Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels

Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels were an American minstrel group led by Charles H. Duprez and Lew Benedict, which enjoyed its greatest popularity in the late 1860s and 1870s.

[2][3][4] A 1906 article provides this description of the group in 1870: In 1870 Duprez and Benedict's Minstrels were known all over this country and had many old timers in their troupe.

In the overture they had the endmen Hughey Dougherty, singing "It's Nice to be a Father" and Lew Benedict "Hot Corn."

Gleason; "I am Lonely no More," D. Swabe Vernon; "Little Brown Jug," (a big hit) Charlie Reynolds; "The Dear Little Shamrock," Fred B. Naylor, and the famous Cocoanut Quarette, Benedict, Gleason, Parkhurst and Lew Collins, completed the company.

[1]Other noted performers with the group included Frank Dumont.