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Elizabeth Ricketts Clingen

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

STATUS:

Victim

DATE OF BIRTH:

August 1, 1889

PLACE OF BIRTH:

City of Birth:

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DATE OF DEATH:

February 10, 1904

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GENDER:

OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Bessie Clingen, Bessie Ricketts; Effie Clingen*

ETHNICITY:

RELATED TO:

Harry & Elizabeth (Bowen) Ricketts
Margaret Clingen

AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:

Audience Member

KNOWN ADDRESS:

291 S Ashland

Chicago

Illinois

AGE:

MARITAL STATUS:

Single

DATE OF MARRIAGE:

LOCATION OF MARRIAGE:

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

FUNERAL HOME:

CEMETERY:

Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago IL

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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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