| Date of Birth | 1848* | ||||
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| Description | Washington Wells and his wife Nettie moved from Pennsylvania to Wilmington around 1900. Like his son Percy Wells, co-owner of the Bijou, Washington Wells seems to have been involved in various aspects of show business. The Wilmington city directories for 1903 and 1905 list his business as "patent medicines." Around the turn of the century, traveling shows hawked patent medicines in country towns throughout the U.S. In the summer of 1907, he was "in charge of some of the concessions on the Exposition grounds" in Norfolk, Virginia. He started the LeGrand theater in 1909 but took ill and died three days after its opening. | ||||
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