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A Daisy and David Garland survived the Iroquois Theater fire in 1903
but I
found so little information about them that I wouldn't be surprised to learn
Daisy was a nickname,▼1 David a middle name, and Garland a
misspelling of an altogether different last name. Seems like Daisy
Garland would be an unusual enough name to make it easy. Found lots of
Daisy's, none with a sibling, spouse, or father named David. Found
lots of David Garlands, none with a sister or spouse named Daisy.
Am hoping a puzzle-loving genealogy buff will tackle this one
and let me know what they find.
Daisy (abt. 1880) and David Garland (abt. 1883) were reported to have been taken
to St. Luke's hospital in Chicago but information about their condition was only given
for Daisy — shock and a dislocated shoulder. Daisy was released the next
day, David presumably the night of the fire.
One newspaper reported that Daisy lived on Michigan Avenue and another that both lived at 68 E.
Sixteenth — a boarding house operated by a mulatto woman named Ella Nelson.
A society news blurb in an August 1905 Custer, South Dakota newspaper
gave me hope but it went nowhere. It referenced a Daisy Garland said to have
been thought dead who survived. The blurb seems to suggest that an R.W. Miller
of Norfolk, Nebraska chaperoned a group of women, including Garland, on an
unknown excursion. I'm not certain there was any connection to Custer; editor there
might have grabbed the story off the wire. Possibly it was submitted to the
publisher by Miller because it was to him new information. That suggests he
and Daisy were recent acquaintances.
I looked for married couples and siblings in Chicago, South Dakota, Nebraska,
and Michigan (maybe Daisy living on Michigan Ave was a typo from reporter's
or nurse's notation that Daisy was FROM Michigan?) (slogging through references
to an 1890s play, Daisy Garland's Fortune, and a governor's daughter by that
name who committed suicide), chased Millers, Garlands, theater and theatre, 1880
to yesterday. Because Marguerite in French means a variety of Daisy, I also
looked for Margaret Garlands in Nebraska and South Dakota. There's probably a clue out there,
I just didn't find it.
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