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Eleanor Frandsen

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Elna Frandsen*, Ella Frandsen
MAIDEN NAME:
Frandsen
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
 Winnetka 
 IL
RELATED TO:

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
24
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
Charles Bolte
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:
Domestic servant

other information

CEMETERY:
Atlantic Cemetery, Elk Horn IA
MORGUE:
Postlewait
IDENTIFIED BY:

George Rasmussen

OTHER NOTES:

Eleanor "Elna" Frandsen (b. 1880) worked as a domestic servant for the Charles G. Bolte family in Winnetka, IL, about sixteen miles north of Chicago.  She attended the theater with her employer's thirteen-year-old daughter, Linda Bolte, who also perished.  Elna's body was discovered at Postlewait's Undertaking and identified by George Rasmussen.  Elna was buried in the Atlantic Cemetery in Elk Horn, Iowa.  Several fraternal organizations and other groups raised money to assist families with burial expenses.  The Illinois Club covered transportation of Elna's body to Iowa and raised $250 to help with burial expenses.  Her employer donated $20 and George Rasmussen donated $10.

CITATION:

The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) Sun, Jan 03, 1904 Page 4
https://www.iroquoistheater.com/elna-frandsen-body-shipped-to-atlantic-iowa.php

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Judy Cooke, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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