Milt G. Barlow (June 29, 1843 – September 27, 1904) was an American blackface comedian and actor popular in minstrel and vaudeville shows over the latter half of the 19th century.

[2] He was probably raised in the household of an uncle[2] in Harrison County, Kentucky, after his parents divorced and his father, a silversmith, relocated to Salt Lake City.

He would later serve with several Virginia cavalry companies before surrendering at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 along with the remnants of General Robert E. Lee's army.

[6] Barlow's first marriage to Martha Giles is something of a mystery for neither her nor their son Reginald's names appear in any early public record available to this writer.

One source has suggested that Martha may have been a Canadian actress, though a large Giles family lived near his uncle William Barlow's farm in Harrison County, Kentucky, thus not far from Cynthiana.

[2] Milt Barlow would later spend much of the year 1887 as a guest of New York's Ludlow Street Jail after a judge charged him with contempt of court for failing to make his alimony obligations.