Albertina Allen Forrest (1872 – 1904) Jacob Dorsey Forrest (1866 – 1930) Jacob and Albertina married in 1893. After their marriage, Albertina continued her studies in Chicago alongside her husband and sister and seems to have earned a PhD according to one obituary. The couple later moved to Indianapolis, and both worked at Butler College […]
On the first full day of the last big trip I’ve taken so far, my hosts planned a somewhat local outing into Bedfordshire for pub food, ice cream, and a visit to what was once the headquarters of the Panacea Society and is now a museum. I was still a bit jet-lagged and not quite […]
1 July 1899 – 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 […]
15 September 1883 – 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 […]
Jeanette “Jeanne” Tarcov 9 November 1916 – 10 September 1940 Jeanne was the middle child of six born to Nathan and Mary (Gordik) Tarcov. She’s buried bside her closest-in-age sister Gussie, who died six months before she was born. According to the 1940 census, taken in April of that year, all the siblings still lived […]
30 July 1915 – 25 December 1938 Alice was the second oldest child of Hungarian immigrants Max and Fannie (Altman) Neuhauser. Her siblings were oldest sister Gladys and younger siblings Helen, Henry, and Doris (called Dolly). Both parents had immigrated with their families in 1906 and married six years later. Max worked as a trimmer […]
1833 – January 28, 1868 Kate Warne’s early years are a mystery beyond the facts that she was born in Erin, New York, and was widowed by the time she was 23. It was unclear to me if Warne was her married or maiden name, but she used variations on this name throughout her career […]
4 October 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 […]
Inez Clarke/Briggs 20 September 1873 – 1 August 1880 The story of this gravesite is pretty fascinating, and deep-dive research has already been done on it by Chicago historians and genealogists. Someone has helpfully appended the entire write-up to Inez’s findagrave.com record, and I recommend it as a very good and interesting read. In summary, […]
4 May 1890 – 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 […]