THE people

Marian Reiss

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

18680325

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City of Birth:

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DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

PLACE OF DEATH:

City of Death:

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GENDER:

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OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Marian Eger Reiss

MAIDEN NAME:

Eger

ETHNICITY:

RACE:

NATIONALITY:

RELATED TO:

Arnim Reiss, husband
Erna and Ernst Reiss, children
Sabine Eger, sister
Rose Bloom, sister

DATE OF MARRIAGE:

PLACE OF MARRIAGE:

DATE OF ADDRESS:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

4244 Vincennes Avenue,

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Chicago

Illinois

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ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:

Audience Member

STATUS:

Victim

AGE:

35

MARITAL STATUS:

Married

other information

MORGUE:

IDENTIFIED BY:

Sam Spielberger, Albert Eger and Otto Fauti identified the three Reiss family members.

FUNERAL HOME:

CEMETERY:

Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park IL

OTHER NOTES:

Died with her children and sisters in the fire. Sam Spielberger, Albert Eger and Otto Fauti identified the three Reiss family members.

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.

Armin Reiss married one of Marian's younger sisters, Louise Eger Reiss (1868-1940) and they had one child, a son named James Reiss.

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, p 136
Find-A-Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41630857/marian-reiss

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

Judy Cooke, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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