English Translation of Immigrants

1. With the same push of his colleagues, he immigrated to new york. Although the city (referring to new york) turned other Irish immigrants into laborers or policemen at this time, Jack finally became a member of Andrew Robertson's colored operation Kentucky Bards. (I haven't heard of this group, but judging from its name, the following question should be a bard performance group, a musical performed by white people dressed as black people in the19th century. )

I guess there is another sentence before this sentence, without which I can't translate correctly. ) There is Booth Airlines this time.

Accompanied by his daughter Mary, the only child in his first marriage, she did not survive his brief immersion in black makeup (the bard artist painted his face black like a black man), banjo and applause.