Millet
Evening News
''Drowned, too was a famous man from Broadway - 65-years-old F. D.
Millet, a distinguished artist, author and war correspondent who lived
at Russell House on the main approach from Evesham into the picturesque
Worcestershire village.
He was born in America, served as a drummer boy with the Massachusetts
Volunteers in the American Civil War, graduated from Harvard University
and was vice-chairman of the US National Commission of Fine Art.
However he had lived in Broadway for the last 25 years of his life and
was widely popular in the village. In the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78
he was a special correspondent for The Times, Graphic and London Daily
News.
He was last seen aboard the Titanic dining in very prestigious company.
He was making one of his fairly regular visits to America and left a
widow, two sons and a daughter''.
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