Olcott

Dr. Deming sought to have this variety called Olcott, but the name became fixed when it appeared in the Jones catalogue of 1920, and later in various reports of the Association.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934

When I lived in New York, I lived at the Hotel Olcott which is at 72nd and Central Park West right next to the Dakota apartments.

The Student Operated Press 2009

When I lived in New York, I lived at the Hotel Olcott which is at 72nd and Central Park West right next to the Dakota apartments.

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Like Irish Americans as a whole, Patrick Gilmore, Edward Harrigan, and Chauncey Olcott began their careers black and ended them white.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

“Olcott and his associates gave Irish Americans a glorious, albeit fantastic, past upon which to build dignity and respectability.”

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But in the 1880s, as the effort got under way to make the Irish respectable by returning them to their imagined roots, Olcott was recruited to perform “authentic” Irish songs in an operatic, bel canto style.

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According to historian William H. A. Williams, after a visit to Ireland in the 1880s, his Irish accent was “good enough to last for hundreds of performances, as Olcott established himself as the reigning Irish tenor in American theater.”

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Like Harrigan, Chauncey Olcott started in show business with burnt cork on his face.

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Olcott specialized in sentimental ballads and melodramatic acting and pioneered “a new type of stage Irishman” who was utterly respectable and nonfunky.

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Olcott wrote the lyrics to several sentimental ballads, including “My Wild Irish Rose” and “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,” which came to symbolize the sober, romantic, chaste, and nondancing Irish who were invented to replace the white simians of old.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010