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Alice Ripley Maxwell

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

August 28, 2023

DATE OF DEATH:

August 14, 1948

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MAIDEN NAME:

Ripley

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RELATED TO:

Robert Maxwell

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:

MARITAL STATUS:

Married

ROLE:

Audience Member

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CEMETERY:

St Peter's Anglican Church Cemetery, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada

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Obituary from the New York Times (New York City, New York County, New York, USA) Sunday, August 15, 1948, page 61:
MAXWELL - Alice Ripley, on Aug. 14, 1948, after a brief illness, in her ninety-first year. Wife of the late Robert Maxwell of New Orleans; daughter of the late Abigail Hubbard and Simeon Haskell of Boston; mother of the late Robert Elliott Maxwell of New York and the late Allison R. Maxwell of Pittsburgh, Pa. Services at her late residence, 1158 5th Ave., Sunday at 3 P. M. Interment at Coburg, Ontario, Canada, St. Peter's Cemetery.
Obituary from the New York Times (New York City, New York County, New York, USA) Sunday, August 15, 1948, page 60: Born in Boston, the daughter of Abigail J. Hubbard and Simeon Dickinson Haskell, she moved as a child to Chicago, where her home was burned in the disastrous Chicago fire in 1871. She also escaped injury in 1903 in the Iroquois Theatre fire in which 602 persons died.

CITATION:

Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150695708/alice-ripley-maxwell
New York Times (New York City, New York County, New York, USA) Sunday, August 15, 1948, page 60
New York Times (New York City, New York County, New York, USA) Sunday, August 15, 1948, page 61

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