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  • A Final Resting Place for Jacob Mueller

    My second great-grandfather Jacob Koebe Mueller was buried at Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery one hundred and four years ago today. During our trip to Chicago last weekend, my husband and I had the opportunity to visit Oak Woods Cemetery and see Jacob’s grave site in person. I had called ahead to…

  • Hero’s Family Needs Help

    Charities of the past worked in much the same way they do today. In the October 20, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, a Bishop asks the public to help the family of a man who died saving children from a fire: The next two stories could also have…

  • 1894 Obituaries: October 15

    The following deaths were reported in the October 15, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, page 7: Mathias J. Becker Louisa Biagi Timothy Connelly (unnamed male) Conley Bridget Deely (nee Quirk) Mary Dinan Ann J. Finley Andrew Friederich Charles Gunderson Anton Franz Graf Margareth Gergen Katherine Goelz John Hagerty…

  • The Latest Political News

    My favorite line in this article? “The objections are mainly the same old ones.” We could probably say the same thing today!

  • Happy Anniversary to the Love of my Life

    Happy anniversary Husband ~ thank you for 15 wonderful years! May I have this dance?

  • Suicide in Garfield Park

    The details of deaths by suicide appear in nearly every extant issue of the 1894 newspapers I have been transcribing this year. October 10, 1894 was no different: I didn’t have any luck locating Mr. Scherthe in the Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922, 1959-1994 records collection on FamilySearch. He doesn’t appear…

  • Twenty-seven Marriage Licenses Issued

    Fifty four names appeared in the “marriage licenses” column of the October 10, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News; do you recognize any of them?  

  • 1894 Obituaries: October 5

    The following deaths were reported in the October 5, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News on page 11: Edward Anglem Ada. M. Austin H. Baltzer Julia Busse (nee Dettmar) Margaret A. Castleberry, Mrs. Hugh Cunninghamh Peter Thomas Dasso Mary Downs (nee Mangler) Frances Doyle John Foley John Garrity John…

  • Tragedy in Joliet Illinois

    I was horrified when I read the following article on the front page of the October 10, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News: The pain this poor man must have endured is unimaginable. After being notified of his death, Louis Burdelle’s family may have clung to the hope that…

  • Violence in 1894 Chicago

    Like every city, Chicago has its fair share of violent incidents. Here is a sample of what appeared on the front page of the Chicago Daily News October 5, 1894: Everyone involved in the incident above refused to talk? Hmm. Perhaps Paul Fisher would have been safer if he’d remained silent…