THE people

Margaret Edith Clingen

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

STATUS:
Survivor
DATE OF BIRTH:
March 3, 1891
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DATE OF DEATH:
November 1, 1918
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F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Margaret Haight
MAIDEN NAME:
Ricketts
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AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:
Audience Member
KNOWN ADDRESS:
291 S Ashland
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 Chicago
 Illinois
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CEMETERY:
Memorial Park Cemetery, Skokie IL
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Margaret was badly burned in the fire.

She was the 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. As of the 1900 US Census, Margaret and her older sister, Elizabeth, were living with their maternal grandmother, Mrs. William L. (Elizabeth Shank) Newman of Decatur, Illinois.

CITATION:

Everett, M. (1904). The Great Chicago Theater Disaster. Chicago: Publishers Union of America
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178417567/margaret-edith-haight

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