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Hilma Johnson Berg

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
December 7, 1862
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Hilma Matilda Johnson, Hilma Berg, Helen Berg*
MAIDEN NAME:
Johnson
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
408 West 111th Street 
 Chicago 
 IL
RELATED TO:

Frank Berg

Olga Berg

Victor Berg

 

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
40
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Mount Greenwood Cemetery, Chicago, IL
MORGUE:
Jordan
IDENTIFIED BY:

husband

OTHER NOTES:

Immigrated to the United States circa 1882. Married Frank Berg on July 3, 1884 in Chicago, IL. Hilma and her two children, Olga and Victor, were all killed in the Iroquois Theatre Fire.

CITATION:

McCurdy, D. B. (1904). Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror. Chicago: Memorial Publishing Company, accessed https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39280/39280-h/39280-h.htm, p 328
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 24 Jan 1904, Sun Page 3
Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135176831/hilma-matilda-berg

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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