THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by  Erik Larson Characters By Chapter	EDITOR: Debbie Long
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CH FIRST NAME LAST NAME DESCRIPTION Pro Daniel Hudson Burnham Architect Worlds Fair 1893   Margaret Burnham Daniel's wife   Francis Millet Painter   Louis Sullivan Key architect in development       PART 1 - FROZEN MUSIC 1     THE BLACK CITY   Jane Addams Urban Reformer   Ben Hecht Journalist   Max Weber Socialist   Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leader Women's Rights   Clarence  Darrow Scientist   Lizzie Borden Murderer 2     THE TROUBLE IS JUST BEGUN   Charles  Anderson Dana New York Editor   John Wellborn  Root Architect   Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Designed a tower in France   Dewitt C. Cregier Chicago Mayor   Chauncey Depew President of New York Central   Peter Wight Architect   John B.  Sherman Supt. Union Stock Yards   Margaret   John Sherman's daughter   Della  Otis Margaret's friend   John  Walker President of the Yards   Mary  Walker John Walker's daughter   Harriet Monroe Poet friend of Mary Walker   Dora   Harriet Monroe's sister   Elisha Graves Otis Invented the elevator auto-stop   John Augustus Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge   James B. Eads Built a bridge over the Mississippi River STL   Peter Chardon Brooks III Commissioned to build Montauk   Thomas Talmadge Architect and critic   William Jenny Architect   Lincoln Steffens Journalist   Paul Starett Built Empire State Bldg.   Octave Uzanne French editor   Paul Lindau Author and publisher   Daniel Burnham Burnham's youngest son   Fernando W. Peck Proposed an auditorium   Dankman Adler Architect 3     THE NECESSARY SUPPLY   John L. Capen Physician   H. H.  Holmes 8-86 Chicago Train Station   Mrs. Holton Pharmacy owner's wife   Herman Webster Mudgtt Given name of H. H. Holmes   Upton Sinclair American author   Levi   Mudgett's father   Tom   Mutgett's childhood friend   Clara A. Lovering Fiance of Mudgett   D. S. Hayes Landlord of Holmes   Theodore Dreiser American novelist   Mrs. H. B.  Lewis Named the city of Englewood 4     BECOMINGNESS   James Ellsworth One of the Fair Board   Frederick Law Olmstead Wizard of Central Park   Henry Van Brunt Architect   Henry Sargeant Codman Landscape architect   Rudyard Kipling British writer   Mrs. Francis E. Willard President of the Union   Carter Henry Harrison Former Chicago Mayor   Mrs. T. B.  Carse Pres. Temple Bldg. Asso.   Calvert Vaux Designed Central Park with Olmstead   Patrick Eugene J. Pendergast Messenger 5     DON'T BE AFRAID   Myrta Z. Belknap From Minneapolis   Lucy Belknap Myrta's daughter   A. A.  Frazier Architect   George Bowman Holmes hired to kill worker   Charles Chappell Machinist   Patrick Quinlan Building Caretaker   Benjamin Pitezel Carpenter - friend of Holmes   Robert Latimer Gatekeeper   Carrie Canning Pitezel's wife   Debbie   Pitezel's daughter   Alice   Pitezel's daughter   Nellie   Pitezel's daughter   Howard   Pitezel's son   Jack the Ripper   Killed Mary Kelley   Captain Horace Elliott Englewood police   C. E. Davis Managed the jewelry counter for Holmes     Erickson Druggist sold the store to Holmes   H. S. Campbell Deedholder for Holmes     Strowers Laundress w/insurance policy 6     PILGRIMAGE   George R. Davis Fair's Director - General   Harriet Monroe Root's sister-in-law   George B. Post Architect invited to design fair   Charles McKim Architect invited to design fair   Richard M. Hunt Architect invited to design fair   Robert  Peabody Architect invited to design fair   Henry Van Brunt Architect invited to design fair   Edward T. Jefferey Chairman, Grounds and Bldg. Comm. 7     A HOTEL FOR THE FAIR   Aaron Montgomery Ward Mail Order Company   Johnathan Belknap Myrta's father   William Stead Author   Dr. Hervey Cleckley Author   Patrick Quinlan Holmes' building caretaker 8     THE LANDSCAPE OF REGRET   Sarah McKim Charles McKim's mother   Lyman Gage President of the exposition 9     VANISHING POINT   Icilius "Ned"  Conner Holmes hired as a jewelry counter   Julia Conner Ned's wife   Pearl Conner Ned's 8-year-old daughter   Gertrude Conner Ned's 18-year-old sister   Fannie Moore Young visitor from Memphis   J. W.  Highleyman Vanished 10     ALONE   William R. Mead Architect   W. W. Boyington Chicago Architect   Aunt Nettie   Harriett Monroe's Aunt       PART II - AN AWFUL FIGHT 11     CONVOCATION   Augustus  St. Gaudens American sculptor   Charles Atwood Architect   Sophia Hayden Designed Women's Building   Lieutenant Mason A. Schufelt Army Officer   Major R. W.  McClaughry Criminal ID system 12     CUCKOLDRY   C. W.  Arnold Insurance Man 13     VEXED   Hempstead  Washburne Republican Mayor   Thomas Edison Wizard of Menlo Park   J.P. Morgan General Electric Co.   George Westinghouse Company Owner   Nikola Tesla Patent Holder   William Baker President of the Fair   Rudolph Ulrich Landscape Superintendant   Colonel William Cody Buffalo Bill Show   Sol Bloom Algerian Village   C. F.  Ritchel Rising Towers   J. B.  McComber Toboggan to other cities   R.T.E.   Shoved off in a car on a cable   Mike DeYoung Publisher of San Francisco Chronicle   Colonel Edmund Rice Columbian Guard   Robert Koch Bacteriologist   Louis Pasteur Bacteriologist   William S.  MacHarg Sanitary Engineer   Abraham Gottlieb Chief Structural Engineer   James Dredge Editor Engineering Magazine   Edward Sharkland Engineer   Frederick Putnam Harvard Professor   Bertha Honore Palmer Board of Lady Managers   Flora Ginty Sent in a door sample   Laura Hayes Private Secretary   Candace  Wheeler Designer   Mueller   First 4 Deaths of the Fair   Jansen   First 4 Deaths of the Fair   Allard   First 4 Deaths of the Fair   Algeer   First 4 Deaths of the Fair 14     REMAINS OF THE DAY   Mrs. Crowe Neighbor lady   W. H.  Wathen Head of Kentucky Medical College 15     A GAUNTLET DROPPED   Elias Disney Had a display at Fair   Samuel Gompers Union man   Dion Geraldine Construction superintendent   Walter Wyckoff Princeton professor   Charles Dudley Arnold Photographer 16     THE ANGEL FROM DWIGHT   Dr. Leslie Enraught Gold's cure for alcoholism   Ermine  Cigrand Kelly's injections   Carrie Watson Madam   Dr. Lawrence Moved into Holmes' building   Dr. and Mrs. Cigrand Relatives of Emaline 17     DEDICATION DAY   Theodore Thomas Conductor of Chicago Symphony   Theodore Roosevelt Boone and Crocket Club   Marion   Olmstead's daughter   Rick   Olmstead's son   Phil Codman Friend of Olmstead's children   John   Olmstead's eldest son   Henry Rayner Doctor who treated Olmstead   Archie   Algerian bodyguard   William Pretyman Director of Color   Solon S, Beman Designed Mines Building   J. E.  McElroy Hygeia Mineral Springs Co.   Francis Agnew Contractor   W, F,  Gronan Inspector   Robert Hunt Engineer   Andrew Onderdonk Engineer   E. Dehn Head Gardener   Francis J. Bellamy Wrote Pledge of Allegiance   Col. Henry  Waterson Spoke at Dedication   Chauncey M. Depew Spoke at Dedication       PENDERGAST   A. S.  Trude Lawyer   Charles Guiteau Assassinated President Garfield 19     I WANT YOU AT ONCE   Luther V. Rice Engineer   Geo. Washington  Ferris Invented the Ferris Wheel 21     THE COLD-BLOODED FACT   Charles  Eliot Assistant helping Olmstead 22     ACQUIRING MINNIE   Minnie R. Williams Secretary   Anna Williams Minnie's sister   Alexander Bond Minnie signed the deed over   Benton T. Lyman Signed the Deed over to 23     DREADFUL THINGS DONE BY GIRLS   Adelaide Hollingsworth Columbia Cook Book   Jacob Riis Housing Critic   Chicago May Madam in Chicago 24     THE INVITATION 25     FINAL PREPARATIONS   Grover Cleveland President of the United States   Herbert Stead Newspaperman       PART III - IN THE WHITE CITY       Opening Day 27     THE WORLD'S FAIR HOTEL   John Oker Landlord in Chicago 28     PENDERGAST   W. F.  Cooling Rec's card from Pendergast as Asst. 29     NIGHT IS THE MAGICIAN   James Fullerton  Muirhead Author and Guidebook   Edgar Lee  Majors Chicago Attorney   Montgomery Schuyler Architectural critic 30     MODUS OPERANDI   Jennie Thompson Disappeared   Evelyn Stewart Disappeared   Phacisian   Disappeared 31     ONE GOOD TURN   Julian Hawthorne Son of Nathaniel   Infanta Eulalia Royalty 34     HEATHEN WANTED   Frank P.  Burnham Cold Storage Building   Edward W. Murphy Fire Marshal 35     AT LAST 36     RISING WAVE   Mrs. Luclle Rodney Walked from Galveston 39     CLAUSTROPHOBIA   Cephas Humphrey Transporter 40     STORM AND FIRE 41     LOVE   Theodore Dreiser Reporter   Sara White Reserved young lady   James J. Corbett Beat John Sullivan boxer   John Maxwell St. Louis Globe-Democrat   Georgiana Yoke Holmes' new friend   Henry Mansfield Howard AKA Holmes   Annie Howard ex-Mayor Harrison to marry 42     FREAKS   George Francis Train Citizen Train   Chief Rain in the Face Sioux Chief   Charles J. Eddy Top Official Reading Railroad   Samuel Gompers Speech About Change 43     PENDERGAST   Kraus   Corporation Counsel 44     TOWARD TRIUMPH   Horace Tucker Chief of Admissions   L. E. Decker Ticket Seller 45     DEPARTURES   Frank Lloyd Wright Fired for working on own projects   F. G.  Cowie Insurance Investigator   George B.  Chamberlin Collections Attorney 46     NIGHTFALL   Mary Hanson Harrison's maid   Sophie Harrison Harrison's daughter   Preston Harrison Harrison's son   Eugene Des American Railway Union       PART IV - CRUELTY REVEALED 48     PROPERTY OF H. H. HOLMES   Frank Geyer Detective   George S. Graham Philadelphia District Attorney   Martha   Geyer's wife   Esther    Geyer's wife   John Schnooks Cinncinati detective to help   David Richards Indianapolis detective to help   Herman Ackelow Remembered children 50     THE TENANT   Alf Cuddy Detective to help, Toronto 52     ALL THE WEARY DAYS   W. E. Gary Fidelity Mutual Insurance   Elvet Moorman Helped Holmes set up the stove 48     PROPERTY OF H. H. HOLMES   Frank Geyer Detective   George S. Graham Philadelphia District Attorney   Martha   Geyer's wife   Esther    Geyer's wife   John Schnooks Cinncinati detective to help   David Richards Indianapolis detective to help   Herman Ackelow Remembered Children 50     THE TENANT   Alf Cuddy Detective to help, Toronto 52     ALL THE WEARY DAYS   W. E. Gary Fidelity Mutual Insurance   Elvet Moorman Helped Holmes set up the stove

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