Lauritz Carlsen 24 April 1824 – 13 August 1893 Ingeborg Olsdr Carlsen 18 June 1826 – September 1878 Ingemann Martinus “Martin” Carlsen 20 July 1855 – 4 September 1890 Frank Emil Carlsen 7 September 1857 – 1 September 1918 Dora Maria Lootz Carlsen 11 May 1859 – 24 June 1942 I wanted to revisit this […]
June 27, 1869 (Russia) – May 14, 1940* (Toronto) Dubbed “Red Emma” by the press and called “the most dangerous woman in America,” by J. Edgar Hoover, Emma Goldman was a tireless radical activist whose influence is felt to this day. Emma Goldman was born in Kaunas, Russian Empire (which is now Lithuania) to Jewish […]
21 September 1897 – 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 […]
Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824 Géricault was an influential artist who was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement and is considered the first major painter of French Romanticism. Romanticism is a vast artistic movement that touched every corner of art and design throughout the early 1800s and […]
Julius E. Heidenreich 17 May 1840 – 30 June 1927 Anna Margaretha Geisler Heidenreich 1839 – 7 December 1896 Johann Carl Heidenreich 1810 – 12 June 1889 Maria Elizabeth Heidenreich dates unknown Ida Margaretha Heidenreich 15 September 1868 – 28 October 1964 (possibly) Though I found a record that seems to indicate that Julius and […]
6 April 1900 – 16 December 1927 Harry Green was the second son born to Fred Green and Mary Reinke Green Ebertshauser Lau. Both his parents were German immigrants who’d arrived in their early teens. Mary was only 16 when they married while Fred was 22. At the time of the 1900 census, they were […]
August Soeldner 29 September 1844 – 20 April 1929 Louise Soeldner 24 October 1849 – 19 May 1921 The Soeldners were German immigrants who came to the US as young people and met and married in Chicago. The couple had seven children, three suriving them. Two sons tragically died as young adults and two daughters […]
16 November 1898 – 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 […]
Forest Home (formerly German Waldheim) Cemetery Dedicated in 1893; Designated a US National Historic Landmark on and listed on the US National Register of Historic Places 18 February 1997 Every time I go to Forest Home, I photograph the monument. It’s beautiful and usually has some flowers or other remembrance left on its dais. If […]
Cecelia Tang 1930 – 2013 Cyril Chung Ying Tang 1930 – 2018 This isn’t exactly a mausoleum, but I’m not sure what else you would call it except for incredibly tranquil and beautiful. Mr. Tang died in 2018 and I believe that this must have just been finished as the landscaping isn’t completed yet. It […]