THE people

Victor Berg

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
August 30, 1892
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
M
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Victor Lawrence Berg
ETHNICITY:
Swedish
KNOWN ADDRESS:
408 West 111th Street 
 Chicago 
 IL
RELATED TO:

Frank and Hilma (Johnson) Berg, parents
Olga Berg, sister

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
11
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:
Student

other information

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

Frank Berg

OTHER NOTES:

Victor, his mother and sister were all killed in the Iroquois Theatre Fire.  Victor was 11 years old at the time of his death.

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
Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135176972/victor-lawrence-berg

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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