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  • 1894 Obituaries; November 15

    The following names appeared in the “deaths” column of the November 15, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, page 9; Catharine M. Alloway, Mary Barry, James Breen, Adolph Dose, Johanna Caton, John Collopy, Henry Charles Erhardt, Tessie Flynn, Clara Hagen, Mrs. Robert Hartley, Thomas Heslin, John Hollister, Leonard O.…

  • A Fortune Awaits Him

    A young sea-faring man disappeared but his parents never forgot him. Whether you are a Chicagoan or a descendant of one, I think you’ll enjoy the last sentence in the article below. It appeared on the front page of the Chicago Daily News on November 15, 1894:

  • An 1894 Wedding

    An announcement of John H. Johnston and Fannie Whitted Culberson’s November 13th wedding appeared on page 9 of the November 15, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News: John was 45 years old and Fannie was 42 when they were married according to  the “Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920,” index,…

  • Who Owns this Jewish Cemetery?

    I shared the story of what I hope to be my first of many trips to Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery here. Way in the back of Oak Woods we saw this: If you look closely, you’ll see headstones hidden among what appears to be just a vacant field in the…

  • 1894 Obituaries: November 10

    According to the front page of the November 10, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, Mrs. DeGan fell over a stair railing and died. (It would be nice to know her first name, wouldn’t it?) I wasn’t able to locate a death record on FamilySearch for this poor woman:…

  • 1887 Obituaries: March 1

    From the front page of the March 1, 1887 issue of the Chicago Daily News; “ALLEN-At 734 Hinman-st., ALICE, daughter of Gerald and Margaret Allen, aged 3 months and 13 days. Funeral Wednesday, at 10:30 a.m., by carriages to Calvary.” “ANDREWS-At 537 31st-st., Feb. 28, Miss CARRIE FANGMEYER, daughter of…

  • 1894 Obituaries: November 5

    Julius Pinkler died November 5, 1894 in a fire in F.C. Wings’ printing office: The following obituaries appeared under “deaths’ in the November 5, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News, page 7; Bessie Ament, Eddie Bowman, Alice Loretta Gorey, Mary Halpin (nee Crotty), Mrs. Salome Hiller, Dominick Hagarty, Mary Hoag,…

  • 1894 Obituaries: October 30

    The following deaths were listed on page 2 of the October 30, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News: Owen F. Casey (Baby Boy) Haley Esther Lillian Hegberg               Additional deaths were reported on page 7 of the October 30, 1894 issue of the…

  • Touring Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery

    Timing is everything. Rough draft plans for a mid-October road trip were on the table. Chicago, Door County Wisconsin, and Mackinac Island Michigan were the top contenders. I was Google-ing our options when I saw the “Civil War to Civil Rights” tour offered by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. At Oak…

  • 1894 Obituaries: October 25

    The following deaths were reported on page 8 of the October 25, 1894 issue of the Chicago Daily News: Ellen Armstrong (nee Lynch) Amy L. Baxter Mary Boyle (nee Norton) James C. Carmody Joseph Falk Thomas Gleeson Margrett Kressler (nee Cottor) Joseph T. Leonard Mary Luebke Julius Mandelbaum Ronald B.…