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New York Times FINED FOR IMPORTING LABOR
J. Mandelberg & Co. Must Pay $2,000 for Violating Law --- J. Mandelberg & Co., raincoat manufacturers, of 18 Twentieth Street, were ordered yesterday in the Federal District Court to pay a fine of $2,000 for violations of the...
24th November 1912
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
  WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE'S FAMILY AND THE MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND
William's family and the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund...
Daily Mining Gazette JOHN M. DAVIS, 45, FORMER C.C. MAN, PASSES IN DETROIT
Page 2 John M. Davis, 45, a former Copper Country man, died suddenly in Detroit Sunday morning, according to word received here. Born in England, he came to the United States with his mother, being one of the survivors of th...
17th December 1951
The Times PIRRIE BECOMES FIRST HONORARY BURGESS OF BELFAST
BELFAST, JULY 24 Mr. W. J. Pirrie, High Sheriff of county Antrim, and ex-Lord Mayor of the city, entertained at Ormiston on Thursday the Judges of Assize, Lord Chief Baron Palles and Lord Justice...
25th July 1898
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
Bridgwater Mercury WEST COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE TITANIC: PUDDLETRENTHIDE
Mr. A. H. Barkworth brother of Mr. E. Barkworth is reported as being amongst the few men saved from the wreck....
20th April 1912
The Evening Post MASSACHUSETTS VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC TRAGEDY
George Q Clifford of Stoughton, president of Belcher Last company, Herbert Henry Hilliard of 42 Hichorn street, Brighton Timothy J.,...
20th April 1912
Hudson Observer GUTTENBERG WOMAN'S SISTER IN HOSPITAL
Miss Kate McCarthy, one of the survivors of the Titanic and sister of Mrs. John Woolnough, of 107 Twenty-fifth street, Guttenberg, is a patient in St. Vincent's Hospital, New York, where she was taken upon her arrival on the rescue ship Carpathia. M...
20th April 1912
Centerville Daily Citizen FEDERAL WARRANT FOR MYSTIC COUPLE FRANK LEFEBRE AND MARY DUPONT TO BE GIVEN A HEARING
A federal warrant to hold the Mystic couple, Frank Lefebre and Mary Dupont and children pending a hearing on charges looking toward their deportation to France, their native country, has been received by Sheriff Dowis. The warrant alleges...
17th July 1912
New York Times DISPUTE J. M. SMART'S WILL
Many Claimants Now for Estate of Titanic Victim --- Surrogate Fowler reserved decision yesterday on the contested will of James Montgomery Smart, a victim of the Titanic disaster. The authenticity of the will which bears the date of Jul...
4th February 1914
TITANIC HYMN, 1912   TITANIC HYMN, 1912
As every other country in the world, France published many hymns celebrating the band of the Titanic....
1912
Bridgwater Mercury WEST COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE TITANIC: CASTLE CARY
The third officer was Mr. H. J. Pitman of Castle Cary, who was reported yesterday (Thursday) to be amongst the officers saved, having presumably been in charge of one of the boats containing the women....
20th April 1912
New York Times MR. AND MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH
Among the passengers on the Titanic were Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cavendish of London, and their two children. Mrs. Cavendish is a daughter of Henry Siegel, President of the Simpson-Crawford Company. She was making the trip here to visit her father at his ...
16th April 1912
Guardian MOUNT CHARLES VICTIMS
It is now almost certain that Mr. W. H. Nancarrow and Mr. Alex. Robins have gone down with the ill-fated liner. Hopes were held that at least Mrs. Robins might have secured a place in the rescue boats, but now the Carpathia has reached the shore it i...
26th April 1912
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30th March 1912
SIR COSMO AND LADY DUFF GORDON   SIR COSMO AND LADY DUFF GORDON
Cosmo and Lucy Duff Gordon at Maryculter House, their country seat near Aberdeen. Taken in 1900 at the end of their honeymoon, this is the earliest known photo of the couple together and one of the few of Cosmo in his Gordon Highlanders regalia...
1900
Belmont Tribune BELMONT MAN TITANIC VICTIM
It is reported on good authority that Mr. Henry Hart, formerly employed by Mr. E. F. Atkins of this town, was one of the unfortunates who went down in the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Hart was married while residing in Belmont and went to Ireland with his ...
4th May 1912
New York Times WILLIAM E. CARTER, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Member of Old Philadelphia Family, Polo Player Before World War, Dies in Florida --- KNOWN AS A SPORTSMAN --- Was Seriously Injured in 1912 While Playing for Bryn Mawr Benedicts in Local Match --- PALM BEA...
21st March 1940
New York Times MRS. CARTER WEDS AGAIN
Back from London, She Announces Her Marriage to George Brooke --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31--The announcement today of the marriage of Mrs. Lucile Polk Carter, prominent in Philadelphia, New ...
1st September 1914
The Times ANNOUNCEMENT: DEATH OF LORD MERSEY
We announce with much regret that VISCOUNT MERSEY died suddenly yesterday at his country house at Littlehampton, at the age of 89. Though latterly he had become physically feeble, his mental activity showed no sign of impairment. He had a long care...
4th October 1929
JOHN KENNEDY Limerick Leader JOHN KENNEDY
Survived Titanic to Die of Anthrax...
1912
Evening Telegraph STEAMSHIP DIRECTOR A VICTIM
New York, April 23. - It was learned today that Jonkheer J. G. Reuchlin,managing director of the Holland-American Steamship Line, had gone down with the Titanic. Mr. Reuchlin was coming to this country to arrange business relative to the opening of t...
23rd April 1912
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20th March 1912
Newark Daily Advociate HAD COUSIN ON TITANIC
Mrs. Cassebeer...
23rd April 1912
Brooklyn Daily Times JAMES CLINCH SMITH SAW MUCH HAPPINESS AHEAD
It is recalled that James Clinch Smith, whose name is on the list of those aboard the Titanic but not among those of the survivors, went abroad to the [sic] effect a reconciliation with is wife. She has been intensely interested in music, almost, it...
17th April 1912
Arlington Advocate MRS. J. MURRAY BROWN
Mrs. J. Murray Brown, formerly of Belmont, who, with her two sisters escaped from the wrecked Titanic, is well known to some of our readers. Her sons used to be quite prominent in Arlington society. Mrs. Brown has furnished some of the most clear and...
27th April 1912
The Day, New London, Connecticut, USA NOT SATISFIED TO BE AMONG THE LIVING
NOT SATISFIED TO BE AMONG THE LIVING --- Man Rescued from Titanic by Mrs. Astor's Aid Sues Co. for $25,000 Jewels --- PHILADELPHIA, Aug 3---Hadne Mamee, a cabin passenger saved from the Titanic, has brought suit...
3rd August 1912
  AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF
No. 76. (English). A dairy man, 29 years old, was drowned. He was accompanied by his wife, who was saved, and intended to settle in California. There are no children. The widow estimated the property loss at $1,200; from other relief funds in this co...
1913
Daily Mining Gazette MRS. AGNES EDWARDS SUMMONED BY DEATH
Mrs. Agnes Edwards, 69 years old, well known Hancock matron, died at St. Joseph's hospital last evening at 5 o'clock. She had been a resident of the Copper Country for 21 years, residing on Railroad Avenue. Mrs. Edwards was a survivor of th...
5th August 1933
New York Times JOHN BRADLEY CUMINGS
John Bradley Cumings, a member of the brokerage firm of Cumings & Marckwald, 30 Wall Street, came to this city ten years ago from Boston, where he was brought up and where he held a position with Estabrook & Co. Mrs. Cumings, who is with him, was Fl...
16th April 1912
Newark Evening News LAKEWOOD INQUIRIES
Special Service of the NEWS LAKEWOOD, April 16---Included among the first cabin passengers on the Titanic were Mrs. A. T. Compton, her daughter, Miss S. W. Compton, and her son, A. T. Compton Jr., of Lakewood and New York. The last-na...
16th April 1912
Newark Star JERSEY WOMAN LOST FORTUNE ON TITANIC
--- NEW YORK, April 24---Mrs. Jane Herman, of Bernardsville, N. J., who was saved, with her daughters, when the Titanic foundered, but whose husband, Samuel Herman, was drowned, lost all she had in the world in that disaster. He...
25th April 1912
New York Times DR. RICE, IN WILDS OF BRAZIL, IN TOUCH BY RADIO WITH HIS FRIENDS IN NEW YORK EVERY NIGHT
Deep in the wilds of Brazil, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, surgeon and explorer, is encamped on the Rio Brancho in Manaos, studying tropical diseases. New York, although long ago over its uneasiness for the safety of the Rice party which arose late la...
16th December 1924
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
New York Times DOG SHOW OPENS TO-DAY
With more than 2,000 canine candidates for blue ribbons to be judged, the annual bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club will begin in Madison Square Garden this morning at 9 o'clock and continue until Friday. The show this year will be the largest...
20th February 1900
Newark Evening News TELLS OF HER FINANCIAL LOSS
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 24---Mrs. Jane Herman, wife of Samuel Herman, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, said yesterday that her husband had with him a check for a large sum, a gold watch and chain belo...
24th April 1912
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1912
Bernardsville News SURVIVORS OF THE GREAT DISASTER
Mrs. Harman and Daughters Interviewed---Before and after the awful Casualty---Husband and Father gone and all their Property Lost---A Trouble too Deep for Words --- Mrs. Jane Harman, widow of Samuel Harman, who met his death at sea last...
26th April 1912
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
  AMERICAN RED CROSS RELIEF BOOKLET
[Case no 286] (English). An aged English woman was drowned while coming to this country, after the recent death of her husband, to make her home with her only daughter. The daughter's husband, a waiter, at the time of the disaster was recoveri...
New York Times PROFANITY AND CULTURE [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To the Editor of The New York Times: Owing to the extensive use of profane and blasphemous language having become so common seemingly among people in all walks of life, many people have be...
31st October 1910
New York Times COL. ASTOR READY TO SERVE
Would Willingly Go Out to the Philippines---Does Not Approve of W. W. Astor's Course --- Special to The New York Times --- RHINEBECK, N. Y., Aug. 10---Col. John J. Astor was home at Ferncliff yesterday, and the corresponde...
11th August 1899
New York Times SMART HEIRS SEEM NOW TO BE A MYTH
No Mention of Widely Sought Children in Will of Wealthy Man Lost on Titanic --- HE NEVER SPOKE OF THEM --- His Friends Recall Now After World Search That They Merely Thought That He Had Two --- Two children,...
7th January 1913
  AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET
Case number 302. (English). A mother, sixty-three years of age, was drowned, while coming to this country to make her home with her daughter, whose husband had recently died, leaving two children aged six and two years. These children were to have be...
1913
Newark Evening News ELIZABETH MAN'S WIFE AND CHILDREN PERISH
Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19--- The wife and two children of Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, perished on the Titanic, according to the list of those who were on the boat and whose names do not appear in ...
19th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR DYING
Mrs. Bishop Fatally Injured in an Automobile Accident --- Special to The New York Times --- DETROIT, Nov. 5---To survive the Titanic disaster only to be fatally injured in an automobile accident was the fate of Mrs. Dickin...
6th November 1914
Bridgwater Mercury WEST COUNTRY PEOPLE IN THE TITANIC
Melksham Among the passengers was a Melksham family of eight persons - Mr. and Mrs. F. Goodwin, Watson's Court, High Street, Melksham, and their six children, whose ages range from 17 months to 16 years. Goodwin, M...
20th April 1912
Hudson Observer GUTTENBERG WOMAN AMONG THOSE SAVED
Among the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic was Miss Katie McCarthy, sister of Mrs. John Woolnough, of 107 Twenty-fifth street, Guttenberg. She is at present among the hospital list being cared for in New York City and is not expected home until to-...
19th April 1912
The Times FUNERAL OF THE TITANIC'S BANDMASTER
The funeral of Mr Wallace Hartley, the bandmaster of the Titanic, took place on Saturday at Colne Cemetery. Thousands of visitors from all parts of the surrounding country were present. The funeral was attended by the Mayor and members of...
20th May 1912
Daily Home News DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC
John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ...
22nd 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
New York Times WILLIAM DICK DIES; AN INDUSTRIALIST
Director of the National Sugar Refining Co., Best Foods, Inc., and Irving Trust Was 65 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- ISLIP, L. I., Sept. 5---William K. Dick, industrialist, banker and grandson of a pioneer in the f...
6th September 1953
Bath Journal FREDERICK GOODWIN AND HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN
MELKSHAM Frederick Goodwin and his wife and six children were on board. They had been living in Melksham for some years. Goodwin was a machine hand at the foundry, and about 40 years of age. The eldest of the children, a g...
20th April 1912
Washington Times MAJOR BUTT'S MEMORY HONORED BY MASONS
The memory of Major Arcxhibald Butt, believed to be among those who went down with the Titanic, was honored last night at a meeting of Robert de Bruce Council, Kinights of Kadosh, No. 1 of Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite Masons. Cap...
18th April 1912
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
Centerville Daily Citizen FRANK LEFEVRE BEREAVED MINER CALLED ELOPER - MRS. DUPONT SAYS HE FLED FROM FRANCE WITH HER BOTH MAY BE DEPORTED - EMIGRANT INSPECTOR WHITEFIELD INVESTIGATES CASE AT MYSTIC - WOMAN SAYS HE GOT $2,000 FROM HER
In Appanoose county’s foreign colony there lurks, in all probability, many a romance and as romances go, frequently there are sombre sides to them. The Citizen’s readers will recall having read some time ago of the loss of the wife and four childr...
13th July 1912
New York Times MORE TITANIC CLAIMS FILED
Belgian Consul Asks $46,250 for Lost Natives of His Country --- More claims against the White Star Line for damages inflicted by the wreck of the Titanic were received yesterday in the Federal District Court here. Pierre Mali, Belgian C...
13th September 1913
Boston Daily Globe WHITELEY FINDS UNCLE
INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR BRINGS TELEGRAM FROM NAMESAKE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK,April 21 - Through the publication of an interview with him to a Providence, R.I. paper, Thomas Whiteley, ...
22nd April 1912
Cedar Rapids Gazette MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS DIED IN CALIFORNIA
Page 1A Mrs. Walter D. Douglas died Saturday afternoon at her home in Pasadena, Calif., according to word received by Mrs. George B. Dutton, 2224 Country Club Parkway SE. Funeral services will be announced later. Mrs. Doug...
22nd April 1945
New York Times MRS M. F. MARVIN IS CHRISTMAS BRIDE
Survivor of Titanic Disaster When Husband Perished Married to Horace De Camp --- 800 AT CHURCH CEREMONY --- Flower Girls and Pages Strew White Rose Petals in Bride's Path---Honeymoon in Egypt --- A large Chri...
26th December 1913
St. Paul Pioneer Press JOHN P. SNYDER, 71, DIES ON GOLF COURSE
John Pillsbury Snyder, 71, longtime Minneapolis automotive firm owner, died of a heart attack while playing golf Wednesday at Woodhill Country club. He owned and operated Snyder Garage, Inc., in Minneapolis for 43 years before retiring in ...
23rd July 1959
Semi Weekly Iowegian TAKEN EAST TO BE DEPORTED - LEFEVRES AND WOMAN AND HER CHILD BEING TAKEN BACK TO NEW YORK TO SAIL FOR FRANCE
Appanoose county saw the last of Frank Lefevres, the woman with whom he eloped from France, and one child of each Saturday when they were started to New York in charge of a government official and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Baker who went along to assi...
30th July 1912
New York Times ROSTRON'S CAT LEFT HERE
Berengaria Master Sails Alone Because of British Quarantine --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, master of the Cunarder Berengaria, sailed early yesterday morning for the first time in many years without his pet Persian cat Abdul. The animal...
6th January 1929
New York Times EXPEDITION TO USE PLANES FOR SURVEY
Rice's Party, Seeking Source of Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, Adopts New Plan --- The South American expedition led by Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, who is accompanied by Mrs. Rice, formerly Mrs. George D. Widener of Philadelphia, is equipp...
23rd August 1924
Concord Journal CAROLINE LAMSON BROWN
The death of Mrs. John Murray Brown on Tuesday, June 26th, at the Emerson Hospital in Concord, removed from the scene a type of the handsome, accomplished woman who so well represented old New York in the late sixties and seventies of the last centur...
28th June 1928
New York Times BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
Elected President of International Steam Pump Co. in 1909 --- Benjamin Guggenheim was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1865, the fifth of the seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, founder of the famous house of M. Guggenheim & Sons, who came to...
16th April 1912
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
New York Times KARL H. BEHR
Karl H. Behr, one of the foremost tennis players in this country, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Behr of 777 Madison Avenue. He is a lawyer at 40 Wall Street, having been admitted to the bar soon after his graduation from Yale in 1905. Mr. Behr wh...
16th April 1912
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
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
New York Times GARDEN LURES SKIPPER OF THE BERENGARIA, SIR HENRY [SIC] ROSTRON, AFTER 45 YEARS AT SEA
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Nov. 7---Captain Sir Arthur Henry Rostron, commodore of the Cunard fleet, who is retiring after forty-five years at sea, took his leave of his fellow-officers at Southampton this week on relinq...
9th November 1930
Washington Post THELMA THOMAS, 78, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 8 (AP)—Thelma Thomas, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Monday at a nursing home where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was 78. A native of Le...
9th January 1974
Jersey Journal THOS. MCCORMACK OF BAYONNE AT ELLIS ISLAND
After hours of anxious searching relatives to-day learned that Thomas McCormack, the young Bayonne man who was on the Titanic, was at Ellis Island where he is being detained prior to his readmission to this country. ...
19th April 1912
Santa Barbara News-Press MRS. BERTHE BOURLARD, WORLD TRAVELER, PLANS ANOTHER EUROPEAN TRIP
Mrs. Berthe Leroy Bourlard, who survived the sinking of the “Titanic” with her patroness, Mrs. Walter Douglas, keeps her picture and the volume of her verses, which contains a poem entitled “Titanic” among her souvenirs of 35 years as traveling compa...
27th May 1956
Newark Evening News ELIZABETH RESIDENTS WERE ON THE TITANIC
(Newark Evening News, 17 April 1912) ---------- ELIZABETH, April 17---Two residents of this city and several former residents are known to have been on the Titanic when she sailed for this country. Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Renouf, of 20B...
17th April 1912
New York Times TIMES "AD" FOR MISSING BOY
E. H. Bull of 33 Linden Street, Bayonne, N. J., recognizing the value of the Lost and Found columns of THE NEW YORK TIMES, has inserted an advertisement in it asking for information concerning Arne Salstrom, [sic] a nineteen-year-old Norwegian boy, w...
20th April 1912
Bowerchalke Parish Papers UNTITLED
Page 44. Extract:- More tragic was the death of Tom Kerley a chef on the ill-fated Titanic. His parents who worked on the Elliott's farm were very proud of their smart and popular son and especially of his progress to the largest and m...
24th April 1912
New York Times WIRELESS JOKER AT SEA
Passengers of the Baltic All Stirred Up by Fake Dispatches --- When the White Star liner Baltic, in yesterday from Liverpool, was two days out of Queenstown, some one who was characterized by the officers ...
13th January 1906
Daily Mirror TITANIC SURVIVORS PRISON CELL CLAIM
Survivor of the Titanic disaster, Charles Hichens will be released in a few weeks from Maidstone Gaol, where he is serving ten years' penal servitude for shooting another seaman dead. Hichen who seeks only to end his days in "peace and quiet", is cla...
26th July 1937
LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER  - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB   LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB
New York Monday 22/4/12 c/o Mr. Hale Richmond County Club Dongan Hills Staten Island N.Y. Dear Mother, Just a line to let you know I am getting along much better. ...
22nd April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette SAFETY OF FORMER RESIDENTS OF WORCESTER CAUSES WORRY AMONG FRIENDS IN THIS CITY
Believing that Charles Asplund and family, formerly of Worcester, were on board the ill-fated Titanic when it foundered., Charles E. Carlson of 193 Vernon street, left Worcester today for New York to make inquiries concerning the fate of the family, ...
17th April 1912
White Plains Daily Argus TALKED WITH STEAD'S SPIRIT, WOMAN SAYS
TELLS SPIRITUALISTS LOST EDITOR APPEARED TO HER Pittsburgh, April 24 - "Happy, but preparing to be with us in the spirit," was the way Mrs. Mary L. Feldman of Carrick, a delegate to the fifth annual convention of the Pennsylvania...
24th April 1912
New-York Tribune GET GIANTS OF THE SEA
Captains Smith and Haddock for Olympic and Titanic --- Captain Herbert J. Haddock of the White Star liner Oceanic, which left port on Wednesday for Southampton, was congratulated by wireless yesterday on his appo...
2nd December 1910
  HANNA MAMEE
Patricia Sheehi (Cameron) (Hanna Mamee's niece)...
North American TITANIC DISASTER PROVES AID TO WOMAN
Twice Debarred, Embarking on Fated Liner, Enters on Carpathia --- DODGES ELLIS ISLAND --- Special Dispatch to The North American --- ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 2---That it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good w...
3rd May 1912
The Times MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST
BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu...
21st April 1904
  GOODWIN FAMILY UPDATED BIOGRAPHIES
Goodwin, Mr. Charles Frederick. (40). Missing. Watson's Court, High Street, Melksham, Wiltshire. Ticket number CA2144 cost £46 18s 0d. There is a memorial to the whole famil...
New York Times MRS. DICK'S ESTATE LEFT TO 2 OF SONS
William F. and John H. to Get Principal at Age of 28 --- Mrs. Madeleine T. Dick, who died at Palm Beach, Fla., on March 27, left her estate in trust for the benefit of two of her sons, William Force Dick and John Henry Dick of Islip, L....
10th April 1940
Chicago Examiner VANDERBILTS ESCAPE WRECK ON THE FRANCE
Liners Near Collision in Heavy Mist; Passengers Thrown About Decks      New York,  March 22---Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt were among the passengers on th...
23rd March 1913
New York Times STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK
We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia...
6th May 1907
New York Times THINKS CAPT. SMITH IS ALIVE
Baltimore Mariner Declares He Met Titanic Commander in Street --- Special to The New York Times --- BALTIMORE, Md., July 20---Capt. Peter Pryal, one of the oldest mariners in Baltimore and well known in shipping...
21st July 1912
The Times SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON
Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, K.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., for many years Commodore of the Cunard Fleet and one of the most famous of the commanders of the Mauretania, died at the Cottage Hospital, Chippenham, on Monday, after a ...
6th November 1940
New York Times INSANE WOMAN DEPORTED
Miss Hyman, Who Came to Visit Her Brother, Had Suicidal Mania --- Closely guarded to prevent her carrying out her suicidal mania, Miss Jessie Hyman, a well-dressed woman about 28 yours old; was deported yesterday on the White Star ...
12th September 1907
New York Times MORGAN FORTUNE NEAR $100,000,000
Financier Not Possessed of Vast Wealth of Rockefeller or Carnegie --- PUT $60,000,000 IN ART --- Lewis Cass Ledyard, His Counsel, Believed to Have Possession of His Will --- Mr. Morgan, in Wall Street's estimation, wa...
1st April 1913
New York Times MRS. B. GUGGENHEIM SUCCUMBS HERE AT 66
Her Husband, Member of Family Noted in Mining Industry, Perished on Titanic --- Mrs. Florette Guggenheim, widow of Benjamin Guggenheim, who perished on the Titanic, died yesterday in her apartment in the Hotel Plaza, after a brief illne...
16th November 1937
New York Times ELMER ZELBY [SIC] TAYLOR
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., May 22---Elmer Zelby [sic; should be "Zebley"] Taylor, a pioneer in the paper container industry and a consulting engineer for the Continental Can Company, Inc., of New York, died he...
23rd May 1949
Worcester Telegram BODY OF W.C.PORTER REACHES WORCESTER
Identified at Hallifax by Waldo E. Sessions who will have charge of the funeral which will be saturday. The body of Walter C. Porter, 10 Knox street of S. Porter & Co., last manufacturers, 25 Union street who met his death in the Titan...
1912
Jersey Journal JERSEY CITY MAN AND BROTHER PERISH
John Kieran, who boarded with James Tierney at Grove and Second streets perished, along with his brother Phillip, in the wreck of the Titanic. John was 23 years old and was employed as a bartender at 268 Varick Street. He was a citizen of the United ...
19th April 1912
  AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF FUND: KANTOR
No. 228. (Russian). The husband, about thirty years of age, was drowned. He was travelling with his wife, who was saved. He had been a commission merchant, earning about $2,500 a year, and was bringing to this country several trunks of valuable furs ...
1913
New York Times ANOTHER MYTH OF SMART
Titanic Victim Not Only Had No Children, but No Fortune --- It was disclosed recently that the Smart children, heirs of a wealthy lawyer who perished on the Titanic, were a myth, and yesterday it was developed that the supposedly wealth...
16th January 1913
Newark Evening News SAY LIFEBOAT COULD HAVE HELD TEN MORE
Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 20---That the lifeboat which bore them from the Titanic might easily have contained ten more passengers, is the statement of Mrs. Jane Herman and her twin daughters, the Misses Kate and ...
20th April 1912
New York Times TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC
President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...
25th January 1912
New York Times CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS
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21st 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 Record-Herald BUYER FOR NUGENT BROTHERS ON TITANIC
Spencer V. Silverthorne, whose name appears among the Titanic passengers on the Carpathia, is a buyer for Nugent Brothers of St. Louis and a brother of Mrs. H. H. Harris, 820 Foster street, Evanston, whose husband is assistant pastor of the First ...
18th 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
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
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR HURT
W. E. Carter, Thrown in Bryn Mawr Polo Game, Lands on His Head --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, Penn., June 5---William E. Carter, who pulled an oar in Ismay's boat in the escape from the Titanic disaste...
6th June 1912
New York Times FRANCE HONORS ROSTRON
Cunard Commodore Receives Legion of Honor Aboard Berengaria --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHERBOURG, Feb. 27---France honored a life of heroism and seamanship tonight when she awarded the Legion of Honor to S...
28th February 1929
New York Times COL. ASTOR MAY WED ANY DAY
Leaves in Noma with Miss Force and Her Family for Astor Country Home --- LAND AT FERNCLIFF TO-DAY --- Belief That the Ceremony Will Take Place There---Labor Day Visit with Trunks --- Rumors that the wedding ...
2nd September 1911
Camden Post-Telegram MANY MOURN FOR MR. FRED. SUTTON
Haddonfield Man Who Went Down With Titanic in Numerous Corporations --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- As no word has been received concerning Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, it seems certain that he perish...
20th April 1912
The Times THE TITANIC: MR ISMAY'S RETURN
The Adriatic arrived at Liverpool on Saturday with Mr Bruce Ismay and other survivors of the disaster to the Titanic on board. A large crowd had assembled at the landing stage to meet the vessel. One of the White Star Company&rsq...
13th May 1912
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Ernest Charles Cann was born in the village of Chapel Amble in the parish of St Kew near Wadebridge, Cornwall in 1883. He was the son of William Cann (labourer)and Sarah Jane Cann. (Sarah was 27 years younger than her husband and had been widowed sh...
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
  RED CROSS REPORT
Greenberg, Mr. Samuel. Missing. c/o Alex. Wolff, 154, Nassau Street, New York City, USA. Russian citizen. Body forwarded to Mrs. Greenberg, Bronx, New York City. Permit issued May 2, 1912, Borough, ...
New York Times WM. K. DICK MARRIES MRS. VIRGINIA CONNER
Chairman of the National Sugar Refining Co. Weds in Akron --- Word has been received here of the marriage of Mrs. Virginia Keniston Conner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Conner of this city, to William K. Dick of this city and Al...
25th December 1941
New York Times LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES
Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele...
22nd April 1935
New York Times AUDIENCE CHEERS ROSTRON
Carpathia's Captain and His Officers Get an Ovation at the Winter Garden --- New Yorkers had an opportunity last night to show the esteem in which Capt. Rostron and the other members of the ship's company of the Carpathia have been held...
31st May 1912
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette TITANIC OWNERS OFFER TO SETTLE FOR $664,000
New York, Dec 17 – The White Star line has agreed to pay $664,000 in settlement of all claims arising for the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, when more than 1,5000 persons were drowned, the line announced here to-day. Of this amo...
18th December 1915
Newark Evening News NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC'S MAILS
John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ...
16th April 1912
New York Times STEAD PROPHESIED A VIOLENT DEATH
Once Said He Would Never Die in His Bed, but in a Crowd, Struggling --- 2,000 AT MEMORIAL FOR HIM --- Dr. Hillis and J. A. MacDonald Praise Him as an Editor and a Fighter Against War and Social Evils --- More...
23rd April 1912
The Times MR. BRUCE ISMAY
A correspondent writes:--- Will you permit me to supplement the articles concerning the late Bruce Ismay, which have already appeared in your columns, by the publication of a short personal tribute by an old frien...
23rd October 1937
Brooklyn Daily Times WYCOFF VAN DERHOEF HAD BIG CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
Wycoff Van Derhoef, of 109 Joralemon street, was one of the wealthiest and best known residents of the Eastern District and Secretary of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Van Derhoef was on his way from a visit to his sister in Euro...
16th April 1912
Progress PORT SUNLIGHT
Progress : the Journal of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Tit...
July 1912
Elizabeth Daily Journal LONE SURVIVOR IS PENNILESS
Mrs. Peter Reniff is Left Destitute ---------- SAW NO LIGHTS OF OTHER SHIPS AS TITANIC SUNK Made penniless by the recent Titanic disaster in which she lost her husband, two brothers, cousin and two friends, Mrs. Peter Ren...
26th April 1912
The Times MR BRUCE ISMAY - AN ANONYMOUS TRIBUTE
“Will you permit me to supplement the articles concerning the late Bruce Ismay, which have already appeared in your columns, by the publication of a short personal tribute by an old friend? In the world at large Bruce Ismay may possi...
23rd August 1937
New York Times MARITAL RIFT OVER, FIERMONTE RADIOS
Italian Boxer Sends Word From Ship on Which Wife Sailed Suddenly on Saturday --- A DIVORCE WAS RUMORED --- Couple Were Wed Here Late in 1933---She Is the Former Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick --- Enzo Fierm...
31st January 1935
NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY   NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY
Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic...
New York Times AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911
  RED CROSS FUND REPORT ON ASPLUNDS
(From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number P. 114. Asplund. Widow, two children and mother received a grant of £150. Farmer from Sweden, returning from visit to relatives. Aged 40 years, born 7th ...
Elizabeth Daily Journal TWO BROTHERS NOT ON TITANIC
Benjamin Peacock Learns They Are Still in England ---------- HIS MOTHER SEEKS NEWS OF HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN A letter postmarked “Merton, county Surrey, England,” has brought some happiness to Benjamin Peacock, of 609 Sout...
6th May 1912
  BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
DIVISION OF RECORDS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN CERTIFICATE OF DEATH # 1...
1963
Newark Evening News BROTHER OF MONTCLAIR MAN ON MISSING LIST
Henry Mitchell, one of the second-cabin passengers on the Titanic, who is among the missing, was on his way from Guernsey, England, to visit the family of his brother, John C. Mitchell, of 19 Portland place, Montclair. The brothers had pla...
16th April 1912
Progress - the Journal of Lever Brothers PORT SUNLIGHT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY ASSOCIATED
Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Titanic heir of all the ages of constructive ...
July 1912
La Voix du Nord MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY
Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t...
8th July 1972
The Evening Post BRITISH INQUIRY INTO TITANIC TRAGEDY BEGINS
Based on 26 Questions and Much Like That of Our Senate LONDON, May 2 – Lord Mersey in his capacity as wreck commissioner and five assessors who ...
2nd May 1912
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
Concord Enterprise TO INSTITUTE SUIT
Miss Frances M. Ford of this town, who lost nine relatives in the wreck of the Titanic, including her mother, two brothers, two sisters, an uncle and an aunt, and their small children, is one of those to institute suit against the steamship company i...
12th February 1913
Unidentified Newspaper WIFE OF STATE FARM FOUNDER DIES AT 80
MRS. MECHERLE SURVIVOR OF ILL-FATED TITANIC Mrs. Sylvia Mecherle, 80, widow of the founder of State Farm Insurance Companies, died at 12:36 a.m. Thursday at Brokaw Hospital, where she had been a patient for 14 months. Her fu...
15th January 1965
New York Times THE SMART HEIRS FOUND?
Children of Titanic Victim Believed to be in Belgian Convent --- BRUSSELS, Aug. 29---The long-sought son and daughter of the late Montgomery Smart of New York, a Titanic victim, are believed to be in a Belgian convent. Their names are G...
30th August 1912
New York Times PRESIDENT TAFT STUNNED
Wires White Star Line for News of Major Butt --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---President Taft did not know of the sinking of the Titanic or of the danger of his old friend, Major Archibald Butt, ...
16th April 1912
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
Virginia Pilot MRS. CELINEY DECKER, 69, SURVIVOR OF LINER 'TITANIC'
NORFOLK--Mrs. Celiney Alexander Decker, 69, of 1158 Larchmont Crescent, who as a 15-year-old immigrant bride from Lebanon survived the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Thursday at 5:30 P.M. in a hospital. Only one other ...
11th March 1966
Port Huron Times Herald BERT JOHNS, SURVIVOR OF 1912 TITANIC DISASTER, DIES
Page 1, columns 6-7 Bert Johns, 66, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, operator of Bert's Tavern, 622 Water Street, for 15 years, Port Huron resident 32 years, died Saturday in his home, 216 Broad Street, after an illness of on...
3rd February 1952
Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens JONATHAN H. BLACKWELL
JONATHAN H. BLACKWELL---Born at Hopewell, Mercer County, December 20. 1841; son of Stephen and Francenia (Hunt) Blackwell; married at Hopewell, N. J., on October 5, 1865, to Susan Weart, daughter of Spencer Weart of Hopewell....
New York Times JOHN JACOB ASTOR TO WED DEBUTANTE
His Engagement to Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie Announced by Her Parents --- CAME OF AGE IN AUGUST --- Fiancee, Noted in Newport as a Tennis Player, Is From an Old American Family --- Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lew...
16th December 1933
Washington Times MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MAJ. BUTT TO BE HELD MAY 5TH
President and Senators Pay High Tributes to Dead Hero --- Memorial services for Major Archibald Butt, whose name is one of the most prominent among the Titanic’s heroic dead, will be held in this city on May 5 under the auspices of Temp...
19th April 1912
New York Times LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR
Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
4th September 1929
New York Times EX-WIFE GIVES UP CLAIM ON W. K. DICK
Bride of Fiermonte, Boxer, and Once Widow of J. J. Astor, Rejects Dower --- GOT DIVORCE LAST JULY --- She Also Relinquished $300,000 Income From First Husband's Estate When She Wed in 1916 --- Mrs. Enzo Fierm...
21st March 1934
  PENNAL FAMILY INFORMATION
Thomas Frederick Pennal (to use his full and correct names) was known as Frederick and because of uncertainty with his surname, for example, he appears on the Titanic Engagement Sheet as F. Pumal (Ref. No 178, 1st Class Victualling Dept.) he has unti...
The Times PIRRIE HONOURED FOR SERVICE AS LORD MAYOR
BELFAST, DEC. 14.To-night a banquet was given to the Right Hon. W. J. Pirrie, J.P., Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Mrs. Pirrie by the citizens on the occasion of the approaching termination of the second year of Mr. Pirri...
15th December 1897
 

 
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