Graceland Cemetery in Chicago by Brenda Rossini

Author:Brenda Rossini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sherlock holmes, mystery, crime, british crime, graceland cemetery, tour guide, literary travel
ISBN: 9781787050570
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2017
Published: 2017-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

Behind the Wacker bed

JOHN PETER ALTGELD (1847-1902) - Illinois governor burned in effigy for pardoning the Haymarket “martyrs” who awaited hanging. The popular conception was that the 1896 Haymarket bombers, like the Molly Maguires, were anarchists; this obscured the reality of labor history.

Part 7

GO WEST, WANDERER. RIGHT BEFORE THE BRIDGE, AT L

EDITH ROCKEFELLER McCORMICK (1872–1932) was a woman of great wealth and a typical swell of the Golden Age - until the Depression. The daughter of John D. Rockefeller and daughter-in-law of Cyrus McCormick (who also lies in Graceland), Edith at first lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She moved to Lake Forest IL and died age 59 of breast cancer. She was a victim of the crash, lavish spending, divorce, and unsound real estate investments.

SHERLOCKIAN NOTE OF NUTTINESS: Edith was into the then-fashionable psychic research and spiritualism. At one party, she represented herself as the wife of King Tut reincarnated.

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