On the first full day of the last big trip I’ve taken so far, my hosts planned a somewhat local outing into Bedfordshire for pub food, ice cream, and a visit to what was once the headquarters of the Panacea Society and is now a museum. I was still a bit jet-lagged and not quite […]
Charles Jerold Hull 18 March 1820 – 12 February 1889 Helen Culver 23 Mar 1832 – 19 Aug 1925 Charles Jerold Hull was what could be termed a self-made millionaire, making his fortune in real-estate in both Chicago and across the US. According to the Tribune in his 14th of February 1889 obituary, his father […]
15 March 1880 – 25 October 1931 This article was originally posted on May 15, 2022. I was contacted by Anna’s grandchildren and given additional information and clarification which I’ve used to annotate this article, while leaving my erroneous conclusions and conjectures in place. Anna Blau was born in Galicia which seems to now be […]
1 July 1899 – 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 […]
15 September 1883 – 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 […]
Jeanette “Jeanne” Tarcov 9 November 1916 – 10 September 1940 Jeanne was the middle child of six born to Nathan and Mary (Gordik) Tarcov. She’s buried bside her closest-in-age sister Gussie, who died six months before she was born. According to the 1940 census, taken in April of that year, all the siblings still lived […]
Michael Brand (1826 – 1897) was a German brewer from a well-off family that had him privately educated. He trained to be a brewer and was in France at the time of the Revolutions of 1848, during which he served in support of the Republican side and led a company. After his side won, he […]
27 October 1822 – 5 May 1871 George was born in County Armagh in Ireland to Scottish Protestant parents. He came to the US as a teenager. He first settled on the East Coast, showing up on the 1850 census living in Baltimore and working in sales (possibly as a storeowner or manager). By that […]
25 November 1886 – 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 […]
Colonel John Mason Loomis 5 January 1825 – 2 August 1900 Mary Jane Hunt Loomis 15 August 1829 – 7 October 1910 Mary Hunt Loomis 16 June 1855 – 5 January 1861 John was born in Windsor, Connecticut in 1825 to a prosperous family. His father was an officer in the state militia and a […]