Elvira Schonbeck

The Schonbeck's lived at 402 E. Division St. in Chicago, near today's Seward Park.  In Chicago city directories of 1903, where addresses were given for an individual's home and employer, only one address was offered for Carl Schonbeck, that of the saloon where he worked.  It is possible his family of three lived there too, in the back.  Both parents were natives of Sweden. Carl immigrated to America in 1885 and Anna in 1890. They married in April 1895. Carl worked as a bartender and saloon keeper.

Elvira was one of nine hundred elementary students at the James A. Sexton school at 160 West Wendell at the corner of Wells.  Prior to 1902, the fifteen room school had been the North Division High School, constructed in 1883.   The structure still stands and is today a Chicago landmark, since 1993 home to the Salazar Bilingual Education Center.   Elvira was the only student from the school reported to have been an Iroquois Theater fire victim.†

The double funeral was held on the afternoon of Monday, January 4, 1904. Anna and Elvira were reportedly buried at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.