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JOSEF PERUSCITZ PERSONAL FILE   JOSEF PERUSCITZ PERSONAL FILE
Camden Post-Telegram MR. SUTTON'S WILL PROBATED TO-DAY
Victim of Titanic Left Estate to His Wife and Daughter and Latter's Children --- RELATIVE AT HALIFAX TO CLAIM THE BODY --- Through Attorneys Gaskill & Gaskill the will of Frederick Sutton, a former resident of Haddonfield,...
29th April 1912
Buda Plain Dealer TITANIC SURVIVOR
Edward Dorking, the young man from Oglesby who survived the terrible experiences of the "Titanic" disaster, will speak in Opera Hall in Buda, Saturday evening May 18. He gave his first address in Princeton, where it was heard with intense interest, f...
17th May 1912
  WILLIAM GREENFIELDS ACCOUNT
William was involved in his Father's fur business and sailed to Russia once a year to purchase pelts. Blanche went with him this time to buy silk in Paris for the linings of the coats. William met his ...
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
New York Times WILLS FOR PROBATE
MANHATTAN *** WHITE, ELLA HOLMES (Jan. 31). Estate,more than $10,000. To C. Helene Berkeley, 509 W. 122d St., $10,000 and personalty; Ella B. Putnam, 10 Beekman Pl., $10,,000; Marie G. Young, Plaza Hotel, personal effects and life esta...
6th February 1942
New York Times CLASSIFIED AD
[Classification:]Personal *** Mr. Gustave Lesueur, from Titanic, is requested to communicate with the French Consulate, 35 South William Street. ...
20th April 1912
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 CAN FIND NO TRACE OF SMART CHILDREN
Estate of Titanic Victim Cannot Be Settled Until They Have Been Notified --- SUPPOSED TO BE IN EUROPE --- Father Was Returning from a Visit to Them and All His Private Papers Were Lost with Him --- Frederick ...
14th July 1912
Evening Times PAWTUCKET VISITOR AMONG THE VICTIMS
Arne Mjåland
One of the victims of the great wreck was Arthur E. Nicholson of London. England, a frequent  visitor to this city. where he occasionally called upon his personal friends, ex senator Lyonas Delany of the firm  of the Lyons Delany Company. ...
19th April 1912
New York Times IDA STRAUS ESTATE $260,000
All Is In Personal Property and Will Be Divided Among Children --- Application for letters of administration on the estate of Mrs. Ida Straus, who perished with her husband Isidor Straus in the wreck of the Titanic on April 15, was made...
22nd June 1912
New York Times SEEK THE CHILDREN OF TITANIC VICTIM
John M. Smart's Son and Daughter at School in Europe, Ignorant of Father's Fate --- HE HAD JUST VISITED THEM --- But Said Nothing of His Personal Affairs to His New York Business Associates --- By Marconi Tra...
5th June 1912
New York Times 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
PRINCESS SOPHIA'S MAST MARKS HER GRAVE   PRINCESS SOPHIA'S MAST MARKS HER GRAVE
For a few weeks after the disaster, the Princess Sophia's mast marked her grave near Vanderbilt Reef. Some accounts claim that a winter storm toppled the last visible trace of the liner,...
Gare Maritime
Western Morning News FROM WESTCOUNTRY - FURTHER PERSONAL DETAILS
It was reported yesterday at Okehampton that amongst the missing passengers in the third class list of the Titanic was John Lovell, son of John Lovell (farmer) of Northlew....
18th 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
WALLACE HARTLEY'S DRESSING WATCH   WALLACE HARTLEY'S DRESSING WATCH
The four-funneled liner on the fob is the Mauretania....
New York Times TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE
W. A. Spencer Left Property Worth $2,218,650 --- William Augustus Spencer, who was drowned when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, left a net estate of $2,218,650, according to an appraisal filed yesterday. The beneficiaries are Mrs. M...
10th July 1914
  PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Eliina Honkanen, 27, was born in Finland. She lived in Saatrjkvi, Finland and had a family in Helsingforfs. She boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destination was 16 West Street, Q...
1912
Evening Bulletin TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE
“Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic disaster which has come to light is in a letter written on board the Carpathia by Dr. Alice Leeder, New...
20th April 1912
The Times STORIES OF THE WRECK : CAPTAIN SMITH'S HEROISM
After the men had had dinner the taking of their statements was rapidly proceeded with, and it was soon announced that a number of them were at liberty to leave the dock premises if they wished to do so. Most of them availed themselves of this per...
29th April 1912
New York Herald BRAVERY OF TITANIC SURGEON DR. WILLIAM FRANCIS NORMAN O'LOUGHLIN
In accounts printed about the Titanic and the bravery of her officers little has been said of one who probably was the most widely known and best beloved of all classes....
22nd April 1912
New York Times THOMAS H. ISMAY LEFT £1,297,881
LONDON, March 11---The will of the late Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Steamship Company, who died in Liverpool last November, has been proved, showing a personal estate of £1,297,881. Numerous legacies, in all about £2...
12th March 1900
  PERSONAL INFORMATION
Miss Erna Alexandra Andersson, 17, the daughter of Mr Anders Israelsson, was born in Finland. She lived in Kulla gard, Lovisa, Finland. Erna boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destinatio...
1912
Worcester Telegram NEVER NEAR TITANIC
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18th April 1912
New York Times PERSONAL - LADY DUFF GORDON
The death of Lady DUFF GORDON was announced in London on July 17.  Her Ladyship, who wielded an easy and agreeable pen, was one of the best known writers on Egyptian life and scenery.  Lady DUFF GORDON had long been consumptive, and, as the atmosp...
29th July 1869
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Mr. Smart was the president of the American Cold Storage and Shipping Co., and lived at the Victoria Hotel in New York. When he travelled to England, he simply checked out of the hotel, and took all of his personal belongings with him. Some of those ...
TITANIC AFTERMATH - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS   TITANIC AFTERMATH - A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
Authored by Michael B. Wehrli, Michael B. Wehrli Based on the Senate Hearing transcrip...
  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
  DISCOVERY TSX: TITANIC PREVIEW
The Titanic finally arrives in New York City at the Discovery Times Square Exposition. Relive Titanic's fateful 1912 maiden voyage and take on the identity of a Titanic passenger as you explore magnificent reconstructions of the Ship's interior. Discover how the 'unsinkable' Ship met its fate and connect with the passengers and crew, as you view haunting personal artifacts recovered from the wreck....
TITANIC SURVIVORS Titanic Stories TITANIC SURVIVORS
Titanic Stories
A first class passenger, second officer and fireman recall the moments leading up to Titanic finally going down. ...
30th September 2011
  EDITH RUSSELL'S PARIS BROTHEL
How a Titanic survivor nearly bought a house of ill-repute!...
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
Western Morning News FROM WESTCOUNTRY - FURTHER PERSONAL DETAILS
Mr. James Drew and family and Mr. James Veale (sic) were from Constantine, Cornwall. Mr. and Mrs. Drew and nephew (Master Marshall Drew) had been home on a visit to his mother (who is 84 years of age, and still ignorant of anything having happened)....
18th April 1912
New York Times INCREASING PROFANITY AMONG BOYS [LETTER TO THE EDITOR]
To the Editor of The New York Times: Of late we see accounts both in the United States and Canada calling attention to how profane and bad language is increasing among the boys. The truth of this cannot be denied by any one...
30th June 1909
  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
New York Times 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
Atlantic City Daily Press FRIEND OF REV. HUDSON'S PERISHED IN WRECK
Among the passengers who perished on the Titanic was Frederick Sutton of Haddonfield, a personal friend of Rev. Birney S. Hudson, pastor of the First Baptist Church. Mr. Sutton was a member of the Haddonfield Baptis...
20th April 1912
New York Times FILE WILL OF TITANIC VICTIM
Proof of Death of Charles Natsch Furnished by Survivor --- The will of Charles Natsch, who lost his life on the Titanic, was admitted to probate in the Surrogates' Court in Brooklyn, yesterday, after proof of his death had been submitte...
28th June 1912
  FRANCIS DAVIS MILLET - A TITANIC LIFE - PETER ENGSTROM
After many publications, writings, mentions, manuscripts, articles and even a dissertation we introduce the biography of Francis Davis Millet. 465 pages of history, common knowledge and eye-witness accounts have been collected and compiled by A...
  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
  LETTER RE OFFICER WILDE
Letter...
4th June 1915
New York Times WEIR HEIRS' DISPUTE ENDED
Estate of Mining Engineer, a Titanic Victim, Now Appraised --- Col. John Weir, the mining engineer, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, left a net estate of $26,876, part of which consisted of stocks and bonds he had with him on ...
29th April 1914
New York Times PAINTING FOR BUTT FUND
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14---Col. Spencer Cosby, chief aid to President Taft, received to-day a painting depicting the sinking of the Titanic and the rescue of some of her passengers. Gilbert Gaul, a New York artist, offered it as a contribut...
15th December 1912
New York Times GUGGENHEIM WILL FILED
Two Daughters Share Estate of Widow of Titanic Victim --- Mrs. Florette Guggenheim, widow of Benjamin Guggenheim, who perished on the Titanic, left her residuary estate in trust for her two daughters, it was learned yesterday when her w...
7th December 1937
Chicago Examiner NOT LOCKED IN CABIN ON CARPATHIA, SAYS ISMAY
I know that my personal conduct has been made the subject of a lot of unfavorable comment, and I court the fullest inquiry at the hands of your committee or any one else who has the right to ask such questions.  So far as the Carpathia is ...
1st May 1912
New York Times GUGGENHEIM CHANGE OF FAITH
Reports Don't Refer to Me, Says B. Guggenheim, Nor to the Family --- Benjamin Guggenheim, who arrived here yesterday from Europe on the Mauretania, said last night at the Hotel St. Regis in regard to published reports that membe...
3rd June 1908
New York Times TITANIC VICTIM'S ESTATE
C. F. Gregory Asks for Letters---Smart's Children Not Found --- Clarence F. Gregory of 3,675 Broadway asked the Surrogate yesterday to grant him letters testamentary upon the estate of J. Montgomery Smart, who perished in the Titanic d...
13th May 1914
New York Times Book Review THE AUTHOR OF "AN OKLAHOMA ROMANCE"
The author of "An Oklahoma Romance," the story of a love affair complicated with a land claim, which the Century Company are publishing, is Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee. She is a New Yorker of a family that has been well known in the metropolis for...
19th October 1901
New York Times LEWY BROS., JEWELERS, FAIL
Settlement Involving $1,400,000 Defeated by Court Action --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Nov. 23---An involuntary petition in bankruptcy against Lewy Brothers, Jewelers, filed today in the United States Cour...
24th November 1925
New York Times MRS. STRAUS LEFT $319,940
Titanic Victim's Estate Divided Equally Among Six Children --- Mrs. Ida Straus, who perished with her husband, Isidor Straus, in the Titanic disaster on April 15, 1912, left a net estate of $319,940, according to an appraisal of her est...
29th April 1914
The Times INVENTIONS SURGE AFTER TITANIC DISASTER
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19th April 1913
New York Times ANDREW SAKS'S WILL
$25,000 for Charities to be Specified by His Wife --- The will of Andrew Saks, who died at Sherry's on April 8, was admitted yesterday in the Surrogate's Court for probate. The petition does not give the actual value of his estate but m...
13th 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
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
HAYS---At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company held April 25, 1912, it was resolved that the following minutes be adopted and transmitted to the family of Mr. Charles M. Hays: CHAR...
28th April 1912
The Times MRS. PIRRIE HONORED
BELFAST, April 5 --- At the meeting of the City Corporation to-day Alderman John McCormick moved a resolution electing and admitting Mrs. Pirrie an honorary burgess of the city of Belfast in recognition of her signal...
6th April 1904
TITANIC CAPTAIN: THE LIFE OF EDWARD JOHN SMITH Titanic Review TITANIC CAPTAIN: THE LIFE OF EDWARD JOHN SMITH
Inger Sheil
Inger Sheil reviews a fully revised biography of Titanic's Captain...
18th January 2012
New York Times MORGAN FOR PRESIDENT? HUH!
He Wouldn't Take That Job, Says the Dog Show Doorkeeper --- The proudest man in New York yesterday was the doorkeeper of the private entrance to the Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, for he was formally introduced to...
15th February 1908
Washington Times LIVED NOT IN VAIN, SAYS BUTT'S FRIEND
American People Can Learn Lesson From Major’s Life, Is Captain’s Opinion --- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22---Major Archibald Butt did not give his life in vain in the Titanic disaster, if the American people will take the lesson of his l...
22nd April 1912
New York Times SOCIETY---HOME AND ABROAD
Personal and Otherwise --- Miss Esmé  Wallace, who is to marry Viscount Tiverton, son of the Earl of Halsbury, is a daughter of Lady Duff-Gordon by her first husband, and is a niece of Eleanor Glyn, the novelist.  Her mother marrie...
4th August 1907
Unidentified Newspaper SEEKS LIEN ON ESTATE OF A TITANIC VICTIM
John S.Fanning, of East Orange, N.J., applied yesterday to Surrogate Fowler, for letters of administration for the estate of John D. Baumann, a promoter of South American rubber and timber companies, who was lost on the Titanic. Mr Fanning said th...
7th September 1912
New York Times THE TITANIC
Lawrence Beesley's Admirable Description of the Disaster --- THE LOSS OF THE S. S. TITANIC. By Lawrence Beesley. Illustrated. Houghton Miffling [sic] Company. $1.20. --- No man can go dawn into the valley of the shadow ...
28th July 1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS---At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Educational Alliance, held on Friday, April 19, 1912, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: After days of keenest anxiety, the Directors of the Educational A...
20th April 1912
The Times T. ISMAY CONTRIBUTES TO PIRRIE HOSPITAL FUND
BELFAST, DEC 16 Much gratification is expressed in Belfast with regard to a letter received by the Lord Mayor, who is a partner in the large shipbuilding firm of Harland and Wolff, from Mr. Thom...
17th December 1896
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
New York Times VETERANS HONOR THE DEAD
Seventh Regiment Men Attend Memorial Services --- Memorial services were held yesterday afternoon by the veterans of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., in St. Thomas's Church. The Rev. Claudius M. Roome preached the memorial sermon. Mr....
29th April 1912
Rahway Daily Record ARTHUR KEEFE MAY BE MISSING ON LINER TITANIC
Rahway people, while horrified at the astounding disaster which overtook the gigantic ocean liner Titanic and at the terrible loss of life which accompanied the disaster, have a close personal feeling in the matter, inasmuch as one of its citizens, a...
16th April 1912
New York Times BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL
President Taft and Washington Friends Raise Funds for a Tablet --- WASHINGTON, May 30---President Taft, members of the Diplomatic Corps in Washington, and many high Government officials have contributed to a fund of several thousand dol...
31st May 1912
The South Bend Tribune MRS FATIMA MOUSSELMANI
Michael D. Lacopo (transcriber)
TITANIC SURVIVOR WEDS Michigan City Woman Brings Word of Drowning of South Bend Men Michigan City, Ind., May 8 -- Mohammed Mustafa Ajamy and Miss Fatima Muselmanie, the latter a Titanic survivor and the woman who brought word of the...
8th May 1912
Worcester Telegram BOSTON MAN ON FRANCONIA REPORTS COMMUNICATING WITH CARPATHIA
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18th April 1912
THE BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 1913   THE BUTT-MILLET MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, 1913
The Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain was erected by the contributions of friends of Major Archibald Willingham Butt and Francis Davis Millet. "The 8-foot-high fountain is composed of a marble shaft of simple Neo-c...
1913
Washington Times ACTOR IS WORRIED OVER FATE OF MAN ON UNFORTUNATE SHIP
"Rene is safe; am uncertain about Harry; will wire you definite information as soon as received." This is the only comforting word received by Frank McIntyre, now appearing at the National Theater in “Snobs” and his company, which is a...
17th April 1912
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
The Times THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL
THE LATE MR. ISMAY'S WILL---The will of the late Mr. THOMAS HENRY ISMAY, head of the White Star Line, has been proved. The value of the real and personal estate is sworn at £1,297,881 14s. 1d. g...
12th March 1900
New York Times WILL OF LORILLARD SPENCER
Bulk of His Estate Left to Mrs. Spencer in Trust for Life --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I., April 1---The will of Lorillard Spencer, who died in New York last month, was filed for probate to-day, and di...
2nd April 1912
The Witney Gazette CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE
The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the...
20th April 1912
Atlantic City Daily Press PROBATE WILL OF TITANIC VICTIM
Frederick Sutton, Coffee Importer, Leaves $50,000 and Upwards to Family ---------- The will of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, N. J., who lost his life in the wreck of the steamship Titanic, was probated yesterday aftern...
30th April 1912
  LETTER TO MRS. HARRIS
Typed letter on letterhead from Theatrical Protective Union No. 1 of New York to Mrs. Henry B. Harris, presenting her with resolutions of sympathy and attached signatures of the organization’s membership. New York, August 17, 1912....
17th 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
Trenton Evening Times BLACKWELL HAD HEAVY INSURANCE ACCIDENT POLICY FOR $33,000
Carried by Trenton Victim of the Titanic Besides the large personal estate, in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell, who lost his life on the Titanic, he also carried accident ...
4th May 1912
Philadelphia Inquirer 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
TITANIC BLUEPRINT   TITANIC BLUEPRINT
"R.M.S. Titanic" Harland & Wolff design dept schematic scale blueprint of "Titanic's" plumbing & water systems. Approx 9ft x 20ins. This drawing was the personal property of W.D. Wilson esq., leading draughtsman at Harlan...
THE DREAM AND THEN THE NIGHTMARE Titanic Review THE DREAM AND THEN THE NIGHTMARE
George Jacub
Syrians on the Titanic...
1st July 2011
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle TITANIC SURVIVOR ETHEL BEANE DIED IN NURSING HOME
Page 1A-3A She, husband honeymooned aboard the ill-fated ship Ethel Bean, one of the remaining survivors of the sinking of the S.S. Titanic on April 15, 1912, died Saturday in Rochester. She had been living at a Roches...
17th September 1983
Chicago Record-Herald RUSE SCENTED TO AVOID CLAIM
Titanic Survivor Says She Signed Paper Thinking It Railroad Tickets Alleged unfair tactics used by the owners of the steamship Titanic to avoid damage claims from survivors were explained yesterday by Miss Annie Kelly, one of...
25th April 1912
New York Times MRS. DICK RETURNS; CARRIED TO HOSPITAL
Still Suffering From Effect of Broken Arm, Doctor Says---Silent on Boxer --- Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, former widow of the late John Jacob Astor and divorced wife of William K. Dick, returned from Bermuda yesterday on the Monarch...
4th November 1933
New York Times $27,000 TO THE PRESIDENT
Two Roosevelt Children Also Benefit by J. K. Gracie's Will --- MINEOLA, L. I., June 1---The report of Charles F. Lewis, who was appointed to appraise the personal estate in New York of James King Gracie, who was an uncle of President Th...
2nd June 1904
The Daily Banner MET BY STEPSON
MRS. ASTOR IN GOOD HEALTH DESPITE DEATH RUMORS. New York, April 19. - There were three automobiles to meet Mrs. Astor.  Mr Bobbyn, the colonel's secretary, was on the pier all evening.  Preparations were made to...
19th April 1912
Shore Press COMPTON CARRIED HEAVY INSURANCE
Accident Policy For $29,000 Held by Lakewood Victim of the Titanic ---------- Besides the large personal estate in securities, variously estimated at between $110,000 and $200,000, left by Stephen W. Blackwell of Trenton, he als...
5th May 1912
Unidentified Newspaper THE SAGE FAMILY LOST
In the appalling calamity which befell the Titanic on Monday - (pages 7 and 8) - a toll of eleven lives was exacted from Peterborough, and remarkable to say, all in one family. These were Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone Street, an...
April 1912
  MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE (ORIGINAL) Livro de Casamentos da Paróquia de São Brás, Arco da Calheta, Calheta ...
1899
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
The Times OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS
NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai...
20th April 1912
New York Times WHY MAJOR BUTT, THE PRESIDENT'S AIDE, WENT TO ROME
By a Veteran Diplomat --- That President Taft has made up his mind to follow the custom of the non-Catholic Courts and Governments in Europe, on the subject of the precedence to be accorded to Cardinals in the United States, no matter w...
14th April 1912
New York Times PEACE MEN MOURN THEIR LOSS
Andrew Carnegie Signs Resolutions of Regret for Five Members --- The National Committee for the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English-speaking peoples in 1914-1915 sent out yesterday this resolution passed ...
21st April 1912
Galesburg Republican Register UNKNOWN TITLE
Frank Karun, a member of the Austrian immigrant colony in this city, will have some stirring things to tell when he returns to the city of the loss of the big steamship Titanic and his rescue later by the Carpathia . Just at present Mr. Karun is at t...
22nd 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 MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT
President's Aid Had Gone on a Special Mission to the Pope --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15.-Major Archibald Willingham Butt, President Taft’s Military Aid, [sic] was returning on the Titanic afte...
16th April 1912
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News CHRISTOPHER HEAD
A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa...
April 1998
Chicago Tribune DULUTH WOMAN TELLS STORY
. . . Miss Constance Willard of Duluth, Minn., who left the Titanic twenty minutes before the vessel sank, arrived in Chicago during the day over the Lake Shore limited. "One subject talked of after we were on board the Carpathi...
21st April 1912
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
  THEODOOR DE MULDER'S CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To Be Given To The Person Naturalized No. 3637076 CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP Petition No. 71418 Personal description of holder as of date of naturalizatio...
5th December 1932
CERAMIC : THE SOLE SURVIVOR Voyage CERAMIC : THE SOLE SURVIVOR
By 1942, the White Star Line had merged with Cunard, and many of its ships had been sold off or sent to the scrapyard. Among the former was Ceramic, launched in 1913 and for many years the largest vessel in ...
18th December 2006
  MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE (ORIGINAL) Livro de Casamentos da Paróquia de São Brás, Arco da Calheta, Calheta ...
1910
New York Times THE TITANIC
Col. Gracie’s Account of Last Year’s Sea Tragedy --- THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TITANIC. By Col. Archibald Gracie. Mitchell Kennerly. $1.25 --- When the Titanic went to the bottom of the Atlantic now more than a year ago it wa...
4th May 1913
New York Times ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD
Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster --- The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead was William F. Hoyt.  Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's death y...
27th April 1912
RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY   RMS TITANIC MISCELLANY
IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS : The RMS Titanic Miscellany John D.T. White Foreword by Eamonn Holmes ...
23rd March 2011
New York Times Book Review THE LEGENDS STAY AFLOAT
DOWN TO ETERNITY.  By Richard O'Connor. 191 pp. New York:Gold Medal Books. 35 cents. --- By BURKE WILKINSON --- Anyone interested in the Titanic disaster will want to read this book, if only to com...
19th February 1956
Washington Times NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER'S HERO
Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo...
20th April 1912
New York Times MARY GARDEN'S SIDE IN SUIT
Bill for Gowns "Outrageous," Her Lawyer Wrote Lucille, Ltd. --- A statement in behalf of Mary Garden was made yesterday by her attorney, Jacob Klein, concerning the suit filed against her in the Supreme Court on Tuesday by Lucille, Ltd...
22nd May 1919
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ET Comment SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
Tad Fitch, Sam Halpern and Bill Wormstedt
In Senan Molony's article of 6 November 2006, entitled: "Hugh Woolner's US Evidence is Highly Unreliable," the author attempts to discredit the evidence presented by Woolner at the US Inquiry based on a newspaper report i...
5th December 2006
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS-Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society (Orphan Asylum,) passed at a meeting specially called for the purpose of considering the tragic and untimely death of Isidor Straus: Isidor Straus t...
4th May 1912
NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS Titanic Research NOTES ON LIFEBOAT LISTS
Peter Engberg
Explore the difficulties in producing a credible list of lifeboat placements....
11th July 1999
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 GROUNDING OF TITANIC Titanic Research THE GROUNDING OF TITANIC
David G. Brown and Parks E. Stephenson
Explores the hypothesis that that Titanic grounded on an underwater shelf of the iceberg....
6th June 2001
Outlook THE RESCUED : BY AN EYE-WITNESS ON THE CARPATHIA
Article...
27th April 1912
ELIZABETH NYE : TITANIC SURVIVOR Titanic Review ELIZABETH NYE : TITANIC SURVIVOR
Monica Hall
This fondly-written book had a strange overall effect upon me - it almost made me wish I were religious....
24th February 2009
Connaught Telegraph WRECK OF THE TITANIC
The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ...
20th April 1912
  MME. AUBART: LUXURY LOST
After her rescue from Titanic, French singer Leontine Pauline ("Ninette") Aubart, better remembered as the mistress of American millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, wrote the following letter to the White Star Line, itemizing her lost possessions: ...
1st May 1912
  NOTE BY FRANCES WILSON ON THE ISMAY FAMILY ARCHIVE
Frances Wilson
Frances Wilson, author of How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay discusses her enduring interest in the Titanic and her discovery of the Ismay family archive...
11th August 2011
GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC Titanic Research GUNSHOTS ON THE TITANIC
Earl Chapman
Were shots fired as the Titanic went down? If so whom and toward whom?...
30th July 2001
New York Times P. A. B. WIDENER GIVES $4,000,000 TO SCHOOL
Endowment Is Announced Coincident with the Filing of His Son’s and Grandson’s Wills --- TO AID CRIPPLED CHILDREN --- George Widener, Lost on the Titanic, Left His Estate to Family---Harry’s Rare Books for Harvard --...
21st May 1912
Washington Times PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT FEAR HE WENT DOWN WITH SHIP
"The White Stare [sic] Line Company his searched its list of survivors for the name of Major Archibald Butt. We regret to say that his name does not appear up to the present time among those known to be saved.” The above message, in e...
16th April 1912
ICE ON DECK Titanic Research ICE ON DECK
Henning Pfeifer
Further analysis of the iceberg impact....
12th February 2002
New York Times SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON TO RETIRE FROM SEA
Commodore of Cunard Fleet and Captain of Berengaria 35 Years in Line's Service --- SAVED 706 FROM TITANIC --- Rescue by Carpathia Won for Him American Decoration and Plaudits of World --- Wireless to THE NEW ...
1st November 1930
HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE. ET Comment HUGH WOOLNER'S US EVIDENCE IS HIGHLY UNRELIABLE.
Senan Molony
The US evidence of Hugh Woolner is highly unreliable. He claims that he and Hakan Bjornstrom Steffanson saw Boat D "about to lower", then went across to the starboard side, and saw an officer fire two shots to get men out of a collapsible...
6th November 2006
New York Times TRIBUTE TO J. C. SMITH
Col. Gracie Tells How He and Also E. A. Kent Died Bravely --- After reading letters in the morning papers from friends of James Clinch Smith, asking why no account had been written of the part he must have taken in the heroic work of res...
25th April 1912
 

 
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