Emmie:

The Island Song Book was put out by John and Evelyn McCutcheon and The Chicago Tribune. Worldcat.org and Abebooks.com are your friends.

John T. McCutcheon was a writer and political cartoonist for the Trib and the newspaper was the Tourist Board's advertising agent in Chicago.

The McCutcheon's owned the former "Treasure Island" off Nassau, (was Salt Cay and is currently Blue Lagoon Island. The Tower was still there last I checked.... and Canopus.

I think A. Destoup was one of the constables that attended & reported on the Nassau Universal Negro Improvement Association (Garveyite) meetings were the Bellamena's name came up a few times. Might be worth checking in to.

Where did you get his dates from? (His headstone reads "Unknown.")