President Of The United States

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New York Times REID ASKS TO REPRESENT FISK STOCKHOLDERS AT MEETING ON SALE PROPOSAL ON FRIDAY
Whitfield Reid, chairman of the stockholders' committee "in favor of a more equitable price for the assets" of the Fisk Rubber Corporation, has sent a letter to all holders of the common shares asking that his group represent them at the meeting...
26th December 1939
BERTHE LEROY'S CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES   BERTHE LEROY'S CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Berthe Leroy became a naturalized citizen of the United States on 14th July 1942....
14th July 1942
  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
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
New York Times ROEBLING IS EXCUSED FROM JURY
Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 16---When the panel for the April term of the United States Grand Jury reported to-day, Charles G. Roebling, President of the John A. Roebling Sons Company, and father of Washingto...
17th April 1912
Philadelphia Inquirer 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
New York Times FIERMONTE TO BE BROKER
Husband of Former Mrs. Astor Plans Career on Return Here --- ROME, March 6 (AP)---Enzo Fiermonte said today the threatened trouble in Abyssinia, in which he may become involved as a soldier for Italy, brought him and his American wife m...
7th March 1935
Chicago Tribune FIRST CLAIMS DUE TO TITANIC DISASTER TO BE SETTLED
 PAY $20,000 LEWY INSURANCE First Claims due to Titanic Disaster to Be Settled In United States, So Far as Known      ...
11th May 1912
UNITED STATES AFFIDAVIT OF IDENTIFICATION   UNITED STATES AFFIDAVIT OF IDENTIFICATION
17th August 1928
BERTHE LEROY AROUND THE TIME OF HER EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES   BERTHE LEROY AROUND THE TIME OF HER EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES
Worcester Telegram FROM POPE AND KING
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18th 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
San Francisco Examiner DOCTOR DODGE IS OPERATED ON; CONDITION SERIOUS
Page 13, column 7 Former Broker and Assessor Very Low After Attempted Suicide With Pistol Following an operation at the St. Francis Hospital yesterday, the condition of Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker and Assessor ...
23rd June 1919
New York Times MONUMENT TO BUTT SOON
Promoters Almost Ready to Start Work on Fountain --- WASHINGTON, June 18---Work on the foundation for the fountain to be erected to the memory of Major Archibald W. Butt, Military Aid to President Taft, and Francis Millet, the arti...
19th June 1913
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES
Harry Anderson, Commodore of N. Y. A. C. Yacht Unit, Was 87 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Nov. 24---Harry Anderson, a survivor of the sinking of the White Star liner Titanic in 1912, died yeste...
25th November 1951
New York Times LADY DUFF-GORDON EXAMINED
Declared She Merely Lent Her Name to Corporation, Lucile, Limited --- Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon visited the Federal Building yesterday with her counsel, Bainbridge Colby, to have a talk with Assistant United States District Attorney Wemple...
6th June 1911
New York Times MANILA HONORS BUTT
Cathedral Dedicated to Titanic Hero and to Dr. Freer --- MANILA, May 1---The Rt. Rev. C. H. Brent, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Philippines, to-day dedicated memorial windows in the American Cathedral here to Major Archibald W. Bu...
11th May 1914
Washington Times MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MAJ. BUTT TO BE HELD MAY 5TH
President and Senators Pay High Tributes to Dead Hero --- Memorial services for Major Archibald Butt, whose name is one of the most prominent among the Titanic’s heroic dead, will be held in this city on May 5 under the auspices of Temp...
19th April 1912
The Nation STEAD AND FUTRELLE
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25th April 1912
Newark Evening News TWO TRENTON FAMILIES FEAR FATE OF YOUNG MEN
Two prominent young Trentonians aboard the Titanic are Washington A. Roebling, second, and Stephen W. Blackwell, who were returning home from an automobile trip through Europe....
16th April 1912
  PROBATE REPORT
Smart, John Montgomery of F26/F27 Produce Exchange, New York, United States of America. Administration with Will limited, registered London 9th December 1916 to Samuel Peck Director attorney of Jeremiah Tivomey. Effects in England £134.17.9d....
9th December 1916
New York Times 3,000 ON THE ADRIATIC
Bruce Ismay, Bourke Cockran, and R. W. Perks Among the Passengers --- QUEENSTOWN, May 9---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool yesterday on her maiden voyage sailed from here to-day for New York with nearly 3,00...
10th May 1907
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
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
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
New York Times R. W. DANIEL MARRIES MRS. C. B. CHRISTIAN
President of Liberty National Bank Weds as Third Wife Distant Relative in Virginia --- Special to The New York Times --- RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 10---Robert W. Daniel, president of the Liberty National Bank of New York, and Mr...
11th October 1929
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser UNKNOWN TITLE
Other Cornish passengers were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman, who were going to Chicago. Mr. Chapman, a son of Mr. Chapman, Carpuan Farm, St. Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at h...
18th April 1912
New York Times ROBERT W. DANIEL, EX-BANKER HERE, 56
Virginia State Senator, Once Head of Liberty National, Stricken in Richmond --- OWNED HISTORIC ESTATE --- Brandon-on James Was Visited by Many Presidents---Was Survivor of the Titanic --- RICHMOND, Va., Dec. ...
21st December 1940
New York Times HERMAN MANDELBAUM
Herman Mandlebaum, a retired wholesale tobacco merchant, died yesterday at his residence, 200 West Eighty-sixth Street, after a long illness. He was born in Kassel, Germany, eighty-three years ago, and came to the United States at the age of 13. Th...
20th April 1933
New York Times ASTOR SALE LIKELY TO HELP MRS. DICK
Permission to Dispose of Trust Property Would Raise Her Income to $60,000 --- NOW GETS $43,000 [sic] FROM IT --- Trustee Has Offer of $1,200,000 for Realty In West Thirty-Fourth Street---Affects Vincent --- A...
1st August 1922
  PROBATE REPORTS
Probate Report: Millet, Francis Davis, of Russell House, Broadway, Worcestershire and Washington, United States of America. Probate report: Probate registered London, 13th November, 1912, to Lily Millet, widow. Effects in ...
13th November 1912
New York Times CAPT ROSTRON AT CONCERT
For the Benefit of Titanic's Musicians---Receives $10,000 To-day --- Capt. Arthur Henry Rostron of the Cunard liner Carpathia returned last night to the Carpathia after his trip to Philadelphia, where he had been the guest of Mrs. John ...
3rd June 1912
Newark Star AWAIT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM
Up to late last night the body of John S. March, of 59 Emmett street, one of the five United States mail clerks who lost their lives in the recent Titanic disaster, had not reached the city and no word has received by the firm of Smith & Smith, 944 B...
6th May 1912
New York Times LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES
Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ...
19th April 1912
Cambridge Independent Press DAVID BARTON
David Barton, a Wicken lad, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw Barton, of Wicken, was on the Titanic, on his way to the United States. where he intended to settle, and it is feared he is one of those who have lost their lives. He should have left by anothe...
19th April 1912
Western Morning News TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,...
17th April 1912
Western Morning News TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ...
17th April 1912
New York Times A. D. BRANDEIS DIES; ILL ONLY A WEEK
Former Vice President of Stern Brothers Suffered Attack of Appendicitis --- MADE FORTUNE IN WEST --- Built Largest Department Store in Omaha--Erected Three Theatres and a Hotel --- Arthur D. Brandeis, Preside...
11th June 1916
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 ROSTRON BEATS HIMSELF TO NEW YORK BY WIRELESS
Page 17 Photograph sent by Wireless London to New York The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company states that when the Mauretania arrived in New York yesterday, under Captain Rostron, he found that a copy of his photograph had...
24th April 1926
Newark Evening News JOHN HARDY DIES AT 82
New Providence Resident Survived the Sinking of Liner Titanic --- John Hardy of 71 Gales drive, New Providence, who was chief steward of the second class accommodations aboard the White Star liner Titanic when it sank in 1912, died yest...
8th October 1953
DANIEL BUCKLEY AS US INFANTRYMAN   DANIEL BUCKLEY AS US INFANTRYMAN
Titanic survivor Daniel Buckley in the uniform and puttees of the United States Army. Buckley fought and died in World War One, and is now buried in his home town of Ballydesmond, Co. Cork, Ireland. Titanic crewman Sid Daniels also fought i...
New York Times MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER
Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit...
3rd March 1912
The Washington Post BLAME FOR TITANIC HORROR
President of British Board of Trade Arraigned in Commons He Retorts That Parliament is Equally at Fault for Failure to Enforce Steamship Regulations London May 21 – The attack on Sydney Buxton, president of the...
22nd May 1912
LOS ANGELES OVER CITY HALL PARK, NYC.   LOS ANGELES OVER CITY HALL PARK, NYC.
This view shows the Los Angeles ~ The United States' most successful rigid airship~ over City Hall Park in NYC, in the mid-1920s.  The Los Angeles was built in Germany by the Zeppelin Company as a war reparation, and outlived her contemporary-the...
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STAR DENIES SHE'S QUITTING Record Eagle STAR DENIES SHE'S QUITTING
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15th May 1953
New York Times CUSTOMS MEN CALL LADY DUFF-GORDON
After Arresting Manager of Her Shop on Charge of Undervaluing Imported Gowns --- WANT HER AS WITNESS --- Only Employe, Not President, of Lucile, Limited, Now, It is Said -...
26th May 1911
New York Times KARL H. BEHR DIES; DILLON, READ AIDE
Page 87, column 3 Vice President of Banking Firm for 24 Years Once Known as Leading Tennis Player. Karl H. Behr, vice president of Dillon, Read & Co., bankers, 28 Nassau Street, who was one of the country's leading tenni...
16th October 1949
New York Times HENRY B. HARRIS
Well-Known Theatrical Manager Who Has Won Many Successes --- Henry B. Harris, who leaped into prominence in the New York theatrical field only about half a dozen years ago as manager, and producer, was, nevertheless, a veteran of many y...
16th April 1912
New York Times MISS BENITA R. GUGGENHEIM MARRIES LIEUT. E. B. MAYER
The marriage of Miss Benita Rosalind Guggenheim, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin M. Guggenheim, and First Lieutenant Edward B. Mayer, United States Air Servive, which took place on Thursday at the homeof the bride, 270 Park Avenue. Lieutenant Mayer comes ...
18th May 1919
New York Times FIERMONTE AND WIFE BACK
To Stay Here 3 Months---He Will Shun Prize Ring --- Enzo Fiermonte, former Italian prizefighter, returned to the United States on the North German Lloyd liner Europa yesterday, accompanied by his wife, the former Mrs. Madeleine Force As...
2nd August 1935
The Washington Post TITANIC CLAIMS $10,000,000
Mrs Irene Harris Asks $1,000,000 for Loss of Husband New York, Jan 12 – A flood of petitions for damages through the loss of the steamer Titanic, filed today; included one Mrs Irene Wallach Harris, who claims $1,000,000...
16th January 1913
Leicester Mercury REMINDER OF A SEA DISASTER
There's a large black stone cross in the churchyard of St. Mary Magdalene, Knighton, that serves as a permanent reminder of a sea tragedy that shook the world 70 years ago. The inscription says: Erected to the beloved memory of Denzil ...
6th April 1982
New York Times LUCILLE, LIMITED, MANAGER PLEADS
Thomas J. Duggan, Manager of Lucile, Limited, of 17 West Thirty-sixth Street, who is charged with the undervaluation of gowns and dress models, entered a formal plea of not guilty, before Judge Archbald in the Criminal Branch of the United States ...
7th July 1911
The Times SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON
Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, K.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., for many years Commodore of the Cunard Fleet and one of the most famous of the commanders of the Mauretania, died at the Cottage Hospital, Chippenham, on Monday, after a ...
6th November 1940
The Syracuse Herald WITNESS SWEARS TITANIC SAILORS WERE UNTRAINED
Special to The Syracuse Herald New York, May 3 – Mrs J Stuart White of Briarcliffe, N.Y., a survivor of the Titanic disaster yesterday testified before Senator William Alden Smith, chairman of the United States Senat...
3rd May 1912
Washington Herald ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK
Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He...
19th April 1912
Berkshire Chronicle DETAINED AT WASHINGTON
Detained at Washington. Among those who were expected to have arrived home on the Lapland was Mr, Frederick Dent Ray, of 'Akbar' 56 palmer Park Avenue, Reading. Mr Ray, who was a steward on the Titanic, cabled home to his relatives informing them...
29th April 1912
INFORMATION FOR CRUISE MEMBERS   INFORMATION FOR CRUISE MEMBERS
An outside double room with bath. Rooms decorated in this fashion may be found on the Main, B and C Decks. INFORMATION FOR CRUISE-MEMBERS Membership in the Cruise includes accommodations in the Normandie from New Y...
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New York Times NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
New Members Admitted---Models for the Paris Exposition --- The adjourned third general meeting of the New York Yacht Club was held yesterday afternoon in Delmonico's, Beaver Street. The principal business transacted was the election of ...
16th June 1899
The Times LEGAL APPOINTMENTS
1910-03-07
PEERAGE FOR SIR JOHN BIGHAM --- The King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Sir Samuel Thomas Evans, K.C., to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, ...
Washington Herald W. B. SILVEY KNOWN HERE
Missing Titanic Passenger's Family Prominent in Army --- William B. Silvey, who is one of the missing passengers of the ill-fated Titanic, is well known in Washington. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the First United States Arti...
19th April 1912
The Times LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT
His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte...
1st January 1916
Washington Herald MAJ. BUTT IS PAID TRIBUTE BY MASONS
Scottish Rite Order Respects Memory of Aid to President Reported Drowned --- The ceremonies incident to the conferring of the thirtieth degree of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, last night upon a large class of candi...
18th April 1912
TITANIC NEWS VENDORS IN WASHINGTON D.C.   TITANIC NEWS VENDORS IN WASHINGTON D.C.
Washington news vendors at the time of the Titanic disaster. Headline to The Washington Post:   Mission of two United States cruisers fails; ...
April 1912
Bucks Free Press DAVIES : AN ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
Mr Edgar J Davies, of Seer Green, was plaintiff in four actions. It was stated that plaintiff had gone to the United States of America on the Titanic, and had been drowned. Mr J Baily Gibson (Messrs Charsleys and Gibson, of Beaconsfield) appear...
19th 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
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
The Times MR. CHARLES M. HAYS MISSING
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) --- MONTREAL, APRIL 18 --- A message by wireless telegraphy from the Carpatlhia was received at the offices of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal this morning signed ...
19th April 1912
New York Times BARRED FROM BERMUDA
Enzo Fiermonte, Boxer, Will Return to the United States --- HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 13 (AP)---Refused permission to land in Bermuda, Enzo Fiermonte, Italian boxer, who is reported to be seeking the hand of the wealthy Mrs. Madeline Dick...
14th October 1933
Washington Times WILLIAM T. STEAD KNOWN AS FAMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN
William Thomas Stead, an English newspaper man, attained wide notoriety as the man who introduced the methods of American journalism into England. Before his day the interview, illustrations, and extra editions were unknown to British journalism. Tho...
16th April 1912
Washington Herald MAJ. BUTT TOLD FRIENDS HE HAD FEAR OF MISHAP
Remarks of the President's Aid Before Going Abroad Are Recalled --- President Taft yesterday made earnest efforts to obtain news of Maj. Archibald Butt, his military aid. He communicated two or three times with the White Star offices i...
17th April 1912
Washington Times TITANIC MAIL CLERK'S WIFE ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR NEWS ABOUT HIM
Mrs. Lelia Woody, wife of O. S. Woody, United States mail clerk aboard the Titanic, is in Clifton, Va., today, anxiously awaiting news of the disaster, and hoping against hope he did not go down with the wrecked steamer. Woody is well ...
17th April 1912
New York Times 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
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
  ELOPEMENT
Mr Denis Lennon and Mary Mullin were actually eloping to the United States together, hence the shroud of secrecy and the reason why the two are listed as brother and sister. The truth is Denis found a job as barman in the Mullin family's ...
New York Times RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON
Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Under­valued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f...
27th May 1911
Washington Post SEAT IN U.S. SENATE CHIEF AMBITION OF NOTED SOCIETY WOMAN FROM COLORADO
Mrs. J.J. Brown, a Favorite in Smart Set and Politics Mrs. J.J. Brown of Denver, a possible candidate for the United States Senate, is shown above with her niece, Miss Helen Tobin, who recently created a sensation in her J...
26th July 1914
New York Times JUDGMENT FOR $266,249 LOAN
Judgment for $266,249 was entered by default yesterday against John D. Baumann & Co., a New York corporation, in favor of Charles G., Hugh L., Herbert R., and William R. Arbuthnot, merchants of London. The judgment was entered for amounts claimed as ...
4th February 1909
New York Times TITANIC WIDOW TO WED
Mrs. Ryerson of Chicago Will Marry Forsythe Sherfesse, Financier --- CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (AP)---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson, whose husband, Albert [sic] Ryerson, lost his life when the Titanic sank, will be married next week, it is announced, ...
2nd December 1927
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
New York Times ACCUSE WIRELESS OPERATOR
PHILADELPHIA, April 20---Charges were made to-day by the chief electrician of the United States scout cruiser Chester, which was sent to the aid of the Carpathia, having on board the survivors of the Titanic, that the wireless operators on board the ...
21st April 1912
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
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
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
New York Times TAFT CONCERNED FOR BUTT
Chance of Major's Safety a Faint One, but President Holds to It --- WASHINGTON, April 16---The White House was not a cheerful place to-day, for President Taft, most of his Cabinet, and many callers were deeply concerned over the probabl...
17th April 1912
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
New York Times ALEXANDER RICE, EXPLORER, WAS 80
Physician and Author Dies---Made Trips on the Amazon and Taught Navigation --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I, July 23---Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, explorer of the Amazon, author and member of the summe...
24th July 1956
New York Times JOHN HARDY
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEW PROVIDENCE, N. J., Oct. 9---John Hardy of 71 Gales Drive, who was chief steward of second class accommodations on the Titanic, died on Wednesday at the home of his son, Ronald M. Hardy, in Maplewood...
10th October 1953
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
The Times PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM CONFERRED UPON PIRRIE
BIRTHDAY HONOURS The King has been pleased to make the following appointments on the occasion of His Majesty's Birthday:--- *** NEW PEERS The King has been pleased to confer Peerages of the United Kingdom ...
29th June 1906
Daily Mining Gazette JOHN M. DAVIS, 45, FORMER C.C. MAN, PASSES IN DETROIT
Page 2 John M. Davis, 45, a former Copper Country man, died suddenly in Detroit Sunday morning, according to word received here. Born in England, he came to the United States with his mother, being one of the survivors of th...
17th December 1951
NIEUW AMSTERDAM CARD ROOM. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM CARD ROOM. 1938.
LIBRARY and CARD ROOM: Abaft the Grand Hall are the Library and Card Room, which flank the connecting glass paneled corridor leading to the Smoking and Ritz-Carlton rooms. Decorated in black and silver, with a note of maroon here and there, Wijdevel...
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New York Times 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 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
New York Times CAPT. ROSTRON GETS MEDAL
Taft and Bryce Both Praising the Titanic Rescuer --- WASHINGTON, March 1---President Taft presented to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron to-day the gold medal authorized by Congress for his courage and gallantry in rescuing the survivors of the T...
2nd March 1913
Washington Times TAFT DENIES BUTT WENT ON MISSION TO THANK PONTIFF
President Sends Letter to Tennessean Explaining Trip of Military Aide --- President Taft today denied Major Archibald Butt was returning from a mission to Rome when he went to his death on the luckless Tiatnic. ...
22nd April 1912
New York Times MRS. E. B. SHERFESEE, ONCE HOOVER AIDE
Head of the American Fund for French Wounded Won Croix de Guerre---Titanic Survivor --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 29---Mrs. Emily Borie Sherfesee, wife of Forsythe Sherfesee, former fiananc...
30th December 1939
Chicago Examiner LAKE SHIP FLAGS LOWERED
Placed at Half-Mast in Memory of President J. B. Thayer Duluth, April 20--Flags were placed at half-mast on all ships of the Anchor Line in the harbor here today, out of respect for President J. B. Thayer of that lin...
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
Washington Times DEATH OF MAJOR BUTT MOURNED BY WASHINGTONIANS
Persons in Official and Private Life Speak Eulogistically of the President’s Military Aide Who Died---A Soldier --- Men of the United States army and navy, men who lived under the same roof---the men who knew Major Butt most intimately-...
19th April 1912
New York Times TAFT AT PRESS CLUB DINNER
He and Major Butt Entertained in Louisville-Col. Watterson Speaks --- LOUISVILLE, Nov. 8.--A dinner by the Louisville Press Club was the principal feature of President Taft's visit here this evening, and at it the President divid...
11th August 1911
New York Times JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY
Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani...
16th April 1912
M. FALLIERES SENDS MESSAGES TO KING GEORGE AND PRESIDENT TAFT Le Petit Journal M. FALLIERES SENDS MESSAGES TO KING GEORGE AND PRESIDENT TAFT
President of French Republic feels concerned about Major Butt...
17th December 1908
New York Times RITES FOR ASTOR ATTENDED BY 400
Realty Leader's Funeral Is Held at St. James Church---Honor Guard Present --- More than 400 friends and business associates attended a funeral service yesterday for Vincent Astor. The real estate owner and descendant of John Jacob Astor...
7th February 1959
New York Times FIERMONTE VISITS HIS WIFE IN NAPLES
Italian Boxer Remains With Former Mrs. Astor an Hour Then Hurries Away --- POLICE TAKE HIS PASSPORT --- His First Wife Quits Her Job as He is Said to Have Provided for Her and Their Son --- NAPLES, Sunday, F...
10th February 1935
New York Times SURVIVOR SAYS ISMAY RULED IN TITANIC'S BOATS
Managing Director Had Charge Of Their Launching, Testifies Karl H. Behr....
26th June 1915
Chicago Tribune ANN STRAUBE
Ann Straube, 92, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday in her North Side home. Mrs. Straube, a homemaker, was 14 when she managed to get aboard a lifeboat when the British passenger liner s...
31st January 1990
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : LIBRARY. 1938.   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : LIBRARY. 1938.
LIBRARY and CARD ROOM: Abaft the Grand Hall are the Library and Card Room, which flank the connecting glass paneled corridor leading to the Smoking and Ritz-Carlton rooms. Decorated in black and silver, with a note of maroon here and there, Wijdevel...
Gare Maritime
New York Times 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
Chicago Tribune CHILD FEARED LOST ON TITANIC REPORTED LIVING IN MICHIGAN
Montreal, Que., Sept. 4 (AP)--A Montreal family was stirred today by the prospect that Lorraine Allison, long believed to have been drowned in the Titanic disaster of 1912, still is alive and residing in Berkley, Mich., as Mrs. Laurence K...
5th September 1940
BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE   BOXHALL LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE
A letter from Titanic Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall to the President of the Board of Trade, Sydney Buxton, written in July 1912 while Boxhall was serving aboard the Adriatic. Boxhall complained about the fees paid to...
11th July 1912
Chicago Tribune MRS. BERTHA CHRISTENSEN
 Mrs. Bertha Christensen   Services for Mrs. Bertha Christensen, 83, of 4205 Fullerton Av., will be at 1 p.m. ...
29th December 1976
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
New York Times WIDOW OF TITANIC'S COMMANDER IS DEAD
Husband Was Captain E. J. Smith, Who Went Down in Sea Tragedy of 1912 --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 29---The Titanic disaster was recalled today with the death of Mrs. Sarah Eleanor Smith, widow of C...
30th April 1931
New York Times ANDREW SAKS DEAD AT 65
President and One of the Founders of Dry Goods House of Saks & Co. --- Andrew Saks, President and one of the founders of Saks & Co., the dry goods house, died yesterday morning in his apartment at Sherry's. Death followed a long illness...
9th April 1912
New York Times BOSTON MAN MISSING
A. W. Newell's Two Daughters Among Survivors, but No Report of Him --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, April 16---Nearly a dozen Boston men, known to have been aboard the Titanic, are unaccounted for. Some were a...
16th April 1912
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
New York Times IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST
Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com...
8th March 1907
Washington Herald CAPT. ROSTRON TELLS OF RESCUE
CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON
The Chief Officer of Carpathia Relates His Thrilling Experiences --- SIGHTED AT DAYLIGHT --- By CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON --- Statement by the captain of the Cunard steamship Carpathia, rescuer of the Titanic...
19th April 1912
New York Times J. BRUCE ISMAY ARRIVES HERE
J. Bruce Ismay, President of the International Mercantile Marine Company, arrived yesterday on the Cunard liner Mauretania.  With him was Vice President Harold A. Sanderson and E. C. Grenfell, the latter a Director of ...
27th February 1910
New York Times ROME NOW CROWDED
Frank Millet, the President of the Consolidated American Academy, is about to turn his face homeward, although he came from New York less than a month ago. However, important affairs take him back to the land of his birth. He is accompanied by Majo...
31st March 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
Newark Evening News GOVERNMENT TO SHIP BODY OF MARCH HERE
The government authorities are making arrangements to bring the body of John S. March, one of the three United States mail clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic, from Halifax to Newark, according to information received by Miss Antoinette A. Mar...
29th April 1912
Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette CLAIM TITANIC NOT SEAWORTHY
FIRST TIME SUGGESTION IS MADE SINCE DISASTER Plea Advanced by Injured Employee of Liner Which Went Down After Collision With Iceberg - Assert Negligence Also By Associated P...
16th January 1914
Camden Post-Telegram DIRECTORS OF BANK MOURN FOR SUTTON
Collingswood Board May Elect Successor to President Who Was Titanic Victim --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH The Titanic disaster is the cause of a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Collingswood National Bank t...
25th April 1912
New York Times TAFT'S TRIBUTE TO BUTT
WASHINGTON, April 19---President Taft was notified as soon as the Carpathia docked and the corrected list of survivors was made public that Major Butt was not on board. With all hope for the rescue of his aid abandoned, the President to-day issued...
20th April 1912
New York Times MRS. THOMAS CARDEZA
Page 21, column 1 Wife of Philadelphia Explorer, Kin of Racine, Red Cross Aide PHILADELPHIA, Nov 11 Mrs. Mary Racine Cardeza, wife of Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza, Philadelphia sportsman and explorer, ...
12th November 1943
Evening Bulletin MRS. BREWE COLLAPSES
Widow 0f Physician Lost on Titanic in Serious Condition at Her Home Here --- Crushed under the news of the death of her husband, Dr. Arthur Jackson Brewe, on board the Titanic, Mrs. Brewe is in se...
20th April 1912
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
The Times LIGHTOLLER'S 'SUNDOWNER' IN LIFEBOAT EMERGENCY
Search for 60ft Cabin Cruiser Shipping asked to keep look-out All shipping in the Channel and North Sea has been asked to keep a look-out for the 60ft cabin cruiser "Sundowner," with eight people on board, which Margate ...
23rd September 1953
New York Times EXTENDING PUMP CO. PLANTS
On Inspection Tour President Guggenheim Finds Orders Beyond Capacity --- President Benjamin Guggenheim of the International Steam Pump Company, who has just returned from a tour of inspection of the company's Eastern plants, issued a sta...
21st October 1909
New York Times PASSENGERS FROM EUROPE GRIEVED
[Note: U.S. President William McKinley was shot by an assassin on 6 September 1901, and died on 14 September.] Heard with Amazement About the Shooting of the President ---------- News Casts Gloom Over Big Liner...
8th September 1901
New York Times MRS. FRED J. SWIFT, WAS CLUB LEADER
Ex-Head of National Council of State Garden Units Dies---Officer in Many Groups --- NYACK, N. Y., April 30---Mrs. Margaret Welles Swift, prominent club-woman and widow of Fred Joel Swift, died yesterday in her home here...
1st May 1948
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
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
New York Times TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES
To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...
1st May 1915
New York Times PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY
Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...
11th October 1914
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
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Sofia was a maid. She was born in the village of Riistavesi, near Kuopio, in 1874. She moved to Helsinki in 1905, where she worked at the School For The Blind for three years. After this job she worked for some time at the Missionary House, and then ...
New York Times ROSTRON GETS MEDAL TO-DAY
Rescuer of Titanic Survivors Arrives in Washington to Receive Honor --- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28---Capt. A. H. Rostron, who, as commander of the steamship Carpathia, directed the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic disaster, arrived here ...
1st March 1913
Washington Herald MAJ. BUTT' S PLACE NOT YET FILLED
President Taft Has Not Asked War Department to Fill Vacancy as Chief Aid --- President Taft has not yet asked the War Department to detail a chief White House aid to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Maj. Butt. The War Department ...
21st April 1912
New York Times LUCILE'S CREDITORS FORCE RECEIVERSHIP
Dressmakers Established by Lady Duff Gordon Owe $175,000, Have $75,000 --- HER $200 A WEEK UNPAID --- General Business Blamed and Report Is Denied of Bad Bills Among Patrons --- Lucile, Ltd., dressmakers, 19 East Fifty-f...
21st March 1922
NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS LOUNGE, 1938   NIEUW AMSTERDAM : THIRD CLASS LOUNGE, 1938
THIRD CLASS LOUNGE: Main Deck. A striking room of reds, whites and blues. Walls, partly satinwood, partly of Hasco-relief. Ceiling white, with dropped sides. Floor covered with soft, speckled, light gray carpet. Chairs satinwood, some upholstered in ...
Gare Maritime
The Times NEW M.P. FOR EAST BELFAST
Mr. Henry P. Harland, a director of Harland and Wolff, was yesterday returned as Conservative member of Parliament for East Belfast. No other candidate was nominated. The seat became vacant through the elevation to the peera...
9th February 1940
  PROFILE FROM THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
William Edward Hipkins (1858 - 1912) MIMechE Elected: Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1898 Designation: Managing Director Business address: Soho Foundry, Smethwick, Birmingham ...
1898
New York Times ONLY ONE PASSENGER SAVED HIS BAGGAGE
S. L. Goldenberg Brought a "Carry-All" Ashore Loaded with His Effects --- CUSTOMS MEN PASSED IT --- Don't Know How It Reached the Carpathia from the Titanic---Bag Was Not Wet --- Of all the baggage that was on the W...
24th April 1912
New York Times YOUNG ROEBLING ON TITANIC
Son of President of Roebling Sons and Noted Autoist --- Special to The New York Times --- TRENTON, N. J., April 15---Washlngton A. Roebling, second, a son of Charles G. Roebling, President of the John A. Roebling Sons Co.,...
16th April 1912
New York Times STEAD PROPHESIED A VIOLENT DEATH
Once Said He Would Never Die in His Bed, but in a Crowd, Struggling --- 2,000 AT MEMORIAL FOR HIM --- Dr. Hillis and J. A. MacDonald Praise Him as an Editor and a Fighter Against War and Social Evils --- More...
23rd April 1912
War Cry SALVATIONISTS ON THE TITANIC: TWO RESCUED
- Mother spends five hours on raft and sees sons drown - Died Like true Soldiers Commissioner Eva Booth Meets Survivors Indescribably Pathetic Scenes at Wharf - New York Stricken with Grief - Army Shelt...
27th April 1912
New York Times FIERMONTES FACE CHARGE OF BIGAMY
Lawyer Urges Former Mrs. Astor to Depart From Italy Lest Government Act --- ROME, Feb. 11 (AP)---The possibility of legal action by the Italian Government on charges of bigamy against both Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte and h...
12th February 1935
New York Times NEW VERSION OF BUTT'S TRIP
Was Passenger on Titanic at the Whim of Close Friend --- Richard B. Watrous, Secretary of the American Civic Association, with offices in Washington, watched the bulletin boards in Times Square with great anxiety yesterday to see if any...
17th April 1912
Chicago Examiner ERVIN LEWY : BROTHER AWAITS NEWS
Ervin G. Lewy, 5628 South Park avenue, is treasurer of the firm of Lewy Brothers, jewelers, State and Adams streets.  No dispatches have been received by Mr. Lewy's relatives late last night to indicate whether he was among those who lost the...
16th April 1912
Washington Times TAFT FEELS LOSS OF AIDE AS IF HE HAD BEEN BROTHER
President, In Statement, Praises Fidelity of Late Military Aide --- President Taft today issued another statement relative to the fate of Major Butt, in which he dwelt particularly on his incapability to indulge in “intrigue or insincer...
19th April 1912
The Times A VICTIM OF THE TITANIC.
MEMORIALS OF HENRY FORBES JULIAN. By HESTER JULIAN (Griffin & Co. 6s. net.) There is no way of summing up the total loss to the nation and to the world of such a disaster as the wreck of the Titanic. The mere tale of the number...
19th June 1914
The New York Times MORGAN IN LONDON
Wants to See Titanic Launched---Health Never Better, He Says --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, May 19---By accident THE NEW YORK TIMES correspondent met J. Pierpont Morga...
20th May 1911
St. Paul Pioneer Press JOHN P. SNYDER, 71, DIES ON GOLF COURSE
John Pillsbury Snyder, 71, longtime Minneapolis automotive firm owner, died of a heart attack while playing golf Wednesday at Woodhill Country club. He owned and operated Snyder Garage, Inc., in Minneapolis for 43 years before retiring in ...
23rd July 1959
The Times JUDICIAL CHANGES
His Majesty has been pleased to approve the following appointments to take effect on the 10th inst., namely:--- The Hon. Mr. Justice Bigham to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of...
4th February 1909
EXCUSE SENDING ... AM HALF ASLEEP Titanic Research EXCUSE SENDING ... AM HALF ASLEEP
Jemma Hyder
The experience of Carpathia Wireless Operator Harold Cottam...
17th March 2002
  MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WEIR
Col John Weir was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born on May 14th 1852 to parents John Weir and Jane Gillies. He had two brothers and two sisters: James b. 28/5/1856, Sarah b. 16/2/1858, George b. 29/1/1862 and Jane b. 30/7/1864. John marri...
Glasgow Courier SERVICES FOR TAMPICO MAN SET FOR TODAY
Page 1, Column 5 Funeral services for William DeMessemaker, 79, early-day Tampico homesteader and a survivor of the Titanic sinking, Atlantic disaster of 1912, were to be held at 3 this afternoon in St. Raphael's Catholic Church. The ...
9th June 1955
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
New York Times MILLET'S BODY CREMATED
BOSTON, May 2---A throng of men and women stood with heads uncovered in the train shed in the North Station to-day when the coffins containing the bodies of Frank D. Millet, the artist, and Richard P. [sic] White of Winchenden ...
3rd May 1912
New York Times BOSTON BANKS TO MERGE
H. K. Hallett to Head Combined Atlantic and Fourth National --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, July 21---The death of Arthur W. Newell, President of the Fourth National Bank, who was lost on the Titanic, is abou...
22nd July 1912
Chicago Sun-Times ANN STRAUBE, 92, ONE OF LAST SURVIVORS OF TITANIC DISASTER
Ann Straube, 92, one of the last survivors of the Titanic disaster, died Tuesday at her Northwest Side home. Born in 1897, Mrs. Straube was 14 at the time of the disaster. She boarded the Titanic on April 14, 1912, in Southampton, Englan...
2nd February 1990
  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 ...
Brooklyn Daily Times BROTHER OF BROOKLYNITE, A PRIEST, WAS ON TITANIC
Two of the visitors to the White Star line offices were Laurence M. Byles, Vice President of the W. E. Byles Company, Ltd., of 90 Wall street, Manhattan, and his brother, W. Hunter Byles, of Omaha. They went to inquire as to the safety of another bro...
17th April 1912
Le Mémorial des Pyrénées MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT
MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT New-York, April 17. President Taft sent messages everywhere he could, so anxious was he about the fate of his aide-de-camp major Archibald Butt. Butt was on his return journey from Rome where Taft ha...
18th April 1912
Daily Chronicle LAST WILL & TESTAMENT LOST ON TITANIC
In the High Court of Justice Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Before the Rt. Hon. Samuel Evans, President) In the goods of S. S. Jacobsohn, deceased. page 3 This was a motion by a wid...
23rd July 1912
New York Times ISMAY IS TO QUIT
Will Retire June 30---Harold Sanderson to Take His Place --- by Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, Dec. 31.---J. Bruce Ismay will retire from the Presidency of the International ...
1st January 1913
The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand) ROUND-THE-WORLD RESEARCH
Nowadays there seems to be no dearth in the number of adventurers to remote parts of the earth. The latest ambitious project in the sailing line, says an Australian paper, is a cruise round the world in a 3000-ton yacht named...
25th October 1924
Unidentified Newspaper HULL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES
A HULL SURVIVOR of the Titanic disaster has died at the age of 86. He was Irish-born Mr Edmond Ryan, formerly of Welwyn Park-road, Hull, who died in Kingston Old People's Home, Pearson Park. He leaves a daughter and a son. At the time of ...
6th November 1974
Chicago Daily Journal TITANIC WAS UNSAFE
 SAYS TITANIC WAS UNSAFE Steward, Suing for Injury in Wreck Says Precautions Were Disregarded [Associated Press Cablegram] London, Jan. 16—The plea that the Titanic was unseaworthy when she l...
16th January 1914
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
Worcester Telegram NAME NOT ON LIST BUT WOMAN IS SAFE
The Associated Press
Mrs. Edgar Meyer Wires New York That She Is Returning on Carpathia and That Her Husband Is Missing NEW YORK, April 17.- A wireless message was received today by relatives of Mrs Edgar Meyer, daughter of the late Andrew Saks, reporting ...
18th 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 AIDS FIGHT FOR LONGER PIERS
Isidor Straus Points Out Their Commercial Advantage to New York --- Isidor Straus, in an interview yesterday, urged that the Government permit the lengthening of the existing piers of the Port of New York, in order to accommodate the ne...
9th January 1911
Washington Times ARCHIBALD BUTT, MILITARY AIDE TO PRESIDENT TAFT
Major Archibald de Grafenreid Willingham Butt, who was on the Titanic, was returning to Washington on sick leave, and expected to resume his duties as military aide to President Taft at once. Suffering from that mild poisoning which follows an unendi...
16th April 1912
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE
HARRIS-At a special meeting of the Association of Theatre Managers of Greater New York, held on Saturday, April 20th, 1912, the following resolutions were adopted: Owing to the sad and sudden death of Henry B. Harris, our honored Vice ...
21st April 1912
  NELLIE WALCROFT WAS NOT MARRIED IN 1920
more information from census...
18th August 2005
New York Times PRESIDENT'S SON STAR AT RECITAL
Quentin Roosevelt, Miss Young's Pupil, Renders Three Numbers on the Piano --- [Two irrelevant subheadlines omitted.] --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 20---[Ei...
21st April 1907
Clare Journal CLARE GIRL SAVED
A telegram received in Ennis on Friday states that the girl, Mary Glynn, who was a passenger by the Titanic has been saved. ...
22nd April 1912
SUFFERERS BOTH Sunday Independent SUFFERERS BOTH
Hibernia and Columbia United in Grief...
21st April 1912
Washington Herald CLAIMS MRS. GAGE SUFFERS PARANOIA
Dr. William A. White Testifies Concerning Examination of Defendant in Insanity Case --- Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, testified yesterday afternoon before Justice Barnard and a jury, giv...
18th April 1912
New York Times SIR ARTHUR ROSTRON SAILS AS COMMODORE
Senior Cunard Captain Heads Fleet, Succeeding Late Sir James Charles --- HERO OF TITANIC DISASTER --- Wears Many Honors for Rescue and War Service---Berengaria Is His 13th Command --- Captain Sir Arthur Rostr...
29th July 1928
Wiltshire Times GOOD NEWS FOR BRADFORDIANS
A telegram from Bradford-on-Avon states that news has been received there that Mrs. Leather, a stewardess on the Titanic, and a sister of Mrs. Hickley, wife of Mr. Hickley, of the Trowbridge Road, has been saved....
20th April 1912
New York Times STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK
We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia...
6th May 1907
La Voix du Nord MME BOURLARD, LAST FRENCH SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, PASSED AWAY AT 88 IN OUR CITY
Mme Bourlard who nearly met her death during two tragically famous accidents, passed away at the Sully home for elderly people in Béthune; she was going to turn 89 years old. Born in Hersin Coupigny in August 1884, the young Berthe Leroy was t...
8th July 1972
BRIDE WHO WAS RESCUED FROM DEATH FINDS SHE IS DESTITUTE WIDOW New York Herald BRIDE WHO WAS RESCUED FROM DEATH FINDS SHE IS DESTITUTE WIDOW
MRS ARGENIA DEL CARLO AND SISTER OF SAN RAFFAELE HOME...
22nd April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal CHICAGOANS SEEKING KIN
Oak Park Woman and Others Have Missing Relatives on the Sunken Titanic Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Kenyon of New York, who were listed among the passengers on the Titanic, are relatives of Chicago people and have many friends...
New York Times WILLIAM T. STEAD
English Editor and Author of "If Christ Came to Chicago." --- William T. Stead is the editor of the English Review of Reviews. He is known as an advocate of international peace and an investigator of psychical phenomena. He was born in...
16th April 1912
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
New York Times AN UNPLEASANT INCIDENT
AMERICANS OFFENDED BY A SPEECH BY MR. ISMAY ON THE TEUTONIC ---------- The maiden voyage of the splendid steamer, the Teutonic, of the White Star Line, which arrived at this port on Wednesday, seems to...
17th August 1889
New York Times WILL PAY A BET TO MORGAN
Gen. Gill to Give Him a Fine Maryland Dinner To-night --- Special to The New York Times --- BALTIMORE, Md., Jan 14---Gen. John Gill, while returning from Eur...
15th January 1910
New York Times MRS. M. S. WALDMAN WINS PARIS DIVORCE
Two Other American Women Also Receive Decrees From the French Courts --- TRAGIC ACCIDENT RECALLED --- Waldman Children Fell to Death From Penthouse Apartment Here in October, 1928 --- PARIS, Feb. 25 (AP)---Th...
26th February 1930
New York Times THREE BRAVE OFFICERS
In telling the story of the loss of the Titanic more light is being shed upon the conduct of the ship's officers....
23rd April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal ISMAY TIRED TO ESCAPE ON CEDRIC, WIRELESS SHOWS
Explanation of why Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, chairman of the senate committee named to investigate the Titanic disaster, hurried to New York Thursday night to begin the inquiry was made today when it  became known that a wir...
20th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVORS HONOR CAPT. ROSTRON
They Present Silver Loving Cup to Him and Medals to His Officers and Men --- GIVES CREDIT TO HIS CREW --- Modest Skipper Praises and Thanks His Men for Them Loyalty and Committee for Its Gifts --- When the Cu...
30th May 1912
New York Times MR. AND MRS. T. W. CAVENDISH
Among the passengers on the Titanic were Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Cavendish of London, and their two children. Mrs. Cavendish is a daughter of Henry Siegel, President of the Simpson-Crawford Company. She was making the trip here to visit her father at his ...
16th April 1912
New York Times LADY DUFF GORDON, STYLE EXPERT, DIES
Pioneer in Bringing Freedom to Women's Fashions Headed Chain of Garment Shops --- COINED DRESS TERM 'CHIC' --- First Split Skirt and Manikin Show Credited to Her---She Had Stores in Three Countries --- Wirele...
22nd April 1935
Denver Post ARCHIBALD C. BUTT WAS TO HAVE BEEN MARRIED THIS FALL
Was Engaged to Youngest Daughter of Col. John R. Williams San Antonio, Tex., April 18:- Major Archibald C. Butt, military aide to President Taft, soon was to wed Miss Williams of Washington, sister-in-law of Joseph Leiter of Chicag...
18th April 1912
Virginia Pilot MRS. CELINEY DECKER, 69, SURVIVOR OF LINER 'TITANIC'
NORFOLK--Mrs. Celiney Alexander Decker, 69, of 1158 Larchmont Crescent, who as a 15-year-old immigrant bride from Lebanon survived the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in 1912, died Thursday at 5:30 P.M. in a hospital. Only one other ...
11th March 1966
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
The Times VISCOUNTY FOR LORD PIRRIE
The following honours were conferred by the King on the occasion of the opening of the Northern Parliament:--- VISCOUNTY: UNITED KINGDOM. PIRRIE, THE RIGHT HON. BARON, K.P., LL.D., D.L., Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast.---Valuable s...
23rd June 1921
New York Times 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
  GENERAL INFORMATION
Rood, Mr. Hugh Roscoe. Missing. Ritz Hotel, London, W. Black Moore & Co., 5 East India House, London, E.C. Hotel Regina, Paris. Seattle. Travelling to USA. Vice president of The Pacific Creosoting Company. Cabin A32....
Washington Post OWNER WHO FLED STRICKEN TITANIC DIES AS RECLUSE
London, Oct. 18 (Monday).—Joseph Bruce Ismay, 74 years old, former owner of the White Star Line and former president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., who survived the Titanic disaster, d...
18th October 1937
New York Times CAPT. JOHN W. BINKS OF WHITE STAR DIES
Retired Skipper of Olympic Served in the British Navy During the World War --- SPENT 45 YEARS AT SEA --- Commander of Leviathan and Majestic on Last Voyages They Ever Made --- News was received yesterd...
6th February 1939
New York Times 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
New York Times TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC
President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...
25th January 1912
The Times LORD PIRRIE'S TITLE
The conferment by the King of the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom upon Lord Pirrie by the name, style, and title of Viscount Pirrie, of the City of Belfast, was gazetted last night....
16th July 1921
New York Times R. W. DANIEL WED TO MRS. CAMPBELL
Vice President of Liberty National Bank Marries Daughter of W. C. Durant in Newark *** Robert W. Daniel of 19 West Sixty-ninth Street, Vice President of the Liberty National Bank of this city, and Mrs. Marjorie Durant Campbell of 635 P...
7th December 1923
A TRAGIC FRIENDSHIP Voyage A TRAGIC FRIENDSHIP
Dave and Barb Shuttle
How documents recovered from the wreck of the Titanic reveal a friendship which ended in disaster....
15th January 2000
Washington Herald E. N. KIMBALL SAVED
Boston, April 18---A wireless message was received at the Hall & Kimball Piano Company here saying that Edwin Nelson Kimball, jr., president of the company, had been saved and is aboard the Carpathia....
19th April 1912
Unidentified Newspaper OLE ABELSETH [OBITUARY]
Ole Abelseth, 94, of Hettinger, ND, a survivor of he sinking of the oceanliner Titanic, died Thursday, December 4, 1980 at the Hettinger Community Memorial Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Abelseth were held Monday, December 8, 1980, ...
1980
The Scotsman STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER
In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th...
17th April 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
La Voix du Nord SHE NEARLY DROWNED IN THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC...
André Pelletier
...and almost was burned to death in a Florida hotel Mme Bourlard, 80, now lives peaceful days in Béthune Sunday May 9th and Monday May 10th, 1965 Mme Bourlard, who was born in Hersin-Coupigny, near Béthune, 80 ...
9th May 1965
The San Francisco Call SEATTLE MAN ON LINER
SEATTLE, April 15 - Hugh R. Rood, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Creosoting company, whose name appears in the list of the Titanic's passengers, is a wealthy Seattle man who had been spending the winter on the continent w...
16th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC SURVIVORS RECALL THE "NIGHT TO REMEMBER"
Edward C. Burks
GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 9—“It’s all right. We just grazed an iceberg.” That was the reassuring message of a crew member of the Titanic, a lively 98-year-old survivor recalled here today at a memory-charged meeting of buffs and survivo...
9th October 1973
New York Times OBITUARY OF MRS. MARVIN'S SECOND HUSBAND: HORACE S. DECAMP
Special to the New York Times --- UTICA, N. Y., July 16---Horace Silliman deCamp, realty executive in the Adirondacks, died yesterday in his home at Thendara at the age of 67. He owned the home on Second Lake that once was the property...
17th July 1954
Camden Daily Courier NOTHING HEARD OF FREDERICK SUTTON
Relatives and friends of Frederick Sutton, of Haddonfield, who was on board the Titanic when she sank on Sunday night after colliding with a huge iceberg, have given up all hope of his survival. Mr. Sutton was president of the Collingswood National B...
18th April 1912
Chicago Evening Post AMERICANS IN PARIS MOURN LOST KINSMEN
Hundreds in French Capital Had Relatives Aboard the Titanic...
16th April 1912
New York Times TITANIC LOOKOUT IS DEAD BY HANGING AFTER WIFE'S DEATH
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Jan. 11 (Reuters)--- Authorities today ordered an inquest into the death of Fred Fleet, a lookout on the liner Titanic, who hanged himself yesterday two weeks after his wife's death. The body of Mr. Fleet, who was 76 years o...
12th January 1965
New York Times RICHARD L. BECKWITH
Richard L. Beckwith, formerly second vice president of the real estate firm of Ruland & Benjamin, died last night at his home, 224 East Sixty-first Street, after an illness of two years. He was graduated from Yale in 1898 and was a member of the Yale...
12th April 1933
New York American DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF LADY DUFF GORDON
Modiste Who "Dressed the Women of Three Generations" Once Had Shop in New York LONDON, April 21. - Lady Duff Gordon, for many years world celebrated as an arbiter of fashion, and a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic,...
22nd April 1935
New York Times MEMORIAL NOTICE FOR ISIDOR AND IDA STRAUS
STRAUS---The Directors of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children tender their heartfelt sympathy to the family of Isidor and Ida Straus, called by Him who holds the mighty ocean in the hollow of His hand. Isidor Straus was distinguished fo...
21st April 1912
New York Times 14 IN GLASS TRADE FINED IN TRUST CASE
They Plead Nolo Contendere at Chicago on Price-Fixing --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Jan. 22---Fourteen corporate and individual defendants in the glazing industry, accused of fixing prices of glass...
23rd January 1941
New York Times NEWS FOR DOG FANCIERS
The French Bulldog Club of America will hold a two days show at the Hotel McAlpin, May 12 and 13, at which the international judge, S. L. Goldenberg, President of the Savoie and Nice Kennel Clubs, will officiate.  The list of trophies comprises ma...
2nd April 1916
The Times ANNOUNCEMENT: DEATH OF LORD MERSEY
We announce with much regret that VISCOUNT MERSEY died suddenly yesterday at his country house at Littlehampton, at the age of 89. Though latterly he had become physically feeble, his mental activity showed no sign of impairment. He had a long care...
4th October 1929
New York Times THE BIGGEST LINER IS NOW IN PORT
Adriatic Arrives After a Very Successful Maiden Voyage --- NO JARS ON THE TRIP --- Passengers Give Praise for Smoothness of Voyage on New White Star Liner --- The Adriatic, the biggest of transatlantic ...
17th May 1907
New York Times COMES FOR $250,000 HE RISKED IN WAR
Fighting Kept Captain Douglas From Earning $2,500 a Year Prescribed by Will --- BROTHER GETS HIS SHARE --- British Officer on Way to Minneapolis to Lay His Case Before Father's Executor...
19th August 1922
New York Times ISMAY UPHOLDS STRIKE POLICY
President of Mercantile Marine Says His Company Will Not Advance Pay --- SAILORS DELAY A LINER --- Refuse to Sail on La Touraine Until Paid Full Wages for Loading and Unloading Cargo --- If the stri...
17th May 1907
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