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DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT (1815-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL
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DECATUR
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EMMETT (1815-1904)  ,
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American
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song-writer, was borh at
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Mount
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Vernon,
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Ohio . He started the "
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negro
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minstrel " performances, which from 1842 onwards became so popular in
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America and
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England, and he composed a number of songs which had a
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great temporary
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vogue . He is remembered particularly as the writer of the famous
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Southern
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war-song " Dixie," which he composed in 1859 .

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