down Broadway". His chief musical collaborators included "Walter Donaldson', Louis Hirsch, Jean Schwartz, Harry Tierney, and 'Harry Von Tilzer', and his other popular-song compositions include "Chinatown My Chinatown", "Get Out and Get Under the Moon", "Bedelia", "Row Row Row", "Mr. Dooley", "My Pearl Is a Bowery Girl", "Picture Me Down in Tennessee", "On the Old Fall River Line", "Old King Tut", and "That Old Irish Mother of Mine".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- SpouseMaude Nugent(1893 - June 25, 1932) (his death, 3 children)
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