Harry (Henry) Stark Hitchcock, aka Harry Murdoch, Actor, 1845-1876, Victim Brooklyn Theatre Fire Dec 5, 1876

Image: Burning of the Brooklyn Theatre, 1876, by Anonymous (Project Gutenberg)

Phila.Inquirer 7 Dec 1876

One of 300 deaths of Brooklyn Theatre Fire December 5, 1876. Mass grave in Greenwood Cemetery for 103 unidentified bodies marked by stone obelisk. 

H.S. Hitchcock aka H.S. Murdoch using his mother's surname, a name with family members already in the acting profession. Buried in Woodlands Cemetery Philadelphia. 

Brooklyn Theatre Fire aftermath - 1876