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Category: Chicago Deaths 1879

  • Final Resting Place for Edward Gorham?

    The words “Accidentally Drowned” caught my eye as I read the front page of the Chicago Daily News from September 22, 1879: “At an early hour this morning, Edward Gorham, aged 25, a Canadian, employed in the Life-Saving Service, fell off the pier and was drowned. His body was recovered.…