THE people

Roland S. Mackay

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

January 15, 1898

DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

GENDER:

M

OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

ETHNICITY:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

5029 Indiana Ave.

Chicago

IL

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:

5

MARITAL STATUS:

Single

ROLE:

Audience Member

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:

Hart Cemetery, Hart MI

MORGUE:

Rolston

IDENTIFIED BY:

OTHER NOTES:

Son of George R and Estella Shufelt MacKay. Grandson of Nellie Moore Bezenak, great-grandson of Benjamin Moore.

"Mrs. George MacKay [nee Estella Shufelt], 5029 Indiana avenue, the mother of Roland MacKay, was not feeling well Wednesday and did not attend the performance. If she had been present the entire four generations of her branch of the Moore family, instead of three, might have perished." (The Inter Ocean)

CITATION:

The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) 02 Jan 1904, Sat, page 3
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, p136
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73200752/roland-mackay

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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