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Worcester Telegram (1983) FELIX R. ASPLUND [OBITUARY]
SHREWSBURY--Felix R. Asplund, 73, of 39 Fairlawn Circle died yesterday in his home. Mr. Asplund was a draftsman for Coppus Engineering in Worcester for 35 years, retiring in 1972. He leaves a sister, Lillian G. Asplund of Shrews...
2nd March 1983  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) LANDING MOST PATHETIC SIGHT
New York, April 19. Worcester Evening Gazette. Worcester, Mass. Have just left Cunard docks after witnessing arrival of Titanic's rescued passengers on the Carpathia. It was the most pathetic and tr...
20th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) 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 Evening Gazette (1912) SAFETY OF FORMER RESIDENTS OF WORCESTER CAUSES WORRY AMONG FRIENDS IN THIS CITY
Believing that Charles Asplund and family, formerly of Worcester, were on board the ill-fated Titanic when it foundered., Charles E. Carlson of 193 Vernon street, left Worcester today for New York to make inquiries concerning the fate of the family, ...
17th April 1912  
  LILLIAN ASPLUND'S FIRST WORCESTER HOME
Lillian Asplund's first home at 6 Rodney Street, Worcester, Massachusetts...
   
Berrows Journal (2009) GROUP'S TITANIC MUSICAL IS UP FOR AN AWARD
A WORCESTER drama group is hoping it will be third time lucky after being nominated for an award for its performance of the musical Titanic. Worcester Operatic and Dramatic Society (WODS) is among the nominees aiming to win the award for best musical staged during 2008 in the National Operatic and Dramatic Association's West Midland's region....
9th March 2009  
Worcester Telegram (1964) MRS. SELMA ASPLUND [OBITUARY]
Mrs. Selma A. (Johnson) Asplund, 90, of 39 Fairlawn Circle, Shrewsbury, died Wednesday night in St. Vincent Hospital, a few hours after being admitted. Born in Smaland, Sweden, she moved to Kansas City, Mo., 71 years ago, and to Worcester a ye...
17th April 1964  
Worcester Telegram (1912) BODY OF CHARLES ASPLUND, TITANIC VICTIM, WILL BE BURIED IN WORCESTER, WITHOUT EXPENSE TO SURVIVING FAMILY
Subscription papers will be circulated, today and next week in the Slater building, State Mutual building and courthouse, in an effort to raise money for Mrs. Charles Asplund and family left in strained circumstances owing to the loss of Mr. Asplund ...
27th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) MRS ASPLUND AND CHILDREN SAFE IN HOSPITAL AT N.Y.
Husband and Another Child of Worcester Woman Reported Among the Rescued That Mrs. Charles Asplund and two of her children survived when the illfated S.S.Titanic went to the bottom of the ocean off the New Foundland Banks Sunday was ass...
19th April 1912  
Worcester Evening Post (1912) ASPLUND FAMILY TITANIC PASSENGERS IT IS FEARED
Charles Asplund, a former resident of Worcester; a six year old son, Carl, and another son two years old, are believed to have been included among the victims of the Titanic disaster. Mrs.Asplund and three other children. Felix, 13 years o...
19th April 1912  
  THE LAST FAREWELL
Overlooking the seven hills of Worcester...
   
Worcester Telegram (1912) FUND FOR RELIEF OF MRS. ASPLUND AND HER CHILDREN IS GROWING SLOWLY
Money for the Worcester Titanic relief fund that is to be used for the financial assistance of Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children who survived the Titanic disaster, in which her husband and three children were lost, is coming slowly to the rel...
30th April 1912  
The Evening Post (1912) COL. ASTORS BODY IS TAKEN THROUGH CITY
The body of John Jacob Astor, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, passed through Worcester this morning from Portland, ...
2nd May 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) MRS. CHARLES ASPLUND AND THREE CHILDREN ARE SAVED
Her Husband and Two of Their Sons Are Believed to Be Among Those Lost on the Titanic, Though Names Sent Show Slight Varience Charles Asplund, formerly of Worcester, his son Carl, 6 years old, and a baby boy 2 years old, are pro...
18th April 1912  
  151 VERNON STREET HOME AND ASPLUND DESTINATION
151 Vernon Street, Worcester, Massachusetts...
   
Worcester Telegram (1912) ASPLUND FUND TOTALS $1031.25, BUT BODY OF VICTIM OF TITANIC DISASTER FAILS TO REACH WORCESTER
The benefit fund for Mrs. Charles Asplund and her two children saved from the titanic, while her husband and three sons went to their deaths, yesterday passed the $1000 mark. The total amount subscribed last night was $1031.25, and tha...
4th May 1912  
Worcester News (2008) TITANIC REHEARSALS RE-AWAKEN CITY'S LINKS WITH TRAGEDY
A WORCESTER drama group rehearsing for the hit musical Titanic has found that two of its members have family connections with the ill-fated liner which struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives on April 15, 1912....
11th March 2008  
Worcester City Directory (1908) WORCESTER CITY DIRECTORY 1908
Porter PORTER, SAMUEL & CO. (W.C.Porter and W.E.Biglow), last manufs. 25 Union Walter C. (S.Porter & Co.), 25 Union, house 10 Lenox ...
  1908  
Worcester City Directory (1909) WALTER C. PORTER'S LAST MANUF. COMPANY
This was Walter C. Porter's original company ad....
  1909  
Worcester Telegram (1912) WALTER PORTER AMONG THOSE ON TITANIC
Miss. Carrie Endres Sister of Worcester Man Also on Board Lost Liner When The Telegram informed Mrs. Albert J. Gifford, 9 King street last night that the 318(?) saloon passengers on the wrecked Titanic had been reported saved and would...
16th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) BODY OF W.C.PORTER REACHES WORCESTER
Identified at Hallifax by Waldo E. Sessions who will have charge of the funeral which will be saturday. The body of Walter C. Porter, 10 Knox street of S. Porter & Co., last manufacturers, 25 Union street who met his death in the Titan...
  1912  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) PORTER SANK WITH TITANIC HEROES
Family and Friends of Worcester Man Now Satisfied He Is Among Those Lost Walter E. Bigelow, business associate and friend of Walter C.Porter, last of the Titanic, who made a special trip to New York yesterday in the hope of securing fa...
19th April 1912  
Foxnews.com (2006) LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99
BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.She died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass....
7th May 2006  
Worcester Evening Gazette (1912) WORCESTER FRIENDS TAKE UP WORK OF AIDING TITANIC SURVIVORS
An announcement was made in the G???mane Swedish Lutheran Church yesterday that a memorial service for victims of the Titanic disaster will be conducted in the church Sunday evening with Rev. John A. Eckstrom pastor, in charge. At thi...
22nd April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) FOUR OF THE ASPLUNDS ARE TITANIC VICTIMS
Searching dilligently in New York Thursday night and all day yesterday at the pier where the rescued passengers of the ill-fated Titanic were delivered Thursday night by the Cunard liner, Carpathia, John Carlson, 193 Vernon Street, a brother-in-law o...
20th April 1912  
Worcester Magazine (1912) WALTER C. PORTER, 46 YEARS, 11 MO. AND 2 DAYS OLD OF S. PORTER & CO., DROWNED AT SEA.
Worcester's Toll in Titanic Disaster Walter C. Porter, of the Samuel Porter Company, a Member of this Board on Ill-fated Ship, Returning from European Business Trip. His Body Found by Crew of Mackay-Bennett after the Mighty Ocean Liner...
  May 1912  
  MACKIE FAMILY INFORMATION
The birth of George William Mackie was registered at Lambeth, London in the 1st quarter of 1878. He was the son of William and Mary Mackie. George married Mary Broomfield, the daughter of James and Martha Broomfield. James was a Devon dairy farmer...
   
Bergen Record (1961) ANNA JOSEPHSON
Titanic Survivor, Resident of Haworth, Dies At 71 Mrs. Anna J. E. Josephson, 71, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, died yesterday at her home, 3 Seneca Place. Born in Worcester, Mass., Mrs. Josephs...
20th February 1961  
New York Times (1912) 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  
  KATE PHILLIPS' DAUGHTER'S STORY (CONCEIVED ON TITANIC CLAIM)
As a youg girl, my mother worked in a sweetshop in Worcester owned by a man named Henry Morley. He was married and nearly 20 years older, but they eloped on the Titanic. Mr Morley sold two of his shops and left the other two to ...
   
Brockton Daily Enterprise (1912) BROCKTON AND STOUGHTON MEN ABOARD TITANIC
Among the passengers of the Titanic are Frank D. Millet, the distinguished artist, once of East Bridgewater, and a brother of Dr. Charles S. Millett of Brockton; George Q. Clifford, of the Belcher Last Co. of Stoughton and widely known among the shoe...
15th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) W.C.PORTERS LETTERS TO WIFE AND PARTNER
W.C.Porters Letters to Wife and Partner Tells of Pleasant and Successful Trip and of His Anxiety to Hurry Home on the Titanic "I have had a fine trip, enjoyed every minute of it, and have found business prospects ...
17th April 1912  
Worcester Telegram (1912) WORCESTER THEATER CONCERT NETS $800
Fund For the Benefit of Mrs. Charles O. Asplund and Her Two Children Is Swelled to More Than $1900 More than 1000 persons attended the concert in Worcester theater last night from 8 o'clock until almost 11, for the benefit of Mrs. Char...
6th May 1912  
  BRISTOW FAMILY INFORMATION
Harry Bristow was a son of John Bristow and Mary Ann (nee Barnes). He was born in 1873 at the south Cornwall coastal town of East Looe in the part of the town known as Shutta. His father, John Bristow worked for British Railways and was born...
   
New York Times (1915) HARVARD’S LARGEST CLASS GRADUATED
Degrees for 1,205 Students at the University’s 274th Commencement --- LOWELL TALKS ON WAR --- Says Conflict Imposes Burden Upon Us---Widener Memorial Library Is Dedicated --- Special to The New York Times...
25th June 1915  
The Evening Post (1912) MASSACHUSETTS VICTIMS OF THE TITANIC TRAGEDY
George Q Clifford of Stoughton, president of Belcher Last company, Herbert Henry Hilliard of 42 Hichorn street, Brighton Timothy J.,...
20th April 1912  
ET Research (2004) STAND UP AND WAVE!
"Ellie Mockler-if ye be in this room- stand up and wave!" April would prove to ...
2nd July 2004  
  (2006) AT REST - THE MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MISS LILLIAN G. ASPLUND
Worcester, Massachusetts is a city of approximately 180,00 living souls, located in what the state likes to call the “Heart of the Commonwealth. It is, like Rome, a city of seven hills and the second largest city in the state after nearby Boston...
10th May 2006  
 

 
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