Carl Darling Pancake 1878-1943
2010
Carl Darling Pancake was the son of Stewart Megge Pancake and Priscilla Jane Freeland. His middle name is for his paternal grandmother’s line. She was Catharine Darling who married Samuel Crawford Pancake. He was born in Blandinsville, Illinois and died in California. He had one sibling, a sister, Edythe Lillian Pancake Chance, wife of baseball player Frank L. Chance. Carl married Margaret but her maiden name is still a mystery to us as is their marriage date and place. We only know her name because his obituary tells us. Carl started his career at sixteen on the old Chicago Inter-ocean Newspaper and later worked for the Chicago Tribune. He covered the famous trial of the McNamara brothers who were convicted of blowing up the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. This portrait of Carl D. Pancake is on file in The National Archives. Neither Carl nor his sister Edythe had children. The posterity of Carl’s father, Stewart Megge Pancake ended with the death of Carl and his sister Edythe.
The migration of Carl Darling Pancake
Illinois to Utah to California to Illinois