THE people

Elizabeth Ricketts Clingen

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
August 1, 1889
DATE OF DEATH:
February 10, 1904
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Bessie Clingen, Bessie Ricketts; Effie Clingen*
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
291 S Ashland 
 Chicago 
 IL
RELATED TO:

Harry & Elizabeth (Bowen) Ricketts
Margaret Clingen

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
14
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago IL
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

Daughter of Harry Joseph Ricketts and Elizabeth Caroline Bowen, who divorced in December 1894. Her mother married William Cleveland Clingen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1899.

"Miss Bessie Clingen was rescued by a fireman, who caught her as she was going down a fire escape." (Tribune)

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 01 Jan 1904 Fri p 6
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208408186/elizabeth-ricketts-clingen
Everett, M. (1904). The Great Chicago Theater Disaster. Chicago: Publishers Union of America

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