Help us get to over 8,749 articles in 2024.
If you know of a magician not listed in MagicPedia, start a New Biography for them. Contact us at magicpediahelp@gmail.com
Walter Edwin Floyd
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
Walter Edwin Floyd (1861-1940), born in Chelsea Massachusetts, was the first magician on the Lyceum circuit.
Walter Edwin Floyd | |
Cover of Sphinx (August 1908) | |
Born | May 12, 1861 Chelsa, Massachusetts |
---|---|
Died | August 21, 1940 (age 79) |
Starting in 1888, he preformed a mind-reading act with his wife (using the name Mohala) as The Floyds. The act was titled "Mohala, The Radio Mystic."
Walter Floyd joined the Society of American Magicians in New York in 1903, In October of 1939, Floyd was made the dean of the Boston Assembly.
Floyd died of a heart attack while performing the Miser's Dream before a gathering of about one hundred men at a dinner in Chelsea, Massachusetts.[1][2][3]
Books
- Handbook of Magic (1891)