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When William A. Ahern (1880–) and Frances G. O'Brien got
married in Canada and went off for their honeymoon
to New York, Will's fellow clerks at the railroad
office, and relatives in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
thought the worst. A week later, Will and his bride
appeared and surprised everyone. Since he surely did
not walk off the job without notice, it has to be
assumed no one talked to his supervisor. The story
demonstrates the top-of-mind awareness the Iroquois
Theater disaster had in Chicago as well as
surrounding communities.
William continued to work for the Erie and Western
Transportation Company railroad. Seven years later
found he and Frances living with her parents, John
and Mary O'Brien, and with a five-year-old daughter
named Mary J. Ahern.
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