Thomas, age 23, perished in the S.S. Eastland Maritime Disaster on the Chicago River. Thomas was an office worker at Western Electric and a pitcher on the ball team.
A lake passenger steamer, the S. S. Eastland had been chartered by the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois to transport the company's employees (and their families)to the company's annual picnic in Michigan City, Indiana.
At 7:28 a.m., still moored to her Chicago River dock and with 2,572 people on board, the S. S. Eastland began to list. The steamship managed to briefly right herself before slowly rolling on her side.
A total of 844 people died that day, including 22 entire families - Chicago's worst disaster. An exhibit on the disaster is maintained at the Wheaton Center for History in Wheaton, IL.
All of the people in the group photo on this site are buried in the plot - the great-grandparents (Thomas J. Brennan and Margaret Dowling Brennan), three of their children (Theresa - baptized Bridget, Mary Catherine, and Thomas F.), their daughter-in-law (Anna Morrissy Brennan), and Anna's daughter (Mary Frances).
A lake passenger steamer, the S. S. Eastland had been chartered by the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois to transport the company's employees (and their families)to the company's annual picnic in Michigan City, Indiana.
At 7:28 a.m., still moored to her Chicago River dock and with 2,572 people on board, the S. S. Eastland began to list. The steamship managed to briefly right herself before slowly rolling on her side.
A total of 844 people died that day, including 22 entire families - Chicago's worst disaster. An exhibit on the disaster is maintained at the Wheaton Center for History in Wheaton, IL.
All of the people in the group photo on this site are buried in the plot - the great-grandparents (Thomas J. Brennan and Margaret Dowling Brennan), three of their children (Theresa - baptized Bridget, Mary Catherine, and Thomas F.), their daughter-in-law (Anna Morrissy Brennan), and Anna's daughter (Mary Frances).
Thomas, age 23, perished in the S.S. Eastland Maritime Disaster on the Chicago River. Thomas was an office worker at Western Electric and a pitcher on the ball team.
A lake passenger steamer, the S. S. Eastland had been chartered by the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois to transport the company's employees (and their families)to the company's annual picnic in Michigan City, Indiana.
At 7:28 a.m., still moored to her Chicago River dock and with 2,572 people on board, the S. S. Eastland began to list. The steamship managed to briefly right herself before slowly rolling on her side.
A total of 844 people died that day, including 22 entire families - Chicago's worst disaster. An exhibit on the disaster is maintained at the Wheaton Center for History in Wheaton, IL.
All of the people in the group photo on this site are buried in the plot - the great-grandparents (Thomas J. Brennan and Margaret Dowling Brennan), three of their children (Theresa - baptized Bridget, Mary Catherine, and Thomas F.), their daughter-in-law (Anna Morrissy Brennan), and Anna's daughter (Mary Frances).
A lake passenger steamer, the S. S. Eastland had been chartered by the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois to transport the company's employees (and their families)to the company's annual picnic in Michigan City, Indiana.
At 7:28 a.m., still moored to her Chicago River dock and with 2,572 people on board, the S. S. Eastland began to list. The steamship managed to briefly right herself before slowly rolling on her side.
A total of 844 people died that day, including 22 entire families - Chicago's worst disaster. An exhibit on the disaster is maintained at the Wheaton Center for History in Wheaton, IL.
All of the people in the group photo on this site are buried in the plot - the great-grandparents (Thomas J. Brennan and Margaret Dowling Brennan), three of their children (Theresa - baptized Bridget, Mary Catherine, and Thomas F.), their daughter-in-law (Anna Morrissy Brennan), and Anna's daughter (Mary Frances).
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