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		GENERAL INFORMATION He was born in the Parish of Jacob, City of Stockholm and married to Anna Johanssonon on December 7,1907 they had 2 children. He was traveling with his sister, Elna Strom and her daughter and were going to East Chicago, Indiana. His s...
	Chicago Tribune	CHAMPION AT RACQUETS LOST. [BY CABLE TO THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE] London, April 17---Among the Titanic’s passengers was Charles Williams, the professional racquet champion of the world who was on his way to New York to play Standing, the Americ...	18th April 1912
		S.S. CHICAGO As she could not stand the idea of sailing again on a British liner, Mme Laroche decided that she would return in France on a French ship. She chose the French Line S.S. Chicago. She and her two daughters landed in Le Havre on 1 May 1912....
	Excelsior	LE CHICAGO A RAMENé HIER AU HAVRE DES SURVIVANTS DU TITANIC Mme Laroche, survivante du terrible naufrage du Titanic, est arrivée, hier, au Havre, à bord du Chicago. Elle était sur le paquebot géant au moment de la catastrophe, ainsi que son mari, qui, malheureusement, disparut dans le desastre, et ses deux...	2nd May 1912
	chicagonow.com	CHICAGO LINKS TO THE TITANIC - WILLIAM T. STEAD Stead had predicted that he would die from either lynching or drowning. A clairvoyant friend of his told him that he would be kicked to death in the streets of London, which was probably more of an educated guess given the fact that Stead liked to "stir the pot" so to speak....	22nd January 2012
	Washington Times	SOCIETY IS SHOCKED AT NEWS OF DEATH Washington society was shocked when news that the name of James C. Smith, of Chicago, was not included in the list of those saved from death when the Titanic sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Mr. Smith was well known in Washington, where...	19th April 1912
		CHICAGOANS SEEK SURVIVORS At the local White Star office inquiries were made today for Katherine McCarthy by her brother, John McCarthy, 4634 Wallace street, who is certain she was a passenger on the Titanic and was coming to Chicago. Information regarding Nora Cummin...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	ONLY ONE OF IRISH PARTY BOUND FOR CHICAGO LIVES Of the five members of a party that included the Burke family, who left Castlebar, Ireland, to come to America, there was only one aboard the Carpathia when it crept up to its dock in New York. She was Annie Kelly, 16 years old. Her si...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	PASSENGER WED A CHICAGO GIRL Mrs. Nelson L. Barnes Discusses Trip of J. Clinch Smith J. Clinch Smith, artist, reported to be on board the Titanic, is the husband of a former Chicago girl, Bertha Barnes, sister of Nelson L. Barnes, a broker in th...	15th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Tribune	ANXIETY FOR MISSING ONES page. 3 Miss A. E. Isham, Formerly of Chicago, Probably Lost GUGGENHEIM GIVES UP HOPE Senator Convinced His Brother Perished When Titanic Sank Miss Anne Elizabeth Isham, a passenger on t...	18th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	JOHN HUGO ROSS AMONG THOSE NOT RESCUED J. H. ROSS EXPECTED. One of the Titanic victims was to visit Dr. Hugh H. Perry, 9515 Commercial avenue, the latter part of this week. He was J. Hugo Ross, cousin of Dr. Perry and a wealthy re...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Record-Herald	MRS. CROSBY OF MILWAUKEE, ON WAY HOME, TELLS OF EXCITEMENT IN LOWERING BOATS Mrs. E. G. Crosy, wife of Captain E. G. Crosby of the Crosby Lake Steamshipp Company, and her daughter, Miss Hattie Crosby, of Milwaukee, who were in the ill-fated ship, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon. Captain Crosby was drowned.&nbs...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	OTHERS ARRIVE DESTITUTE Two men and a girl from Sweden, Oscar Hedmann, Carl Johnson, and Anna Sjoblom, spent several hours in Chicago yesterday on their way west. All found themselves in New York without a cent. They were taken to an immigration home and clothed ...	26th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	THIRD TRAGEDY IN FAMILY The shooting marked the third tragedy in the Minahan family within recent years. N uncle, William E. Minahan, an attorney, perished when the steamship Titanic was sunk in 1912. And, according to reports from Green Bay, the boy’s mother was k...	19th February 1925
	Chicago Daily News	LEARNS OF RELATIVE'S RESCUE Daniel Tobin of Denver, Col, now in Chicago and a guest at the Palmer house, passed most of the morning in the offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown, also of Denver. When finally a report...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Record-Herald	SURVIVOR IN CHICAGO Anna Kelly, 17 years old, who says she was the last woman to leave the Titanic, arrived in Chicago last night and was taken to he home of her cousin, Miss Anna Garvey, 303 Eugenie street. Her sisters, Beatrice and Marguerite, live at the same addr...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago Daily Tribune	PLEA FOR TITANIC ARRIVALS Girl Immigrants Here Get Only Nightgowns in New York OTHERS ARRIVE DESTITUTE Use of Money Collected Here Urged for Their Assistance Immigration officer in Chicago who have come in contact with Titanic s...	26th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	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
	Chicago Tribune	SHOTGUN ENDS STUDENT'S LIFE; JILTED, THEORY “Frat” Brothers Scout Talk of Suicide. While police and University of Chicago authorities yesterday wavered between a theory of accident and suicide in explanation of the shooting to death of John B. Min...	3rd February 1923
	New York Times	MRS. S. BEACH COOKE Special to The New York Times --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., June 25---Mrs. Emily Borie Ryerson Cooke, widow of S. Beach Cooke, an artist and writer, died today of a cerebral hemorrhage at Ringwood, her home here. She was 66 years old. ...	26th June 1960
	Chicago Record-Herald	HEARS SISTER IS ALIVE Daniel Tobin of Denver, Colo., now in Chicago, passed most of yesterday at the local offices of the White Star line seeking information in regard to his sister, Mrs. J. G. Brown of Denver. Tobin shouted his joy when a report was received i...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	NEWS OF THE SOCIETY WORLD : MRS. RYERSON RETURNING One of the many evidences of Mrs. Marshall Field’s loyalty to Chicago, in spite of nearly a decade spent away from here, is that she has always kept her box for the symphony concerts and has never failed to fill it with friends at each after...	13th October 1913
	Toronto Daily Star	FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS newspaper cutting...	25th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	GIRL IMMIGRANTS HERE GET ONLY NIGHTGOWNS IN NEW YORK PLEA FOR TITANIC ARRIVALS Girl Immigrants Here Get Only Nightgowns in New York Others Arrive Destitute Use of Money Collected Here Urged for Their Assistance Imm...	26th April 1912
	New York Times	JOHN RYERSON John Ryerson, an amateur golfer and one of last survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday at a nursing home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr. Ryerson was born in Chicago, a scion of the Ryerson steel...	24th January 1986
	Chicago Record-Herald	PREACHER EN-ROUTE HERE Among the passengers of the Titanic who are believed to have perished was Rev. John Harper of London, who was expected to preach Sunday from the pulpit of Moody Church, Chicago. Rev. Mr. Harper, who was pastor of the Walworth Road Baptist...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Tribune	OAK PARK TITANIC SURVIVOR (Photo: Mrs F. R. Kenyon) A letter written on board the Carpathia was received yesterday by Mrs. George P. Baldwin, 309 Linden avenue, Oak Park, announcing the death of F. R. Kenyon and the safety of Mrs. Kenyon, sister of Mrs. Baldwin...	21st April 1912
	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
	Chicago Inter Ocean	CHICAGOAN CREATES SCENE IN OFFICES OF THE WHITE STAR LINE Special Dispatch to the Inter Ocean New York, April 18—Late this afternoon John Gillespie of Chicago, accompanied by a friend, entered the offices of the White Star line. His voice rang through the big rooms as he demanded informati...	19th April 1912
	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
	Chicago Record-Herald	SLUMS MOURN STEAD : OLD-TIMERS IN CHICAGO'S CHINATOWN REMEMBER SLUMS MOURN STEAD Old-Timers in Chicago’s Chinatown Remember English Author as “Billy, the Bum” Cleaned Streets in Chicago ...	18th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	SEEK WORD OF STEWARD Mrs. William J. Stroud, 217 East Thirty-first street, besought news of her husband's brother, Harry Stroud, yesterday at the White Star office. His name does not appear among those saved. "Harry Stroud lived in Southampton with ...	19th April 1912
		SIMONNE AND LOUISE RETURN HOME ABOARD THE CHICAGO.	May 1912
	Chicago American	LOSES FAMILY BY WRECK Nels Paulsson, a Chicago man living at 940 Thompson street, had learned to-day that he had lost his wife and four little children in the Titanic disaster. Although he knew that his family had embarked on the boat he had delayed making inquiry...	21st April 1912
	New York Times	CHICAGO WIDOW SENDS PLANE FOR BRIDEGROOM BUT GALE DELAYS 9,000-MILE RACE TO ALTAR Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Dec. 9---Mrs. Emily Boris [sic] Ryerson, wealthy widow of Arthur Ryerson, the steel maker, who was lost on the Titanic, today dispatched an airplane to St. Paul in an effort to bring her fiancé...	10th December 1927
		RED CROSS REPORT AND MEMORIAL McGowan, Annie, Miss (later Mrs. Straube). Saved in Lifeboat number 14. Born 5th July 1895, died 30th January 1990 and was buried in the All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois. (From The Emergency and Relief booklet by the ...
	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
	Chicago Tribune	ANOTHER CHICAGOAN STILL FEARS Some Chicagoans do not know yet whether their relatives were saved by the Carpathia or not. Edward Manion, who lives at 1848 Lincoln avenue, does not know whether his sister, Miss Margaret Manion, Castle Bar, Ireland, is on her way to Chicag...	21st April 1912
		MEMORIAL SERVICE PROGRAMME The Central North Chicago Ministerial Association at the Belden Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. "The Offering" "The Nana Harper Fund to maintain and educate Nana, the six year old daughter of Rev. John Harper, pastor, Walworth Road Chu...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	THIRD SUICIDE IN FAMILY MYSTERY Northwestern ‘U’ Student Kills Himself Two years ago Dr. John R. Minahan, wealthy and prominent surgeon of Green Bay, Wis., was summoned to Chicago. His oldest son, John Jr., had ended his life in a frat...	20th February 1925
	Chicago Tribune	OAK PARK WOMAN TITANIC SURVIVOR LETTER SENT BY TITANIC SURVIVOR WHILE ABOARD THE CARPATHIA SENT TO SISTER IN OAK PARK A letter written on board the Carpathi...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	GIRL VICTIM OF TITANIC NEAR DEATH; GOT ONLY $25 Margaret McGowan, in Chicago, Tells How official of Line Gave Her “Recompense” Margaret McGowan, one of the few steerage passengers who started for America on the Titanic and reached here, is at the home...	25th April 1912
	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	V. A. SALVATORE TO WED Sculptor Engaged to Miss Ellen A. Ryerson of Chicago --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Dec. 23---Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of 2,700 Lakeview Avenue announced yesterday the engagement of her third daughter, Miss Elle...	24th December 1917
	Chicago Tribune	HOLD MEMORIAL FOR THE TITANIC The Titanic catastrope so strongly religious in its effect, was the topic of sermons in most Chicago churches yesterday. Many ministers drew lessons of warning, some of thankfulness, in the theme. Collections were generally div...	22nd 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	LOST TWO IN IROQUOIS FIRE Daughters of Rescued Titanic Passenger Killed in Chicago Holocaust --- Special to The New York Times --- CHICAGO, Ill., April 16---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, wife of L. A. Hippach, manufacturer, of 7,352 Sheridan Road, and Miss ...	17th April 1912
	New York Times	JEAN SCHARIN ENGAGED Chicago Girl Will Be Married to Edward Cudahy Spalding ---- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Feb. 21---Announce has been made by Mrs. J. Hippach Unander Scharin of this city of the eengagement [sic] of her daught...	22nd February 1946
	Semi Weekly Iowegian	GIVES UP HOPE OF CHILDREN - MYSTIC MAN FINDS THAT THOSE FROM TITANIC WERE NOT HIS - RETURNS A SAD MAN With the hope gone that the French children rescued from the Titanic and under care in New York might be his, Francois Lefebre, the Mystic man who started east with hopeful anticipations, has returned without the children. He stopped at C...	30th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	WIDOW SUES TITANIC OWNERS Mrs. A. Willer of Chicago Asks $10,000 for Husband’s Death Family Left Penniless Red Cross Saves Them fr...	20th July 1912
	Chicago American	TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF SELF-DEATH TITANIC VICTIM IN CHICAGO TELLS OF OFFICER’S SELF-DEATH Remarkable strength of Carl Janson, another of the surviving passengers of the Titanic, kept him alive in the frigid ocean for six hour...	25th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	LOSSES ENTIRE FORTUNE Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en route to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the world. “I was in bed when the crash...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Record Herald	CHICAGOANS SAVED BY ASTOR Mrs. Hippach and Daughter, at Home, Tell of Rescue From Titanic How Colonel John Jacob Astor saved the lives of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean Hippach, when the Titanic was sinking was told w...	22nd April 1912
	Chicago American	TITANIC'S COURSE AND SPEED CAUSED DISASTER, SAYS DAHL A picture of a sea dotted with so many icebergs that the Carpathia was forced to steer an zigzag course to leave the field of menacing floes was added to the indictment against officials of the White Star Line to-day by Charles Dahl, a Titan...	24th April 1912
		LOUISE AND SIMONNE LAROCHE Louise and Simonne, in their grandfather's garden at Villejuif, taken the day after their arrival in Le Harve aboard the Chicago. ...	May 1912
	Chicago Daily News	KARL MIDSTJO AND OTHERS ARE TO BE ASKED ABOUT RUMORS OF DISCRIMINATION Third cabin passengers on the lost Titanic who arrive in Chicago during the next few days will be met by representatives of the Immigrants’ Protective league and closely interrogated in regard to treatment received at the hands of officers a...	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...
	Chicago Examiner	A TITANIC HERO Charles Brown, the English comedian now playing with "A Modern Eve" at the Garrick, lost a number of friends when the Titanic went down. He knew most of the officers on the ill-fated ship, and the purser, McElroy, had been a com...	2nd June 1912
	Chicago American	CHICAGO GIRL IN LAST LIFEBOAT There was only one seat in the last lifeboat of the Titanic and had Mrs. John Burke taken it the chances are that Miss Annie Kelly, a seventeen-year-old Chicago girl, might be at the bottom of the sea, she told friends to-day who had gathered at h...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago Inter Ocean	CHICAGO GIRL LAST TO LEAVE TITANIC Miss Annie Kelly Reaches Home Here and Tells of Her Thrilling Experiences White Escaping From the Sinking Liner The last woman to leave the sinking Titanic was Miss Annie Kelly, 17 years old, sister of Miss Beatrice Kelly,...	23rd April 1912
	New York Times	DEATH NOTICE OF BEN FOREMAN FOREMAN---Ben L. Foreman, eldest son of Henry W. and Rose Laventall Foreman, in his 31st year. Lost on steamship Titanic. Albany and Chicago papers please copy. ...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Record-Herald	MEEHAN KIN ESCAPE Mrs. John Worthington, 4458 Drexel boulevard, sister of John Meehan, who was reported to have had relatives on board the Titanic, denied there was any truth in the report. Chicago Record-Herald, Saturday, April 20, 1912, p. 4, c. 7...	20th April 1912
	New York Times	CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES Federal Indictments Charge Industry Joined in Fixing a Common Schedule --- UNION AS THE ENFORCER --- Fifth Action in Investigation of Building Trades Cites Seven Corporations --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES...	11th May 1940
	New York Times	THOSE WHO SAW THE RESCUE Carpathia's Passengers, Who Were Bound for Mediterranean, Back. The passengers on the Carpathia, whose trip to the Mediterranean was interrupted to aid those saved from the Titanic, are: Rev. R. B. Anderson, Baltimore,...	19th April 1912
		MEMORIAL IN LOVING MEMORY OF ARTHUR RYERSON OF RINGWOOD, OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK ELDEST SON OF JOSEPH TURNER RYERSON OF CHICAGO AND ELLEN LARNED HIS WIFE BORN JANUARY 12, 1851, LOST ON S.S. TITANIC APRI...
	New York Times	SWIFT HEIRESS IS SUED FOR DIVORCE IN NEVADA Aksel Wichfeld, Former Attache at Danish Legation, Files Action Secretly, Charging Cruelty --- RENO, Nev., Nov. 21 (AP)---Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, former attaché of the Danish Legation in Washington, filed suit secretly at Carson City Nov....	22nd November 1932
	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
		GENERAL INFORMATION Harper, Reverend John. Missing. Lived at 3, Claude Villas, Denmark Hill, London. UK. Born in Houston, Renfrewshire in 1872. In 1911 had a three month mission in Moody Church, Chicago and was travelling there when the ship sank. ...
	Unidentified Newspaper	TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES IN DANVILLE Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop Passed Away While Guest of Mrs. O. W. Cannon TAKEN ILL FRIDAY Had Arrived Here on Previous Day For Visit With Her Companion on Long Trip Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, one of the surv...	1916
	Chicago Daily Journal	HARRY STROUD Harry Stroud, boarded steamer in Southampton, a steward on the Titanic, was expected to visit his brother, who lives at 217 East Thirty-First street; name missing from list of survivors. Chicago...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	LOSS OF TITANIC PREDICTED - CAPTAIN SMITH Capt. Smith Declared to Friends He Would Sink with the Vessel A woman living here whose husband is an officer on the White Star liner Irishman, tells an incident about the steamship Olympic, at the time commanded by ...	18th April 1912
	New York Times	DEATH NOTICE OF GEORGE ROSENSHINE ROSENSHINE---At sea, on April 15, 1912, steamer Titanic, George Rosenshine, beloved brother of Albert A. and Max Rosenshine and Mrs. Bertha Frank, in the 46th year of his age. Funeral services will be held at the Hotel Ansonia on Sunday morning, Ma...	4th May 1912
	Chicago Tribune	JESSIE LEITCH'S STORY TELLS MISS LEITCH'S STORY Nana Harper, the 6 year old daughter of Dr. John Harper, who was on his way to Chicago to preach at the Moody church will return to England...	21st 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
	Chicago Tribune	LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD Hedda Hopper “THE TITLE “Nearer My God To Thee” is now definitely “Titanic.” It should have been all along, but 20th Century had to clear it, and that cost a pretty penny. . .” Chicag...	22nd December 1952
	Chicago American	FOUR TITANIC SURVIVORS SCORE SHIP'S OFFICIALS Four women who were rescued from the Titanic passed through this city on their way to their Western homes. They were: Mrs. H. F. Chaffee of Amenia, N. D.; whose husband was drowned; Mrs. Walter Clark of Los Angeles, who also lost her husban...	22nd April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	CHARLES WILLIAMS OBITUARY Williams—Charles Williams passed away Oct. 27, beloved husband of Lois Williams, fond father of Eugene, Ninian, John, Dorothy, Jean and Hilda. Funeral services Wed., Oct. 30th, at 2 pm, from residence, 5524 Lakewood av. Interment Rosehill ce...	29th October 1935
	Chicago Tribune	SAILOR, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES Reginal Lee, One of Seamen in the Lookout When Steamer Sank, Succumbs in London Reginald Lee, one of the two sailors in the lookout when the White Star liner Titanic met in disastrous collision with an iceberg a year...	10th August 1913
	Chicago Tribune	SIGHT BODY OF TITANIC VICTIM Philadelphia, Pa., July 20—The body of a man lashed to a spar was sighted about seventeen miles from the scene of the Titanic disaster by the British steamship Hudson, which just arrived here. The body was unrecognizable. ...	21st July 1912
	Chicago Sun-Times	KUP'S COLUMN Irv Kupcinet ". . . . Almost as soon as the news of the sinking of the Andrea Doria was flashed to the world, 20th Century-Fox decided to reissue its epic of a sea drama, "Titanic," story of the maritime disaster of 44 years ago. . . . "...	31st July 1956
	New York Times	PRAYER SERVICE NOTICE FOR GEORGE ROSENSHINE ROSENSHINE---AT SEA, Steamer Titanic, on April 15, 1912, George Rosenshine, in the 46th year of his age. Prayers will be held at the residence of his brother, Albert Rosenshine, Hotel Ansonia, on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings, April 21,...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Inter Ocean	TITANIC MEN FORCE GIRL TO SIGN PAPER Rescued Chicagoan Declares When She Was Dazed in New YorkHospital, Line’s Agents Made Her Attest Exonerating Document That agents for the White Star line forced her to sign an exonerating statement ...	25th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	ROUND ABOUT THE SOCIETY WORLD. Page 15 A number of Chicago relatives and friends will leave for the east Oct. 20 to attend the wedding of Miss Emily Ryerson and George Hyde Clark, which will take place on Oct. 23 at Ringwood, near Cooperstown, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Edw...	7th October 1915
	Chicago Tribune	WAUKEGAN FARMER NOT SAVED Waukegan, Ill., April 18—[Special]—According to the published list of the steerage passengers on the ill fated steamer Titanic just given out James Elsbury, 50 years old, a wealthy farmer living just west of Gurnee, was one of the pa...	19th April 1912
		MOHAWK AND ALGONQUIN ADVERT CARD New Deluxe Sisterships ALGONQUIN and MOHAWKNow in Service between Galveston and New YorkCLYDE-MALLORY LINESGalveston Houston Beaumont Dallas Forth Worth Waco San Antonio El Paso Mobile Tampa Key West Miami Boston Baltimore Philadelphia Washington Chicago...
	Chicago Daily Journal	PITIFUL APPEALS FOR NEWS AT OFFICE HERE UNGRATIFIED Heartrending appeals for information concerning the dead or rescued from the Titanic poured into the Chicago offices of the White Stair line, throughout the day. Men, Women and children telephoned the offices at LaSalle and Washington stre...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation. She will be ma...	25th September 1912
	Chicago Evening Post	CHICAGO HEARS ECHO OF NEW TITANIC WOE French Miner From Iowa Arrives Here and Learns Wife and Children Were Lost With the Liner Sons Ignorant of Wreck Passengers at Union Station Take Up Collec...	25th April 1912
		GENERAL INFORMATION Harper, Miss Nina. Saved in Lifeboat number 11 with her cousin Jessie Leith. Returned to England via SS Celtic, 25th April 1912. Aged 6 years. Later (1934) became Mrs. Pont, died 1986. (Gleaned from the Internet 20th S...
	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
	Hammond Times	DEATH AND FUNERAL NOTICES : ERNEST PEARSON PEARSON--Ernest Pearson, age 65, of 4929 Hickory Ave., passed away Wednesday 2 a.m., Valparaiso, Ind. Funeral services Friday 2 p.m., Dalton funeral home, 727 Carroll St., Hammond. Rev. Elmer Nicholson oficiating. Burial Elmwood cemetery. Survi...	18th October 1951
	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
	Dallas Times-Herald	LADY DUFF GORDON, LEADING LONDON MODISTE, IS DEAD obituary...	22nd April 1935
	Chicago American	TITANIC STEERAGE PASSENGERS LEFT TO DIE, SAYS GIRL Fears are entertained by Dr. Thomas J. O’Malley, who is attending Miss Annie Kelly, the seventeen-year-old girl survivor of the Titanic, that she will never gain her normal condition as a result of her harrowing experiences when the sh...	25th April 1912
	Chicago Record Herald	NONE PICKED UP CELTIC General Passenger Agent Jeffries of the White Star Line today denied the report that an officer and woman steerage passenger of the Titanic were picked up by the Celtic, which arrived in this city on Saturday morning, as related in a dispatch last...	23rd April 1912
		CHICAGO TITANIC BULLETINS BULLETINS Montreal, April 15—The local office of Horton Davidson, one of the Titanic passengers, has received the following wireless message: “All passengers are safe and Titanic taken in tow by ...
	Chicago Examiner	HE SURVIVED TITANIC : ON THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND, TOO Among more than 300 survivors from the Lusitania arrived in Dublin last night on their way to England was a Dublin man named Toner, who was on the Titanic when it sank and the Empress of Ireland when ...	10th May 1915
	Chicago Tribune	TITANIC VICTIM'S BUSINESS CLOSED OUT IN MONTREAL Announcement was made today on the floor of the stock exchange that the brokerage firm of Thornton Davidson & Co., which has connections in New York and Boston, had gone into voluntary liquidation. The firm was established ...	29th July 1920
	Chicago Tribune	MRS. IDA HIPPACH LEAVES $85,000 ESTATE TO DAUGHTER The will of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, leaving an estate estimated at $85,000 to a daughter, Mrs. Jean Unander-Scharin of Lake Forest, was filed for probate yesterday. Mrs. Hippach died a month ago at the age of 74 in her home at 2808 Evanston.&nb...	22nd October 1940
	Unidentified Newspaper	BAPTIST MINISTER DROWNED At the Baptist Church, Pastor Whitter said the disaster had filled two continents with sorrow, and affected in some way or other their fellows all over the world. He specially referred to the loss of a brother minister who had frequently preached in ...	26th April 1912
	Chicago Record-Herald	IOWA FAMILY DROWNS Brother Learns E. G. Dalbon, Wife and Child, Perish in Titanic Wreck Stanton, Iowa, April 20---Alfred Dalbom of this city received from New York today a telegram confirming his fears that his brother, Ernest G. Dalho...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	DEATHS ELSEWHERE Deaths Elsewhere __________ Oscar R. Houston, 86, the principal counsel in the Titanic, Lusitania, Morro Castle, Normandie, and Andrea Doria sea disasters and the man who planned t...	23rd December 1969
	Chicago Daily News	BOY FAILS TO TAKE SHIP After searching the list of survivors in vain for the name of her brother, John Meehan, Miss Mary Meehan, 4458 Drexel boulevard, was overjoyed last night when she received a cablegram from her mother in Ireland saying that the boy had no...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	ASKED TO MEET TWO WOMEN Green Bay, Wisconsin., April 17--A wireless message from the steamer Carpathia, received here this afternoon by V. I. Minahan, requests that he meet Mrs. W. E. Minahan and Miss Daisy Minahan at New York city on the arrival of the steamer. ...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	PEARS, SOAPMAKER, SAFE A wireless dispatch received today by the firm of Pears, soap makers, and timed 1:20 yesterday, said merely "All well." It was unsigned but was believed to be from Thomas Pears, who with his wife was among the Titanic's pass...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	"I'M STARVED!" WAS ISMAY'S FIRST WORD "For God's sake get me something to eat. I'm starved. I don't care what it costs or what it is, bring it to me." This was the first statement made by J. Bruce Ismay, directing head of the White Star line, o...	19th April 1912
		GENERAL INFORMATION ON MR. WILLER (WELLER) Weller, Mr. Aaron. (also listed as Harry Willer). Missing. En route to his wife at 1330 South Halstead Street, Chicago, Illinois. From Russia. Tailor aged 37 years (Aaron Weller). Had lived in America for several years but returned to London after fa...
	Chicago Examiner	MICHIGAN WIFE GETS $100,000 ALIMONY Mrs. Helen Walton Bishop, wife of a Dowagiac millionaire, was granted a divorce here to-day. The Bishops were on the Titanic on their honeymoon trip when the liner went down. Mrs. Bishop, who charges...	18th January 1916
	Chicago Examiner	MISS ANNIE KELLY IN HOSPITAL Misses Margaret and Beatrice Kelly of 303 Eugenie street were overjoyed last night when they learned that their seventeen-year-old sister, Annie Kelly, who was a Titanic voyager, was one of the survivors picked up by the Carpathi...	20th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	THIRD OF FAMILY TO MEET TRAGIC END Nineteen year old Howard Hippach is the last of the three sons of Louis A. Hippach, wealthy plate glass and window glass manufacturer, to meet a tragic death. Howrd Hippach was killed Thursday afternoon when a motor car which he was driving ...	31st October 1914
	Hammond Times	CALUMENT REGION OBITUARIES : ERNEST PEARSON Ernest Pearson, 4929 Hickory St., Hammond, died in his son's home in Valparaiso yesterday as the result of a heart attack. He was 65. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Dalton Funeral home, 727 Carroll St., Hammond, ...	18th October 1951
		REV. JOHN HARPER Rev. John Harper was minister at Paisley Road Baptist Church, in Plantation area of Glasgow, near Govan, (now the Harper Memorial Baptist Church) before moving to London. He had completed a Mission time at the Moody Church in Chicago, in 1911,...
	New York Times	TITANIC SAILOR IN COURT Man Who Saved 45 Persons Says He Can't Support His Wife --- CHICAGO, Jan. 16---Albert Horswill, who said he was in charge of the last lifeboat to leave the Titanic, and saved forty-five women and children, told Judge Uhlir in court to-d...	17th January 1914
	Chicago Daily News	CLAIMED TO BE THE OLDEST SURVIVNG MEMBER OF THE CREW OF THE TITANIC Deaths Elsewhere Jacob Gibbons, 89, who claimed to be the oldest survivng member of the crew of the Titanic; an engine room worker who was one of the last to leave it when it sank; in Studland, England....	2nd March 1965
	Chicago American	MAN ON MAURETANIA LEAPS TO HIS DEATH A suicide at sea was reported by the Cunard Liner Mauretania when she arrived here today. The victim was Stoughton Walker of New York, who jumped overboard last Sunday night. The steamer was stopped, but no trace could be found of t...	20th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	FRED A. WEBER Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 29, 1962, s. 3, p. 8: Obituaries Fred A. Weber Salt Lake City, Oct. 28 (AP)---Fred A. Weber, 72, one of the last surviving crew members of the Tita...	29th October 1962
	Chicago American	2 MEN BRIBE TITANIC SAILORS; SAVE LIVES Vienna, April 25.—The story of how two men passengers were saved from the sinking Titanic by bribing a sailor to disguise them as sailors and get them places in a lifeboat was told in a letter received here to-day by Mme. Cardeza from her hu...	25th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	FIRST VESSEL EVER LOST ON ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE New York, April 16,---In the melancholy roll of marine tragedies that which overtook the Titanic is the first on record wherein a conspicuous vessel has met disaster on her maiden voyage. The nearest approach to such an unfortunate f...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	SECOND TITANIC BABY BORN Cincinnati, O., Nov. 30---Mrs. John Jacob Astor of New York wired congratulations today to Mrs. Mary Eloise Smith, one of the two "Honeymoon" widows of the Titanic disaster, to whom a son was born at the Jewish Hospital here. As...	1st December 1912
	Chicago Examiner	LOSES 9 OF KIN ON TITANIC Massachusetts Man Just Learns of Relatives' Deaths Haverhill, Mass., May 8---Thomas N. Watson of this city has just learned that nine of his relatives, including two married sisters and...	9th May 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	LEAPS FROM THE SHIP Charles Williams, the racquet coach at Harrow, England, who is the professional champion of the world , was coming to New York to defend his title, said he was in the smoking room when the boat struck. He rushed out, saw the iceberg, whic...	19th April 1912
	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
	Chicago Tribune	SISTER AND BROTHER LOST? Rockford, Ill., April 16.--- [Special.]---Curt Lustig and his sister, Dagmar Lustig, both of Skara, Sweden, were second class passengers on the Titanic. Their names appear on the sailing list as Carl and Dagmar Bryl. They were coming to ...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	SURVIVOR, 74, OF SINKING OF TITANIC DIES Services for Mrs. Vivian Forsander, 74, a survivor of the Titanic which sank April 15, 1912, drowning more than 1,500 persons, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 10001 Western av. Mrs. Forsander, who was born in Sweden, died ...	21st November 1966
	Chicago Tribune	VERDICT ON 'RAISE THE TITANIC' : "LIFE IS TOO SHORT" Aaron Gold TOWER TICKER ". . . . Film critic Pauline Kael, according to New York Post columnist Claudia Cohen, charged out of a press screening of "Raise the Titanic" mutterin...	5th August 1980
	Chicago Tribune	PASSENGER ON TITANIC RECALLS 1912 TRAGEDY Mrs. Hans Christensen, 72, keenly remembers a cold April night in the Atlantic ocean nearly 54 years ago when she sat in a bobbing lifeboat and helplessly watched the liner, Titanic, quietly slip beneath the frigid waters off the coast of Newfou...	3rd April 1966
	Chicago Examiner	TITANIC WIDOW KILLED BY A FORMER SUITOR San Francisco, Feb. 24---Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Tacoma, Wash., a Titanic widow and a bride of two weeks, was shot and instantly killed at the Sutter Hotel to-day by Abraham Pepper, a former suitor. Mrs. Johnson formerly was Mrs. Herman Kla...	25th February 1914
	Brooklyn Daily Times	ALBERT A. STEWART ONE OF THE LOST ISLANDERS Albert A. Stewart, who formerly made his home at St. James, L. I., is supposed to have gone down with the ship. He was in St. James last summer and was counted as a friend of Mayor Gaynor---near whose home he resided. Mr. Stewart was formerly conne...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Record-Herald	LLOYDS NEAR TO PANIC Exciting scenes were witnessed at Lloyds underwriting rooms yesterday. Insurance losses in the last six months have been unparalleled in the history of Lloyds in liners of the biggest class. Since the Olympic collision, both the Del...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	THOMAS WHITELEY : WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES Philips, the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post until the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life-raft and died before rescuers reached him, according to the story told here today by Thomas Whitely. ...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Tribune	MERCHANT FAINTS FROM JOY page 3 Business Man Swoons on Learning Relatives Were Rescued from Titanic Wreck Aurora, Ill., April 17- [Special]- Oscar W. Johnson, 32 years old, a business man living at St. Charles, Ill., fell over in a dead faint ...	18th April 1912
	Evanston Daily News	LOCAL WOMAN'S KIN SAVED FROM TITANIC Spencer V. Silverthorne, a brother of Mrs. H. H. Harris, 820 Foster street, is among the Titanic passengers that were rescued by the Carpathia. Word to this effect was received today. Mr. Silverthorne who lives in St. Louis, is a buyer fo...	18th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	AUTHOR'S DEATH KILLS MOTHER Parent of Jacques Futrelle Who Went Down with Titanic Succumbs to Grief Grief over the death of her so...	30th July 1912
	Chicago Examiner	POET KEMP LOCKED UP AS STOWAWAY Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Souithampton Special Cable to the Examiner Plymouth, Oct. 3--Harry Kemp, the poet who eloped with the former wife of Upton Sinclair, was a stowaway on...	4th October 1913
	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
	New York Times	ASTOR SAVED US, SAY WOMEN "Hold That Boat," He Commanded, as One Was Leaving Without Them --- CHICAGO, April 21---Mrs. Ida S. Hippach and her daughter, Jean, survivors of the Titanic, who arrived home to-day, said that they were saved by Col. John Jacob Astor, w...	22nd April 1912
	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...
	Chicago Daily Journal	SUFFERED IN TITANIC HORROR, IS PAID $25 Girl Says She Signed Waiver of Further Damages While Semiconscious Twenty-five dollars is the estimate put on the damages suffered by one survivor of the Titanic...	24th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	LINER OLYMPIC HITS A WRECK Ship Due at Southampton on Its Way To Belfast for Repairs. Belfast, Ireland, Feb. 27---The White Star liner Olympic, which left New York on Wednesday and was due in Southampton today, stru...	27th February 1912
	Chicago Inter Ocean	PUGILIST DIES ON TITANIC [DAVID BOWEN] David Bowen, Lightweight Champion of Wales Is Reported Drowned David Bowen, lightweight champion of Wales, who sailed on the Titanic to challenge Packey McFarland and other American pugilists, was one of the second c...	19th April 1912
	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
	Chicago Evening Post	ASSERTS CELTIC SAVED TWO FROM THE TITANIC Indiana Man Declares Officer and Woman Steerage Passenger Were Rescued Muncie, Ind., April 22—That the White Star liner Celtic, which followed closely in the path of the ill-fated Titanic, picked up an officer and a wom...	22nd April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	LA FRANCE, NEWEST LINER, HAS CONSORT La Touraine Guards Her on Maiden Trip Special Cable to the Examiner Paris, April 21---La France, the newest and largest French transatlantic liner, left Havre today on her maiden voyage to...	22nd April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	49 YRS. AFTER TITANIC SINKS, SURVIVOR DIES Detroit, April 17 (AP)--In the hour after midnight on April 15, 1912, death overlooked Mrs. Bertha Cooper when the luxury liner Titanic sank after striking an iceberg. Saturday--49 years to the hour after the disaster t hat took the lives ...	18th April 1961
	Chicago Tribune	OCEAN WRECK SURVIVOR DEAD John Conley, Last of Passengers on the Steamer Arctic, Succumbs at Age of 80 John Conley, last of the survivors of the Arctic, which sank on Sept. 20, 1854, near t...	24th December 1912
	New York Times	MISS RYERSON TO WED Titanic Survivor Is Engaged to George Hyde Clark --- Special to The New York Times --- COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 4---Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of Chicago and Philadelphia announced today the engagement of her daughter, Miss Emil...	5th September 1915
	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
	Chicago Examiner	PASTOR AND WIFE MISSING Thomas Hughes' Daughter is Believed Among Titanic Dead. Topeka, Kan., April 17--The Rev. Ernest Carter and his wife of London were booked for the Titanic's first sailing on their way to Topeka to spend the Summer with Mrs....	18th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	HOPE FOR THE SAFETY OF MISSING PASSENGERS BULLETIN New York, April 17 (Wednesday), 1:30 A.M.---A vague hope for the safety of some of the missing passengers was given last night by the captain of the tramp steamer Ultonia, whic...	17th April 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
	Chicago Examiner	2 BOXERS DIE ON TITANIC Leslie Williams and Arthur Bowen Coming From Wales for Fights Two professional boxers of Wales, Leslie Williams and Andy Bowen, lost their lives when the Titanic foundered. They were...	20th April 1912
	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
	New York Sun	WAS THE MAYOR'S FRIEND ALBERT A. STEWART SAILED ON THE TITANIC WITHOUT HIS WIFE Albert A. Stewart was for many years connected with the Strobridge Lithographing Company of Cincinnati and had an office in the Times Building. He was also a part owner in the ...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	SEEKS NEWS OF BROTHER-IN-LAW “Is my brother-in-law alive? His name is C. Joughin, and he was a baker on the Titanic.” This question was asked of The Daily News to-day by G. Woodward, 2520 Washington boulevard. Names of members of the crew of the Tit...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	SHIES BOATS UNDER CAPT. SMITH F. Harrison Powers of New York and Paris, a guest at the Congress hotel has been a passenger several times on White Star boats commanded by Capt. E. J. Smith of the Titanic. “But I only sailed with him once after the collision of the...	16th April 1912
	New York Times	JAMES CLINCH SMITH Brother-in-Law of Stanford White---Well-Known Sportsman --- James Clinch Smith, a brother-in-law of the late Stanford White, is well known as a sportsman and in society circles both in this city and in Paris. Until May, 1911, when he r...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	ISMAY GOT INTO BOAT John R. Joyce, a banker of Carlsbad, N. M., a passenger on the Carpathia, said: "When the Carpathia reached the scene of the wreck, we saw eighteen boats and one raft on the water. The Carpathia picked them all up. Four pe...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Inter Ocean	MARINE INSURANCE LOSS $9,980,000 IN THREE MONTHS The Daily Consular and Trade Reprt issued tonight publishes this statement credited to the London Financial Times: "During the first three months of this year, forty-seven vessels, representing $8,813,000, became losses under Ma...	19th April 1912
	Semi Weekly Iowegian	FRENCHMAN HAD TOO MANY WIVES - MAN WHO LOST WIFE ON TITANIC SEEMS TO HAVE ELOPED WITH ANOTHER FROM FRANCE Frank Levevre, the Mystic Frenchman who lost his wife and four children on the Titanic, is now in jail here and with him is the woman he is alleged to have run off with when he came from France to this country. It will be remembered that ...	16th July 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	SIPPED HIGHBALL AT CRASH C. H. Romacue of Georgetown, Ky, one of the first cabin passengers had just stepped from the deck to the smoking room and stood at a table with a highball in front of him when the crash came. “We had been crunching through ice...	19th April 1912
	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
	New York Times	MRS. LOUISE U.-S. JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY Mrs. J. Hippach Unander-Scharin of Wianno, Mass., formerly of Chicago and Lake Forest, Ill., has announced here the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, to John Maclay Mirkil, son of William I. Mirkil of Meadowlane Farm, New...	26th August 1953
	Chicago Examiner	GIANTS IN TITANIC BENEFIT Will Play Yankees Sunday to Aid Survivors of Sunken Liner New York, April 19---President John T. Brush of the National League baseball team announced today that the Giants would play an exhibition game with the New Y...	20th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	BRUCE HAS NO WRECK DETAILS Wireless Operator Reports He Was Unable to Get Particulars of Titanic Sinking St. Johns, N. F., April 17---The steamer Bruce, which arrived in St. John's harbor at noon on Monday and r...	18th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	FRIEND TELLS HOW TITANIC COMMANDER MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED INSISTS CAPT. SMITH LIVES Friend Tells How Titanic Commander Might Have Escaped Baltimore, md., July 21---Still emphatic in his assertions that he saw Captain E. J. Smith, who is supposed ...	22nd July 1912
	Connaught Telegraph	LOSS OF THE TITANIC. Flower of Mayo's Youth Sank with Hands Joined on The Titanic Of Fifteen Merry Lads and Colleens Seeking Fortune only Two Arrive The Chicago "Evening World" says:- Of twelve young Irishwomen and girls, two young men and a boy c...	25th May 1912
	Chicago Daily News	FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY FATHER OVERCOME WITH JOY Willaim Haines, a publisher, father of Mrs. Marion Smith, who was reported rescued from the doomed vessel, was prostrated with grief when ...	17th April 1912
	Jerseyman	MRS. PATTERSON IS CALLED BY DEATH (Morristown, New Jersey) Page 1 Wife of Editor of Jerseyman Dies in Memorial Hospital Mrs. Susan Ryerson Patterson, daughter of Mrs. Arthur Ryerson of Chicago, and wife of George W. Patterson, Jr., editor of THE J...	14th January 1921
	Chicago Tribune	PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER PHOTOGRAPHS ICE THAT SUNK LINER _____________ Arthur Tree Brings Pictures of Giant Floes in Which Titanic Met Doom...	18th April 1912
	St. Paul Daily News	TITANIC VICTIMS DIED OF HUNGER - Tooth marks on cork and collapsible lifeboat tell grim tale - Liner found three - New York, May 16.- Bits of cork in their mouths and tooth marks on the cork and wood portions of the boat indicated that starvation killed the three T...	17th May 1912
	The Nation	STEAD AND FUTRELLE article...	25th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT BLAMES WRECK ON PILOT Admiralty Court Renders Decision in Olympic Collision Case Special Cable to the Examiner Sir Samuel Evans, president of the Admiralty Court, announced...	20th December 1911
	Port Jefferson Echo	A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER J. CLINCH SMITH NOT SAVED James Clinch Smith, of Smithtown, one of the passengers of the steamship Titanic, whose name is not reported among the survivors, was well known on Long Island as a sportsman and society man. ...	20th April 1912
	Washington Times	CLARENCE MOORE, WHO MAY HAVE LOST HIS LIFE, WELL KNOWN IN CAPITAL Clarence Moore, of Washington, whose name is included in the list of first-cabin passengers on the Titanic, left Washington March 16. He was particularly interested in seeing the Liverpool steeplechase races while abroad, and if he remained to see th...	16th April 1912
		1930 CENSUS RECORD - ANNA MCGOWAN STRAUBE Obituaries related to Anna McGowan Straube...	1930
	New York Times	WALDMANS SEEK DIVORCE Mother of Children Who Fell to Death Here Sues in Paris --- Copyright by The Chicago Tribune Co. --- PARIS, Nov. 27---Mrs. Barbara Guggenheim Waldman, whose two children were killed in a thirteen-story fall from the roof o...	28th November 1929
	Chicago Record-Herald	MRS. BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM RECEIVES HUSBAND' LAST MESSAGE FROM TITANIC SURVIVOR GETS ADIEU FROM SEA Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim Receives Husband’ Last Message From Titanic Survivor ‘I’ve Done My Duty,” Word ...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	STEAD'S CLAIRVOYANT MISSED Journalist Said He Was Told He Would Be Imprisoned, Then Kicked to Death in London Streets...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	INVESTIGATORS SEND TUG 25 MILES DOWN HARBOR TO TAKE SAILOR OFF LINER; INQUIRY GOES TO WASHINGTON TO PREVENT TAMPERING WITH WITNESSES. New York, April 20---The Senate committee appointed to investigate the sinking of the liner Titanic closed a day of unearthing developments of supreme importance by having Quartermaster Hichens of the Titanic taken from the outgoing liner Lapland ...	21st April 1912
	New York Times	FIND HEADQUARTERS OF CHICAGO GUNMEN Police Locate Saloon Where They Got Arms and Waited, It is Said, for Murphy's Orders --- RAID JOHN MILLER'S HOME --- Seize Quantity of Dynamite There---Paper Giving List Used Last Tuesday Is Found --- Special...	16th May 1922
	Chicago Record-Herald	NIAGARA NEAR TITANIC'S FATE French Liner Arrives Under Own Power After Striking Iceberg. New York, April 16—Close to where the Titanic sank the new French line steamer Niagara on the night of April 10 crashed into an ice field and sent out a wi...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	CHICAGOAN'S KIN TITANIC STEWARD A brother of William J. Stroud, 217 East 31st street, was a steward on the ill fated Titanic. Today Mrs. Stroud, sobbing tearfully, begged for news of her brother-in-law, Harry Stroud, of Southampton, England. “If Harry is dead,...	18th April 1912
	New York Times	LORRAINE GRAVES ENGAGED TO MARRY Daughter of Mrs. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer to Be Bride of Clarence Moore --- Announcement was made at a dinner party given on Thursday evening by Mrs. Helene van Nostrand at her home, 45 East Eighty-first Street, of the engagement of Miss ...	7th November 1936
	Chicago Inter Ocean	50 TITANIC BELLBOYS DIED SMOKING AS WOMEN FILLED BOATS New York, April 20—Among the many hundreds of heroic souls who went bravely and quietly to their end were fifty happy-go-lucky youngsters shipped as bellboys or messengers to serve the first cabin passengers. James Humphries, a quartermaster...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	FILM STORY OF TITANIC SINKING GETS THE GREEN LIGHT LOOKING AT HOLLYWOOD by Hedda Hopper Film Story of Titanic Sinking Gets the Green Light Hollywood, Feb. 22--Darryl Zanuck has given the green light to Charlie Brac...	22nd February 1952
	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
	Unidentified Newspaper	ELEANOR I. SHUMAN, 87, TITANIC SURVIVOR ELGIN, Ill. -- Eleanor I. Shuman, one of the last survivors of the Titanic, has died at age 87. After suddenly taking ill, Mrs. Shuman died Saturday in Elgin's Sherman Hospital. Mrs. Shuman, who was less than 2 years old when the...	10th March 1998
	Semi Weekly Iowegian	FRENCH CHILDREN MAY BE HIS - FRANK LEFEBRE GOES TO NEW YORK FROM MYSTIC TO IDENTIFY TWO UNKNOWN FRENCH CHILDREN Believing that two unknown French children saved from the Titanic are his, Frank Lefebre has started from Mystic for New York to identify them. The two little tots are in the hands of Miss Margaret Hays, a survivor of the Titanic, who took them in...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago Daily Journal	THE HERO'S CHOICE—THE PLUNGE OF THE TITANIC WITH THOSE WHO STAYED BEHIND The Hero’s Choice—The Plunge of the Titanic with Those Who Stayed Behind From a Description of the Final Scene in World’s Greatest Sea Disaster by One of ...	19th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless sta...	18th April 1912
	Chicago Evening Post	ANOTHER CHICAGOAN HIT IN TITANIC WRECK Mrs. Oren E. Taft, Who's in Europe, Loses Her Father, A. A. Stewart, New York...	20th April 1912
	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
	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
	Chicago American	OLYMPIC BARRED SENDING TITANIC NEWS BY WIRELESS By wireless to Glace Bay, N. S. --- Edward L. Doheny of Los Angeles, a passenger on the Olympic, says that a bulletin stating that all the Titanic passengers were safe, was po...	24th April 1912
	New York Times	MRS. J. CLINCH SMITH DIES Widow of Titanic Victim Never Recovered from Shock of His Death --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- PARIS, Aug. 20---Mrs. James Clinch Smith, a well known American resident of Paris, died to-day at Leysin, Switzerl...	21st August 1913
	Chicago Daily News	ICE KEPT AID FROM TITANIC Ice Kept Aid from Titanic [By The Associated Press] Maasluis, Holland, April 23—Masses of ice prevented the Russian steamer Birma, which left New York for Rotterdam and Libau April 11, from reaching the Titanic in repl...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago Record-Herald	BUYER FOR NUGENT BROTHERS ON TITANIC Spencer V. Silverthorne, whose name appears among the Titanic passengers on the Carpathia, is a buyer for Nugent Brothers of St. Louis and a brother of Mrs. H. H. Harris, 820 Foster street, Evanston, whose husband is assistant pastor of the First ...	18th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBERG JUST MISSED TITANIC'S FATE: TEUTONIC VEERS OFF ICEBRG By Quick Reversal of Engines and with Helm Hard Aport Liner Grazes Huge...	28th October 1913
	Chicago Record-Herald	LUCK SAVES MORGAN Financier Booked for Titanic, Taking Fricks' Place, but Changed His Mind Accident Spares Another Special to the Record-Herald New York, April 18--Associates of J. P. Morgan today related...	19th April 1912
	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
	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
		LETTER SENT BY JOHN HARPER FROM THE TITANIC A letter written on board on company notepaper exists it reads: My Dear Brother Young, I am penning you this line just before we get in to Queenstown to assure you that I have not forgotten you and especially all your kindness while w...	11th April 1912
	Chicago Tribune	CELTIC PASSENGERS IN PANIC News of Titanic Disaster Spreads Despite Efforts of the Officers of Vessel New York, April 20--[Special]--The Celtic of the White Star line arrived in port today with the news that she had received the &qu...	21st April 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
	Chicago American	UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi...	16th April 1912
	New York Times	CLARENCE MOORE Washington Banker One of the Best-Known Sportsmen in America --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---Clarence Moore of 1,748 Massachusetts Avenue, a passenger on the Titanic, is one of the best-known s...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	GIRL TITANIC SURVIVOR IS HERE Miss Annie Kelley Last Woman to Leave Sinking Ship, She Says Miss Annie Kelley, 17 years old, a sister of Miss Beatrice Kelley, 303 Eugenie street, arrived in Chicago last night and told of her escape from the sinking Tit...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago Daily Tribune	SAILED IN '70S WITH TITANIC'S CAPTAIN Page 6 [Photo] Capt. J. R. Mullet Capt. J. R. Mullet, a veteran seaman, retired ten years ago on a pension from the White Star lines after thirty-five years of faithful service, yesterday recalled the days when he and C...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	MELLEN IN TITANIC STATEMENT Offers Evidence as to Time Officials Knew the Vessel Was Lost [by The Associated Pres.] New Haven, Conn., April 23—In connection with the question at the time at which the White S...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago American	TITANIC SAILOR SAVED BY MOUNT TEMPLE LIFEBOAT The Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, en route from Antwerp to Boston, was so close to the sinking Titanic on the night of the disaster that the passengers heard the creaking of the chains as lifeboats were lowered, heard the cries of passe...	25th April 1912
	Chicago Evening Post	DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD DREAD OF LIFEBOATS BY PASSENGERS TOLD Nephew of E. N. Kimball of Chicago Pictures Fear of Seventy-Five Foot Drop From the Titanic Trusted To Safety on Ship...	23rd April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	EXAMINER FUND AIDS GIRLS FROM TITANIC Two Suffering From Shock Get $20 Each and Will Be Sent to a Sanitarium Two Titanic passengers, women, who still are suffering from the shock and exposure of the midnight tragedy, each received last night a $20 bill from th...	28th April 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
	New York Times	ART SHOW OPENS AT COOPERSTOWN ART SHOW OPENS AT COOPERSTOWN --- 56 Participants in Exhibit of 176 Items---Portrait of A. B. Ryerson a Feature --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- COOPERSTOWN, N, Y., Aug. 19---The Summer exhibit of the C...	21st August 1933
	Chicago Tribune	BATTLESHIP IN CRASH LIKE TITANIC'S; DAMAGE IS SLIGHT. BATTLESHIP IN CRASH LIKE TITANIC'S; DAMAGE IS SLIGHT. Value of Subdivision of the Hull Into Large Number of Small Compartments Demonstrated ...	5th June 1912
	New York Times	MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE Church in Barnstable Is Scene of Marriage to John Maclay Mirkil, Marine Ex-Officer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 19---Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, daughter of Mrs. J. Hippach Unander...	20th September 1952
	Daily Telegraph	TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York...	27th October 1910
	Chicago Tribune	UNCONFIRMED STORY OF HORROR A report is current here which is said to have emanated from the trading vessel Bruce, which is on the way to Sydney, C. B., giving a version of the Titanic disaster which the trader obtained from various ships. This is to...	17th 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
	New York Times	25 DEAD, 100 HURT IN BIG EXPLOSION AT CEDAR RAPIDS Fire Follows, Causing $1,500,000 Damage to the Douglas Starch Works --- SCORES ARE STILL MISSING --- Company of Soldiers Hold Back Relatives of Workers and Assist Rescuers --- CAUSE REMAINS UNKNOWN --- Windo...	23rd May 1919
	Chicago Daily News	TITANIC RESCUED HERE TITANIC RESCUED HERE Five Left of Party of Ten from Sweden Arrive on Way to Pacific Coast Tells of their Escapes Companions Lost After Entering Li...	24th 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 Inter Ocean	JAY YATES, GAMBLER, ONE OF THE HEROES Goes to His Death With Sinking Titanic After Helping Women and Children to Safety—Sends Good-By to Mother Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean New York, April 20—That Jay Yates, gambler, confidence man...	21st April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	TITANIC : NAMES NOT ON SAILING LIST List of survivors whose names do not appear on the original sailing list, probably includes a large number of those who took the ship at Cherbourg...	16th April 1912
	Chicago Daily News	LINER PARISIAN ASSISTS IN TASK Another liner, the Parisian, of the Allan company, which sailed from Glasgow for Halifax April 6, is close at hand and assisting in the work of rescue. The Baltic and Virginian also are near the scene and the Olympic apparently ...	15th April 1912
	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
		THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC William Baltzell A Descriptive Composition for Piano Solo By William Baltzell Published 1912 by Aubrey Stauffer & Co., Chicago, USA Listen to this Piece [Midi] ...	1912
	New York Times	MRS. M. S. MOORE MARRIES Wealthy Widow of Titanic Victim Weds A. C. P. Wichfeld, a Dane --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, May 1---Mrs. Mabelle Swift Moore, Washington's wealthiest widow, whose husband, Clarence Moore, lost his life...	2nd May 1915
		MR WILLIAM TAGGART – DELIVERY CREW TRIMMER Mr William Taggart was born in Belfast in 1889 and began work with the Harland & Wolff yard as an apprentice. He was one of the workers who helped to build Titanic from day one. He had also been a crewmember of the Olympic. When the Titanic was deli...
	New York Times	TITANIC WRECK ECHO AT HOE LIBRARY SALE Harry E. Widener, on Sunk Liner, Expected to Attend Part III. Sessions --- SAW BOOKS BEFORE SAILING --- Caxton "Golden Legend" Bring $3,100---$1,400 Paid for Christopher Columbus's "Epistola” --- "The Golden ...	17th April 1912
	Chicago Examiner	STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON STEAD'S SPIRIT PICKS WRONG LADY GORDON Message From Other World Upon Titanic Disaster Goes Ast...	16th December 1913
	New York Times	MRS. WICHFELD DEAD; WAS VISITING FRIENDS Former Wife of Clarence Moore Succumbs at Home of Earl of Portarlington --- LONDON, Feb. 3 (AP)---Mrs. Mabelle Swift Wichfeld, former wife of Clarence Moore, Washington capitalist and sportsman, who was lost on the Titanic, died of pneu...	4th February 1933
	Chicago Daily News	SAVED BY MRS. ASTOR FROM DEATH IN OCEAN Ernest Person, Titanic Passenger, Arrives at Indiana Harbor And Relates Rescue Struggled in the Water Declares Widow of Millionaire New Yorker Begged Crew to Drag Him Into Lifeboat ...	27th April 1912
	Antioch News	WIFE CAN'T COLLECT DAMAGES Mrs. Elsbury, Wife of Titanic Victim, Unable to Collect Damages for Death VICTIM LIVED AT GURNEE Attorney Finds That Amount for Which Co. is Liable is Insignificant; Will Receive only Fare Paid Mrs. Jam...	1st January 1913
		THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC Jeanette Forrest A Descriptive Piano Composition Word and Music by Jeanette Forrest Published 1912 by Frank K. Root & Co. Chicago : New York Listen to this Piece [Midi] ...	1912
		FAMILY INFORMATION Arthur Larned Ryerson was born on 12th January 1851 in Chicago, the son of Joseph Turner Ryerson (1813-1883) and Ellen Griffin Larned (1827-1881). He had three younger siblings: Edward Larned (b. 1855), Eleanor (b. 1858) and Josephine (b. 1865)....
		MY SWEETHEART WENT DOWN WITH THE SHIP Words by Roger Lewis Music by F. Henri Klickmann Published 1912 by Frank K. Root & Co. Chicago and New York, USA [Midi / Recording]...	1912
	Chicago Daily Tribune	HORRORS OF TITANIC HAUNT GIRL ILL AFTER HER ESCAPE Page 1 Miss Anna Kelly, with Chicago Cousins, Beset by Scenes of Wreck and Weakened by Exposure A nervous wreck as the result of her experiences on the Titanic, Miss Anna Kelly is at the home of her cousins, Anna and Ma...	25th April 1912