William J. Le Moyne

Le Moyne (1831–1905) was an American actor who is credited with playing Deacon Perry in the first stage adaption of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

[1] Le Moyne may have briefly supported himself as a silversmith[3] before his professional stage debut on May 10, 1852, at Portland, Maine, playing an officer in The Lady of Lyons, a romantic drama by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

The company was largely made up of friends and family of its manager, George C. Howard and is remembered for staging the first production of Uncle Tom's Cabin on September 27, 1852, at Peale's Museum.

Barrett later resigned and Le Moyne assumed command, only to witness over half his men killed or wounded in a string of defeats in South Carolina and Virginia.

[6] William J. Lemoyne died after several years of declining health on November 6, 1905, at a friend's residence in Inwood-on-the-Hudson[9] (now Inwood), a neighborhood on the northern shore of Manhattan Island.

Mrs. Sarah Cowell Le Moyne (c. 1900)
William J. Le Moyne - Self Portrait in Watercolor (c. 1880)- Courtesy Mary Chitty - Life and Times of Actress E.J. Phillips