THE people

Frederick Bahr

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

STATUS:
Survivor
DATE OF BIRTH:
September 25, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH:


City of Birth:
, , , 
DATE OF DEATH:
August 30, 1913
PLACE OF DEATH:
City of Death:
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GENDER:
M
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Fred Bahr, Fritz Bahr
ETHNICITY:
German
RELATED TO:

Edward Bahr, son
Euphrosina "Rose" Hermann Bahr, wife

AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:
Audience Member
KNOWN ADDRESS:
1205 S. 11th street
,
 Manitowoc
 Wisconsin
,
AGE:
61
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
DATE OF MARRIAGE:

LOCATION OF MARRIAGE:
   
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:
Carpenter

other information

FUNERAL HOME:

CEMETERY:
Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc, WI
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

Around noon on December 30, 1903, twenty-two-year-old Edward and his sixty-one-year-old father, sometimes called Fritz, met at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago for an afternoon  matinee advertised as an extravaganza of pretty girls, costumes, music, and ballet dancers flying through the air. By day's end, they could say they saw all that and then some.

Any thoughts Fred had of giving an interview to local papers about he and Edward's harrowing Chicago ordeal were probably extinguished when Rose's eighty-two-year-old widowed mother, Sophia Hermann, died the day after the Iroquois Theater fire. The funeral, scheduled for the following Monday, January 4, 1904, gave Fred and Edward time to take a train home from Chicago for the funeral.

Fred and Rose Bahr, both German immigrants, made their home at 1205 S. 11th St. in Manitowoc. Fred was a skilled carpenter, even with an injury to his hand while serving in the Civil War with Company H, 21st Wisconsin.

CITATION:

The Manitowoc Pilot (Manitowoc, Wisconsin) 1913 Sep 04 p1
Manitowoc County History https://www.manitowoccountyhistory.org/stories/bahr#:~:text=One%20example%20is%20the%20Iroquois,patrons%20who%20survived%20the%20tragedy.
Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68134872/frederick-bahr

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

Judy Cooke, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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