Co writer, William A. Dillon, was a master entertainer on the vaudeville and theater circuits who was billed "The Man of 1000 Songs." He wrote the big hits "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad", "My Old Cornell", Sir Harry Lauder's "Keep Right On to the End of the Road" (Cut and Pasted)
His parents came from Ireland to Canada in about 1874 and then onto NY.