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Brian Ahern
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Username: brian_ahern
Post Number: 96
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - 8:44 pm: | 
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Here's a link on the family she married into, which includes a photo of Walter and Virginia's son standing with Walter's parents:
http://www.1st100.com/part1/wclark.html
There is some info on the Net on Walter's family because of their railroad dealings, but does anyone have any info on Virginia's background? I believe, though I'm not certain, that she was a military brat. Her ET bio says she was born in Montana in 1885, which was an unusual birthplace for a society woman in her day, but then the Clarks were west-coasters But other sources have described her as a society girl from New York.
I've checked my files and can't find my NY Times clippings on her post-Titanic doings. The Times devoted fairly in-depth coverage to her subsequent remarriages to men named Rush and Tanner. She married one, divorced him, married the other, then divorced him and remarried the first one (though I should say that I believe some time elapsed between each of the marriages, so it's not like she kept leaving one man for another).
She's always struck me as an especially interesting survivor, and an especially shadowy one.So if anyone knows about her life pre-Titanic, I'd love to hear about it. |
Michael Poirier
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Username: mike_poirier
Post Number: 204
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 - 11:33 am: |
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Hello Brian-
Don Lynch did a very nice article on Virginia in the THS Commutator. It was spread out over two issues. I think 1991-1992 era. You may want to check their website for back issues.
Mike
Clemency: We've been torpedoed! Oh, Mother! What shall we do?
Millicent: Get the jewelry.
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Brian Ahern
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Username: brian_ahern
Post Number: 97
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 - 7:35 pm: |
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Thanks, Mike! I'll get on that.
The first class passengers who interest me the most are the ones of whom less is written, and who don't necessarily fit into the whole New York-Philadelphia society thing, people like the Clarks, Cavendishes, Minahans, Stengels. |
