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  CHICAGOANS SEEK SURVIVORS
At the local White Star office inquiries were made today for Katherine McCarthy by her brother, John McCarthy, 4634 Wallace street, who is certain she was a passenger on the Titanic and was coming to Chicago. Information regarding Nora Cummin...
19th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal ONLY ONE OF IRISH PARTY BOUND FOR CHICAGO LIVES
Of the five members of a party that included the Burke family, who left Castlebar, Ireland, to come to America, there was only one aboard the Carpathia when it crept up to its dock in New York. She was Annie Kelly, 16 years old. Her si...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner SEEK WORD OF STEWARD
Mrs. William J. Stroud, 217 East Thirty-first street, besought news of her husband's brother, Harry Stroud, yesterday at the White Star office.  His name does not appear among those saved. "Harry Stroud lived in Southampton with ...
19th April 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION
He was born in the Parish of Jacob, City of Stockholm and married to Anna Johanssonon on December 7,1907 they had 2 children. He was traveling with his sister, Elna Strom and her daughter and were going to East Chicago, Indiana. His s...
Chicago Tribune CHAMPION AT RACQUETS LOST.
[BY CABLE TO THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE]   London, April 17---Among the Titanic’s passengers was Charles Williams, the professional racquet champion of the world who was on his way to New York to play Standing, the Americ...
18th April 1912
S.S. CHICAGO   S.S. CHICAGO
As she could not stand the idea of sailing again on a British liner, Mme Laroche decided that she would return in France on a French ship. She chose the French Line S.S. Chicago. She and her two daughters landed in Le Havre on 1 May 1912....
LE CHICAGO A RAMENé HIER AU HAVRE DES SURVIVANTS DU TITANIC Excelsior LE CHICAGO A RAMENé HIER AU HAVRE DES SURVIVANTS DU TITANIC
Mme Laroche, survivante du terrible naufrage du Titanic, est arrivée, hier, au Havre, à bord du Chicago. Elle était sur le paquebot géant au moment de la catastrophe, ainsi que son mari, qui, malheureusement, disparut dans le desastre, et ses deux...
2nd May 1912
Chicago Daily Journal PITIFUL APPEALS FOR NEWS AT OFFICE HERE UNGRATIFIED
Heartrending appeals for information concerning the dead or rescued from the Titanic poured into the Chicago offices of the White Stair line, throughout the day. Men, Women and children telephoned the offices at LaSalle and Washington stre...
17th April 1912
Washington Times SOCIETY IS SHOCKED AT NEWS OF DEATH
Washington society was shocked when news that the name of James C. Smith, of Chicago, was not included in the list of those saved from death when the Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Mr. Smith was well known in Washington, where...
19th April 1912
Chicago Daily News PASSENGER WED A CHICAGO GIRL
Mrs. Nelson L. Barnes Discusses Trip of J. Clinch Smith J. Clinch Smith, artist, reported to be on board the Titanic, is the husband of a former Chicago girl, Bertha Barnes, sister of Nelson L. Barnes, a broker in th...
15th April 1912
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
WARD LINE BUILDING   WARD LINE BUILDING
Three separate views of the former AGWI building at 545 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The Starbucks Coffee shop in the left hand view was, in 1934, the Ward Line ticketing office....
Gare Maritime
Chicago Daily News KARL MIDSTJO AND OTHERS ARE TO BE ASKED ABOUT RUMORS OF DISCRIMINATION
Third cabin passengers on the lost Titanic who arrive in Chicago during the next few days will be met by representatives of the Immigrants’ Protective league and closely interrogated in regard to treatment received at the hands of officers a...
22nd April 1912
Chicago Examiner JOHN HUGO ROSS AMONG THOSE NOT RESCUED
J. H. ROSS EXPECTED.      One of the Titanic victims was to visit Dr. Hugh H. Perry, 9515 Commercial avenue, the latter part of this week.  He was J. Hugo Ross, cousin of Dr. Perry and a wealthy re...
19th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald MRS. CROSBY OF MILWAUKEE, ON WAY HOME, TELLS OF EXCITEMENT IN LOWERING BOATS
Mrs. E. G. Crosy, wife of Captain E. G. Crosby of the Crosby Lake Steamshipp Company, and her daughter, Miss Hattie Crosby, of Milwaukee, who were in the ill-fated ship, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon.  Captain Crosby was drowned.&nbs...
23rd April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times ALBERT A. STEWART ONE OF THE LOST ISLANDERS
Albert A. Stewart, who formerly made his home at St. James, L. I., is supposed to have gone down with the ship. He was in St. James last summer and was counted as a friend of Mayor Gaynor---near whose home he resided. Mr. Stewart was formerly conne...
17th April 1912
Evanston Daily News LOCAL WOMAN'S KIN SAVED FROM TITANIC
Spencer V. Silverthorne, a brother of Mrs. H. H. Harris, 820 Foster street, is among the Titanic passengers that were rescued by the Carpathia. Word to this effect was received today. Mr. Silverthorne who lives in St. Louis, is a buyer fo...
18th April 1912
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
Chicago Tribune OTHERS ARRIVE DESTITUTE
Two men and a girl from Sweden, Oscar Hedmann, Carl Johnson, and Anna Sjoblom, spent several hours in Chicago yesterday on their way west. All found themselves in New York without a cent. They were taken to an immigration home and clothed ...
26th April 1912
Chicago Tribune THIRD TRAGEDY IN FAMILY
The shooting marked the third tragedy in the Minahan family within recent years. N uncle, William E. Minahan, an attorney, perished when the steamship Titanic was sunk in 1912. And, according to reports from Green Bay, the boy’s mother was k...
19th February 1925
Godalming and District News POST OFFICE MEMORIAL
At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...
4th May 1912
New York Times STRAUS'S SECRETARY WAITS ALL NIGHT
A representative of the Straus family was at the White Star steamship office continuously yesterday, waiting for news of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus. Sylvester Byrnes, Mr. Straus's secretary, had remained in the office all night. With ...
17th April 1912
New York Times NOT BOATS ENOUGH (SAYS MRS. GUGGENHEIM)
Many inquiries were made at the (White Star Line)office during the day about Benjamin Guggenheim, but no hopeful reply could be given as Mr. Guggenheim's name was not included in any of the lists of survivors received. About 10 o'clock...
17th April 1912
Chicago Daily News LEARNS OF RELATIVE'S RESCUE
Daniel Tobin of Denver, Col, now in Chicago and a guest at the Palmer house, passed most of the morning in the offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown, also of Denver. When finally a report...
16th April 1912
Chicago Evening Post CHICAGO HEARS ECHO OF NEW TITANIC WOE
French Miner From Iowa Arrives Here and Learns Wife and Children Were Lost With the Liner Sons Ignorant of Wreck Passengers at Union Station Take Up Collec...
25th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO
Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr...
23rd April 1912
New York Times THE HARRISES
Numerous and anxious were the inquiries (at the White Star Line office) for Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Harris. Mr. Harris is one of the city's best known theatrical managers. Scores of his friends, both in the theatrical and the business wo...
17th April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune PLEA FOR TITANIC ARRIVALS
Girl Immigrants Here Get Only Nightgowns in New York OTHERS ARRIVE DESTITUTE Use of Money Collected Here Urged for Their Assistance Immigration officer in Chicago who have come in contact with Titanic s...
26th April 1912
Chicago Tribune THOMAS FOLEY'S BROTHER GONE
            Thomas Foley, 3157 Harrison street, a street car conductor, a well built young man, with an unspoiled Irish burr in his speech, called to ask if the ...
20th April 1912
Chicago Tribune SHOTGUN ENDS STUDENT'S LIFE; JILTED, THEORY
“Frat” Brothers Scout Talk of Suicide. While police and University of Chicago authorities yesterday wavered between a theory of accident and suicide in explanation of the shooting to death of John B. Min...
3rd February 1923
New York Times MRS. S. BEACH COOKE
Special to The New York Times --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., June 25---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson Cooke, widow of S. Beach Cooke, an artist and writer, died today of a cerebral hemorrhage at Ringwood, her home here. She was 66 years old. ...
26th June 1960
New York Sun WAS THE MAYOR'S FRIEND
ALBERT A. STEWART SAILED ON THE TITANIC WITHOUT HIS WIFE Albert A. Stewart was for many years connected with the Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati and had an office in the Times Building.  He was also a part owner in the ...
17th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald HEARS SISTER IS ALIVE
Daniel Tobin of Denver, Colo., now in Chicago, passed most of yesterday at the local offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown of Denver. Tobin shouted his joy when a report was received i...
17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune NEWS OF THE SOCIETY WORLD : MRS. RYERSON RETURNING
One of the many evidences of Mrs. Marshall Field’s loyalty to Chicago, in spite of nearly a decade spent away from here, is that she has always kept her box for the symphony concerts and has never failed to fill it with friends at each after...
13th October 1913
New York Times WILLIAM T. STEAD
English Editor and Author of "If Christ Came to Chicago." --- William T. Stead is the editor of the English Review of Reviews. He is known as an advocate of international peace and an investigator of psychical phenomena. He was born in...
16th April 1912
Chicago Evening Post LAPLAND WILL REPLACE TITANIC AS MAIL SHIP
The Post office Department has made arrangements for the substitution of the steamer Lapland for the Titanic, in carrying mails to Europe from New York City....
17th April 1912
FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS Toronto Daily Star FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS
newspaper cutting...
25th April 1912
Chicago Tribune GIRL IMMIGRANTS HERE GET ONLY NIGHTGOWNS IN NEW YORK
 PLEA FOR TITANIC ARRIVALS Girl Immigrants Here Get Only Nightgowns in New York Others Arrive Destitute Use of Money Collected Here Urged for Their Assistance  Imm...
26th April 1912
  MARCONIGRAM FROM SS BALTIC
The MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COMPANY, Ltd. Office of origin: S.S. Baltic 14 Apr 1912 Office sent to: MGY ...
23rd July 2004
New York Times JOHN RYERSON
John Ryerson, an amateur golfer and one of last survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday at a nursing home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr. Ryerson was born in Chicago, a scion of the Ryerson steel...
24th January 1986
Chicago Tribune BRUCE HAS NO WRECK DETAILS
Wireless Operator Reports He Was Unable to Get Particulars of Titanic Sinking St. Johns, N. F., April 17---The steamer Bruce, which arrived in St. John's harbor at noon on Monday and r...
18th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald PREACHER EN-ROUTE HERE
Among the passengers of the Titanic who are believed to have perished was Rev. John Harper of London, who was expected to preach Sunday from the pulpit of Moody Church, Chicago.  Rev. Mr. Harper, who was pastor of the Walworth Road Baptist...
17th April 1912
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
  CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS
BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ...
New York Times TITANIC WIDOW TO WED
Mrs. Ryerson of Chicago Will Marry Forsythe Sherfesse, Financier --- CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (AP)---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson, whose husband, Albert [sic] Ryerson, lost his life when the Titanic sank, will be married next week, it is announced, ...
2nd December 1927
Chicago Inter Ocean CHICAGOAN CREATES SCENE IN OFFICES OF THE WHITE STAR LINE
Special Dispatch to the Inter Ocean New York, April 18—Late this afternoon John Gillespie of Chicago, accompanied by a friend, entered the offices of the White Star line. His voice rang through the big rooms as he demanded informati...
19th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal TITANIC WAS UNSAFE
 SAYS TITANIC WAS UNSAFE Steward, Suing for Injury in Wreck Says Precautions Were Disregarded [Associated Press Cablegram] London, Jan. 16—The plea that the Titanic was unseaworthy when she l...
16th January 1914
New York Times THE WIDENERS
Another of the morning inquiries (at the White Star Line office) was a long distance one from Philadelphia. It was for the news of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener and their son, Harry Elkins Widener, who are of the well-known Philadelphia family of th...
17th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald SLUMS MOURN STEAD : OLD-TIMERS IN CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN REMEMBER
SLUMS MOURN STEAD Old-Timers in Chicago’s Chinatown Remember English Author as “Billy, the Bum” Cleaned Streets in Chicago ...
18th April 1912
SIMONNE AND LOUISE RETURN HOME ABOARD THE CHICAGO.   SIMONNE AND LOUISE RETURN HOME ABOARD THE CHICAGO.
May 1912
Chicago American LOSES FAMILY BY WRECK
Nels Paulsson, a Chicago man living at 940 Thompson street, had learned to-day that he had lost his wife and four little children in the Titanic disaster. Although he knew that his family had embarked on the boat he had delayed making inquiry...
21st April 1912
New York Times CHICAGO WIDOW SENDS PLANE FOR BRIDEGROOM BUT GALE DELAYS 9,000-MILE RACE TO ALTAR
Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Dec. 9---Mrs. Emily Boris [sic] Ryerson, wealthy widow of Arthur Ryerson, the steel maker, who was lost on the Titanic, today dispatched an airplane to St. Paul in an effort to bring her fiancé...
10th December 1927
  RED CROSS REPORT AND MEMORIAL
McGowan, Annie, Miss (later Mrs. Straube). Saved in Lifeboat number 14. Born 5th July 1895, died 30th January 1990 and was buried in the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the ...
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
Chicago Tribune ANOTHER CHICAGOAN STILL FEARS
Some Chicagoans do not know yet whether their relatives were saved by the Carpathia or not.  Edward Manion, who lives at 1848 Lincoln avenue, does not know whether his sister, Miss Margaret Manion, Castle Bar, Ireland, is on her way to Chicag...
21st 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
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
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
Chicago Daily Journal GIRL VICTIM OF TITANIC NEAR DEATH; GOT ONLY $25
Margaret McGowan, in Chicago, Tells How official of Line Gave Her “Recompense” Margaret McGowan, one of the few steerage passengers who started for America on the Titanic and reached here, is at the home...
25th April 1912
Boston Daily Globe FORMER BOSTON RESIDENT
Alexander O. Halverson [sic] of New York Opened the Cluett, Peabody & Co Office Here. Among the reported missing or unaccounted for among the passengers on board the steamship Titanic who were rescued from the disabled ship was Alexander O. Halverson...
16th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald RUSE SCENTED TO AVOID CLAIM
Titanic Survivor Says She Signed Paper Thinking It Railroad Tickets Alleged unfair tactics used by the owners of the steamship Titanic to avoid damage claims from survivors were explained yesterday by Miss Annie Kelly, one of...
25th April 1912
New York Times V. A. SALVATORE TO WED
Sculptor Engaged to Miss Ellen A. Ryerson of Chicago --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Dec. 23---Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of 2,700 Lakeview Avenue announced yesterday the engagement of her third daughter, Miss Elle...
24th December 1917
Chicago Tribune HOLD MEMORIAL FOR THE TITANIC
The Titanic catastrope so strongly religious in its effect, was the topic of sermons in most Chicago churches yesterday.  Many ministers drew lessons of warning, some of thankfulness, in the theme. Collections were generally div...
22nd April 1912
New York Times 14 IN GLASS TRADE FINED IN TRUST CASE
They Plead Nolo Contendere at Chicago on Price-Fixing --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Jan. 22---Fourteen corporate and individual defendants in the glazing industry, accused of fixing prices of glass...
23rd January 1941
  MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
CERTIFIED COPY OF AN ENTRY OF MARRIAGE GENE...
1908
New York Times LOST TWO IN IROQUOIS FIRE
Daughters of Rescued Titanic Passenger Killed in Chicago Holocaust --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Ill., April 16---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, wife of L. A. Hippach, manufacturer, of 7,352 Sheridan Road, and Miss ...
17th April 1912
  MARCONIGRAM
Accepted by Carpathia's Radio Office but not transmitted. (No time). To: Berthe Segesser, 30, Charles Baudelaire, Paris. ''Sauvee Amities. - Emma''....
New York Times JEAN SCHARIN ENGAGED
Chicago Girl Will Be Married to Edward Cudahy Spalding ---- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Feb. 21---Announce has been made by Mrs. J. Hippach Unander Scharin of this city of the eengagement [sic] of her daught...
22nd February 1946
Semi Weekly Iowegian GIVES UP HOPE OF CHILDREN - MYSTIC MAN FINDS THAT THOSE FROM TITANIC WERE NOT HIS - RETURNS A SAD MAN
With the hope gone that the French children rescued from the Titanic and under care in New York might be his, Francois Lefebre, the Mystic man who started east with hopeful anticipations, has returned without the children. He stopped at C...
30th April 1912
San Francisco Call & Post DR. DODGE DIES AS RESULT OF WOUNDS
Page 2, column 2 [Photo] Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker, supervisor, library trustee and assessor of San Francisco, died at 9:25 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis Hospital from a bullet wound self-inflicted a ...
30th June 1919
Chicago Tribune WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS
Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death   Family Left Penniless   Red Cross Saves Them fr...
20th July 1912
Chicago American TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH
TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...
25th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal LOSSES ENTIRE FORTUNE
Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en route to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the world. “I was in bed when the crash...
19th April 1912
Chicago Record Herald CHICAGOANS SAVED BY ASTOR
Mrs. Hippach and Daughter, at Home, Tell of Rescue From Titanic How Colonel John Jacob Astor saved the lives of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean Hippach, when the Titanic was sinking was told w...
22nd April 1912
  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...
Chicago American TITANIC'S COURSE AND SPEED CAUSED DISASTER, SAYS DAHL
 A picture of a sea dotted with so many icebergs that the Carpathia was forced to steer an zigzag course to leave the field of menacing floes was added to the indictment against officials of the White Star Line to-day by Charles Dahl, a Titan...
24th April 1912
LOUISE AND SIMONNE LAROCHE   LOUISE AND SIMONNE LAROCHE
Louise and Simonne, in their grandfather's garden at Villejuif, taken the day after their arrival in Le Harve aboard the Chicago. ...
May 1912
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...
Chicago Examiner A TITANIC HERO
Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down.  He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a com...
2nd June 1912
Newark Evening News HENRY BLANK, 76, GLEN RIDGE, DIES
Head of Newark Jewelry Concern Was Titanic Disaster Survivor --- Henry Blank, board chairman of Henry Blank Co., Newark jewelry manufacturing concern, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge, after a short illness. He ...
17th March 1949
Chicago American CHICAGO GIRL IN LAST LIFEBOAT
There was only one seat in the last lifeboat of the Titanic and had Mrs. John Burke taken it the chances are that Miss Annie Kelly, a seventeen-year-old Chicago girl, might be at the bottom of the sea, she told friends to-day who had gathered at h...
23rd April 1912
  MINUTES OF TITANIC RELIEF FUND, LIVERPOOL AREA COMMITTEE: WILLIAM FARQUHARSON
No. 98. Farquharson, Mrs. Martha: Address for cheques: Head office. net monthly allowance to widow £7 13 10 two children £1 3 10 total £8 17 8d....
1st December 1915
Chicago Inter Ocean CHICAGO GIRL LAST TO LEAVE TITANIC
Miss Annie Kelly Reaches Home Here and Tells of Her Thrilling Experiences White Escaping From the Sinking Liner The last woman to leave the sinking Titanic was Miss Annie Kelly, 17 years old, sister of Miss Beatrice Kelly,...
23rd April 1912
New York Times DEATH NOTICE OF BEN FOREMAN
FOREMAN---Ben L. Foreman, eldest son of Henry W. and Rose Laventall Foreman, in his 31st year. Lost on steamship Titanic. Albany and Chicago papers please copy. ...
21st April 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION
KANTOR, MRS. MARTIN. Saved in Lifeboat number 10. c/o City Office. Wife of Sinai Kantor. A University graduate in dentistry. Lived with cousins in New York City....
Chicago Record-Herald MEEHAN KIN ESCAPE
Mrs. John Worthington, 4458 Drexel boulevard, sister of John Meehan, who was reported to have had relatives on board the Titanic, denied there was any truth in the report. Chicago Record-Herald, Saturday, April 20, 1912, p. 4, c. 7...
20th April 1912
Wiltshire Times TITANIC WIRELESS OPERATOR
Son of Trowbridgian: Relatives in the Town The man who sent the fateful SOS wireless appeal for assistance - the Marconi Operator aboard the Titanic - is Mr. John George Phillips, son of Mr. G. A. Phillips, of Francombe, near Godalming...
20th April 1912
New York Times CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES
Federal Indictments Charge Industry Joined in Fixing a Common Schedule --- UNION AS THE ENFORCER --- Fifth Action in Investigation of Building Trades Cites Seven Corporations --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
11th May 1940
New York Times THOSE WHO SAW THE RESCUE
Carpathia's Passengers, Who Were Bound for Mediterranean, Back. The passengers on the Carpathia, whose trip to the Mediterranean was interrupted to aid those saved from the Titanic, are: Rev. R. B. Anderson, Baltimore,...
19th April 1912
MEMORIAL   MEMORIAL
IN LOVING MEMORY OF ARTHUR RYERSON OF RINGWOOD, OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK ELDEST SON OF JOSEPH TURNER RYERSON OF CHICAGO AND ELLEN LARNED HIS WIFE BORN JANUARY 12, 1851, LOST ON S.S. TITANIC APRI...
Guernsey Evening Press MR. J. DUQUEMIN
The relations of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, reported to be one of the survivors of the Titanic Disaster, have not yet heard from him direct, but yesterday a letter was received from the White Star line's Southampton Office, confirming the telegram sent on ...
20th 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
New York Times GAVE LIVES FOR THE MAILS
Postal Clerks Worked in Two Feet of Water---Hitchcock Aids Kinsmen --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---Postmaster General Hitchcock to-day addressed a communication to Chairman John A. Moon of the ...
21st April 1912
  SPECIAL DAY FOR OSCAR SCOTT WOODY
It seems that the heroism of one of Titanic's postal clerks has been a source of inspiration for the governing officials of North Carolina. Oscar Scott Woody was a native of Roxboro, North Carolina. He had been a postal clerk on trains betwee...
2004
New York Times SWIFT HEIRESS IS SUED FOR DIVORCE IN NEVADA
Aksel Wichfeld, Former Attache at Danish Legation, Files Action Secretly, Charging Cruelty --- RENO, Nev., Nov. 21 (AP)---Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, former attaché of the Danish Legation in Washington, filed suit secretly at Carson City Nov....
22nd November 1932
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser UNKNOWN TITLE
Other Cornish passengers were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman, who were going to Chicago. Mr. Chapman, a son of Mr. Chapman, Carpuan Farm, St. Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at h...
18th April 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Harper, Reverend John. Missing. Lived at 3, Claude Villas, Denmark Hill, London. UK. Born in Houston, Renfrewshire in 1872. In 1911 had a three month mission in Moody Church, Chicago and was travelling there when the ship sank. ...
Unidentified Newspaper TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN DANVILLE
Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop Passed Away While Guest of Mrs. O. W. Cannon TAKEN ILL FRIDAY Had Arrived Here on Previous Day For Visit With Her Companion on Long Trip Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, one of the surv...
1916
Newark Star WILL BRING TITANIC VICTIM'S BODY HERE
Arrangements were made to have the body of John S. Marsh, the Newark superintendent of mails on the Titanic, brought to the home of the daughter, Miss Nellie Marsh, 39 Emmett street. His body was recovered by the cable ship at the scen...
30th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean CONDITION OF TITANIC KNOWN AT OFFICE MONDAY
CONDITION OF TITANIC KNOWN AT OFFICE MONDAY ___________________ Timothy L. Woodruff Says Typewritte...
19th April 1912
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Born August 18th 1893 (Ref. register Book no 327 at Kennington Sub District Office). After returning to the UK she later married, September 12th 1931 to one James Barrow, Company Director of M. Ralph paper merchant of Upper Thames Stre...
BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND ENVIRONS   BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND ENVIRONS
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Chicago Daily Journal HARRY STROUD
Harry Stroud, boarded steamer in Southampton, a steward on the Titanic, was expected to visit his brother, who lives at 217 East Thirty-First street; name missing from list of survivors.   Chicago...
19th April 1912
  1901 CENSUS - LISKEARD, CORNWALL
The 1901 Census reveals that John Richard Jago Smith (aged 24) was living and working in Liskeard, Cornwall as a Post Office sorting & telegraph clerk....
  MARCONIGRAM
Sent to Aubert, 42me Monge, Paris. ''Moi Sauvee mais Ben perdu''. Marconigram accepted by Carpathia's Radio Office but not transmitted. (No time). To: Aubart, 42 rue Mongre, Paris. ''Sauvee. - Ninette Aubart''...
Chicago Tribune LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH
Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ...
18th April 1912
Rutherford Republican MAIL CLERKS DIED BRAVELY
Worked in Two Feet of Water to Save Registered Mail on Titanic ---------- The families of the three sea postal clerks who died like heroes on the Titanic will each received $2,000 if Congress complies with a recommendation made this wee...
20th April 1912
New York Times FAVORS ISIDOR STRAUS
RICHARD CROKER SAYS HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO BUSINESS MEN --- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10---Richard Croker, Thomas F. Grady, John R Sexton. and John F. Carroll, well-known Tammany men, who have been in Florida since la...
11th February 1893
New York Times DEATH NOTICE OF GEORGE ROSENSHINE
ROSENSHINE---At sea, on April 15, 1912, steamer Titanic, George Rosenshine, beloved brother of Albert A. and Max Rosenshine and Mrs. Bertha Frank, in the 46th year of his age. Funeral services will be held at the Hotel Ansonia on Sunday morning, Ma...
4th May 1912
JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY Chicago Tribune JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY
TELLS MISS LEITCH'S STORY     Nana Harper, the 6 year old daughter of Dr. John Harper, who was on his way to Chicago to preach at the Moody church will return to England...
21st April 1912
  PROBATE REPORT FROM WINCHESTER RECORD OFFICE: EDWARD DODD
Dodd, Edward Charles, Bannisters Hotel, Queens Parade, Southampton. Engineer. At sea. Administration: Winchester 21 October 1912 to Henry Charles Dodd retired Plummer. Estate £184 16s 1d....
21st October 1912
Western Morning News TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,...
17th April 1912
The Times BEESLEY CLAIMS WAR COMPENSATION
At the Defence of the Realm Losses Commission yesterday, Mr L. Beesley, described as a practitioner of Christian Science, claimed compensation in respect of the requisitioning by the War Office of rooms at Pembroke House, Oxford Street, in May 1917, ...
22nd January 1919
Chicago Tribune LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD
Hedda Hopper
“THE TITLE “Nearer My God To Thee” is now definitely “Titanic.” It should have been all along, but 20th Century had to clear it, and that cost a pretty penny. . .”   Chicag...
22nd December 1952
New York Times FIND HEADQUARTERS OF CHICAGO GUNMEN
Police Locate Saloon Where They Got Arms and Waited, It is Said, for Murphy's Orders --- RAID JOHN MILLER'S HOME --- Seize Quantity of Dynamite There---Paper Giving List Used Last Tuesday Is Found --- Special...
16th May 1922
Chicago Tribune TITANIC GOT WARNING OF PERIL FROM ICEBERGS
Amerika Encountered Menace in the Path of Ill-Fated ship and Sent Wireless Messages of Position...
17th April 1912
Chicago American FOUR TITANIC SURVIVORS SCORE SHIP'S OFFICIALS
Four women who were rescued from the Titanic passed through this city on their way to their Western homes.  They were: Mrs. H. F. Chaffee of Amenia, N. D.; whose husband was drowned; Mrs. Walter Clark of Los Angeles, who also lost her husban...
22nd April 1912
Chicago Daily News CHARLES WILLIAMS OBITUARY
Williams—Charles Williams passed away Oct. 27, beloved husband of Lois Williams, fond father of Eugene, Ninian, John, Dorothy, Jean and Hilda. Funeral services Wed., Oct. 30th, at 2 pm, from residence, 5524 Lakewood av. Interment Rosehill ce...
29th October 1935
Chicago Tribune SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES
Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London Reginald Lee, one of the two sailors in the lookout when the White Star liner Titanic met in disastrous collision with an iceberg a year...
10th August 1913
Chicago Tribune SIGHT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM
Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable. ...
21st July 1912
Chicago Sun-Times KUP'S COLUMN
Irv Kupcinet
". . . . Almost as soon as the news of the sinking of the Andrea Doria was flashed to the world, 20th Century-Fox decided to reissue its epic of a sea drama, "Titanic," story of the maritime disaster of 44 years ago. . . . "...
31st July 1956
New York Times PRAYER SERVICE NOTICE FOR GEORGE ROSENSHINE
ROSENSHINE---AT SEA, Steamer Titanic, on April 15, 1912, George Rosenshine, in the 46th year of his age. Prayers will be held at the residence of his brother, Albert Rosenshine, Hotel Ansonia, on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings, April 21,...
21st April 1912
The Times JOHN CHARLES BIGHAM MADE QUEEN'S COUNSEL
From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Oct 30 CROWN OFFICE, OCT. 27 The Queen has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal to constitute and appoint Richard Henn Collins, Esq., and John C...
31st October 1883
SEVENTY-FIVE REGISTERED LETTERS WERE SENT (FROM NORWAY) WITH THE TITANIC IN 1912   SEVENTY-FIVE REGISTERED LETTERS WERE SENT (FROM NORWAY) WITH THE TITANIC IN 1912
Arne Mjaland
Top row 5th from left: Jorgen Birkesfol who sent a registered letter with Titanic...
26th August 1998
Washington Times WOMAN FAINTS WHEN TOLD BUTT IS AMONG MISSING
NEW YORK, April 18---A woman claiming to be the second cousin of Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft, from Plymouth, Mass., called at the White Star line office this morning to inquire whether anything had been heard of her missing ...
18th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean TITANIC MEN FORCE GIRL TO SIGN PAPER
Rescued Chicagoan Declares When She Was Dazed in New YorkHospital, Line’s Agents Made Her Attest Exonerating Document That agents for the White Star line forced her to sign an exonerating statement ...
25th April 1912
New York Times SEALED ASTOR PAPERS FILED
Rockland County Sends Them to Dutchess---Everything Secret --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 10---The sealed papers in the divorce action of Ava Willing Astor against John Jacob Astor were fil...
11th November 1909
Beneath This Stone BOOKLET ABOUT CLEWER CHURCHYARD
OWEN GEORGE ALLUM was a passenger on the "unsinkable" White Star Liner, Titanic which struck an ice berg and sank on her maiden voyage. Owen Allum was one of the 1,489 whose lives were lost. He had lived at Gerald Villas, Vansittart Road, Wind...
Guernsey Evening Press UNTITLED
April/May 1912 In the boat with Mrs. Renouf were the Misses Lillian Bentham (of Jersey) and Miss Emily Rugg. When the boat left the ship's side there were 30 on board, but later 30 men were taken from a raft, of whom one...
1912
Chicago Tribune ROUND ABOUT THE SOCIETY WORLD.
Page 15 A number of Chicago relatives and friends will leave for the east Oct. 20 to attend the wedding of Miss Emily Ryerson and George Hyde Clark, which will take place on Oct. 23 at Ringwood, near Cooperstown, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Edw...
7th October 1915
Chicago Tribune WAUKEGAN FARMER NOT SAVED
Waukegan, Ill., April 18—[Special]—According to the published list of the steerage passengers on the ill fated steamer Titanic just given out James Elsbury, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer living just west of Gurnee, was one of the pa...
19th April 1912
Southern Evening Echo OBITUARY
TITANIC survivor Mr. Ernest Allen, of Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton, a stoker in the ill-fated liner, has died at his home at the age of 80. Mr. Allen nearly lost his life in an attempt to save his younger brother, who was at sea for the fir...
30th December 1968
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17th January 1912
New York Times THE DUFF GORDONS
From London came a cablegram (to the White Star office), asking for news of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. The cable remained unanswered for some time as line officials and their employees had more than they could attend to in the handling of inquir...
17th April 1912
Southampton Times and Hampshire Express TOUCHING MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN'S WIFE
Shortly before three on Thursday afternoon the following message from Mrs. E. J. Smith, the wife of the Captain of the lost liner, was posted on the notice-board at the White Star office, Canute Road, Southampton. TO MY POOR FELLOW SUF...
20th April 1912
THE WHITE STAR   THE WHITE STAR
White Star Line cast brass five pointed star removed from the White Star office in Liverpool. 26ins....
Chicago Examiner OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT
Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation.  She will be ma...
25th September 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Harper, Miss Nina. Saved in Lifeboat number 11 with her cousin Jessie Leith. Returned to England via SS Celtic, 25th April 1912. Aged 6 years. Later (1934) became Mrs. Pont, died 1986. (Gleaned from the Internet 20th S...
BRIDE WHO WAS RESCUED FROM DEATH FINDS SHE IS DESTITUTE WIDOW New York Herald BRIDE WHO WAS RESCUED FROM DEATH FINDS SHE IS DESTITUTE WIDOW
MRS ARGENIA DEL CARLO AND SISTER OF SAN RAFFAELE HOME...
22nd April 1912
Hammond Times DEATH AND FUNERAL NOTICES : ERNEST PEARSON
PEARSON--Ernest Pearson, age 65, of 4929 Hickory Ave., passed away Wednesday 2 a.m., Valparaiso, Ind. Funeral services Friday 2 p.m., Dalton funeral home, 727 Carroll St., Hammond. Rev. Elmer Nicholson oficiating. Burial Elmwood cemetery. Survi...
18th October 1951
Dallas Times-Herald LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD
obituary...
22nd April 1935
Chicago American TITANIC STEERAGE PASSENGERS LEFT TO DIE, SAYS GIRL
Fears are entertained by Dr. Thomas J. O’Malley, who is attending Miss Annie Kelly, the seventeen-year-old girl survivor of the Titanic, that she will never gain her normal condition as a result of her harrowing experiences when the sh...
25th April 1912
Chicago Record Herald NONE PICKED UP CELTIC
General Passenger Agent Jeffries of the White Star Line today denied the report that an officer and woman steerage passenger of the Titanic were picked up by the Celtic, which arrived in this city on Saturday morning, as related in a dispatch last...
23rd April 1912
Western Morning News TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
There were four persons on board well known at St. Keverne, Cornwall, their names being Jago Smith, a Post office official employed on board, who was to have been married shortly, and who is a son of Mr. John Smith, farmer, Trebarveth, St. Keverne; M...
18th April 1912
Chicago Examiner HE SURVIVED TITANIC : ON THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND, TOO
Among more than 300 survivors from the Lusitania arrived in Dublin last night on their way to England was a Dublin man named Toner, who was on the Titanic when it sank and the Empress of Ireland when ...
10th May 1915
New York Times UNSEALED DECREE IN ASTOR DIVORCE
On Final Judgment Court Does Away with Secrecy by Order to Dutchess County Clerk ---- CROWD IN THE COURTROOM --- Report That Mrs. Astor Receives Only $50,000 a Year Not Contradicted --- The terms of the final...
5th March 1910
Chicago Tribune TITANIC VICTIM'S BUSINESS CLOSED OUT IN MONTREAL
Announcement was made today on the floor of the stock exchange that the brokerage firm of Thornton Davidson & Co., which has connections in New York and Boston, had gone into voluntary liquidation.  The firm was established ...
29th July 1920
Chicago Tribune MRS. IDA HIPPACH LEAVES $85,000 ESTATE TO DAUGHTER
The will of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, leaving an estate estimated at $85,000 to a daughter, Mrs. Jean Unander-Scharin of Lake Forest, was filed for probate yesterday.  Mrs. Hippach died a month ago at the age of 74 in her home at 2808 Evanston.&nb...
22nd October 1940
Unidentified Newspaper BAPTIST MINISTER DROWNED
At the Baptist Church, Pastor Whitter said the disaster had filled two continents with sorrow, and affected in some way or other their fellows all over the world. He specially referred to the loss of a brother minister who had frequently preached in ...
26th April 1912
The Times SIR JOHN BIGHAM
Sir John Bigham will take his farewell leave of the Bar on Monday in the first Court of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division. All the Comnmon Law Judges who are in town will attend, and the ...
12th March 1910
Chicago Record-Herald IOWA FAMILY DROWNS
Brother Learns E. G. Dalbon, Wife and Child, Perish in Titanic Wreck Stanton, Iowa, April 20---Alfred Dalbom of this city received from New York today a telegram confirming his fears that his brother, Ernest G. Dalho...
21st April 1912
Chicago Tribune DEATHS ELSEWHERE
Deaths Elsewhere __________ Oscar R. Houston, 86, the principal counsel in the Titanic, Lusitania, Morro Castle, Normandie, and Andrea Doria sea disasters and the man who planned t...
23rd December 1969
Chicago Daily News BOY FAILS TO TAKE SHIP
After searching the list of survivors in vain for the name of her brother, John Meehan, Miss Mary Meehan, 4458 Drexel boulevard, was overjoyed last night when she received a cablegram from her mother in Ireland saying that the boy had no...
19th April 1912
Chicago Daily News ASKED TO MEET TWO WOMEN
Green Bay, Wisconsin., April 17--A wireless message from the steamer Carpathia, received here this afternoon by V. I. Minahan, requests that he meet Mrs. W. E. Minahan and Miss Daisy Minahan at New York city on the arrival of the steamer. ...
17th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal PEARS, SOAPMAKER, SAFE
A wireless dispatch received today by the firm of Pears, soap makers, and timed 1:20 yesterday, said merely "All well."  It was unsigned but was believed to be from Thomas Pears, who with his wife was among the Titanic's pass...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal "I'M STARVED!" WAS ISMAY'S FIRST WORD
"For God's sake get me something to eat. I'm starved. I don't care what it costs or what it is, bring it to me." This was the first statement made by J. Bruce Ismay, directing head of the White Star line, o...
19th April 1912
  GENERAL INFORMATION ON MR. WILLER (WELLER)
Weller, Mr. Aaron. (also listed as Harry Willer). Missing. En route to his wife at 1330 South Halstead Street, Chicago, Illinois. From Russia. Tailor aged 37 years (Aaron Weller). Had lived in America for several years but returned to London after fa...
Chicago Examiner MICHIGAN WIFE GETS $100,000 ALIMONY
Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, wife of a Dowagiac millionaire, was granted a divorce here to-day.  The Bishops were on the Titanic on their honeymoon trip when the liner went down.  Mrs. Bishop, who charges...
18th January 1916
Chicago Examiner MISS ANNIE KELLY IN HOSPITAL
Misses Margaret and Beatrice Kelly of 303 Eugenie street were overjoyed last night when they learned that their seventeen-year-old sister, Annie Kelly, who was a Titanic voyager, was one of the survivors picked up by the Carpathi...
20th April 1912
Chicago Tribune THIRD OF FAMILY TO MEET TRAGIC END
Nineteen year old Howard Hippach is the last of the three sons of Louis A. Hippach, wealthy plate glass and window glass manufacturer, to meet a tragic death.  Howrd Hippach was killed Thursday afternoon when a motor car which he was driving ...
31st October 1914
Hammond Times CALUMENT REGION OBITUARIES : ERNEST PEARSON
Ernest Pearson, 4929 Hickory St., Hammond, died in his son's home in Valparaiso yesterday as the result of a heart attack. He was 65. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Dalton Funeral home, 727 Carroll St., Hammond, ...
18th October 1951
The Evening Telegram HAYS MAY BE SAFE
Newspaper article...
16th April 1912
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
  REV. JOHN HARPER
Rev. John Harper was minister at Paisley Road Baptist Church, in Plantation area of Glasgow, near Govan, (now the Harper Memorial Baptist Church) before moving to London. He had completed a Mission time at the Moody Church in Chicago, in 1911,...
Shore Press SHE LOSES BROTHER IN TITANIC WRECK
In the wreck of the White Star liner Titanic, Mrs. A. J. Ripley of Long Branch lost her brother, Arthur E. Nicholson. He was in the tea business and maintained an office at 128 Front street, New York. It had been his custom each year ...
12th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SAILOR IN COURT
Man Who Saved 45 Persons Says He Can't Support His Wife --- CHICAGO, Jan. 16---Albert Horswill, who said he was in charge of the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic, and saved forty-five women and children, told Judge Uhlir in court to-d...
17th January 1914
Chicago Daily News CLAIMED TO BE THE OLDEST SURVIVNG MEMBER OF THE CREW OF THE TITANIC
Deaths Elsewhere Jacob Gibbons, 89, who claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic; an engine room worker who was one of the last to leave it when it sank; in Studland, England....
2nd March 1965
  PROBATE REPORT
Calendar of all Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Principle Probate Registries of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice Ireland -- 1912 ANDREWS Thomas (Junior) [405] 12 August ...
1912
Chicago Daily News TITANIC RESCUED HERE
TITANIC RESCUED HERE Five Left of Party of Ten from Sweden Arrive on Way to Pacific Coast Tells of their Escapes Companions Lost After Entering Li...
24th April 1912
Chicago American MAN ON MAURETANIA LEAPS TO HIS DEATH
A suicide at sea was reported by the Cunard Liner Mauretania when she arrived here today.  The victim was Stoughton Walker of New York, who jumped overboard last Sunday night.  The steamer was stopped, but no trace could be found of t...
20th April 1912
Chicago Evening Post AMERICANS IN PARIS MOURN LOST KINSMEN
Hundreds in French Capital Had Relatives Aboard the Titanic...
16th April 1912
Chicago Tribune FRED A. WEBER
Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 29, 1962, s. 3, p. 8: Obituaries Fred A. Weber Salt Lake City, Oct. 28 (AP)---Fred A. Weber, 72, one of the last surviving crew members of the Tita...
29th October 1962
Chicago American 2 MEN BRIBE TITANIC SAILORS; SAVE LIVES
Vienna, April 25.—The story of how two men passengers were saved from the sinking Titanic by bribing a sailor to disguise them as sailors and get them places in a lifeboat was told in a letter received here to-day by Mme. Cardeza from her hu...
25th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal FIRST VESSEL EVER LOST ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE
New York, April 16,---In the melancholy roll of marine tragedies that which overtook the Titanic is the first on record wherein a conspicuous vessel has met disaster on her maiden voyage. The nearest approach to such an unfortunate f...
16th April 1912
  LETTER FROM SARAH GILL TO THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA
Stamp: RECEIVED Mrs. J. Gill AUG 3 1912 3 Griffin Road Provincial Secretary's Clevedon Office Somerset E...
  LETTER RE OFFICER WILDE
Letter...
4th June 1915
Western Daily Mercury AN EXETER PASSENGER
It is also stated that Mr. Ralph Giles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Giles of Eaton-place, Exeter, was among the passengers. Mrs. Giles has wired to the Head Office of the White Star Line in London, but has received no reply. Mrs Giles’s sister-in-law...
18th April 1912
Chicago Examiner SECOND TITANIC BABY BORN
Cincinnati, O., Nov. 30---Mrs. John Jacob Astor of New York wired congratulations today to Mrs. Mary Eloise Smith, one of the two "Honeymoon" widows of the Titanic disaster, to whom a son was born at the Jewish Hospital here.  As...
1st December 1912
New York Times A. D. BRANDEIS DIES; ILL ONLY A WEEK
Former Vice President of Stern Brothers Suffered Attack of Appendicitis --- MADE FORTUNE IN WEST --- Built Largest Department Store in Omaha--Erected Three Theatres and a Hotel --- Arthur D. Brandeis, Preside...
11th June 1916
Chicago Examiner LOSES 9 OF KIN ON TITANIC
Massachusetts Man Just Learns of Relatives' Deaths Haverhill, Mass., May 8---Thomas N. Watson of this city has just learned that nine of his relatives, including two married sisters and...
9th May 1912
Chicago Daily Journal LEAPS FROM THE SHIP
Charles Williams, the racquet coach at Harrow, England, who is the professional champion of the world , was coming to New York to defend his title, said he was in the smoking room when the boat struck.  He rushed out, saw the iceberg, whic...
19th April 1912
Chicago Examiner NOT LOCKED IN CABIN ON CARPATHIA, SAYS ISMAY
I know that my personal conduct has been made the subject of a lot of unfavorable comment, and I court the fullest inquiry at the hands of your committee or any one else who has the right to ask such questions.  So far as the Carpathia is ...
1st May 1912
Chicago Tribune SISTER AND BROTHER LOST?
Rockford, Ill., April 16.--- [Special.]---Curt Lustig and his sister, Dagmar Lustig, both of Skara, Sweden, were second class passengers on the Titanic. Their names appear on the sailing list as Carl and Dagmar Bryl. They were coming to ...
17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune SURVIVOR, 74, OF SINKING OF TITANIC DIES
Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av. Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died ...
21st November 1966
Chicago Tribune VERDICT ON 'RAISE THE TITANIC' : "LIFE IS TOO SHORT"
Aaron Gold
TOWER TICKER ". . . . Film critic Pauline Kael, according to New York Post columnist Claudia Cohen, charged out of a press screening of "Raise the Titanic" mutterin...
5th August 1980
Chicago Tribune PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY
Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...
3rd April 1966
Chicago Examiner TITANIC WIDOW KILLED BY A FORMER SUITOR
San Francisco, Feb. 24---Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Tacoma, Wash., a Titanic widow and a bride of two weeks, was shot and instantly killed at the Sutter Hotel to-day by Abraham Pepper, a former suitor.  Mrs. Johnson formerly was Mrs. Herman Kla...
25th February 1914
Washington Times SENATOR GUGGENHEIM GOES TO NEW YORK TO MEET CARPATHIA
Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado, all but despairing of getting any news from his brother Benjamin, who is believed lost with the Titanic, departed for New York this morning to await the arrival of the Carpathia. He has only the faintest hope tha...
17th April 1912
Chicago Record-Herald LLOYDS NEAR TO PANIC
Exciting scenes were witnessed at Lloyds underwriting rooms yesterday.  Insurance losses in the last six months have been unparalleled in the history of Lloyds in liners of the biggest class.  Since the Olympic collision, both the Del...
16th April 1912
New York Times MME. AUBART RETURNS TO FRANCE
{Note: This is an excerpt from a longer article, headlined "SEES SOCIAL CHANGES," reporting on an interview with another Adriatic passenger, unrelated to Titanic or Mme. Aubart.} Mrs. N. Aubart, a young Frenchwoman who was a survivor o...
3rd May 1912
Chicago Daily Journal THOMAS WHITELEY : WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES
Philips, the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post until the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life-raft and died before rescuers reached him, according to the story told here today by Thomas Whitely. ...
19th April 1912
Chicago Daily Tribune MERCHANT FAINTS FROM JOY
page 3 Business Man Swoons on Learning Relatives Were Rescued from Titanic Wreck Aurora, Ill., April 17- [Special]- Oscar W. Johnson, 32 years old, a business man living at St. Charles, Ill., fell over in a dead faint ...
18th April 1912
Rockford Register Gazette COUSIN OF DR. O'LOUGHLIN
Myron McSweeney of the Rockford Life Insurance Company office force was a near relative of Dr. W. F. N. O'Loughlin, chief surgeon of the Titanic.  Dr. O'Loughlin was the dean of the medical staff of the White Star Line.  As he...
16th April 1912
New York Times BIG BET ON SHAMROCK DOUBTED BY BROKERS
F. H. Brooks Does Not Believe Any One Will Give Odds of 5 to 3 --- J. A. Chambers of Pittsburg Says that No Such Wager Was Made in That City --- There is doubt in Wall Street and thereabouts as to the "big money" said to h...
5th September 1901
Chicago Tribune AUTHOR'S DEATH KILLS MOTHER
Parent of Jacques Futrelle Who Went Down with Titanic Succumbs to Grief   Grief over the death of her so...
30th July 1912
Chicago Examiner POET KEMP LOCKED UP AS STOWAWAY
Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Souithampton Special Cable to the Examiner Plymouth, Oct. 3--Harry Kemp, the poet who eloped with the former wife of Upton Sinclair, was a stowaway on...
4th October 1913
Chicago Tribune DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY
. . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912
New York Times MINIA REPORTS TWO BODIES
Ship Returning to Halifax---Patrick O'Keefe's Story of Rescue --- The White Star Line agent at Halifax wired the New York office yesterday that the Captain of the steamship Minia had sent the following message: ["]Returne...
4th May 1912
North American SEVEN WILKES-BARRE PERSONS ARE MISSING
Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILKES-BARRE, Pa., April 18---Charles Thomas, a small storekeeper of this city; Mrs. Joseph Thomas and infant son, Anthony Yosbik, Joseph and Peter Simon and Brenton Harry, all of this city,...
19th April 1912
New York Times ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN
"Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w...
22nd April 1912
Washington Times SENATOR GUGGENHEIM FEARFUL THAT HIS BROTHER IS DEAD
Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado waited eagerly and anxiously today for some word that would indicate the fate of his brother, Benjamin, who was a Titanic passenger. Senator Guggenheim this forenoon had not given up all hope, but he was fearful t...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily News “EARS” OF TITANIC FAIL
Local Hydrographic Experts Tell of Device on Bows to Catch Vibrations. Iceberg’s Drift Noiseless Operator of Submarine Phone Probably Crushed At His Post When Prow Was Smashed A ship’...
17th April 1912
New York Times POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS
Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...
23rd October 1928
New York Times POLICE ACT TO SIFT WALDMAN DEATHS
Check Up Statements as to How Guggenheim Heirs Fell From Roof of Hotel --- NORRIS TO QUERY MOTHER --- Wants to Learn Her Version of the Tragedy---Criticizes the Removal of the Bodies --- TO CALL OTHER WITNES...
23rd October 1928
Chicago Examiner LAKE SHIP FLAGS LOWERED
Placed at Half-Mast in Memory of President J. B. Thayer Duluth, April 20--Flags were placed at half-mast on all ships of the Anchor Line in the harbor here today, out of respect for President J. B. Thayer of that lin...
  MRS. FLEGENHEIMER OVERVIEW
Michael Poirier
A researcher on Ancestry.com has identified the following info on the elusive Mrs. Flegenheimer *She was born circa 1871 to Wm. Wendt and Pauline Wagner *Her 1891 address was 135 E58 St *She was married to Alfre...
Chicago Daily Journal SUFFERED IN TITANIC HORROR, IS PAID $25
Girl Says She Signed Waiver of Further Damages While Semiconscious  Twenty-five dollars is the estimate put on the damages suffered by one survivor of the Titanic...
24th April 1912
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. ...
Southern Evening Echo KEEPING IN TOUCH
FIFTY-TWO years ago, Titanic survivor Mr Ernest Allen, of 40 Salisbury Road, Highfield, Southampton was a stoker in the ill-fated Titanic. Today at 72 years of age, he is still stoking and at the Ordnance Survey Office, London Road, Southampton, cont...
4th September 1964
Chicago Daily News LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK
Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru...
27th February 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean PUGILIST DIES ON TITANIC [DAVID BOWEN]
David Bowen, Lightweight Champion of Wales Is Reported Drowned David Bowen, lightweight champion of Wales, who sailed on the Titanic to challenge Packey McFarland and other American pugilists, was one of the second c...
19th April 1912
New York Times OVERCOME BY GOOD NEWS
One of the first to appear at the office of the (White Star) company was Edward Frauenthal, of 786 Lexington Ave., who had two brothers on the Titanic, Dr. Hyman and J.C. Frauenthal. Both are reported saved. When he was told that his brothers' names ...
17th April 1912
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 Evening Post ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC
Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom...
22nd April 1912
Chicago Examiner LA FRANCE, NEWEST LINER, HAS CONSORT
La Touraine Guards Her on Maiden Trip Special Cable to the Examiner Paris, April 21---La France, the newest and largest French transatlantic liner, left Havre today on her maiden voyage to...
22nd April 1912
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
Chicago Tribune OCEAN WRECK SURVIVOR DEAD
John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80 John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near t...
24th December 1912
TITANIC'S LAST STOP, COBH   TITANIC'S LAST STOP, COBH
Titanic Stories
Michael Martin, creator of ‘The Titanic Trail’ takes us on a tour of Cobh, the Titanic’s last port of call. He sets the scene of the day that Titanic left the Ireland, taking in the White Star Line Of...
29th October 2011
New York Times MISS RYERSON TO WED
Titanic Survivor Is Engaged to George Hyde Clark --- Special to The New York Times --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 4---Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of Chicago and Philadelphia announced today the engagement of her daughter, Miss Emil...
5th September 1915
  THE MILLER'S SON
Albert Barker was born in the village of King's Worthy on the River Itchen in Hampshire, just a few miles upstream from the dock where Titanic would begin its voyage 19 years later. His father was a miller at nearby Abbot's W...
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
Chicago Tribune CHILD FEARED LOST ON TITANIC REPORTED LIVING IN MICHIGAN
Montreal, Que., Sept. 4 (AP)--A Montreal family was stirred today by the prospect that Lorraine Allison, long believed to have been drowned in the Titanic disaster of 1912, still is alive and residing in Berkley, Mich., as Mrs. Laurence K...
5th September 1940
New York Times SUES GUGGENHEIM ESTATE
Dentist Claims $7,500 for Services to Daughter of Titanic Victim --- Dr. Asher F. F. Buxbaum, a dentist, has started suit against the executors of Benjamin Guggenheim to recover $7,500 for treatment given to Miss Marguerite Guggenheim i...
28th January 1913
Chicago Examiner PASTOR AND WIFE MISSING
Thomas Hughes' Daughter is Believed Among Titanic Dead. Topeka, Kan., April 17--The Rev. Ernest Carter and his wife of London were booked for the Titanic's first sailing on their way to Topeka to spend the Summer with Mrs....
18th April 1912
Chicago Examiner HOPE FOR THE SAFETY OF MISSING PASSENGERS
BULLETIN        New York, April 17 (Wednesday), 1:30 A.M.---A vague hope for the safety of some of the missing passengers was given last night by the captain of the tramp steamer Ultonia, whic...
17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune MRS. BERTHA CHRISTENSEN
 Mrs. Bertha Christensen   Services for Mrs. Bertha Christensen, 83, of 4205 Fullerton Av., will be at 1 p.m. ...
29th December 1976
Chicago Examiner 2 BOXERS DIE ON TITANIC
Leslie Williams and Arthur Bowen Coming From Wales for Fights Two professional boxers of Wales, Leslie Williams and Andy Bowen, lost their lives when the Titanic foundered.  They were...
20th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper HENRY BLANK
Henry Blank of 138 Ridgewood Avenue died last Thursday at his home after a short illness. He was 78. Board chairman of Henry Blank Co., Newark jewelry manufacturing concern, Mr. Blank was born in Providence, R.I. He lived in Philadelphia f...
1949
Chicago Daily News SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW
“Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit...
19th April 1912
Chicago Tribune SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH
F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the...
16th April 1912
New York Times JAMES CLINCH SMITH
Brother-in-Law of Stanford White---Well-Known Sportsman --- James Clinch Smith, a brother-in-law of the late Stanford White, is well known as a sportsman and in society circles both in this city and in Paris. Until May, 1911, when he r...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal ISMAY GOT INTO BOAT
John R. Joyce, a banker of Carlsbad, N. M., a passenger on the Carpathia, said: "When the Carpathia reached the scene of the wreck, we saw eighteen boats and one raft on the water.  The Carpathia picked them all up. Four pe...
19th April 1912
Chicago Inter Ocean MARINE INSURANCE LOSS $9,980,000 IN THREE MONTHS
The Daily Consular and Trade Reprt issued tonight publishes this statement credited to the London Financial Times: "During the first three months of this year, forty-seven vessels, representing $8,813,000, became losses under Ma...
19th April 1912
Semi Weekly Iowegian FRENCHMAN HAD TOO MANY WIVES - MAN WHO LOST WIFE ON TITANIC SEEMS TO HAVE ELOPED WITH ANOTHER FROM FRANCE
Frank Levevre, the Mystic Frenchman who lost his wife and four children on the Titanic, is now in jail here and with him is the woman he is alleged to have run off with when he came from France to this country. It will be remembered that ...
16th July 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC
[The preceeding paragrpahs of this article can be found through the summary pages for the Renouf/Jefferys family, the Carter family and the Peacock family, in that order.] From early this morning when the first dispatches began to come...
16th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH
C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...
19th April 1912
New York Times MRS. LOUISE U.-S. JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY
Mrs. J. Hippach Unander-Scharin of Wianno, Mass., formerly of Chicago and Lake Forest, Ill., has announced here the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, to John Maclay Mirkil, son of William I. Mirkil of Meadowlane Farm, New...
26th August 1953
Chicago Examiner GIANTS IN TITANIC BENEFIT
Will Play Yankees Sunday to Aid Survivors of Sunken Liner New York, April 19---President John T. Brush of the National League baseball team announced today that the Giants would play an exhibition game with the New Y...
20th April 1912
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