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MRS. ASTOR ON HER MORNING TROT THROUGH CENTRAL PARK   MRS. ASTOR ON HER MORNING TROT THROUGH CENTRAL PARK
1915
MADELEINE FORCE ASTOR RIDING IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY   MADELEINE FORCE ASTOR RIDING IN CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY
1914
MRS. ASTOR RIDING IN CENTRAL PARK   MRS. ASTOR RIDING IN CENTRAL PARK
1914
MEMORIAL   MEMORIAL
  56, PALMER PARK AVENUE.
Frederick Dent Ray Residence April 1912...
29th April 1912
New York Times COL. ASTOR AT FERNCLIFF
Will Entertain Miss Force and Her Family Over Labor Day --- Special to The New York Times --- KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 2---The announced plan of Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine T. Force to remain at Col. Astor's Sum...
3rd September 1911
Chicago Daily Tribune OAK PARK TITANIC SURVIVOR
(Photo: Mrs F. R. Kenyon) A letter written on board the Carpathia was received yesterday by Mrs. George P. Baldwin, 309 Linden avenue, Oak Park, announcing the death of F. R. Kenyon and the safety of Mrs. Kenyon, sister of Mrs. Baldwin...
21st April 1912
MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO SUZETTE RYERSON AND HER MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER   MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO SUZETTE RYERSON AND HER MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER
Memorial plaque...
DIE DREILINDEN, PROPERTY OF THE SPENCERS   DIE DREILINDEN, PROPERTY OF THE SPENCERS
The Gardeners in the Park of the Villa...
  1891 CENSUS, CHARLTON, LONDON
At the time of the 1891 census, Reginald G Smith, aged 11, was a school boarder at Park House, Cresswell Park, Charlton, London. ...
31st March 1891
Chicago Examiner WIDOW AND DAUGHTERS OF HAYS SPEED HOME
New York, April 18---Mrs. Charles M. Hays and her two daughters, Miss Margaret Hays and Mrs. Thornton Davidson, survivors of the Titanic wreck, were met at the pier by a large party of friends.  Mr. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk Railw...
19th April 1912
LOS ANGELES OVER CITY HALL PARK, NYC.   LOS ANGELES OVER CITY HALL PARK, NYC.
This view shows the Los Angeles ~ The United States' most successful rigid airship~ over City Hall Park in NYC, in the mid-1920s.  The Los Angeles was built in Germany by the Zeppelin Company as a war reparation, and outlived her contemporary-the...
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Los Angeles Times RACE SWINDLER SUSPECTS HELD
Victim Spends Year on Trail of Asserted Fleecers ---------- SAN JOSE, July 4. (AP) - Charged with swindling J. T. Taylor, retired New Yorker, out of $27,000 in a fake horse race deal, C. W. Coleman 55 years of age, and...
5th July 1933
MORRO CASTLE - DINING ROOM   MORRO CASTLE - DINING ROOM
The First Class Dining Saloon was similar in layout and design to those aboard the Siboney and Orizaba, but while those rooms were austere almost to the point of being minimalist, those of the new ships were elaborate. The domina...
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Shoreham Society Newsletter A TITANIC LINK
Little did any of us realise as we beat a path to South Coast Cinema doors to see that blockbuster movie Titanic that it had a Shoreham connection. A prominent Shoreham family lost one of their sons on the so-called ‘unsinkable ship’. Henry Head, ...
April 1998
New York Times OBITUARY OF MARGARETTA SPEDDEN
SPEDDEN---Margaretta C., on Feb. 10, at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., beloved wife of the late Frederic O. Spedden and daughter of the late George F. Stone and Margaretta C. Corning and beloved sister of Emma D. Kemeys.  Funeral services on Monday, ...
11th February 1950
Chicago Tribune OAK PARK WOMAN TITANIC SURVIVOR
LETTER SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR WHILE ABOARD THE CARPATHIA SENT TO SISTER IN OAK PARK A letter written on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912
  LETTER TO MRS. HARRIS
Typed letter on letterhead from Theatrical Protective Union No. 1 of New York to Mrs. Henry B. Harris, presenting her with resolutions of sympathy and attached signatures of the organization’s membership. New York, August 17, 1912....
17th August 1912
New York Times WASHINGTON DODGE, ADVISER ON INVESTMENTS, DIES AT 67
Page 50, column 4 Washington Dodge, an investment adviser who survived the Titanic sinking in 1912, died here Tuesday of a heart attack. His age was 67. He was 5 years old and returning from Europe with his parents...
5th December 1974
STRAUS PARK   STRAUS PARK
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Has a grave in East Bridgwater, Central Cemetery Massachusetts, USA. also there are some lovely Lych Gates in his memory at Broadway Churchyard, Worcestershire. also water fountain in memory of Archibald Butt and Mr. Frank M...
New York Times THE SAILORS WERE BEATEN
Morris Park Cricketers Put up a Good Game Against the Majestic Team --- The Morris Park Cricket Club was determined to defeat the team of the steamship Majestic yesterday at Morris Park, and they took no chances in t...
15th August 1893
Unidentified Newspaper DUMFRIES TITANIC VICTIMS
Memorial unveiled on Dock Park. A very impressive ceremony, and one which attracted much public attention, took place on Saturday afternoon when the handsome memorial which has been erected on the Dock Park in honour of John Law Hume, ...
1912
New York Times DEATH NOTICE OF CONSTANCE JULIE GRACIE
DIED ... GRACIE---Constance Julie, in Paris, on June 7, aged 12 years, beloved daughter of Archibald Gracie and Constance Shack [sic] Gracie. Interment at Woodlawn on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Special car leaves Grand Central ...
13th October 1903
MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE   MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE
Morro Castle aground and burnt out at Asbury Park, New Jersey...
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New York Times DIES IN SWIMMING POOL
F. O. Spedden, Retired Banker Here, Stricken in Palm Beach --- Frederic O. Spedden of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., retired New York banker, died yesterday of a heart attack while in the swimming pool of the Bath Club in Palm Beach, Flori...
4th February 1947
Evening Bulletin MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN PARIS AT 69
Wife of Explorer and Surgeon Was Widow of G. D. Widener --- Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, the former Eleanor Elkins, of this city, died suddenly yesterday at her home in Paris. She was 69. Mrs. Rice's first husband was G...
14th July 1937
Chicago Daily News MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT
Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.]   New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S...
23rd April 1912
ORIZABA AND SIBONEY LOUNGE   ORIZABA AND SIBONEY LOUNGE
The Lounge and Music Room aboard the Siboney and Orizaba were refreshingly airy and uncluttered and-particularly in the window treatment in the central well- prefigured Art Deco by half a decade. However, to a generation conditioned to associate elegance with period design and an overabundance of furniture, the liners appeared less than Deluxe. ...
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Oak Leaves TITANIC DISASTER : OAK PARK TOUCHED BY GREATEST SHIPWRECK
TITANIC DISASTER Oak Park Touched by Greatest Shipwreck Carelessness on Lake The Atlantic Wreck of 1873 Oak Park, like hundreds of o...
20th April 1912
New York Times FIERMONTE HELD ON OLD CHARGE
BELLMORE, L. I., July 2---Enzo Fiermonte, former pugilist and husband of Mrs. Madaline Force Astor Dick, was arrested today at the Roosevelt Speedway on a three-year-old traffic violation charge he is said never to have answered. He is accused of spe...
3rd July 1937
MAJOR PEUCHEN AND HIS FAMILY Toronto Daily Star MAJOR PEUCHEN AND HIS FAMILY
Left to Right: Mr. Alan Peuchen, Mrs Peuchen, Major Peuchen, Miss Jessie Peuchen. When the New York Central Express was stalled a few miles outside Hamilton for two hours Saturday on account of a wreck ahead, Major Peuchen a...
23rd April 1912
Hampshire Independent DEATH NOTICE
Jupe, Boylett, Herbert. (31). Dearly Beloved Son of Charles and Elizabeth Jupe, 74 Bullar Road, Bitterne Park....
4th May 1912
Belfast Newsletter THE LADY PALMIST AND TITANIC PASSENGER
Page 9The Central News says - Of the second class passengers of the Titanic, Walter Harris, of Enfield Highway and Percy Thomas Oxenham, of Ponders End, were booked on the "Philadelphia" for New York. Owing to the coal strik...
19th April 1912
Evanston Daily News NO EVANSTONIANS ABOARD
There were no Evanstonians aboard the ship. Arthur Ryerson and family, formerly of Lake Forest and well known in local social circles were among the passengers. All are reported saved except Mr. Ryerson.  Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and daughter Jean...
16th April 1912
Torquay Directory THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES
The Countess of Rothes, who, as reported in last week’s Directory, was saved, was on her way to the States to meet her husband, who is a son of Mrs. Leslie Leslie, of Paignton, Devon. Before marriage Lady Rothes was Miss Edwardes, only child of Mr. ...
24th April 1912
New York Times VENICE EXHIBITION OPENED
Duke of Genoa Represents the King---J. P. Morgan Present --- VENICE, April 23---The International Art Exhibition was solemnly inaugurated to-day by the Duke of Genoa in the name of King Victor Emmanuel.  J. P. Mo...
24th April 1912
New York Times OBITUARY NOTES
ROBERT DOUGLAS SPEDDEN, son of Frederic O. and Mrs. Margaretta C. Stone Spedden of "Wee Wah Ladge," Tuxedo Park, N. Y., died yesterday at the family Summer home at Winter Harbor, Maine. ...
9th August 1915
New York Times RED CROSS BOARD FILLS VACANCIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (AP)---Chief Justice Hughes presided today as the incorporators of the American Red Cross elected five new members to fill vacancies caused by deaths. Those named were Newton D. Baker, Frank T. Heffelfinger of Minneapolis, J. Fran...
10th December 1931
Southern Evening Echo DEATH NOTICE: RENNY DODDS
Dodds, Renny Watson. Of 12 Queens Park Terrace. [also Hampshire Independent 4th May 1912] ...
30th April 1912
SONNEBORN MONUMENT   SONNEBORN MONUMENT
The Sonneborn Family monument in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore. The mausoleum Leo Schwabacher purchased for himself and Henry has not been located....
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ENGINEERS' MEMORIAL   ENGINEERS' MEMORIAL
The Engineers Memorial which was unveiled at Andrews Park, Southampton on 22nd April 1914...
New York Times INCORPORATED IN NEW JERSEY
TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 31---These companies were incorporated here to-day: The Central Sugar Company, to manufacture beet sugar; capital, $1,500,000. The incorporators are T. L. Bragaw, Jr., M. L. Bonden, J. J. Treacy, all of Jersey City...
1st February 1901
Chicago Daily Journal CHICAGOANS SEEKING KIN
Oak Park Woman and Others Have Missing Relatives on the Sunken Titanic Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Kenyon of New York, who were listed among the passengers on the Titanic, are relatives of Chicago people and have many friends...
Hudson Observer WEST HOBOKEN MAN A PASSENGER ON THE LOST STEAMER
John Ashby, of Traphagen street, West Hoboken, is on the list of second cabin passengers of the ill-fated Titanic and so far his name has not appeared among those of the rescued. He was returning from England to his son-in-law and two daughters in No...
17th April 1912
New York Times TO UNVEIL STRAUS FOUNTAIN
Dedication of Memorial to Philanthropist and His Wife Tomorrow --- The Isidor and Ida Straus Memorial in Straus Park will be dedicated tomorrow afternoon with impressive ceremonies. The beautiful granite and bronze fountain, which form...
14th April 1915
Jersey Journal MOTHER AND CHILD SAVED AT VERY LAST
Mrs. Elizabeth Dowdell of 215 Park Avenue, Union Hill, who was rescued with her 7-year-old daughter Esther [sic], said: "I had been abroad and was returning to my home in Jersey. I was taken aboard the life boats with my little girl almost at the las...
19th April 1912
  HARRISON FAMILY GRAVESTONE
In loving memory of Swainston Harrison Junior, who died at Ibi, Central Africa, 16th March 1892 aged 24 years. also Norman Harrison, second engineer SS Titanic foundered off the coast of Newf...
Worcester Evening Gazette PRES. HAYS WIDOW LEAVES FOR HOME
New York, April 19- Upon the arrival of the Carpathia, Mrs. Charles M. Hays, wife of the president of the Grand Trunk railway, who went down with the ill-fated Titanic and her two daughters, Mrs. Thornton Davidson and Miss. Margaret Hays, were met by...
20th April 1912
Philadelphia Inquirer CROLIUS
April 21, 1958. OLIVE POTTER, wife of the late Allen Crolius, of Alden Park Manor, services Wed., 1 P.M., Kirk & Nice, 6301 Germantown Ave. Interment private. In lieu of flowers kindly make contributions to American Cancer Society....
23rd April 1958
New York Times ASTOR BEQUESTS HAVE ALL BEEN PAID
Cost of Administering Estate to Date, with Transfer Tax, Foots Up $3,305,480 --- $24,715,478 DISTRIBUTED --- The Four Executors File Their First Judicial Accounting, Covering Personal Property Only --- The fi...
29th April 1914
MORRO CASTLE - STERN VIEW AFTER THE FIRE   MORRO CASTLE - STERN VIEW AFTER THE FIRE
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CREESE FAMILY GRAVESTONE   CREESE FAMILY GRAVESTONE
Family Gravestone at Ford Park Cemetery, Plymouth, Devon. The grave is that of Henry Creese's parents, Charles and Jane Creese....
MORRO CASTLE - BOWS AFTER THE FIRE   MORRO CASTLE - BOWS AFTER THE FIRE
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Newark Evening News SURE BROTHER PERISHED
EAST RUTHERFORD, April 18---That his brother, William L. Gwinn, has lost his life in the wreck of the Titanic, is the belief of Cass J. Gwinn, of this place. The missing man, who sailed in the ship as an empl...
18th April 1912
THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE Gare Maritime THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE
Jim Kalafus
It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ...
21st July 2006 Gare Maritime
Surrey Advertiser and County Times THE WIRELESS OPERATOR OF THE TITANIC
A rectangular cloister, 120 ft square, will be the chief feature of the memorial which is to be provided at Godalming in memory of Mr. John George Phillips, the wireless operator in the Titanic, whose home was at Farncombe, Godalming. The memorial co...
30th September 1912
New York Times LLOYD MOORE WEDS MRS. E. H. PRESTON
Daughter of Former Senator Hawes of Missouri Bride in Ceremony Here --- Mrs. Eppes Hawes Preston, daughter of former Senator and Mrs. Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, was married to Lloyd Moore of this city, son of the late Clarence Moore of...
8th December 1935
North American FEAR BOYERTOWN GIRL, MISSIONARY, WAS LOST
READING, Pa., April 21---Mr. and Mrs. James B. Funk, parents of Miss Annie C. Funk, a missionary to Janjgir, Central Province, India, have given up hope of seeing their daughter alive. The mother is seriously ill and the entire family is grief-stric...
22nd April 1912
Toronto Daily Star FORTUNE
At her home, 2 Rose Park Crescent, Toronto, on Friday, March 8th, 1929, Mary Fortune, widow of the late Mark Fortune, formerly of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Funeral service at Mount Pleasant Mausoleum Chapel Monday at 2 o'clock. Montreal, Otta...
9th March 1929
MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE   MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE
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MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE   MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE
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Chicago Daily Tribune UNKNOWN TITLE
Mrs. F. R. Kenyon of New York, whose name appears on the survivors' list, is a sister of Mrs. George P. Baldwin of Oak Park. Mrs. Kenyon was accompanied by her husband, but he is not mentioned as saved. He was formerly associated with Charles G. Stev...
18th April 1912
Guernsey Weekly Press REPORTED MISSING: E. H. WHEADON
Mr. E.H. Wheadon was in his 67th year. He was the head of the agricultural firm of E.H. Wheadon and Sons, Couture. He was a man of most kindly nature and charitable disposition. Among the members of the family and their very wide circle of friends hi...
22nd April 1912
North American WOMAN MISSIONARY MAY BE AMONG LOST
POTTSTOWN, Pa., April 18---The name of Miss Annie Funk, a returned missionary from India and a daughter of James Funk, a well-to-do grist mill owner at Palm, this county, is not among the list of second-class passengers on the ill-fated Titanic who w...
19th April 1912
  MEMORIAL SERVICE PROGRAMME
The Central North Chicago Ministerial Association at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. "The Offering" "The Nana Harper Fund to maintain and educate Nana, the six year old daughter of Rev. John Harper, pastor, Walworth Road Chu...
21st April 1912
  PRONUNCIATION OF "ROTHES"
DEBRETT’S PEERAGE, 1915   ROTHES, EARL OF (Leslie) [Title pronounced “Roth-ez.”]   Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl and a Represen...
Los Angeles Times TRAGEDY REPEATS IN DUAL SUICIDE
In the same dwelling in which his wife-sorrowing over the death of their son following a tonsilectomy-had shot herself to death. George A. Brereton, 67, yesterday put a bullet through his head. The second tragedy-20 years after the f...
17th July 1942
Jersey Journal ONLY 1 OF 10 IN PARTY ON TITANIC SAVED
One of the fortunate survivors of the ill-fated steamship Titanic...
22nd April 1912
Paterson Morning Call MISS FUNK ONE OF THE DEAD
Former House Secretary of the Local Y. W. C. A. Was on Titanic ---------- COMING FROM INDIA ---------- Was Missionary There and Intended Spending Part of Furlough in Paterson ---------- A large number...
22nd April 1912
New York Times CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES
Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...
6th October 1918
Washington Times WASHINGTON MAN MAIL CLERK ON THE ILL-FATED STEAMER
O. S. Woody, a former Washingtonian, and two other postoffice clerks, composed the mail crew of the Titanic. Their names were received today by the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General. J. S. March, of the Second division of the Railway ...
16th April 1912
NEW YORK CITY : ARRIVAL   NEW YORK CITY : ARRIVAL
The Normandie draws abreast of Battery Park, still escorted by the Americana and joined by an inflatable Mickey Mouse. Among the landmarks visible along the shore are the White Star Line offices, the Produce Exchange and the NY Cust...
3rd June 1935 Gare Maritime
AMERICANA AND NORMANDIE MAIDEN ARRIVAL NYC.   AMERICANA AND NORMANDIE MAIDEN ARRIVAL NYC.
The Playland Line's Americana lists to port as her passengers gather at her rails to view the Normandie's arrival off Battery Park...
3rd June 1935 Gare Maritime
Unidentified Newspaper HULL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES
A HULL SURVIVOR of the Titanic disaster has died at the age of 86. He was Irish-born Mr Edmond Ryan, formerly of Welwyn Park-road, Hull, who died in Kingston Old People's Home, Pearson Park. He leaves a daughter and a son. At the time of ...
6th November 1974
New York Times HENRY B. HARRIS
Well-Known Theatrical Manager Who Has Won Many Successes --- Henry B. Harris, who leaped into prominence in the New York theatrical field only about half a dozen years ago as manager, and producer, was, nevertheless, a veteran of many y...
16th April 1912
New York Times CHARLES MELVILLE HAYS
Grand Trunk President Planned Great Canadian Transcontinental --- Charles Melville Hays, President of the Grand Trunk and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Companies, has been considered one of the most brilliant and successful of railroad of...
16th April 1912
Southern Daily Echo BESSANT EDWARD
[Also Hampshire Independent 27th April 1912 and Hampshire Advertiser 27th April 1912] Dearly Beloved Husband of Mary J. Bessant, of 39 Shirley Park Road, and Loving Son of Mrs. Bessant of 44 Wolseley Road, Freemantle....
24th April 1912
New York Times MRS. CHESTER O. SWAIN
Mrs. Florence Thayer Swain, widow of Chester O. Swain, a former vice-president and director of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, died yesterday in her home at 755 Park Avenue. Her age was 75. Mrs. Swain's first husband, John Bradley C...
3rd September 1949
New York Times A. A. STEWART LEFT $276,974
Titanic Victim's Estate Goes to His Widow and Daughter --- An appraisal of the estate of Albert A. Stewart, who perished on the Titanic, was transmitted yesterday to the Surrogates' Court under transfer tax proceedings. Mr. Stewart was f...
1st February 1913
New York Times TITANIC DISASTER SURVIVOR DROWNS IN A SHALLOW POND
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. April 18--Surviving the Titanic disaster April 14, 1912, by swimming for hours in the icy waters until picked up by a rescue ship, Oscar Palmquist of 42 Lenox Avenue was drowned in six feet of water in a pond in Beardsley Park into...
19th April 1925
New York Times MRS. DOROTHY A. HARDER
Mrs. Dorothy A. Harder --- Mrs. Dorothy Annan Harder, wife of George A. Harder, died Wednesday at her residence, 510 Park Avenue. She was the only child of the late Edward Annan Jr. and Maude Earle. Edward Annan of Brooklyn, her grandfa...
3rd December 1926
  MEMORIALS TO CHRISTOPHER HEAD
Head, Mr. Christopher. Missing. Cabin B11. London address c/o Henry Head & Co., 27, Cornhill, London, E.C. There is a brass memorial to Mr. Head in St Nicolas Church, Old Shoreham, Susses. ...
Chicago Tribune THIRD SUICIDE IN FAMILY MYSTERY
Northwestern ‘U’ Student Kills Himself Two years ago Dr. John R. Minahan, wealthy and prominent surgeon of Green Bay, Wis., was summoned to Chicago. His oldest son, John Jr., had ended his life in a frat...
20th February 1925
New York Times EASTON [DEATH NOTICE]
Suddenly, at the New York Hospital, on Thursday, Oct. 4, in the fifty-ninth year of his age, Dr. Charles Daniel Easton, dearly beloved husband of Margaret Hays Easton, father of Polly and Peggy Easton, son of the late Daniel C. and Florence Leach Eas...
6th October 1934
New York Times MISS BENITA R. GUGGENHEIM MARRIES LIEUT. E. B. MAYER
The marriage of Miss Benita Rosalind Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin M. Guggenheim, and First Lieutenant Edward B. Mayer, United States Air Servive, which took place on Thursday at the homeof the bride, 270 Park Avenue. Lieutenant Mayer comes ...
18th May 1919
PHILIPP PRAETORIUS, LINDA FRANCKE AND HENRY SONNEBORN   PHILIPP PRAETORIUS, LINDA FRANCKE AND HENRY SONNEBORN
Henry Sonneborn (r) photographed in 1915 on his last visit home. This shot of him, with his brother-in-law Philipp Praetorius, and Philipp's cousin Linda Francke, was taken in Druid Hill Park, near the Sonneborn's Brookfield Avenue home....
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New York Times MRS. FREDERIC SPEDDEN
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES ---  TUXEDO PARK, N. Y., Feb. 10---Mrs. Margaretta C. Spedden died in her home here today after a brief illness. She was 78 years old. Mrs. Spedden was the widow of Frederic O. Spedden, who died two y...
11th February 1950
New York Times BOOK NOTES
Macmillan has obtained what are believed to be the only pictures of the rescue of the Titanic’s survivors and these will be used to illustrate Sir Arthur Rostron's forthcoming autobiography, "'Home From the Sea." Sir Arthur, in command of the Ca...
22nd July 1931
New York Times KEMPNER-GUGGENHEIM
Sigmund M. Kempner, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Kempner of 305 West End Avenue, and Miss Barbara H. Guggenheim, a daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 270 Park Avenue, were married yesterday afternoon in the Ritz-Carlton ballroom and the receptio...
21st June 1921
  MEMORIALS
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO GEORGE FOX HOSKING
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES FRASER
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM FARQUHARSON
Is remembered on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered o...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS: HUGH FITZPATRICK
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial a...
Newark Evening News JUST TOLD SEA TOOK HUSBAND
---------- News that Gwinn Perished on Titanic Long Kept from Asbury Park Woman ---------- WAS MAIL CLERK ON LINER Special Service of the NEWS ASBURY PARK, April 26---It was not until today that the ...
26th April 1912
  MEMORIALS TO GEORGE ALEXANDER CHISNALL
Remembered on: the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also remembered on the Liverpool Titanic and Engineers memorial. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial also remembered on the Institut...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. a...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent - Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the L...
Berkshire Chronicle DETAINED AT WASHINGTON
Detained at Washington. Among those who were expected to have arrived home on the Lapland was Mr, Frederick Dent Ray, of 'Akbar' 56 palmer Park Avenue, Reading. Mr Ray, who was a steward on the Titanic, cabled home to his relatives informing them...
29th April 1912
  MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM KELLY
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO FANK PARSONS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
The Toronto World C. M. HAYS' CAREER
When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer.  Mr. Hays had been in ...
17th April 1912
  MEMORIALS TO ALFRED MIDDLETON
Assistant Electrician. Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memori...
  1881 CENSUS - LONDON
At the time of the 1881 census Lilian Hughes (14) was living with her mother and father, Thomas Hughes (57) and Frances (Fanny) (50) at 80 Park Street, London. The census confirms Lilian's birthplace as within the parish of St George's Hanover...
31st March 1881
9/11 MEMORIAL AT SITE OF BRENNAN HOME   9/11 MEMORIAL AT SITE OF BRENNAN HOME
The Brennan family town home in Carmel NY, occupied in 1934 by Eleanor's aunt, Mary Lynch, no longer exists. The structure was cleared soon after it hosted Miss Brennan's wake and replaced by the town's first Art Deco diner. The diner, in turn, wa...
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  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN HENRY HESKETH
Named on the magnificent Engineer's Memorial in East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembere...
New York Times OBITUARY: MRS. DOROTHY BRULATOR
By Wireless to THE NEW TORK TIMES --- PARIS, Feb. 20---Mrs. Dorothy Brulator, an American who was residing here, was found dead in her hotel room today. Physicians reported that she had died of a congestion, having suffered recently fr...
21st February 1946
Inglewood Daily News DEATH NOTICE
LITTLE, Karen M. of Inglewood Survived by husband Harry S. Little; sons Norman H. of La Palma and Francis C.Little of Buena Park; daughters Wanda M.Martin of Inglewood and Iris E. Roeder of Anaheim; sisters Lisa Sandness of Culver City, Bertha...
28th July 1969
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO EDWARD DODD
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO RENNY DODDS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ...
  MEMORIALS TO ALBERT GEORGE ERVINE
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial....
New York Times C. E. H. STENGEL, TITANIC SURVIVOR
C. E. Henry Stengel, member of the firm of Stengel & Rothschild, manufacturer of leather, died yesterday at his home 109 Lincoln Park, Newark, of pneumonia. He was one of the Titanic survivors. Mr. Stengel was 56 years old and was born in Newark. ...
20th April 1914
New York Times MISS GUGGENHEIM TO WED JUNE 20
Miss Barbara Hazel Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 270 Park Avenue, and Sigmund Marshall Kempner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph W. Kempner of 305 West End Avenue, whose engagement was announced in April, will be married on June 20....
3rd June 1921
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO ARTHUR WARD
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on...
New York Times HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC
Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t...
23rd May 1962
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO HENRY DYER
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also ...
Newark Evening News EAST ORANGE PEOPLE REPORTED SAVED
Word has been received by Colonel Henry A. Potter, of 95 Harrison street, East Orange, that Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., his brother’s widow, is among the passengers who were rescued from the Titanic. With her was her daughter, Mrs. Boul...
16th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR MARRIES
Miss M. Froelicher Weds R.J.F. Schwarzenbach in Switzerland --- Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach of 471 Park Avenue was married to Miss Marguerite Froelicher of Zurich, Switzerland, one of the survivors of the Titanic, on Monday at Zurich....
9th January 1913
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. ...
New York Times TRIBUTE TO TITANIC DEAD
East Side Children Honor Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus --- On the eve of the second anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, in which Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus perished, 1,000 children, mostly public school boys and girls, gat...
15th April 1914
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r...
  MEMORIALS: ARTHUR ROUS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r...
The Sydney Morning Herald INTERCOLONIAL LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT
At 11 o'clock to-day the intercolonial lawn tennis match between New South Wales and Victoria, commences at the Association Cricket Ground, Moore Park, and a very exciting contest is expected, bot...
30th April 1885
Newark Evening News THREE STILL SUFFER FROM PERILS AND COLD
Still suffering from the hardships they endured, Miss Cornelia T. Andrews, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom and Miss Gretchen F. Longley, who survived the Titanic disaster, are at the home of Mrs. Arthur H. Flack, of 458 Central avenue, East Orange. ...
19th April 1912
Southern Evening Echo TITANIC MEN FOR PREMIERE OF NEW FILM
A HANDFUL of survivors from the Titanic disaster in 1912, some of whom have not seen each other since, will be at the Odeon, Leicester Square, tonight, to see the premiere of the new Rank Organisation film, A Night To Remember. The fil...
3rd July 1958
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS: WILLIAM DUFFY
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park, Southampton. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial....
Toronto Daily Star MRS. E.F. GORDON
Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes...
22nd March 1961
Asbury Park Evening Press GWINN FAMILY LEAVES SUDDENLY
Mrs. William L. Gwinn, whose husband, a postal clerk on the Titanic stood at his post trying to save the mails as the ship went down, left Asbury Park suddenly yesterday with her two children. The Gwinn’s [sic] had moved to this city some weeks befor...
27th April 1912
New York Times THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES
The Countess of Rothes is the wife of the nineteenth Earl of Rothes, head of one of the oldest families of Scotland, who in 1893 succeeded to the title. The peerage is one of the very few in the United Kingdom that possesses the right of descent in t...
16th April 1912
  THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC
The Titanic was a common subject for folk and blues singers in the 1920s and '30s. Artistes such as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Ernest V. Stoneham and Vernon Dalhart all recorded Titanic numbers. Most had a common theme and derivation ...
1927
Stratford Express THE TITANIC DISASTER
Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, For...
20th April 1912
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JAMES SMITH
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on...
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers memorial, East Park. also named on a grave in the Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool. The inscription reads: Also Peter Only Son of the Above Who Lost His Life With Other Brave Of...
New York Times PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT
Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P...
20th April 1912
  ORPHEUS
This was a popular selection in the Edwardian period and very likely to have been played on the Titanic. In one of the films about the Titanic the ship's band is featured playing Orpheus. This particular re...
1912
New York Times $340 FOR 4 PERIOD CHAIRS
Parke-Bernet Begins Selling Items of Spedden Estate --- In the first sale of the new sea­son at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, 984 Madison Avenue, a set of four carved and bilded [soc] chairs in the style of Louis XVI was sold y...
23rd September 1950
  NEARER MY GOD TO THEE
This is a well recorded vocal version of Nearer My God to Thee to the tune Bethany (Mason). Listen to this 1902 recording of Nearer My God to Thee (Real Audio&...
1902
Huntington Herald Dispatch (West Virginia) SMITH FUNERAL PLANS DELAYED : PROMINENT HUNTINGTON WOMAN DEAD; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Mary Eloise Hughes Smith, 47, 1140 Fifth Avenue, who died unexpectedly in a Cincinnati, Ohio sanitarium yesterday at 5 A.M., were incomplete last night. Plans were withheld, members of the family said, pending word...
9th May 1940
Elizabeth Daily Journal SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Lillian E. Stead, wife of Arthur Stead, of 128 Reid street, died last night at her home after a lingering illness. Mrs. Stead was a survivor of the "Titanic" disaster twenty-one years ago. Born in England, she came to this country twenty-five ...
8th July 1933
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO NORMAN HARRISON
Named on the magnificent Engineer's Memorial in East Park, Southampton. also named on a grave in Knotty Ash Parish Church Cemetery, Knotty Ash, Liverpool. also mentioned on a grave in Kirkdale Cemetery, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool....
  POOK FAMILY INFORMATION
Percy Robert Pook was born in Torquay, Devon in 1876. His birth being registered at Newton Abbot in the June Quarter of that year. He was the son of Henry Pook (house decorator) and Kate (nee Manley) who had married at Torquay in early 1872....
Evening Bulletin MRS. CROLIUS DIES; TITANIC SURVIVOR
Mrs. Olive Potter Crolius, widow of Allen Crolius, died Monday at her home in Alden Park Manor, Germantown. She was 70. Mrs. Crolius and her mother, the late Mrs. Thomas Potter, Jr., were survivors of the sinking of the Titanic off th...
23rd April 1958
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR ENGAGED
Miss Frolicher of Zurich to Wed R.J.F. Schwarzenbach of New York --- The engagement is announced in New York and Zurich of Miss Marguerite Frolicher of the latter city, to Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach of New York. Mr. Schwarzenbach, who ...
3rd October 1912
New York Times PEARLS WORTH $5,000 LOST
Miss Barbara Guggenheim, Debutante, Offers No Reward --- Miss Barbara Hazel Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim of 270 Park Avenue, lost two or three days ago a long string of seed pearls, valued at about $5,000. While Miss...
18th April 1921
New York Times MRS. A. H. RICE'S FUNERAL AUG. 11
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener have returned here from Newport to prepare for the opening of the home of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice before his arrival on the Europa Aug. 9 with the body of wife, Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Rice, mother of Mr. Widener, who d...
20th July 1937
Newark Star THREE OF TEN JERSEY PASSENGERS ARE SAFE
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel and Henry Blank Reported Among Those Rescued from the Titanic Wreck --- Up to a late hour last night only three of the ten New Jersey passengers on the Titanic were definitely known to be among the survi...
17th April 1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times AN ASHTEAD VICTIM SAFE AGAINST ANYTHING BUT AN ICEBERG
Another Surrey passenger on the Titanic was Mr. George H. Hunt, head-gardener at Ashtead Park. Mr. Hunt, who has for about four years been working in Philadelphia as head-gardener on a large estate, and who has a wife and two children living in that ...
April 1912
New York Times HOPE HAMPTON KEPT HER WEDDING SECRET
Film Star Married Jules E. Brulatour, Her Manager, Aug. 22---His Third Marriage --- To the surprise of their friends it became known yesterday that Hope Hampton, the motion picture actress who was last seen on the screen in "The Gold Di...
8th November 1923
Chicago Tribune ANN STRAUBE
Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s...
31st January 1990
Chicago Tribune 49 YRS. AFTER TITANIC SINKS, SURVIVOR DIES
Detroit, April 17 (AP)--In the hour after midnight on April 15, 1912, death overlooked Mrs. Bertha Cooper when the luxury liner Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. Saturday--49 years to the hour after the disaster t hat took the lives ...
18th April 1961
The Epsom, Ewell & Banstead Post TITANIC SURVIVOR TO BE COMMEMORATED
Titanic disaster survivor George Pelham, a one-time patient of one of the Epsom cluster of former psychiatric hospitals, will be commemorated. One of the roads on the Livingstone Park housing development being built by Charles Church, on t...
23rd March 2005
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO BERTIE WILSON
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on...
New York Times MILLET'S BODY CREMATED
BOSTON, May 2---A throng of men and women stood with heads uncovered in the train shed in the North Station to-day when the coffins containing the bodies of Frank D. Millet, the artist, and Richard P. [sic] White of Winchenden ...
3rd May 1912
New York Times STRAUS FOUNTAIN AWARD TO LUKEMAN
With Evarts Tracy, Architect, Sculptor Wins in Contest Including 59 Designs --- HE'LL GET $10,000 FOR WORK --- Four Other "Next Best" Designs Get Prize Money from $500 Down to $100 Each --- From a collection of fift...
21st March 1913
  COLERIDGE FAMILY INFORMATION
Reginald Coleridge was born in 1883 at 23 Bitton Street, Teignmouth, Devon. He was the only son of Charles Coleridge (cabinet maker) and Annie. He had a younger sister named Augusta. Reginald’s grandfather, James Coleridge (1824-1904...
Hudson Dispatch BODY OF WEST HOBOKEN MAN, VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER, FOUND AT SEA
Recovered by the Mackay-Bennett Ship and Will Be Sent Home. --------------- IDENTIFIED BY MARKS --------------- Fifteen More Bodies Were Found by Same Vessel Today --------------- Greenwood Robertson, of 222...
23rd April 1912
  ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND
This 1911 record made by the Victor Military Band is very well recorded and gives an idea of the fast pace the song used to be played at. This is one song that many survivors recall being played on the night of the sinking. In fact it is not r...
1911
New York Times TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE
Edgar J. Meyer Left $542,242 to Widow and Baby --- The accounting of the estate of Edgar J. Meyer, member of the Stock Exchange brokerage house of Eugene Meyer, Jr., & Co., at the time of his death on the Titanic, has been completed and...
3rd February 1915
The Times LORD PIRRIE'S WILL
WILLIAM JAMES, first VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., of Belgrave-square, W., and Witley Park, Surrey, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1896-97, who died on board ship in t...
9th May 1925
Asbury Park Evening Press PENSION FAMILIES OF LOST CLERKS
Congress would give $10,000 to Each---Mrs. Gwinn of This City Would Benefit ---------- WASHINGTON, April 23---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the...
23rd April 1912
  MEMORIALS TO WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE
Named on the magnificent Southampton Engineers Memorial, East Park. also named on the Glasgow Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also remembered on the London, Institute of Marine Engineers memorial. also r...
Newark Evening News FORMER SECRETARY OF PATERSON Y. W. C. A. LOST
PATERSON, April 22---Returning from India, where she was engaged in missionary work, Miss Annie Funk, for several years secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, was one of those lost on the Titanic. This was her first furlough in five y...
22nd April 1912
  PENROSE FAMILY INFORMATION
John Poole Penrose was actually born in Mary Tavy near Tavistock, Devon in 1863. The 1881 census has John at home (aged 17) in Mary Tavy with his mother Betsy, step-father Mathew Northey, brother Matthew and various step- brothers and sisters....
New York Times MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER
Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit...
3rd March 1912
Torquay Directory A FULFILLED DREAM. ECHO OF THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC
One of the stewards on board the Titanic was a son of the late organist and choirmaster of a church in Torquay. He leaves an aged widowed mother, who was dependent upon him. His sister narrates a strange dream. She says that for several nights pri...
15th May 1912
  DER ROSENKAVALIER
This popular waltz by Strauss appears on repertoires for White Star Line Orchestras (#115). It is one of the pieces that musicians on ships like the Titanic would be expected to know by heart. This recording features bass violins. ...
1912
New York Times MRS. FIERMONTE'S ESTATE
She Left a Gross of $1,149,142 and Net of $983,637 --- Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, who died on March 27, 1940, left a gross estate of $1,149,142, according to an accounting filed in Surrogate's Court yesterday by P. Lyndo...
3rd May 1941
New York Times MORGAN'S WILD AUTO DASH
The Financier Catches an Express Train in the Berkshires --- Special to The New York Times --- PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 8---J. Pierpont Morgan to-day pursued an express train in an automobile and caught it....
9th September 1907
New York Times DR. CHARLES D. EASTON DIES AFTER OPERATION
Physician Here and in Newport, of Distinguished Ancestry, Had Served in the War Dr. Charles D. Easton of 510 Park Avenue, who had practiced medicine in Newport, R.I., for many years and in this city since the Armistice, died yesterday ...
5th October 1934
Titanic Stories A LUCKY ESCAPE FROM THE TITANIC - FATHER BROWNE
Titanic Stories
Hear the story of the man who captured unique photos of Titanic before she sank. He was luckily summoned back to his duties instead of going on the maiden voyage....
12th May 2011
New York Times G. H. CLARKE JR. KILLED
Lieutenant in Army Air Forces Was Completing Training --- Lieutenant George Hyde Clarke Jr., Army Air Forces, eldest son of Mrs. S. Beach Cooke of 530 Park Avenue and Cooperstown, N. Y. and of George Hyde Clarke of Hyde Hall, Cooperstow...
13th June 1943
New York Times JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND ISIDOR STRAUS TALKED OF
Among those politicians who have been industriously at work during the last two weeks speculating as to the make-up of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, a new name was suggested yesterday. It was that of John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who was said to ...
7th February 1893
THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER Voyage THE MYSTERY OF TITANIC'S CENTRAL PROPELLER
Mark Chirnside
...
5th May 2008
New York Times LORRAINE GRAVES ENGAGED TO MARRY
Daughter of Mrs. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer to Be Bride of Clarence Moore --- Announcement was made at a dinner party given on Thursday evening by Mrs. Helene van Nostrand at her home, 45 East Eighty-first Street, of the engagement of Miss ...
7th November 1936
New York Times PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY
Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...
11th October 1914
Chicago Daily Tribune ANXIETY FOR MISSING ONES
page. 3 Miss A. E. Isham, Formerly of Chicago, Probably Lost GUGGENHEIM GIVES UP HOPE Senator Convinced His Brother Perished When Titanic Sank Miss Anne Elizabeth Isham, a passenger on t...
18th April 1912
  MEMORIALS TO CAPTAIN SMITH
At Beacon Park, Lichfield, Staffordshire there is a fine statue to Captain Smith. The statue was sculptured by Kathleen, Lady Scott, C.V.O and unveiled by the Captain's daughter Helen on 29th July 1914.There is a stained glass window to ...
Chicago Tribune FIRST CLAIMS DUE TO TITANIC DISASTER TO BE SETTLED
 PAY $20,000 LEWY INSURANCE First Claims due to Titanic Disaster to Be Settled In United States, So Far as Known      ...
11th May 1912
  CAPT. WILLIAM CREESE
Henry Creese's eldest brother, William Creese, was born in 1857 and was a mariner by occupation. He had married in about 1889 to Alice (formerly Smith) whom he had met whilst based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Their first 2 children, Hen...
Chicago Examiner ERVIN LEWY : BROTHER AWAITS NEWS
Ervin G. Lewy, 5628 South Park avenue, is treasurer of the firm of Lewy Brothers, jewelers, State and Adams streets.  No dispatches have been received by Mr. Lewy's relatives late last night to indicate whether he was among those who lost the...
16th April 1912
OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF Hexham Courant OLYMPIC FITTINGS TO BE SOLD OFF
Helen Compson
Summer 2004 news report...
21st May 2004
New York Times R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL
Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P...
7th December 1923
New York Times TWO RECEIVE SHARES IN ELKINS 27 MILLION
G. D. Widener and Mrs. Dixon of Pennsylvania to Get Income From $13,500,000 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NORRISTOWN, Pa., Aug. 10---George D. Widener of Whitemarsh and his sister, Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon of E...
11th August 1937
  TRANSCRIPT OF LETTER BY WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE
Gateside Margery Park Rd Forest Gate E 15/03/12 My Dear Sister Just a line to let you know that I am still in the land of the living. You will see by the above address that I am at home. ...
1912
RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA   RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA
Article...
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News CHRISTOPHER HEAD
A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa...
April 1998
  REV. HARRY PARSONS (YOUNGER BROTHER OF EDWARD PARSONS)
Rev. Harry Parsons was born on 26 November 1878 in Barnstaple but spent his early years living with his family in Plymouth. He entered the Ministry of the Bible Christian Church in 1899 and subsequently spent a short time at Cheriton F...
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Hodge, Charles. WAS twenty-nine years of age, and held a second engineer's certificate. His birthplace was Devonport. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Davey, Sleep & Co., of Plymouth. He had been in the service of the White St...
  LAST CONTACT WITH TITANIC?
Pete Morrall
Was Jack Mew the last man to have contact with Titanic before she left Southampton?...
Asbury Park Evening Press MRS. GWINN IS NOT AT POINT OF DEATH
Wife of Titanic’s Mail Chief Feels Loss Keenly but is Not Ill ---------- Metropolitan newspapers this morning all published stories to the effect that Mrs. William Logan Gwinn, wife of the chief mail clerk of the lost Titanic, w...
26th April 1912
New York Times FIERMONTE JAILED IN OLD SPEED CASE
Husband of Astor Widow Gets 5 Days on Charge That He Ignored in 1934 --- Enzo Fiermonte, the Italian-born automobile racer husband of Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, was sentenced to five days in prison yesterday by Magistrate...
7th July 1937
New York Times COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR
Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous club member...
16th April 1912
Providence Journal R.I. WOMAN, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC, DIES AT 92
Page 26 Mrs. Lulu Thorne Opie, 92, of the Old Post Road at Dunn's Corners in Westerly, a survivor of the sinking of the British passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Tuesday at the Watch Hill Nursing Home. One of the other ...
4th June 1970
Newark Evening News JOHN HARDY DIES AT 82
New Providence Resident Survived the Sinking of Liner Titanic --- John Hardy of 71 Gales drive, New Providence, who was chief steward of the second class accommodations aboard the White Star liner Titanic when it sank in 1912, died yest...
8th October 1953
  SONGE D'AUTOMNE
Songe d'Autmone (Dream of Autumn) was composed by Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 to 22 March 1963). Joyce, popularly known as the "English Waltz King", had considerable success in England with this piece which was included in the re...
1912
  WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE'S FAMILY AND THE MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
William's family and the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund...
Oak Leaves MEETS CARPATHIA
George P. Baldwin Relates Experience When Titanic Survivors Reach New York on Cunard Ship George P. Baldwin of 309 Linden, who went to New York to meet the survivors of the Titanic on the ...
27th April 1912
New York Times GUGGENHEIM ESTATE VALUED AT $3,551,994
Victim of Titanic Disaster Left Widow $785,199---Daughters Get About $500,000 Each --- MANY CHARITABLE BEQUESTS --- Sisters Receive Incomes from Trust Funds of $75,000 and Sisters-in-Law from $25,000 --- Benj...
18th January 1916
  THEODOOR DE MULDER'S CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To Be Given To The Person Naturalized No. 3637076 CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP Petition No. 71418 Personal description of holder as of date of naturalizatio...
5th December 1932
  MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS
Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
Laguna Beach Post TITANIC SURVIVOR MEMORIAL SERVICE
Lilian Minahan Obituary...
25th January 1962
New York Times ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD
Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster --- The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead was William F. Hoyt.  Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's death y...
27th April 1912
The Times TRAGEDY AT SEA - FILM RECORD OF THE TITANIC
The sinking of the Titanic has been dramatized on several occasions, and the subject has been examined from different aspects - as one of the greatest disasters in marine history, as an essay in human courage, as an event that symbolized the passi...
2nd July 1958
  VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO JOHN WESLEY WOODWARD
Named on the Musicians Memorial at the Old Library site, London Road, Southampton. also named on the St Marys Church Musicians Memorial, St Marys, Southampton. also he is mentioned on a plaque in the lobby of the Boston ...
  SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia. Miss Wilson is at the Hotel Seville, with Mr....
22nd April 1912
The Times LORD PIRRIE'S ESTATE
The RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PIRRIE, K.P., LL.D. D.Sc., of Witley Park, Godalming, and of Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast, chairman of Harland and Wolff, Limited, shipbuilders and eng...
4th April 1925
New York Times FIREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE
Stubborn Fire in the Cellar of 679 Broadway---One Man in the Hospital --- For two hours last evening firemen fought a fire in the sub-cellar of the five-story building 679 Broadway, adjoining the Broadway Central Hotel. Dense, stifling ...
7th November 1893
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle TITANIC SURVIVOR ETHEL BEANE DIED IN NURSING HOME
Page 1A-3A She, husband honeymooned aboard the ill-fated ship Ethel Bean, one of the remaining survivors of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic on April 15, 1912, died Saturday in Rochester. She had been living at a Roches...
17th September 1983
The Times LADY PIRRIE
WIDOW OF THE GREAT SHIPBUILDER --- Viscountess Pirrie, widow of the famous Belfast shipbuilder and shipowner, died yesterday at her home in Carlos Place, W., at the age of 78. She was Margaret Montgomer...
20th June 1935
New York Times SAY ASTOR WEDDING IS NEAR AT HAND
Friends Confidently Expect the Ceremony to Take Place Within a Few Days --- HIS YACHT IN READINESS --- Miss Force, the Bride-elect, Apparently Doing Her Final Shopping---Ceremony Probably in Connecticut --- There w...
8th September 1911
New York Times ELLEN TUCK FRENCH IS ENGAGED TO WED
Betrothal to John Jacob Astor Announced by Mother, Who Denied Report Week Ago --- WEDDING EARLY IN JULY --- Her Fiance's Engagement to Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie Called Off in January --- Mrs. Livingston Fre...
31st May 1934
Eastbourne Gazette HERO MUSICIANS : SUGGESTED MEMORIAL TO MR. J. W. WOODWARD
The Titanic Disaster While the horror of the Titanic disaster is still fresh in the public mind, and the nation is contributing with an almost unexampled generosity to funds for the survivors and the families of the crew, would it not ...
1st May 1912
New York Times MRS. DICK MARRIED TO FIERMONTE, BOXER, IN CIVIL CEREMONY IN HOSPITAL ROOM HERE
Mrs. Madeline Force Astor Dick and Enzo Fiermonte, Italian middleweight pugilist, were married at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Mrs. Dick's room at the Doctors Hospital, East End Avenue and Eighty-seventh Street. Mrs. Dick is 40 years old; Mr. ...
28th November 1933
New York Times PEGGY GUGGENHEIM IS DEAD AT 81; KNOWN FOR MODERN ART COLLECTION
By The Associated Press --- VENICE, Dec. 23 - Peggy Guggenheim, the expatriate American millionaire who amassed one of the world's foremost collections of modern art, died in a hospital outside Venice today, hospital officials said. Sh...
24th December 1979
TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL   TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL
Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ...
Unidentified Newspaper THE SAGE FAMILY LOST
In the appalling calamity which befell the Titanic on Monday - (pages 7 and 8) - a toll of eleven lives was exacted from Peterborough, and remarkable to say, all in one family. These were Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone Street, an...
April 1912
 

 
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