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Harry Engenhart

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

STATUS: 
Victim
DATE OF Birth:
City of Birth:
Year OF DEATH:
1915
City of Death:
Chicago,
 IL,
  Cook County,
 United States
GENDER:
M
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
MAIDEN NAME:
ETHNICITY:
German
KNOWN ADDRESS:
RELATED TO:

At the time of the tragedy.

AGE:
20
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
passenger

other information

CEMETERY:
Forest Home
OTHER NOTES:

...one brother survived, one did not...

Harry and William Engenhart worked at Western Electric and attended the company outing on July 24, 1915. The two brothers were on the Eastland that morning, with one surviving and the other perishing in the tragedy. William survived, but Harry sadly never made it home after the Eastland capsized into the Chicago River.

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