Early Life
Schoolcraft was born in New Orleans, Louisiana into a family of actors and artists. His father, Henry R. Schoolcraft* was an actor who appeared in shows at Crisp's Gaiety Theater and who despite his death before 1860, saw to it that his son Luke and his daughters Jane and Alfreda (who would be famous in her own right as Alfreda Chippendale) all pursued careers in theater. Luke Schoolcraft's first stage performance was in 1851 in Rolla, the Richard Brinsley Sheridan adaptation of August von Kotzebue's Pizarro.
- Not Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who is credited with the discovery of the source of the Mississippi River.
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