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New York Times	INCORPORATED IN NEW JERSEY TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 31---These companies were incorporated here to-day: The Central Sugar Company, to manufacture beet sugar; capital, $1,500,000. The incorporators are T. L. Bragaw, Jr., M. L. Bonden, J. J. Treacy, all of Jersey City...	1st February 1901
	GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi...
Jersey Journal	MRS. M. O'NEILL, 82 A native of Ireland and a former Jersey City resident, Mrs. Margaret O’Neill, 82, of Clifton, will be buried Saturday in Holy Name Cemetery, Jerseuy City, following a 9 a.m. Mass at St. Andrew’s Church, Clifton. A resident of Jersey Ci...	13th June 1974
Guernsey Evening Press	JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks...	April 1912
	GENERAL INFORMATION Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker was born in Patten Street, West Float, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on August 3, 1878, went to sea at age 11, later becoming chief baker on various White Star Line steamships. After surviving ...
	MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO SUZETTE RYERSON AND HER MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER Memorial plaque...
	HEADSTONE St. Bernard's Cemetery, Bernardsville, New Jersey, U.S.A....
Hudson Observer	JERSEY CITY MAN HEARS FATHER AND SISTER ARE SAFE Among the passengers aboard the ill-fated steamer Titanic were MissGertrude Myles, of 266 Grove street, Jersey City, and her father,Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., who was her companion on a trip toLondon. Frederick Myles...	17th April 1912
	COMPTON FAMILY PLOT - MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
	MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE Morro Castle aground and burnt out at Asbury Park, New Jersey...
Newark Evening News	WIRELESS FROM THE STENGELS First Direct Personal Message Received from Jersey Folk in the Disaster ---------- BOTH ON THE CARPATHIA ---------- Direct intelligence from Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of this city, now on the rescue ship Carpathia, was received h...	17th April 1912
	AMERICAN RED CROSS EMERGENCY AND RELIEF BOOKLET Case number 276. (Irish). Unmarried woman, 23 years old, coming to live with her sister in New Jersey, was severely injured. ($50)....	1913
Jersey Observer	ROBERT HOPKINS, HERO OF TITANIC, DIES IN HOBOKEN The funeral of Robert J. Hopkins, 77, of 1035 Garden street, Hoboken, one of the heroes of the disastrous sinking of the Titanic in mid-Atlantic in 1912, will be held at 8 a. m. tomorrow from the Bosworth Funeral Home, 311 Willow avenue, Hoboken....	18th November 1943
Hudson Dispatch	MRS. LYNCH, 65; WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC SINKING Mrs. Bridget Lynch, 185 Lexington av., Jersey City, who always related with pride her rescue from the disastrous sinking of the “Titanic,” dies yesterday afternoon in Jersey City Medical Center. She was 65. Mrs. Lynch was a young immi...	4th October 1959
	CHARLES JOUGHIN'S GRAVE Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, New Jersey...
	HUSBAND OF HELEN ALICE WILSON Axel Johannas Rosenquist was the husband of Helen Alice Wilson who survived the sinking of the Titanic, the following information gives brief details of how their lives continued after the disaste...
Jersey Journal	MOTHER AND CHILD SAVED AT VERY LAST Mrs. Elizabeth Dowdell of 215 Park Avenue, Union Hill, who was rescued with her 7-year-old daughter Esther [sic], said: "I had been abroad and was returning to my home in Jersey. I was taken aboard the life boats with my little girl almost at the las...	19th April 1912
	TITANIC INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY Titanic International is a non-profit historical organization based in New Jersey that was founded in 1989 to preserve and perpetuate the memory and history of the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, and those who sailed aboard her maiden and last voyage....
	MORRO CASTLE - STERN VIEW AFTER THE FIRE
	MORRO CASTLE - BOWS AFTER THE FIRE
	PIER 13 The remnants of Pier 13, as they looked in January 2006. Sandwiched between the bustling New Jersey Ferries Pier just to the South, and the Seaport complex piers just to the North, the former Ward Line slip sits quietly. At sunset, when o...	January 2006
Gare Maritime	THE MORRO CASTLE, THE MOHAWK AND THE END OF THE WARD LINE Jim Kalafus It has been almost 72 years since the Morro Castle, gutted, afire, and carrying the bodies of at least six luckless passengers and crew members was driven ashore, with visual impact worthy of a Hollywood production, just to the north of the new Convention Center at Asbury Park, New Jersey. ...	21st July 2006
	MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE
	MORRO CASTLE - AFTER THE FIRE
New York Times	$5,000,000 STERILIZED AIR COMPANY TRENTON, N. J., Aug. 4---The American Sterilized Air and Transportation Company, with a capital of $5,000,000, filed papers of incorporation with the Secretary of State to-day. The company is formed to develop a patented system of sterilizing, dehyd...	5th August 1899
Newark Evening News	WILDWOOD MAN THOUGHT LOST WILDWOOD, April 18---Friends of Frederick Sutton, of this place, president of the West Jersey Electric Company, say that he is among those who perished in the Titanic disaster. His name [does not appear?] in the list of the saved. N...	18th April 1912
Hudson Dispatch	HERO OF TITANIC “LIFEBOAT 13,” WHICH RESCUED MRS. ASTOR, DIES Robert Hopkins, Hoboken, Was Crew Member on Ill-Fated Steamer --- Robert Hopkins, 66, of 1035 Garden st., Hoboken, who died early yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital, was a survivor of the steamship Titanic which was sunk by an ice...	18th November 1943
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
Newark Evening News	MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th...	20th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. CHESTER O. SWAIN Mrs. Florence Thayer Swain, widow of Chester O. Swain, a former vice-president and director of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, died yesterday in her home at 755 Park Avenue. Her age was 75. Mrs. Swain's first husband, John Bradley C...	3rd September 1949
	PERSONAL INFORMATION Mr Abraham August Johannes Abrahamsson, 20, was born in Finland. He lived in Dalsbruk, Finland. August, as he was called, was single. He borded as a third class passenger at Southampton with his friends - Eino Lindqvist, Helga Hirvone...	1912
Jersey Journal	MRS. BRIDGET LYNCH; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Was Young Girl on Way to U. S. --- Arrangements were completed today for the funeral of Mrs. Bridget Lynch of Jersey City who, as a girl of 18, survived the iceberg crash of the Cunard White Star liner Titanic in 1912. Mr...	4th November 1959
New York Times	CHARLES G. ROEBLING, BRIDGE BUILDER., DIES Engineer and Philanthropist, Head of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. Expires in Trenton at 69 --- Charles Gustavus Roebling, millionaire philanthropist and engineer, who, with his brother, Washington Augustus Roebling, completed the constru...	6th October 1918
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
dailymail.co.uk	'SAFE ON THE CARPATHIA': AUCTION OF TELEGRAM SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR FROM RESCUE SHIP FOUR DAYS AFTER DISASTER A scribbled note written by a survivor of the Titanic to tell his family he was alive and well has been put up for sale. The telegram was sent from the rescue ship Carpathia on April 18, 1912 - four days after the liner Titanic sank - to reassure the sender's family. Scrawled in pencil and yellowed with age, it reads: '(To) William Mansfield, Washington St., Morristown, New Jersey....	27th September 2011
Philadelphia Inquirer	WILDWOOD BUSINESS MAN AMONG MISSING Special to The Inquirer --- WILDWOOD, N. J., April 17---Never was so much sympathy expressed by the residents of Five Mile Beach as over the tidings that Frederick Sutton, the well-known business man, is listed among the missing probabl...	18th April 1912
Newark Evening News	LOST FATHER IN SHIP; HAS MENTAL COLLAPSE JERSEY CITY, April 19---The police found it necessary yesterday to take care of Frederick Myles, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., is among the lost passengers of the Titanic. Young Miles appeared to be under s...	19th April 1912
Newark Evening News	ENGINEER HAS SISTER HERE Jonathan Shepherd, third assistant engineer on the Titanic, who is believed to have gone down with the ship, is a brother of Miss Frances Shepherd, of 10 South Twelfth street. He was formerly on the Olympic, but was transferred to the...	16th April 1912
Geneva Times	MRS BERTHA CHRISTENSEN DIES - TITANIC SURVIVOR Mrs. Bertha Christensen. 82 of 88 White Springs Rd., one of the few remaining survivors of the Titanic, which went down April 14 1912 in the Atlantic Ocean, died this morning at Geneva General Hospital. The Bennett Funeral Home is in charge of...	30th September 1976
Newark Star	FATHER TITANIC VICTIM; SON LOSES HIS MIND JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 18---Frederick Myles, 30 years old, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., was a passenger on the Titanic, is today locked up at the Seventh street police station for safe keeping because he...	19th April 1912
Camden Post-Telegram	MR. SUTTON'S BODY SURELY ON THE MORGUE SHIP White Star Line Confirms Report That Mackay-Bennett Has Corpse of Haddonfield Resident --- WRECKAGE SEEN BY ANOTHER STEAMER --- By United Press Wire NEW YORK, April 29---The White Star Line announced to-day that it ...	29th April 1912
Passaic Herald News	MRS. J. JOSEPH O'NEILL CLIFTON Mrs. Margaret O'Neill, 82, died yesterday in St. Mary Hospital, Passaic. Mrs. O'Neill was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1912. She lived in Jersey City and Montclair before moving to Clifton five y...	13th June 1974
	ORPHEUS This was a popular selection in the Edwardian period and very likely to have been played on the Titanic. In one of the films about the Titanic the ship's band is featured playing Orpheus. This particular re...	1912
	NEARER MY GOD TO THEE This is a well recorded vocal version of Nearer My God to Thee to the tune Bethany (Mason). Listen to this 1902 recording of Nearer My God to Thee (Real Audio&...	1902
Newark Star	THREE OF TEN JERSEY PASSENGERS ARE SAFE Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel and Henry Blank Reported Among Those Rescued from the Titanic Wreck --- Up to a late hour last night only three of the ten New Jersey passengers on the Titanic were definitely known to be among the survi...	17th April 1912
	ALLUM FAMILY INFORMATION Owen George Allum was born in a village called Mabe near Falmouth, Cornwall in 1894. His father, William Allum (b.1865 Bray, Berkshire) was a gardener by occupation who had married Clara Alice Eggleton (b.1867 Jersey, CI) at Wokingham, Berkshi...
	ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND This 1911 record made by the Victor Military Band is very well recorded and gives an idea of the fast pace the song used to be played at. This is one song that many survivors recall being played on the night of the sinking. In fact it is not r...	1911
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
Jerseyman	MRS. PATTERSON IS CALLED BY DEATH (Morristown, New Jersey) Page 1 Wife of Editor of Jerseyman Dies in Memorial Hospital Mrs. Susan Ryerson Patterson, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of Chicago, and wife of George W. Patterson, Jr., editor of THE J...	14th January 1921
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
	DER ROSENKAVALIER This popular waltz by Strauss appears on repertoires for White Star Line Orchestras (#115). It is one of the pieces that musicians on ships like the Titanic would be expected to know by heart. This recording features bass violins. ...	1912
New York Times	BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester...	21st April 1912
Newark Evening News	JERSEY DEATH ROLL DETAILS Besides Residents of This State, Many Victims Had Connections Here ---------- ANGUISH OF THE RELATIVES ---------- In addition to the New Jersey residents who lost their lives in the disaster, fourteen more who met death had friends and r...	19th April 1912
Washington Times	WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su...	19th April 1912
New York Herald	MR. W. ROEBLING, 2D, AMONG PASSENGERS TRENTON, N.J. Monday - Washington Roebling, II a son of Charles G. Roebling, president of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, the Roebling Construction Company and the New Jersey Wire Cloth Company, who was a passenger on board the Titanic, togethe...	17th April 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
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....
Guernsey Evening Press	MR. JOSEPH DUQUEMIN A letter was received this morning by the father of Mr. Joseph Duquemin, who was a passenger on the Titanic. He states that he has been in hospital and on his recovery proceeded to his destination, Albany, New York, where he has arrived quite well. H...	2nd May 1912
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
Brooklyn Daily Times	KARL H. BEHR, TENNIS EXPERT, AMONG RESCUED Karl H. Behr is a prominent lawyer of 40 Wall street, Manhattan. Mr. Behr who is a member of the West Side Tennis Club, of Manhattan, is prominent in the sporting world. He gained prominence as a tennis player, winning several championships and some ...	16th April 1912
Camden Daily Courier	SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ...	20th April 1912
	SONGE D'AUTOMNE Songe d'Autmone (Dream of Autumn) was composed by Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 to 22 March 1963). Joyce, popularly known as the "English Waltz King", had considerable success in England with this piece which was included in the re...	1912
Daily Home News	JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan...	17th April 1912
Southern Evening Echo	UNTITLED A Former White Star man who was a survivor of the Titanic disaster in April, 1912, 81-years-old Mr. John Hardy, left Southampton for New York last night in U.S. Lines America after his first home visit in 18 years. Mr. Hardy, who is now living...	14th May 1952
New York Times	THREATENED BANKER BELL Mrs. H. C. Gage Arrested---Said He Kept Her Out of Washington Society --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, March 11---Through the instrumentality of Charles J. Bell, a banker, and a cousin of Alexander Graham ...	12th March 1912
Jersey Journal	FEAR JERSEY CITY GIRL'S FIANCÉ WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC A few hours after the Titanic with hundreds of her passengers and crew went down to their ocean grave a letter was received in this city by Miss Sarah Weir of 173 Clendenny Avenue, from her sweetheart, Peter Sloan, chief electrician of the ill-fated ...	23rd April 1912
Cork Examiner	BANSHA LADY'S ESCAPE ...	11th May 1912
New York Times	DINE CAPT. ROSTRON ON THE MAURETANIA 156 Guests of Sir Ashley Sparks Pay Tribute to Commander's War Aid --- HE PRAISES HIS VESSEL --- Is Fastest and Finest Merchant Ship Afloat, He Says--Many Captains Present --- One hundred and fifty-six guests...	4th April 1922
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
Hudson Observer	CRAZED WITH GRIEF BY FATHER'S DEATH Jersey City Man Whose Father was Aboard the Titanic Taken Into Custody---Driven to the verge of insanity by the thought that his father in allprobability went down with the ill-fated Titanic, Frank Myles, 29 yearsold, liv...	18th April 1912
New York Times	DEFICIT IN HARRIS ESTATE Theatrical Manager Left $365,443, but Had Large Debts --- Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager who lost his life in the Titanic disaster of April 15, 1912, left a gross estate of $365,443, according to an appraisal filed yesterday in ...	2nd July 1914
The Times	THE LOSS OF THE MORRO CASTLE FIRE DISASTER AT SEA AMERICAN LINER OVERWHELMED - 180 LIVES LOST About 180 people are believed to have lost their lives when the SS Morro Castle, bound from Havana to New York, was destroyed by fir...	10th September 1934
	THE LOST CHORD Enrico Caruso the famous tenor was born in Naples in 1873 and made his debut there in 1895. His last performance was at the Metropolitan Opera House on Christmas Eve 1920 and he died the following year. On Monday, 29 April 1912 Caruso recorded thi...	29th April 1912
New York Times	WALDMAN DEATHS AGAIN HELD ACCIDENT Police After Second Inquiry Stick to Original Theory of Children's Fall --- WORKMEN TELL OF TRAGEDY --- Describe the Mother's Frantic Efforts to Save Sons---Norris Investigation to Go On --- The second police...	24th October 1928
Jersey Journal	BATTLED FOR LIFE WITH SAILOR AFTER THE TITANIC SANK McCormack Tells How Seaman Tried to Throw Him Out of Lifeboat---Special Blessing for Bayonne Survivor _____ Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne, a Titanic surviv...	23rd April 1912
Jersey Journal	BAYONNE MAN SAVED, HOBOKEN BOY LOST Joy and Sorrow in Hudson County Homes---Son of Victim Temporarily Insane from Grief ---------- With the latest revision of the lists of saved and lost from the Titanic disaster, joy and sorrow were brought to several ho...	18th April 1912
New York Times	P. A. B. WIDENER HOME; SUBPOENAED AT PIER His Famous $500,000 Van Dykes Sent on Six Weeks Ago to Lynwood Hall --- SERVED IN TRACTION SUIT --- Dr. Holland Decorated by Kaiser and Fallieres for Gifts of Carnegie Casts of Diplodocus --- Afte...	10th July 1908
Voyage	THE HERMAN FAMILY Michael A. Findlay In recent years much has been written about those who sailed aboard the RMS Titanic. Stories of heroism, selflessness and cowardice on that fateful night have emerged through the lives of those who were witnesses to the Ti...	25th August 2005