June 2022 Archives

Crane Mausoleum

June 6, 2022 (January 28, 2023) Jennifer

Richard T, Jr and Florence (Higinbotham) Crane Richard was the son of Richard T Crane, Sr, an industrialist and founder of the Crane Company (1855 in Chicago) which manufactured plumbing supplies. Florence was the daughter of Harlow Niles Higinbotham, a partner in Marshall Field & Company and the president of the 1892 World’s Columbian Exposition […]

Augusta Polke Adler

June 4, 2022 (July 25, 2022) Jennifer

23 December 1884/5 – 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 […]