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  REDWOOD : THE HOME OF JOHN B. THAYER
"Redwood" the Estate of John B. Thayer, Vice President, Pennsylvania Railroad. This was located on Cheswold Lane, Haverford, Pennsylvania. ...
   
Philadelphia Inquirer (1944) MRS. JOHN B. THAYER
Mrs. John B. Thayer, widow of John B. Thayer, prominent Philadelphian and Pennsylvania Railroad official, died yesterday on the 32nd anniversary of her husband's death in the Titanic disaster. She was 72. When the Titanic sunk on April 14,...
15th April 1944  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1977) LOIS THAYER OF ROSEMONT; ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Lois Thayer, 82, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family, died Saturday a the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She lived at 103 Airdale Rd., Rosemont, PA. The former Lois Buchanan Cassatt, she was a great-great-niece of Jame...
26th June 1977  
Daily Telegraph (1910) TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION
Proposed new port for White Star Liners (From Our Correspondent) New York, October 27 (1910). The report that a new terminal for the White Star Line will be established at Fort Pond Bay, in the eastern end of Lon...
27th October 1910  
New York Times (1912) HOW J. B. THAYER DIED
Swept from Raft to Which His Son Managed to Cling --- The manner in which John B. Thayer, Second Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, met his death along with eighteen or twenty other men was described last night by Mrs. W. C. ...
19th April 1912  
Camden Post-Telegram (1912) MR. SUTTON’S BODY TO BE SENT HOME
Dr. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, in Halifax to Care for Corpse of Titanic Victim -- WIDENER’S BODY IS BURIED AT SEA --- Dr. F. H. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, is in Halifax, N. S., to receive the body of Frederick Sutton, one of the...
27th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) 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  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO
John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found dead, his wrists and throat cut, in a parked automobile near the P....
23rd September 1945  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) JOHN B. "JACK" THAYER III:OBITUARY
J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found d...
23rd September 1945  
New York Times (1912) PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT
Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P...
20th April 1912  
Chicago Daily News (1912) MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT
Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.]   New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S...
23rd April 1912  
New York Times (1912) DEATH NOTICE
SMITH---James Clinch, lost on the Titanic, April 15. Memorial services will be held at St. James's Church, St. James, L. I., Saturday, May 11, at 3:30. Train leaves Pennsylvania Station at 1:25 P. M....
9th May 1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
Chicago Record-Herald (1912) 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 (1914) ASTOR BEQUESTS HAVE ALL BEEN PAID
Cost of Administering Estate to Date, with Transfer Tax, Foots Up $3,305,480 --- $24,715,478 DISTRIBUTED --- The Four Executors File Their First Judicial Accounting, Covering Personal Property Only --- The fi...
29th April 1914  
New York Times (1912) CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. B. THAYER
Philadelphia Survivor of the Titanic Entertains Commander of the Carpathia --- NOTABLES AT THE TABLE --- Skipper and His Surgeon Go to Haverford with Hostess Following Astor Luncheon---Come Back To-day --- S...
2nd June 1912  
New York Times (1914) ACTRESS SUES DE CAMP
Horace S. De Camp, who married the widow of Daniel V. [sic] Marvin, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, a year ago, has been sued by Miss Florence E. Clark, an actress, for $50,000 for breach of promise. Yesterday an application was made in ...
19th December 1914  
New York Times (1939) MRS. POTTER GETS GIMBEL AWARD
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28 (AP)---Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., an active Red Cross worker since 1916, has received the eighth annual Gimbel Award presented to “Philadelphia’s outstanding woman of 1939.” Mrs. Potter, secretary of the Southeastern Pennsylvania ...
29th December 1939  
The Toronto World (1912) C. M. HAYS' CAREER
When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer.  Mr. Hays had been in ...
17th April 1912  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) THAYER WATCH FOUND IN HOME
A gold watch, reported missing following the discovery of the body of John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania , in his parked automobile last Friday, mysteriously turned up at his home yesterday. A f...
22nd September 1945  
Baristanet (2009) THE TITANIC SURVIVOR'S DAUGHTER
The news that Hortense Bader-Wood, a retired Pennsylvania schoolteacher, died at 99 would seem to have no local resonance. Except that she was the daughter of a famous jeweler and Titanic survivor, Henry Blank, and grew up in a house in Glen Ridge. That house, at the corner of Ridgewood Ave. and Washington St., also happens to be the former home of RE/MAX agent Sam Joseph, whose connection with the Blank house is so strong that he had the "cress arrow" mark associated with Blank's jewelry company tattooed on his left calf....
14th January 2009  
Daily Mining Gazette (1933) 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  
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (2008) CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER SEEKS LOCAL TITANIC CONNECTIONS
The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic. On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail....
15th May 2008  
  FAMILY INFORMATION
Norman Campbell Chambers (1884-1966) was the son of James Cambell Chambers, from Pennsylvania, and Jeanette Hargleroad (b. 1855), also from this state. James and Jeanette later settled in New York. He was first married to Bertha M. Gr...
   
  (1912) PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Hildur Elisabeth Hirvonen, 2, was born in Finland on 15th February 1910 as the daughter of Alexander Hirvonen and Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Hildur boarded as a third class passenger at Southa...
  1912  
Newark Evening News (1912) W. HULL BOTSFORD, OF ORANGE, MAY BE LOST
W. Hull Botsford. of Orange, is believed to be among the second cabin passengers on the Titanic who were lost. Mr. Botsford has been touring in Europe since early in February, and although he was not expected home before the end of the month, the nam...
17th April 1912  
  (1912) PERSONAL INFORMATION
Mrs Alexander Hirvonen (nee Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist), 22, was born in Finland on 2nd January 1890 as daughter Carl and Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Helga was married to Alexander Hirvonen and had a daugh...
  1912  
New York Times (1923) MRS. ELOISE HUGHES SMITH REWEDS
HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Apr. 10---Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, to whom a divorce was granted a month ago from Robert P. Daniel of Philadelphia, another survivor of the same disaster, was married Saturday at Ironton, Ohio,...
11th April 1923  
New York Times (1968) R. NORRIS WILLIAMS 2D, TENNIS TITLIST, DEAD AT 77
Survivor of Titanic's Sinking Was on 7 Davis Cup Teams---Pennsylvania Historian --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, June 3---R. Norris Williams 2d, former national tennis champion and a survivor of the sin...
4th June 1968  
New York Times (1912) 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  
New York Times (1910) DYING MAN’S SON FOUND
Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col. Thomas Potter, who is dying at his seaside home here, has been searching for his favorite son, Wil...
29th October 1910  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma...
18th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) CAPT. ROSTRON GUEST OF MRS. J. J. ASTOR
Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Meets Again Mrs. Thayer and Mrs. Cumings --- GOES TO SEE MRS. WIDENER --- With the Crew of the Carpathia He Will Attend Concert for Musicians' Families --- Capt. Arthur Henry Ros...
1st June 1912  
New York Times (1946) COL. WILSON POTTER
Big-Game Hunter Obtained Heads for Smithsonian Institution --- PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AP)---Col. Wilson Potter, big-game hunter and University of Pennsylvania football star in 1906 and 1907, died last night at his home here after a long...
13th June 1946  
New York Times (1932) MARION SCRANTON MARRIED
Wedded at Scranton, Pa., to Edward Mayer of This City --- Special to The New York Times --- SCRANTON, Pa., Jan. 16---Miss Marion Margery Scranton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Worthington Scranton, the latter a member of the R...
17th January 1932  
New York Times (1937) DR. ALEXANDER H. RICE GETS WIFE'S MILLIONS
Will of Former Eleanor Elkins Leaves All to Two Children After His Death --- NEWPORT, R. I, Aug. 16 (AP)--The will of Eleanor Elkins Rice, leaving an estate estimated variously at from $5,000,000 to $50,000,000, was filed today in Proba...
17th August 1937  
Toronto Daily Star (1912) JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER
Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:...
19th April 1912  
Paterson Morning Call (1912) MISS FUNK ONE OF THE DEAD
Former House Secretary of the Local Y. W. C. A. Was on Titanic ---------- COMING FROM INDIA ---------- Was Missionary There and Intended Spending Part of Furlough in Paterson ---------- A large number...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1953) 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  
New York Times (1907) ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE
Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt...
10th January 1907  
New York Times (1954) TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Mrs. Lilly Potter, 98, Was ‘Grand Old Lady’ of Red Cross --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2---Mrs. Lilly A. Wilson Potter, a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims who was known as the “Grand Old Lady...
3rd January 1954  
White Plains Daily Argus (1912) 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 Times (1913) A. A. STEWART LEFT $276,974
Titanic Victim's Estate Goes to His Widow and Daughter --- An appraisal of the estate of Albert A. Stewart, who perished on the Titanic, was transmitted yesterday to the Surrogates' Court under transfer tax proceedings. Mr. Stewart was f...
1st February 1913  
Newark Evening News (1912) FORMER SECRETARY OF PATERSON Y. W. C. A. LOST
PATERSON, April 22---Returning from India, where she was engaged in missionary work, Miss Annie Funk, for several years secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, was one of those lost on the Titanic. This was her first furlough in five y...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1907) SEAMEN'S STRIKE ABROAD
LIVERPOOL, May 22---The projected move of the White Star Line to Southampton is responsible for a dispute between seamen and firemen and the company which threatens to spread. A hundred men belonging to the Oceanic refused to sai...
23rd May 1907  
New York Times (1912) 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  
Daily Home News (1912) JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES
EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish...
20th April 1912  
New York Times (1937) TWO RECEIVE SHARES IN ELKINS 27 MILLION
G. D. Widener and Mrs. Dixon of Pennsylvania to Get Income From $13,500,000 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NORRISTOWN, Pa., Aug. 10---George D. Widener of Whitemarsh and his sister, Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon of E...
11th August 1937  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1945) THAYER FAMILY GETS BACK MISSING WATCH
Timepiece, Gone when Body was Found, Returned Mysteriously The missing gold watch of John B. Thayer, 3d, who was found dead in his parked automobile last Friday, has turned up. The watch was missing when Thayer's...
24th September 1945  
Denver Times (1912) MRS. STOIBER-ROOD DENIES REPORT HUSBAND IS ALIVE
Says She Has Positive Evidence He Lost His Life on Titanic Disaster. Recent reports from London that a man seen there had been partially identified as Hugh R. Rood, supposed to have been one of the Titanic victims in April, 1912, have ...
19th April 1912  
Philadelphia Inquirer (1954) MRS. POTTER DIES AT AGE OF 98
Mrs. Thomas Potter, Jr., honorary secretary of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red Cross, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Allen Potter Crolius, the Cambridge Apartments, Wissahickon ave. and School House lane. She was 9...
2nd January 1954  
New York Times (1911) COL. ASTOR AT FERNCLIFF
Will Entertain Miss Force and Her Family Over Labor Day --- Special to The New York Times --- KINGSTON, N. Y., Sept. 2---The announced plan of Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine T. Force to remain at Col. Astor's Sum...
3rd September 1911  
New York Times (1952) MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE
Church in Barnstable Is Scene of Marriage to John Maclay Mirkil, Marine Ex-Officer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 19---Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, daughter of Mrs. J. Hippach Unander...
20th September 1952  
New York Times (1915) GUGGENHEIM HEIRESS LOST
Twelve-Year-Old Hazel Found In Grounds of Deserted Mansion --- Special to The New York Times --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 23---After being lost for seven hours to-day, Miss Hazel Barbara Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Gu...
24th June 1915  
San Francisco Examiner (1912) HERMAN KLABER ON BOARD THE TITANIC
Native of San Francisco, in Business in Portland, Titanic Passenger Herman Klaber of Portland, one of the biggest hop merchants on the Pacific Coast, was a passenger on the Titanic. Klaber was born in San Francisco, went throu...
16th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1965) 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 (1900) STEAM YACHT ELEANOR SOLD
J. J. Hill Is the Purchaser of Mrs. Cardeza's Famous Pleasure Craft --- The rumored purchase of Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza'a steam yacht Eleanor by President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad has been confirme...
26th June 1900  
Chicago Inter Ocean (1912) 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  
Chicago Tribune (1925) 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 American (1912) 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  
New York Times (1899) THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o...
25th November 1899  
  STANLICK FAMILY INFORMATION
Cordelia (Delia) Stanlick was born at Tywardreath, Cornwall in 1878. She was the daughter of Thomas and Amelia Stanlick. Her father, born in Devon in 1832 worked as a miner and in later years as a farm labourer. The 1881 Cornwall Census has t...
   
Chicago Daily Tribune (1912) 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 (1912) 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  
Evening Bulletin (1912) HAD PREMONITION OF DISASTER
Nurse in Home of Mrs. J. B. Earnshaw Distrusted Early Despatches of Safety of Passengers --- A curious instance of the premonitions which are communicated to members of a family or even a household in time of disaster, was illustrated i...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1953) 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  
  ANNIE MCGOWAN'S AGE
The purpose of this note is to clarify Annie McGowan's age in the absence of a birth certificate. It was put together after reading several pieces of information on this site and other sources that can easily be construed from the t...
   
Elizabeth Daily Journal (1912) LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC
[The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac...
19th April 1912  
  LOBB FAMILY INFORMATION
The correct origins of William Arthur Lobb, third class passenger on Titanic have now been established. The 1891 Cornwall Census shows that William Arthur Lobb was born in the parish of Luxulyan (5 miles NE of St. Austell) in 1881 and that he was th...
   
Newark Evening News (1912) 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  
Hanford Sentinel RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA
Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history...
   
Chicago Evening Post (1912) 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  
New York Times (1901) A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND
Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com...
26th May 1901  
 

 
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