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Name reported in 1903/4 newspapers
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"A. Wilson"
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Reported fatality but death certificate not issued
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"D. Wilson age forty-nine, 345 Washington Blvd"
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Reported fatality but death certificate not issued
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"E. N. Wilson, badly burned"
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Reported injured survivor Possibly referred to Edna Wilson (see below)
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"Edna Wilson age nineteen, 439 W. Randolph"
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Reported fatality but death certificate not issued. At that address was a furnished room at the front for $2/week
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"Godfrey Wilson, twelve years old, badly burned"
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Reported Injured survivor
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"Howard J. Wilson"
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Reported fatality but death certificate not issued
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"R. N. Wilson"
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Survivor
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"Nellie M. Wilson" (1876–1915)
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Nellie died twelve years after the Iroquois Theater fire.
She was then an unmarried thirty-eight-year-old living in Harvey,
Illinois, and working as a clerk in a restaurant.
Her Iroquois Theater burns were reported as the
cause of her death. She was the oldest
daughter of six children born to hardware salesman
William R. Wilson of Scotland and Maria Sherburne
Wilson. In 1903 Nellie had worked as a
stenographer and lived at 4344 Evans Avenue. in
Chicago. She was one of many who testified in
the special grand jury in February 1904 and was
then reported as living at 3923 Prairie Avenue.
Her siblings were Charles R. Wilson, Burton S.
Wilson, William R. Wilson Jr, Nina E. Wilson, and
Edith L. Wilson (who later married a Fields).
Possibly attended the theater with Iroquois survivor
Mary R. Williams Marvyne (1867–1966), second wife of
John Charles Marvyne, an Elgin, IL couple with one
child. Mary was one of the first to
cross the plank to Northwestern, only to
then have her purse stolen. In some early reports her last name was given as
Marzein.
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Samuel Wilson family
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"S. F. Wilson"
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"Mrs. S. F. Wilson"
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"Daughter of S.F. Wilson"
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"Son of S. F. Wilson"
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Forty-eight-year-old Samuel
Franklin Wilson (1855–1927), who commonly went by
"Frank," was the founder of a retail men's
clothing store in Chicago, S.
F. Wilson & Company. His wife was
forty-six-year-old Nellie Hutchins Wilson
(1857–1922). Nellie's only child, according to
the 1900 U.S. Census,
seventeen-year-old William C. Wilson (1886–1955),
did not marry until 1909 thus did not bring a
wife to the theater, so the female in their party
that was described in newspapers as a
"daughter" can only have existed as a
child from a prior marriage by Frank for which I
found no evidence. I failed to find a familial
connection between Nellie and another Iroquois
victim,
Florence Hutchins.
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