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Mary Herish

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DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

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MAIDEN NAME:

Herish

ETHNICITY:

Russian

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KNOWN ADDRESS:

710 S Halsted St

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Chicago

Illinois

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AT THE TIME OF the fire

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Audience Member

STATUS:

Victim

AGE:

18

MARITAL STATUS:

Single

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A Russian girl, only 18 years of age. She was one of only three or four of that nationality to lose her life in the disaster. McCurdy, p373.

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, p373

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