The Devil in the White City (59 page)

Essen Works, Germany

Eulalia, Infanta of Spain

Evanston National Bank

Ferris, George W. G.

Ferris, Margaret

Ferris Company

Ferris Wheel

in construction

final days of

operation of

romance on

test runs of

Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia

Field, Marshall

Field Museum, Chicago

Filene’s building, Boston

Finn, Mickey

Fire Queen,

First National Bank, Chicago

First Presbyterian Church, Chicago

Fitzpatrick, Capt. James

Flatiron Building, New York City

Fogg, Phileas (fict.)

Fort Worth, Texas, Holmes in

Fouse, L. G.

Francis Ferdinand, Archduke

Franke, David

Frazier, A. A.

French, Daniel Chester

Gage, Lyman

Garfield, James A.

Gary, W. E.

General Electric Company

George, Henry

Geraldine, Dion

Geyer, Esther

Geyer, Frank

Geyer, Martha

Gimbel’s department store, New York

Ginty, Flora

Gompers, Samuel

Gordon, Henry “Harry” (pseud.)

Gottlieb, Abraham

Graham, Ernest

Graham, George S.

Graves, Dexter

Great Fire (1871)

Greeman, Milton

Gronau, W. F.

Guiteau, Charles

Hall, Frank Haven

Hall Braille Writer

Hanson, Mary

Harrison, Benjamin

Harrison, Carter Henry

and American Cities Day

and Annie

campaign for reelection of

and Chicago Day

death and funeral of

and Infanta Eulalia

and Midway ball

and Prendergast

on unemployment

and Waif’s Day

Harrison, Preston

Harrison, Sophie

“Hatch” (fict.)

Hawthorne, Julian

Hayden, Sophia

Hayes, A. C. (pseud.)

Hayes, Laura

Hays, D. S.

Hecht, Ben

Hercules Iron Works

Herrick, Robert

Highleyman, J. W.

Higinbotham, Harlow

Hill, Henrietta

H.M.S.
Camperdown

H.M.S.
Victoria

Hollingsworth, Adelaide

Holmes, H. H.

arrival in Illinois

book about

building developed by

businesses of

chloroform purchased by

confession of

and Conner family,
see
Conner, Julia; Conner, Ned; Conner, Pearl

creditors of

death and burial of

and the devil

early years of,
see
Mudgett, Herman Webster

and Emeline

forgery by

and Georgiana

as Gordon

hotel of,
see
World’s Fair Hotel

and insurance fraud

memoir of

and missing women

modus operandi of

names used by

pharmacy of

physical appearance and personality of

and Pitezel children

in prison

and Silver Ash Institute

time to leave Chicago

trial of

and Williams sisters,
see
Williams, Anna; Williams, Minnie R.

wives of

Holmes, Lucy

Holmes, Myrta Z. Belknap

Holton, Mrs. E. S.

Horseshoe Curve

Houdini, Harry

Howard, Annie

Howard, Georgia (pseud.)

Howard, Henry Mansfield (pseud.)

Howe, Mr. and Mrs. G. (pseud.)

Hughes, W. C.

Hull House, Chicago

Humboldt Park, Chicago

Humphrey, B. D.

Humphrey, Cephas

Hunt, Richard M.

Hunt, Robert

If Christ Came to Chicago
(Stead)

Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois Trust and Savings Company

incandescent bulbs

Indianapolis:

grand jury in

search for children in

Ingalls, John

Iowa State Marching Band

Irvington, Indiana, search for children in

Ismay, J. Bruce

Jackson Park

architects’ visit to

entrances to

as fair site;
see also
World’s Columbian Exposition

permanent structures of

plans for transformation of

soil of

Jack the Ripper

Jefferey, Edward T.

Jenney, William

Johnson, Charlie

Joplin, Scott

Juicy Fruit gum

Kansas City, hotel collapse in

Keeley cure for alcoholism

Keller, Helen

Kelly, Mary

Kiler, Charles

Kinetoscope

King, John

Kingsbury, Fred

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirk’s Soap

Klausmann, Caroline

Koch, Robert

Kraus (city official)

Krupp, Fritz

Lafayette Collection Agency

Lake Michigan

Latimer, Robert

Laurean, L. G.

Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. M. B.

Lazarus Silverman bank, Chicago

L’Enfant, Pierre Charles

Leopold, Nathan

Lewis, Mrs. H. B.

Lincoln Memorial

Lindau, Paul

Lloyd, Henry Demarest

Loeb, Richard

Lola (South Sea Islander)

Loring & Jenney

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)

Lovering, Clara A.

Lyman, Benton T. (pseud.)

McAllister, Ward

McArthur Brothers

McCarthy, Joseph

McClaughry, R. W.

McComber, J. B.

McElroy, J. E.

MacHarg, William S.

McKim, Charles

McKim, Mead and White

McKim, Sarah

McLean Asylum, Olmsted in

Magic Kingdom (Disney)

Manila, citywide plans for

Mann, Henry D.

Masonic Temple, Chicago

Masters, Edgar Lee

Maxwell, John

May, Chicago

Maynard, George W.

Mazhar, Farida

Mead, William R.

Medill, Joseph

Merchant & Co.

Middleton, Doc

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Miles, Gen. Nelson A.

Millet, Francis

as director of color

as director of functions

on
Titanic,

Monroe, Harriet

Montgomery Ward

Moore, Charles

Moore, Fannie

Moorman, Elvet

Morgan, G. F.

Morgan, J. Pierpont

Moses, Phoebe Anne (Annie Oakley)

Mount Wilson Observatory

Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia

Mudgett, Herman Webster

birth and early years of

insurance frauds of

jobs taken by

name change of

wife of

see also
Holmes, H. H.

Muirhead, James Fullerton

murder:

death sentence for

motives for

Murphy, Edward W.

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

“My Country ’Tis of Thee”

National Cordage Company

Nebraska Savings Bank

New York Central Railroad

New York City:

architects in

Burnham’s buildings in

Burnham’s travel to

Central Park in

Columbus celebration in

as cultural center

dinner to honor Burnham in

Flatiron Building in

Madison Square Garden in

Metropolitan Opera House in

population of

as proposed fair site

Northern Pacific Railroad

Oakley, Annie

offensive feet, advice to overcome

Oker, John and Lora

Olmsted, Frederick Law

on boats

and Burnham

death of

European trip of

and fair’s closing

and fair’s construction

and fair’s landscaping

and fair’s plans

ill health of

on landscape architecture

in McLean Asylum

personal traits of

reputation of

and site

as supervising architect

Olmsted, John

Olmsted, Mary

Olympic,

Onderdonk, Andrew

O’Rourke, John J.

Otis, Della

Otis, Elisha Graves

Owens, Henry

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

Padereweski, Ignace Jan

Palace of Fine Arts, Chicago

Palmer, Bertha Honore

Palmer, Potter

Pangalos, George

Panic of 1873

Panic of 1893

Panic of 1907

Paris:

competition with

Eiffel Tower in

Exposition Universelle in

Pasteur, Louis

Patti, Adelina

Peabody, Robert

Peck, Ferdinand W.

Pennsylvania Railroad

Philadelphia:

Centennial Fair in

grand jury in

Holmes in

Holmes’s trial in

Moyamensing Prison in

population of

Pickett, M. B.

Pinchot, Gifford

Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Pitezel, Alice

Pitezel, Benjamin

and building construction

children of

death of

in Fort Worth

and insurance fraud

at Keeley Institute

names used by

physical appearance of

Pitezel, Carrie Canning

Pitezel, Dessie

Pitezel, Howard

Pitezel, Nellie

Pitezel, Wharton

plate glass, development of

Pledge of Allegiance

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poetry
magazine

Poet’s Life, A
(Monroe)

Post, George B.

Postal Telegraph Company

Pound, Ezra

Prendergast, Patrick Eugene Joseph

Pretyman, William

Prospect Park, Brooklyn

psychopath, use of term

Pullman, George

Putnam, Frederick

Quinlan, Patrick

Rain-in-the-Face, Chief

“Rattlesnake” Pete

Reading Railroad

Rice, Col. Edmund

Rice, Luther V.

Richards, David

Riis, Jacob

Ritchel, C. F.

Rodney, Lucille

Roebling, John Augustus

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Charles T.

Root, Dora Monroe

Root, Elihu

Root, John Wellborn

as architect

artistic nature of

birth and early years of

as bon vivant

death of

as fair’s chief architect

health problems of

partnership of Burnham and,
see
Burnham & Root

soil problem solved by

travel of

wives of

Root, Mary Walker

Ross, Alexander

Russell, Lillian

Ryves, Thomas

Sabbatarian movement

St. Gaudens, Augustus

St. Louis:

bridge over the Mississippi at

Holmes in

as proposed fair site

St. Louis Republic,

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York

S. A. Kean & Co.

San Francisco, citywide plans for

Satt, Hilda

Saturday Afternoon Club

Schnooks, John

Schufeldt, Lt. Mason A.

Schuyler, Montgomery

Scott, William

Shankland, Edward

Sherman (bull)

Sherman, John B.

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Shredded Wheat

Silver Ash Institute

Sinclair, Upton

Sister Carrie
(Dreiser)

Sitting Bull, Chief

Smythe, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew

Soldier Field, Chicago

Standing Bear, Chief

Stanley, Henry

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Starrett, Paul

“Star-Spangled Banner, The”

Statue of the Republic (“Big Mary”)

Stead, F. Herbert

Stead, William

Steffens, Lincoln

Stewart, Evelyn

Strowers, Mrs.

suffragist movement

Sullivan, John L.

Sullivan, Louis

and Adler

and Auditorium

autobiography of

competition of Burnham and

ego of

fading career of

Golden Door of

Transportation Building by

and World’s Fair

and Wright

Swango, Michael

Talmadge, Thomas

Taylor, Mrs. D. C.

Tesla, Nikola

Thomas, J. C.

Thomas, Theodore

Thompson, Jennie

Titanic,

Toronto:

children’s bodies found in

grand jury in

Holmes in

Torture Doctor, The
(Franke)

Train, George Francis “Citizen”

Trude, Alfred S.

Tucker, Horace

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Twain, Mark

Ulrich, Rudolf

Union League, Chicago

Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Union Stock Yards, Chicago

Bridge of Sighs of

passenger depot of

stench of

Stone Gate of

tours of

Union Trust Company Bank, Chicago

United German Singing Societies

United Nations, charter of

United States, pride in

University Club, Chicago

USS
Michigan,

Uzanne, Octave

Van Brunt, Henry

Vanderbilt, George Washington

Vaux, Calvert

Veragua, duke of (last living descendent of Columbus)

vertical file, invention of

Villard, Henry

Waldorf-Astoria, New York

Walker, John

Wall Street, panic on

Ward, Aaron Montgomery

Warner Glass Bending Company

Washburne, Hempstead

Washington, D.C.:

citywide plans for

as proposed fair site

Washington Park, Chicago

Wathen, W. H.

Watson, Carrie

Watterson, Henry

Waukesha spring water

Weber, Max

Web of Life, The
(Herrick)