Filip Oscar Asplund

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	LILLIAN ASPLUND - AGED 5 YEARS Pictured in 1912, after the Titanic disaster which claimed the life of both her father & 3 brothers - Filip (13), Clarence (9)and her twin Carl (5)....	1912
Worcester Telegram	FELIX R. ASPLUND [OBITUARY] SHREWSBURY--Felix R. Asplund, 73, of 39 Fairlawn Circle died yesterday in his home. Mr. Asplund was a draftsman for Coppus Engineering in Worcester for 35 years, retiring in 1972. He leaves a sister, Lillian G. Asplund of Shrews...	2nd March 1983
Worcester Telegram	MRS. SELMA ASPLUND [OBITUARY] Mrs. Selma A. (Johnson) Asplund, 90, of 39 Fairlawn Circle, Shrewsbury, died Wednesday night in St. Vincent Hospital, a few hours after being admitted. Born in Smaland, Sweden, she moved to Kansas City, Mo., 71 years ago, and to Worcester a ye...	17th April 1964
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
Canada.com	LILLIAN GERTRUD ASPLUND, LAST U.S. SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 99 Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died, family and friends said Sunday. She was 99.Asplund, who was five years old that night in 1912, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. "She even said she saw the ship slip into the water," said Philip Maloof, her lawyer and close friend. "She was the last one (left) in the world to actually see the disaster." ...	8th May 2006
Worcester Telegram	MRS. CHARLES ASPLUND AND THREE CHILDREN ARE SAVED Her Husband and Two of Their Sons Are Believed to Be Among Those Lost on the Titanic, Though Names Sent Show Slight Varience Charles Asplund, formerly of Worcester, his son Carl, 6 years old, and a baby boy 2 years old, are pro...	18th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	MRS ASPLUND AND CHILDREN SAFE IN HOSPITAL AT N.Y. Article of Interest...	19th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	TWO OF THE ASPLUND CHILDREN ARE LOST Charles and Selma and Three of their Little Ones, Lillian, Clarence and Felix, are Safe. Charles and Selma Asplund and their children, Lillian, Clarence and Felix Asplund, survive the Titanic disaster. Philip and Carl, the other childr...	19th April 1912
NY Daily News (4/20/08	TITANIC TICKET MAKES WAVES A ticket for the Titanic's ill-fated voyage belonging to the last survivor with memories of the disaster sold for $65,772 at a British auction. Lillian Asplund who died in 2006 at the age of 99 was just five years old when the Titanic hit an iceber and sank during her maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among the 1500 people who died. Asplund was the last American survivor of the disaster and the last with memories of it. Asplund's ticket--bought by a collector from the United States--was among 364 items sold at auction....	20th April 2008
Mirror.co.uk	SECRETS OF THE TITANIC SURVIVOR LILLIAN ASPLUND REVEALED For 94 years, Titanic survivor Lillian Asplund refused to speak about the tragedy that had claimed the lives of her father and three brothers.But when she died aged 99, a shoebox was found containing letters, photos and mementos of her family's demise....	28th March 2008
	LILLIAN ASPLUND'S FIRST WORCESTER HOME Lillian Asplund's first home at 6 Rodney Street, Worcester, Massachusetts...
CBC.ca	OSCAR WINNER PENS TITANIC MINISERIES Julian Fellowes the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Gosford Park has scripted a TV miniseries about the last hours of the passengers of the Titanic....	26th March 2011
Worcester Evening Post	ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o...	19th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	WORCESTER FRIENDS TAKE UP WORK OF AIDING TITANIC SURVIVORS An announcement was made in the G???mane Swedish Lutheran Church yesterday that a memorial service for victims of the Titanic disaster will be conducted in the church Sunday evening with Rev. John A. Eckstrom pastor, in charge. At thi...	22nd April 1912
Foxnews.com	LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.She died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass....	7th May 2006
Worcester Telegram	BODY OF CHARLES ASPLUND, TITANIC VICTIM, WILL BE BURIED IN WORCESTER, WITHOUT EXPENSE TO SURVIVING FAMILY Subscription papers will be circulated, today and next week in the Slater building, State Mutual building and courthouse, in an effort to raise money for Mrs. Charles Asplund and family left in strained circumstances owing to the loss of Mr. Asplund ...	27th April 1912
	CARL & SELMA ASPLUND Carl & Selma Asplund...
	LILLIAN, SELMA AND FELIX ASPLUND 1912 Lillian, Selma and Felix Asplund 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
Daily Telegraph	CHILD OF LOVERS WHO INSPIRED TITANIC HAS ASHES SPREAD AT SEA A surviver of the Titanic, whose story was said to have inspired the Oscar-winning film, has had her ashes scattered at sea in Cornwall. One of Ellen Walker's last wishes was to have her ashes scattered at sea. She was conceived on board the Titanic by her runaway parents, whose story was said to have inspired the Oscar-winning film....	4th November 2006
Worcester Telegram	FOUR OF THE ASPLUNDS ARE TITANIC VICTIMS Searching dilligently in New York Thursday night and all day yesterday at the pier where the rescued passengers of the ill-fated Titanic were delivered Thursday night by the Cunard liner, Carpathia, John Carlson, 193 Vernon Street, a brother-in-law o...	20th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	FUND FOR RELIEF OF MRS. ASPLUND AND HER CHILDREN IS GROWING SLOWLY Money for the Worcester Titanic relief fund that is to be used for the financial assistance of Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children who survived the Titanic disaster, in which her husband and three children were lost, is coming slowly to the rel...	30th April 1912
	ASPLUND FAMILY HEADSTONE Ribbons of Sweden's blue...
	151 VERNON STREET HOME AND ASPLUND DESTINATION 151 Vernon Street...
BBC Northern Ireland	TITANIC SHOE BOX SALE HITS £100,000 A treasure store of Titanic memorabilia, kept in a shoe box by a woman who survived the 1912 disaster, has sold at auction for £100,000.Among Lillian Asplund's shoe box treasures was one of the last four remaining tickets for the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage. ...	20th April 2008
Quad City Times	CHANGING LIVES ACTOR PORTRAYS SHIP'S CAPTAIN Like many people worldwide Lowell Lytle became interested in the Titanic after watching James Camerons Oscar-winning movie of the same name in 1997....	13th March 2011
	THE VOYAGE OF LIFE- CHILDHOOD The Voyage of Life-Childhood by Thomas Cole, one of a series of four canvases mentioned in the Asplund memorial services May 10, 2006...
	MEMORIAL CARD FOR MISS LILLIAN G. ASPLUND Memorial card for services on May 10, 2006...
New York Evening Journal	MAYOR HAS TRIBUTE FOR ISIDOR STRAUS HEROISM OF NOTED AMERICAN AND HIS WIFE PRAISED IN LETTER TO OSCAR STRAUS Praise for the heroism of Isidor Straus and Mrs. Straus was expressed yesterday by Mayor Gaynor in a letter to Oscar Straus of No. 5 West Seventy-sixth Street. ...	21st April 1912
onthebox.com	TITANIC TO RESURFACE IN 3D NEXT YEAR James Cameron, famous supporter of 3D cinema having designed his own three-dimensional technology to shoot his tree-hugging-love-in Avatar, has decided to return to his 1997 Oscar-winning, box office busting Titanic and re-mas...	20th May 2011
Glasgow Daily Record	TITANIC MAIL SALE A mail wrapper from the Titanic found in a pouch strapped to the body of postal clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the 1912 disaster, fetched £6580 at a Spink's auction in London yesterday....	7th December 2006
Borders Today	TITANIC EXHIBITION SAILS INTO HAWICK AS ANNIVERSARY NEARS AN exhibition including props and costumes from the multi-Oscar winning film Titanic has docked in Hawick writes Kenny Paterson....	26th March 2011
The Press Association	FILM COSTUMES IN TITANIC EXHIBITION Costumes worn by Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Oscar-laden 1997 movie Titanic will feature in an exhibition about the ill-fated ship which opens next month....	11th January 2011
Worcester Telegram	ASPLUND FUND TOTALS $1031.25, BUT BODY OF VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER FAILS TO REACH WORCESTER The benefit fund for Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children saved from the titanic, while her husband and three sons went to their deaths, yesterday passed the $1000 mark. The total amount subscribed last night was $1031.25, and tha...	4th May 1912
Toronto Star	GLORIA STUART THE ELDER ROSE IN TITANIC DIES AT 100 Gloria Stuart a 1930s Hollywood leading lady whose first significant role in nearly 60 yearsas the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron's 1997 Oscar-winning film about the ill-fated ocean linerearned her an Academy Award nomination has died. She was 100....	28th September 2010
MovieMaker Magazine	TITANIC'S CINEMATOGRAPHER RUSSELL CARPENTER Rush hour at the Hamburger Hamlet on Hollywood Boulevard. On a street crammed with tourists, nobody seems to notice a brand new Academy Award winner slip through the doors. Russell Carpenter, the tall, lanky, Oscar-winning cinematographer of Titanic, has come to dinner to discuss the movie and his future....	3rd November 2007
thetelegram.com	A TITANIC BOOST The man who brought â€œTitanicâ€ to the big screen will promote events at Cape Race marking the 100th anniversary of the shipâ€™s sinking. James Cameron, who directed the 1997 Oscar-winning film on the ill-fated luxury liner, has signed on as an ambassador for next yearâ€™s Receiving Titanic commemorations. Thatâ€™s according to Larry Daley, a St. Johnâ€™s-based Titanic enthusiast and entrepreneur....	2nd December 2011
Inside Smithsonian Research	OSCAR SCOTT WOODY'S KEYS Stamped "Sea Post 101/US Mail 19," the antique, flat metal key has a patina of orange rust from its immersion in salt water nearly 100 years ago-while still in its owner's pocket. The key opened locks on the 200 bags of registered mail being carried across the Atlantic to New York City aboard the White Star Line steamship R.M.S. Titanic during the ship's maiden voyage in April 1912....	20th November 2007
Evening Star	MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t...	22nd April 1912
thisissomerset.co.uk	TITANIC . . . THE SHIP WE CAN'T FORGET, 100 YEARS ON - THIS IS SOMERSET Almost 100 years on, the Titanic disaster still tugs at the heartstrings. The events of that dramatic night in April 1912 are well known but constant retelling of the tale only seems to add more lustre to the legend. The hosting of 100th anniversary events in 2012 will introduce a new generation to the Titanic story in a similar way that interest was renewed by James Cameron's Oscar-winning film in 1997....	29th December 2011
New York Times	UNDERWOOD BUYS MAJOR BUTT'S HOUSE WASHINGTON, Nov. 22---Representative Oscar Underwood of Alabama, Democratic leader of the House, completed to-day his purchase of the residence of Major Archibald D. [sic] Butt, former Military Aid under Presidents Roosevelt and Taft at the White Hou...	23rd November 1912
New York Times	TITANIC DISASTER SURVIVOR DROWNS IN A SHALLOW POND BRIDGEPORT, Conn. April 18--Surviving the Titanic disaster April 14, 1912, by swimming for hours in the icy waters until picked up by a rescue ship, Oscar Palmquist of 42 Lenox Avenue was drowned in six feet of water in a pond in Beardsley Park into...	19th April 1925
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
northamptonchron.co.uk	NORTHAMPTON FIRM SUPPLIES PLATES FOR TITANIC TV DRAMA A KITCHEN equipment supplier in Northampton has provided 400 dining plates which will feature in an ITV series about the Titanic, due to be screened next year. To coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, ITV will be showing a mini series in 2012 divided into four hours, based on a screenplay written by Julian Fellowes, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of ITV1’s hit costume drama, Downton Abbey....	10th June 2011
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
Newark Evening News	FAMILY OF J. S. MARCH MAY RECEIVE $10,000 WASHINGTON, April 22---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic were introduced in the House today by Representative Reilly, of Conne...	22nd April 1912
Worcester Telegram	WORCESTER THEATER CONCERT NETS $800 Fund For the Benefit of Mrs. Charles O. Asplund and Her Two Children Is Swelled to More Than $1900 More than 1000 persons attended the concert in Worcester theater last night from 8 o'clock until almost 11, for the benefit of Mrs. Char...	6th May 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
New York Times	COMFORT FOR OSCAR STRAUS Messages of Sympathy from Every Part of the World --- Oscar S. Straus has been deeply touched by the scores of cablegrams, telegrams, and letters which he has received, each bearing its message of sympathy and paying warm tribute to the...	21st April 1912
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
Asbury Park Evening Press	PENSION FAMILIES OF LOST CLERKS Congress would give $10,000 to Each---Mrs. Gwinn of This City Would Benefit ---------- WASHINGTON, April 23---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the...	23rd April 1912
Newark Evening News	JOHN S. MARCH ONE OF THE HEROES Newarker Died with Others Clerks on Titanic, After Effort to Save Mails. ---------- REPORT MADE BY HITCHCOCK ---------- Special Service of the NEWS WASHINGTON, April 20---In a report received by Postmaster-General Hitchcock today, it wa...	20th April 1912
New York Times	JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND ISIDOR STRAUS TALKED OF Among those politicians who have been industriously at work during the last two weeks speculating as to the make-up of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, a new name was suggested yesterday. It was that of John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who was said to ...	7th February 1893
	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	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
	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 ...
Titanic Research	THE STATISTICS OF THE DISASTER Lester Mitcham An in-depth analysis of the number of Titanic passengers lost and saved....	14th February 2001
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
Atlantic City Daily Press	2 SURVIVORS OF TITANIC ARRIVE Major Hayes Entertains Mr. and Mrs. E. Z. Taylor at Apollo Theatre. ---------- ‘NAUGHTY MARIETTA’ HELPS THEM FORGET ---------- Mr. and Mrs. E. Z. Taylor, of London, two of the survivors of the Ti...	3rd May 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	STRAUS A FAMOUS MERCHANT Member Both of R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus --- Isidor Straus, who, with Mrs. Straus, was aboard the Titanic, was born in Rhenish Bavaria on Feb. 6, 1845. His father's family came to this country in 1852, and settled at Talbott...	16th April 1912
Rockford Register Star	TITANIC SURVIVOR HAD ROCKFORD CONNECTION David Shultz Dagmar Bryhl: The young woman from Sweden was on the ocean liner with her brother and her fiancé to visit relatives in Rockford. By David Shultz Rockford Register Star. Rockford's connection to the Titanic spent less th...	21st December 1997
Asbury Park Evening Press	MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ...	22nd April 1912
msnbc.com	"TITANIC" STARS HELP SHIPWRECK'S LAST SURVIVOR LOS ANGELES - The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 is getting a hand from Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The "Titanic" stars, along with director James Cameron, have contributed to a $30,000 fund for Millvina Dean, 97, Access Hollywood has confirmed....	11th May 2009
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	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
Denver Post	SURPRISES AND EMOTIONS SURFACE AT TITANIC EXHIBIT The story of the Titanic is a schoolhouse staple and one of the great cautionary tales of hubris.It has spawned countless books, award-winning documentaries and memorable movies, notably the Oscar-winning blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, with its memorable image of the couple standing with arms outstretched on the ship's bow....	29th April 2009
Worcester Evening Gazette	PORTER SANK WITH TITANIC HEROES Family and Friends of Worcester Man Now Satisfied He Is Among Those Lost Walter E. Bigelow, business associate and friend of Walter C.Porter, last of the Titanic, who made a special trip to New York yesterday in the hope of securing fa...	19th April 1912
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
	AT REST - THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MISS LILLIAN G. ASPLUND Shelley Dziedzic Worcester, Massachusetts is a city of approximately 180,00 living souls, located in what the state likes to call the “Heart of the Commonwealth. It is, like Rome, a city of seven hills and the second largest city in the state after nearby Boston...	10th May 2006
Newark Evening News	FEAR ANOTHER NEWARKER GONE ---------- Augustus Smith, Passenger on Titanic, Whose Name Is Not Among Saved. ---------- HAYS ALSO AMONG MISSING ---------- The name of Augustus Smith, twenty-two years old, of 59 Halsey street, was added ...	17th April 1912
San Francisco Chronicle	GIVES LIFE FOR LOVE OF HUSBAND Relatives Here Believe Wife of Isidor Straus Refused to Leave His Side. That her devotion to her husband, refusing to leave the ship unless he accompanied her from the ill-fated Titanic, cost the life of Mrs. Isidor...	17th April 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
Rockford Morning Star	TITANIC SURVIVOR ARRIVES IN ROCKFORD DAGMAR BRYHL NOW WITH RELATIVES IN PEARL STREET. WILL RETURN TO SWEDEN Worst Experience of Night of Horrors Was When She Was Unmercifully Parted From Sweetheart and Brother Entirely unnerved by the strain...	26th April 1912
New York Times	DAUGHTERS OF JACOB HONOR IDA STRAUS Unveil Tablet in Their Home Commemorating Her Beautiful Life and Heroic End --- AGED CHANT PRAYERS FOR HER --- Self-Sacrificing Devotion of Titanic Victim Held Up as an Inspiration to the Women of Her Race ---...	25th November 1912
Titanic Research	PLUCKED FROM THE SEA? Peter Engberg and Tad Fitch Survivors' Claims Reconsidered...	11th July 1999