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Dorothy
Twelve-year-old Dorothy
Chapman Bour (1891–1954) was the daughter of
advertising salesman Charles J. Bour (1864–1940) and
Carrietta C. Chapman Bour (1861–1950). The Chapmans
were a Cassopolis, Michigan family. The Bour's lived
in the Bryn Mawr / Woodlawn area of Chicago.
Dorothy's father had various business interests,
including outdoor advertising with his brother, John
Bour, and ownership in a vending machine company.
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Joe
"Little Joe Graham" was
probably twelve-year-old Joseph T. Graham
(1891–1957), son of Albert H. Graham, a postal clerk
on the railroad, and Ellen Tietsort Graham, who in
1903 lived on 73rd Street at the corner of Jeffery
Avenue.
The connection between Joe and Dorothy is guessed to
be Dorothy's uncle Charles C. Bour, a realtor,
who lived around the corner on Jeffery Avenue. Both families had come to Chicago from the same
tiny town — Cassopolis, Michigan.
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In the years after the fire
Five years after the Iroquois
Theater fire, Dorothy was a freshman at the
University High School. She and her parents
relocated to Miami in the 1930s. Dorothy married
twice and bore two children. Her first marriage to
Harold P. Brown (1892–1951) ended in a messy divorce
when he was wooed away by another woman with
cash-flashing parents. Dorothy brought a $350,000
alienation of affection suit against her
ex-husband's new in-laws for using monetary gifts to
lure him to their daughter.
Her second husband, wed in 1941, was Roy L. Modlin.
Her father went into the automobile manufacturing
business in 1915 with Robert C. Davis, a steamship
engineer. The company, Bour-Davis Co., produced
fewer than 300 cars during its two-year history.
Joseph Graham became a bookkeeper, in 1910 working
for a printing company. He later married a couple of
times, lived in Massachusetts for several decades,
had three children, and spent his last years in Los
Angeles.
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