THE people

Rose Elkan

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Rose Elkau*
MAIDEN NAME:
Elkan
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
3434 South Park Ave. 
 Chicago 
 IL
RELATED TO:

Nathan and Pearl (Barnett) Elkan, parents
Myrtle and Theodore Shabad, friends

AT THE TIME OF the fire

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

other information

CEMETERY:
Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park IL
MORGUE:
IDENTIFIED BY:
OTHER NOTES:

Myrtle Shabad and her brother, Theodore aged twelve years, were the only children of Henry and Fannie Shabad. Their father held triple funeral services at his home for his two children and little Rose Elkan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan (Pearl) Elkan. The three children attended the matinee together and all were killed.

The Rabbi Jacobson of the Thirty-fifth street synagogue referred to the Iroquois fire as one of the "greatest calamities of the age."

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 333
The Topeka Daily Herald (Topeka, Kansas) Thu, Dec 31, 1903 Page 1
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) Sat, Jan 02, 1904 Page 12
Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87759140/rose-elkan

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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