James Woodford Ray
Born in Greenbush, Warren county, Illinois, USA on 10 September 1874. He was performing at the Eltinge Theater in New York, when engaged by the A. H. Woods Production Company to perform in “Business Before Pleasure” in London. The photo here is from his passport, dated 11 March 1919, and stamped “New York”. He died on 28 June 1944 in Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, not far from his place of birth.