THE people

Laura Elvena LaRose

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
December 6, 1891
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Laura LaRose
MAIDEN NAME:
LaRose
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
833 N. Clark Street 
 Chicago 
 IL

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
12
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

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

Three sisters, Josephine, Laura and Matilda LaRose attended the theater with their grandmother, Matilda Moore.  None survived.

 

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, page 341
The Daily Journal (Montpelier, Vermont) 07 Jan 1904, Thu page 1
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80706361/laura-elvena-la_rose

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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