Mollie E. (Ehrlich) Opper 1896 – 8 August 1924 Mollie was born in Russia and came to the US with her family in 1907. On the 1910 census, she was listed as the oldest of 4 surviving children (of 8 born) of Joseph and Goldie (Chodor) Ehrlich. In September 1912 when she was still quite […]
Minna (Mueller) Ewert was born in Germany and came to the US around 1866. Her oldest, daughter Karoline (Lena) may have been born in Germany just before her parents left or in Illinois – there are conflicting reports – but her younger son Fritz (Fred) was definitely born in Chicago (1869). The first person interred […]
Ferdinand Erdmann (1850-1912) was a woodworker as indicated by the beautiful carving of his trade tools at the top of this headstone. He and Sophia (Ebert – 1849-1941) married in 1881 and had two children, though they had left home by 1900 so are difficult to track beyond Sophia’s answer on that census. In a […]
19 August 1896 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the Chicago River while still at dock, trapping hundreds inside its hull and leading […]
4 February 1895 – 12 August 1942 Every now and then, I come across census or death records that indicate a person was in Manteno, Illinois, and I’ve learned that almost always means something pretty bad if they had previously been living in Chicago as that was the home of the notorious Manteno State Mental […]
19 September 1841 – 18 February 1928 Hattie was born in Ohio but met and married her husband Samuel Klump Martin — a successful lumber executive — in Wisconsin. Two years after their marriage, they moved to Chicago where their five children were born: Elmer, Wilton, Marion, Samuel, and Walter. In 1896, Samuel passed away. […]
Rose Netsky Berger 15 September 1898 – 15 January 1925 Rose was born in Russia, probably close to Poland (or what was then the German Empire). Her family immigrated to the US in 1904 where her father worked as a tailor. She was the oldest daughter of 8 children who survived to adulthood (of 12 […]
Alexander L. “Alex” Dupke 21 August 1893 – 24 July 1915 The Eastland, one of five chartered excursion boats meant to ferry employees, their families and friends from Chicago over to the Michigan City shore for the annual Western Electric Company picnic, keeled over into the Chicago River while still at dock, trapping hundreds inside […]
Julia Barbara Budilovsky Machova 17 May 1877 – 2 August 1904 Lillian “Lily” Budilovsky 13 January 1902 – 10 March 1923 Julia was the oldest child of 9 born to Vaclav and Johanna Budilovsky. By 1900, one of the children had died, but the other 8 were all living with their parents, and 23-year-old Julia […]
William Boldenweck 9 August 1851 – 21 August 1922 Adelheid Gesine Samme Boldenweck 4 July 1852 – 17 Augugust 1912 William Boldenweck was president of the Chicago Sanitary Board during the building of the Chicago Drainage Canal — the construction of which famously reversed the course of the Chicago River. He married Chicago-born Adelheid Samme […]