Ralph Lester Wells

45 items found relating to : Ralph Lester Wells


Akron Beacon Journal	MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ...	20th April 1912
Staffordshire Advertiser	WEST BROMWICH MEN ON TITANIC Three West Bromwich men, Alfred Davies, aged 21, John Davies, aged 22, and Joseph Davies, aged 17 years, all of Hardware Street, and a relative named James Lester, aged 39, of Wolverhampton are believed to be among the ill-fated passengers. They l...	20th April 1912
Free Press	WEST BROMWICH MEN MISSING Among the passengers were the following West Bromwich people, who were on their way to America: Alfred Davies (24), of Harwood Street, West Bromwich: John Davies (22), of the same address; Joseph Davies (17) of the same address; James Lester (39) ...	19th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	NO SIGN OF WRECK Article...	18th April 1912
Western Daily Mercury	AN EXETER PASSENGER It is also stated that Mr. Ralph Giles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Giles of Eaton-place, Exeter, was among the passengers. Mrs. Giles has wired to the Head Office of the White Star Line in London, but has received no reply. Mrs Giles’s sister-in-law...	18th April 1912
West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser	UNKNOWN TITLE The party of seven adults and four young children from Penzance were all bound to Akron. Mr. George Hocking, his mother (Mrs. Guy), who is a widow, and his sister, Miss Hocking, were of St Mary-street, and with them were Mrs. Emily Ri...	18th April 1912
	THE MILLER'S SON Albert Barker was born in the village of King's Worthy on the River Itchen in Hampshire, just a few miles upstream from the dock where Titanic would begin its voyage 19 years later. His father was a miller at nearby Abbot's W...
	NORMANDIE 1936. VIEW OVER THE STERN. Ralph Klein took this photot of a pleasant day at sea, en route to New York City late summer 1936....	1936
	NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936. MORE OF HER ROLL. Another Ralph Klein view of the Normandie in mid-roll....	1936
United Press International	MUSEUM DIRECTOR CHARGED IN TITANIC THEFT The former head of a Virginia maritime museum has been charged with selling off items from its Titanic collection and other memorabilia.Lester Weber, onetime director of the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, was charged along with his wife with 26 counts of theft, fraud and failure to file tax returns....	22nd February 2008
	NORMANDIE STARBOARD SIDE SOUTHAMPTON 1936 Perhaps the most striking of Ralph Klein's Normandie photos is this one, looking forward along the starboard side, from aboard the Gracie Fields....
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
	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Born August 18th 1893 (Ref. register Book no 327 at Kennington Sub District Office). After returning to the UK she later married, September 12th 1931 to one James Barrow, Company Director of M. Ralph paper merchant of Upper Thames Stre...
	PROBATE REPORT Probate Report...	1912
Western Morning News	EDGAR & FRED GILES, PORTHLEVEN Edgar Giles, aged 20, his brother Fred, aged 22, well behaved young men, had been in the employ of Mr. Wells, of the posting establishment, Porthleven. Both sailed in the Titanic, going to join another brother at Camden. The father has been unable ...	17th April 1912
	NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936. SHOWING HER FAMOUS ROLL. Ralph Klein captured the Normandie's famous roll in this shot. Note that the ocean does not seem particularly rough....	1936
The Virginian-Pilot	MARINERS' MUSEUM ARCHIVIST PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGES RELATED TO ARTIFACTS THEFT A former archivist with The Mariners' Museum in Newport News pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felonies related to the theft and sale of museum property on eBay.Lester F. Weber, 46, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to mail fraud, theft and filing a false tax return. He is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 7....	11th June 2008
	NORMANDIE SOUTHAMPTON 1936 The Normandie seen in late summer 1936, from aboard the tender Gracie Fields. This series of photos was taken by an American tourist class passegner named Ralph Klein....	1936
	MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND C28. Bell, Maud. Widow. Bell, John Child. Bell, Marjorie Clare, Child. Bell, Eileen Maud, Child. Bell, Ralph Douglas. All Class A dependants....	1913
	TOURIST CLASS SUN DECK LOOKING TOWARDS FIRST CLASS SUITES. 1936 The Tourist Class Sports Deck looking towards the no longer private terraces of the Suites Grande Luxe (note the two women to the right of center looking into the suites, even as the occupants look outward across the sports deck) taken on a late summ...	1936
New York Times	INCORPORATED IN NEW JERSEY TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 31---These companies were incorporated here to-day: The Central Sugar Company, to manufacture beet sugar; capital, $1,500,000. The incorporators are T. L. Bragaw, Jr., M. L. Bonden, J. J. Treacy, all of Jersey City...	1st February 1901
The Times	LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf...	10th February 1912
	FAMILY INFORMATION Elizabeth Walton Allen was born on 1st October 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of George Washington Allen (1853-1917)a Judge from St. Louis and Lydia Jeanette McMillen (b. 1853)from Indiana. They married on 21st June 1876 in St. Lou...
Fox News	TITANIC EXPLORER'S ASHES HEADING FOR SPACE The ashes of a Titanic shipwreck explorer are poised to launch into space on Saturday in a suborbital memorial service to blast off from New Mexico. A small portion of the cremated remains of Ralph White, a cinematographer who documented the 1985 expedition that discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic, will fly to suborbital space and back alongside the ashes of 15 other people when their SpaceLoft XL rocket launches from New Mexico's Spaceport America at about 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on May 2....	29th April 2009
Unidentified Newspaper	HENRY BLANK Henry Blank of 138 Ridgewood Avenue died last Thursday at his home after a short illness. He was 78. Board chairman of Henry Blank Co., Newark jewelry manufacturing concern, Mr. Blank was born in Providence, R.I. He lived in Philadelphia f...	1949
	FAMILY INFORMATION William Edwy Ryerson was the son of George Arthur Ryerson (1851-1881) and Catherine Eleanor Hamilton (1854-1889). He was born in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. His parents were married in 1875 and had three sons: George (b.1877), William Edwy (b. 1878)...
New York Times	MISS M. GRAHAM WEDS Married to Eugene M. Moore---Bride a Titanic Survivor --- Special to The New York Times --- GREENWICH, Conn., June 6---Miss Margaret Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Graham of Belle Haven was married this aftern...	7th June 1914
	THOMAS WILLIAM SOLOMON BROWN'S DEATH CERTIFICATE DEATH CERTIFICATE 1 - Name of deceased: Thomas William Solomon Brown 2 - Birthplace of the deceased: Cape Town 3 - Names of the parents of the deceased: Father: Thomas William Brown Mother: Unknown 4 ...	9th January 1913
New York Times	LLOYD MOORE WEDS MRS. E. H. PRESTON Daughter of Former Senator Hawes of Missouri Bride in Ceremony Here --- Mrs. Eppes Hawes Preston, daughter of former Senator and Mrs. Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, was married to Lloyd Moore of this city, son of the late Clarence Moore of...	8th December 1935
	MISS EARNSHAW'S MYSTERIOUS SECOND CLASS LIST A member of the Association Francaise du Titanic owns a very strange document, which he inherited from Miss Earnshaw. At the time she gave him it, he did not thought that it would be the source of many questions and just accepted it. Miss Earn...	1912
Newark Evening News	HENRY BLANK, 76, GLEN RIDGE, DIES Head of Newark Jewelry Concern Was Titanic Disaster Survivor --- Henry Blank, board chairman of Henry Blank Co., Newark jewelry manufacturing concern, died today at his home, 138 Ridgewood avenue, Glen Ridge, after a short illness. He ...	17th March 1949
Daily Telegraph	TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York...	27th October 1910
Cleveland Plain Dealer	TELLS OF WOMEN PULLING AT OARS Page 1 Youngstown Woman Relates Story of Escape from Sinking Titanic Men Tire and Passengers Row Boats to Safety From Disaster From reports received from the steamer Carpathia when it docked at New York ...	19th April 1912
The Greenwich News	MOORE-GRAHAM SUMMER RESIDENTS IN LARGE NUMBERS ATTEND SOCIETY AFFAIR The wedding of Miss Margaret, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Graham of New York and Belle Haven, and Eugene Maxwell Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Moore...	14th June 1914
New York Times	ASTOR VILLA AUCTIONED AT NEWPORT; CHAIN DRUG STORE OWNER IS BUYER Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., July l7---A chain drugstore owner purchased today the fourteen-room French villa of John Jacob Astor here for less than half of its original purchase price. The showplace went under the ...	18th July 1948
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	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	RENEE HARRIS, 93, FIRST WOMAN TO PRODUCE PLAYS HERE, IS DEAD p.47, col. 5 Mrs. Renee Harris, New York's first woman theatrical producer, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died yesterday at Doctor's Hospital. She was 93 years old and lived at 140 West 69th Street. A former owner...	3rd September 1969
	GENERAL INFORMATION ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c...
Titanic Review	REPORT INTO THE LOSS OF THE SS TITANIC - A CENTENNIAL REAPPRAISAL Monica Hall A remarkable team of experts shine fresh and detailed light on a century old drama....	7th December 2011
Variety	MRS. HENRY B. (RENEE) HARRIS DIES Robert J. Landry Theatre Owner-Producer Was Linked to Another Broadway Era Although she was married three times afterwards, she always remained Mrs. Henry B. Harris and when she died at Doctors Hospital, N.Y., at 93, she was press reported either as Mr...	10th September 1969
Paterson Morning Call	MET DEATH LIKE A HERO ---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved...	3rd May 1912
New York Times	ELLEN TUCK FRENCH IS ENGAGED TO WED Betrothal to John Jacob Astor Announced by Mother, Who Denied Report Week Ago --- WEDDING EARLY IN JULY --- Her Fiance's Engagement to Miss Eileen S. S. Gillespie Called Off in January --- Mrs. Livingston Fre...	31st May 1934
Cleveland Plain Dealer	SIXTEEN OHIOANS ARE STILL MISSING Page 1 Reports Fails to Account for All of State's Representatives on Titanic Relatives of Passengers Watch for Word of Loved Ones "Missing" still stands against the names of sixteen of the forty-four Ti...	18th April 1912
Titanic Research	BIODETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC Roy Cullimore & Lori Johnston How marine organism activity will lead to the eventual destruction of the Titanic...	28th January 2001