THE people

Ernest Reiss

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Status:
Victim
DATE OF BIRTH:
June 21, 1892
City of Birth:
, , , 
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
City of Death:
, , , 
GENDER:
M
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
4244 Vincennes Ave., 
 Chicago, 
 IL, 
RELATED TO:

Arnim and Marian (Eger) Reiss, parents
Erna Reiss, sister
Sabine Eger, aunt
Rose Bloom, aunt

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
11
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park IL
MORGUE:
Jordan
IDENTIFIED BY:

Identified by uncle.

OTHER NOTES:

The Reiss family lived at 4244 Vincennes Avenue, just down the street from Rose and Henry. Marian Eger Reiss (b.1868) had married a fellow Hungarian immigrant, Armin Reiss (1865-1942) in 1891.†   Their first child, Ernest H. Reiss, was born in 1892 and his sister Erna S. Reiss the following year. Like his father-in-law, Arnim was a cigar maker. He had immigrated to America in 1884.

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2
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, p 136
Find-A-Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62567422/ernest-reiss
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) Sat, May 20, 1905 ·Page 4

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society, Judy Cooke

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