Vincent C. Plunkett

Vincent C. Plunkett (sometimes “V. C.” or just “Vin”) was born in Boston to John M. V. and Agnes Plunkett, Massachusetts natives.[http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4BK-SW5] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records. Accessed 3 September 2016. His father was a letter-carrier;[http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9YF-BLP] 1920 U. S. Federal Census. Accessed 3 September 2016. an aunt, Agnes G. Plunkett, was a piano teacher, and another aunt, Katherine Plunkett, was an orchestral musician.The Boston Directory (Sampson & Murdock Company), 1916–22. Vincent had embarked on a career in music and theatre by 1912, listing himself variously as a “theatrical manager” (1917)[http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZNP-H7G] World War I Draft Registration Cards. Accessed 3 September 2016. and “music salesman” (1920).[http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF98-P84] 1920 U. S. Federal Census. Accessed 3 September 2016. By 1923 he had moved with his wife and daughter to Santa Monica, California;[http://rescarta.lapl.org/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebBrowse.jsp] Santa Monica ... Directory (Los Angeles: Los Angeles Directory Co., 1923–24). Accessed 3 September 2016. in 1925 he was in San Francisco;[https://archive.org/details/crockerlangleysa1927rlporich] Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory. (San Francisco: R. L. Polk & Co., 1927). Accessed 3 September 2016. and by 1930 he had returned to Los Angeles, working as a window-dresser and no longer as a musician.[http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC84-F11]. 1930 U. S. Census. Accessed 3 September 2016. By 1942 he was living in Oregon, working as a real estate agent.[http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJT-TD2D] World War II Draft Registration Cards. Accessed 3 September 2016. 1943 06 20. Classified advertisement, Oakland Tribune, June 20, 1943, p. 31. He died there eighteen years later.[http://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ47-343] Oregon Death Records.

Vincent Plunkett’s first recorded appearance in show business was in March 1912; his act, at the Tremont Theatre, Boston, featured him drawing pictures which he then interpreted in song.[http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=PYR19120322.2.49&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-%2522vincent+plunkett%2522------] J. A. Murphy, “Adam Sowerguy’s Reviews,” Player, March 22, 1912, p. 8. There is no indication that his vaudeville career continued; rather, between 1918 and 1920, he published at least eight songs, primarily with the Boston publisher D. W. Cooper and with lyrics by Robert Levenson.Catalog of Copyright Entries ... Musical Compositions (Washington: Government Printing Office), 1918–20. His graphic skills remained useful; he also illustrated at least five covers for Cooper and other publishers. After moving to Los Angeles Plunkett published another ten titles, most in collaboration with Earl Comyns and issued by the Angelus Music Company, Los Angeles.Catalog of Copyright Entries ... Musical Compositions (Washington: Government Printing Office), 1923–25. Although he listed himself as a “musician” in San Francisco in 1925, his musical career seems to have ended in the late 1920s.

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