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Toronto Daily Star (1929) FORTUNE
At her home, 2 Rose Park Crescent, Toronto, on Friday, March 8th, 1929, Mary Fortune, widow of the late Mark Fortune, formerly of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Funeral service at Mount Pleasant Mausoleum Chapel Monday at 2 o'clock. Montreal, Otta...
9th March 1929  
Toronto Daily Star (1961) ETHEL FLORA FORTUNE GORDON
Page 36, column 6 On Tues., March 21, 1961, at her home, 1 Clarendon Ave., Toronto, Ethel F. Fortune, widow of Crawford Gordon, mother of Crawford Gordon and William Fortune Gordon. A private service was held at the funeral chapel of ...
22nd March 1961  
  MEMORIAL PLAQUE
Erected by the People of Winnipeg in memory of Their Fellow Citizens Mark Fortune; John Hugo Ross; Thompson Beattie; Charles A. Fortune; George E. Graham; and J. J. Borebank Who with 1484 others lost their lives when the Steamship Titanic Founded in ...
   
Washington Times (1912) DRESSED IN SKIRTS MAN LEFT TITANIC
Mrs. Fortune and Daughter Say a Coward Was in Last Lifeboat --- NEW YORK, April 22---A man in women’s clothes was among the survivors in lifeboat 10, according to Mrs. Mark Fortune, Winnipeg, who was rescued with her three daughters on ...
22nd April 1912  
New York Times (1933) JOHN JACOB ASTOR 3D, 21, COMES INFO VAST FORTUNE
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 14---John Jacob Astor, whose father lost his life in the Titanic disaster twenty-one years ago, reached his majority today and came into possession of the fortune left by his father...
15th August 1933  
  ETHEL FLORA FORTUNE
   
  MARY FORTUNE PORTRAIT
   
  TOMB OF MARY FORTUNE
   
  GRAVE OF ETHEL F. FORTUNE AND HUSBAND CRAWFORD GORDON
   
Liverpool Echo (2007) A TITANIC MISTAKE
FASHION is a funny thing and there's no telling what folk will pay a fortune for.But a watch made out of metal from The Titanic is a style statement too far....
5th October 2007  
New York Times (1913) ANOTHER MYTH OF SMART
Titanic Victim Not Only Had No Children, but No Fortune --- It was disclosed recently that the Smart children, heirs of a wealthy lawyer who perished on the Titanic, were a myth, and yesterday it was developed that the supposedly wealth...
16th January 1913  
  (1912) FEEDING THE PIDGEONS
John Hugo Ross, Unknown, McCaffry, Mark Fortune and Thomson Beattie feed pigeons in St. Mark's Square, Venice, March 1912...
  March 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS
Mr. Frank Andrew, a young married man, 25 years of age, of Pencoys, Four Lanes, about 3 miles from Redruth en route to America to seek his fortune - his first trip across the seas - by the ill-fated Titanic. Mr. Andrew has a wife and one child, age ...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- WOMEN MANNED LIFEBOATS --- Forced to Oars by Lack of Proper Crew---Girl Who Gave Up Her Seat --- Magistrate Robert C. Cornell said yes...
20th April 1912  
Unidentified Newspaper (1968) DRISCOLL
In Victoria on Monday Feb. 19, 1968, Mrs. Mabel Fortune Driscoll, of 1630 York Place. She had been a resident of Victoria for some years. She leaves a son, Robert F. Driscoll, of Islington, Ontario. Rev. Dr. J.L.W. McLean will conduct the funeral ser...
21st February 1968  
New York Times (1913) 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  
Newark Star (1912) JERSEY WOMAN LOST FORTUNE ON TITANIC
--- NEW YORK, April 24---Mrs. Jane Herman, of Bernardsville, N. J., who was saved, with her daughters, when the Titanic foundered, but whose husband, Samuel Herman, was drowned, lost all she had in the world in that disaster. He...
25th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) MEMORIAL NOTICE
STRAUS-Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society (Orphan Asylum,) passed at a meeting specially called for the purpose of considering the tragic and untimely death of Isidor Straus: Isidor Straus t...
4th May 1912  
New York Times (1913) PARTNER SAYS SMART DIDN'T SIGN THE WILL
This Document of Titanic Victim Was Much Discussed Because No Children Were Mentioned --- AND NONE WERE EVER FOUND --- Fortune Reputed Great, but it Turned Out to be Very Small---Constance H. Baldwin Brings Suit ---...
5th March 1913  
New York Times (1911) ARRANGE ASTOR SETTLEMENT
Will Set Aside Separate Fortune for Miss Force in Place of Dower --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 15---Former Supreme Court Justice Henry A. Gildersleeve, representing Miss Madeleine TaImage Force...
16th August 1911  
New York Times (1986) 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 fortune...
24th January 1986  
Teignmouth Post (1912) SHALDON AND THE DISASTER
Mr. Henry Forbes Julian, one of the first-class passengers, of Redholme, Torquay, is also among the missing. He formerly resided at Ness House. Mr. Forbes made a fortune in South Africa with a patent for separating gold from quartz, and during his ...
26th April 1912  
Toronto Daily Star (1961) MRS. E.F. GORDON
Page 36, Column 2 Private funeral services were held for Mrs. Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon, wife of the late Crawford Gordon, a former manager of a Toronto branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mrs. Gordon died yes...
22nd March 1961  
The Evening Telegram (1912) WON'T AFFECT STOCK MARKET
Even J. J. Astor is Not a Power in Financial World From Our Own Correspondent. New York, April 16.---The stock exchange is not at al...
16th April 1912  
Western Morning News (1912) TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW
From Queenstown, Mr James Hocking, of Fore Street, Devonport, who was one of the Titanic’s second class passengers, wrote to his wife, and in the course of his letter spoke of the splendid accommodation in the great vessel, and mentioned that except ...
17th April 1912  
New York Times (1933) MRS. DICK GOES TO RENO
Her Secretary Refuses to Comment on Divorce Report --- Mrs. William K. Dick, widow of the late John Jacob Astor, who was lost in the Titanic disaster, left last night for Reno. At her home at 7 East Eighty-fourth Street M...
5th June 1933  
New York Times (1935) MRS. JOHN J. ASTOR 3D GIVES BIRTH TO SON
The Former Ellen Tuck French Becomes a Mother at the Doctors Hospital --- A son was born at 5:04 P. M. yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3d in Doctors Hospital, 174 East End Avenue. The baby weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces. The con...
20th July 1935  
Daily Mining Gazette (1912) RELATIVES OF HURONTOWN FOLK WERE ABOARD LINER
Included among the passengers on the lost steamer Titanic were four young Cornishmen bound for Houghton to take employment in the Isle Royal Mine. Their relatives at Hurontown eagerly await some news of them and up to last night were still hoping th...
  1912  
New York Times (1940) MRS. FIERMONTE DEAD IN FLORIDA
--- Former Madeleine Force Was Married to Col. Astor, W. K. Dick and Italian Boxer --- SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC --- Gave Up Fortune to Marry Again, Then Got Divorce to Wed Pugilist --- PALM BEACH, Fla.,...
29th March 1940  
New York Times (1932) MRS. J. J. BROWN DIES; SURVIVOR OF TITANIC
Was Rescued by the Carpathia After Hours in Row Boat-- Long a Newport Colonist.Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown of Denver, Col., widow of James J. Brown, mine owner, died...
27th October 1932  
New York Times (1954) $5,000,000 IS WILLED FOR BLOOD RESEARCH
Page 14, Column 4 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3-- Jefferson Medical College and Hospital will receive more than $5,000,000 for blood research under the will of Thomas Drake Martinez Cardeza, Philadelphia art collector, explorer ...
4th August 1954  
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 friend...
   
  MR. & MRS. E. A. SANDERS (UNCLE AND AUNT)
In April 1912 the Exeter Flying Post newspaper reported that Titanic victim, Mrs. Lilian Carter, was a neice of Mrs. E. A. Sanders of Stoke House. Mrs. Lilian Carter (formerly Hughes) was a daughter of Thomas Hughes and Frances (formerly Ford)...
   
New York Times (2009) FIGHT FOR ASTOR ESTATE MIRRORS BATTLE 50 YEARS AGO
Don Hogan Charles[Photo] Brooke Astor in 1996 with a portrait of her husband Vincent, who died in 1959. [Photo] Vincent Astor around 1910. His will was contested by his half brother, who blamed Mrs. Astor's influence. ...
26th April 2009  
New York Times (1912) VINCENT ASTOR'S GRIEF
Vincent Astor's Grief Pitiable ___________ Son of John Jacob offers a fortune for word of his father ___________ Vincent Astor, son of Col. John Jacob Astor, who is believed to have g...
17th April 1912  
Guardian (1912) MOUNT CHARLES VICTIMS
It is now almost certain that Mr. W. H. Nancarrow and Mr. Alex. Robins have gone down with the ill-fated liner. Hopes were held that at least Mrs. Robins might have secured a place in the rescue boats, but now the Carpathia has reached the shore it i...
26th April 1912  
All'erta! (1912) UNA VITTIMA DI MONTALTO NEL NAUFRAGIO DEL «TITANIC»
Venerdi 26 Aprile 1912 Purtroppo anche il nostro Circon- dario deve registrare una sua vittime nel terribile disastro del vapore «Ti- tanic». Fra l'elenco dei periti nello spa- ventoso naufragio annoverasi, infatti, Gatti Luigi, d'ann...
26th April 1912  
New York Times (1937) TWO RECEIVE SHARES IN ELKINS 27 MILLION
G. D. Widener and Mrs. Dixon of Pennsylvania to Get Income From $13,500,000 --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- NORRISTOWN, Pa., Aug. 10---George D. Widener of Whitemarsh and his sister, Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon of E...
11th August 1937  
New York Times (1932) 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  
New York Times (1912) WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK
*** --- COUNTESS ROTHES BRAVE --- Took Charge in Her Boat-Mrs. Cornell Among Those Who Worked at the Oars --- *** --- COUNTESS IN CHARGE OF BOAT --- Sat at Tiller Five Hours--Survi...
20th April 1912  
Chicago Daily Journal (1912) 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  
L'Eclaireur de Nice et du Sud-Ouest (1936) MORT DE M. GOLDENBERG
FONDATEUR DU FLAMBEAU FRANCO-AMERICAIN C’est avec un vif regret que nous apprenons le décès, survenu hier, de M. Sam Goldenberg, président-fondateur du Flambeau franco-américain. M. Goldenberg, citoyen américain, était âgé de 73 ans. C...
12th October 1936  
New York Times (1943) GUGGENHEIM HEIRESS WED TO CORPORAL
Mrs. Hazel McKinley Bride of Larry Leonard in Denver --- DENVER, Col., Sept. 30 (AP)---Mrs. Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, mining-family heiress, and Larry Leonard, an Army corporal, were married tonight at the home of Charles Ginsburg, Mrs...
1st October 1943  
Women's Wear Daily (1911) EDITH L. ROSENBAUM REPORTED HURT IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
A number of the daily papers this morning have the following press dispatch from Rouen, France: "Rouen, Monday: – Miss Edith Rosenbaum, an American, was seriously injured today in an automobile accident while on her way to this city from Paris. A Ger...
22nd August 1911  
Shepton Mallet Journal (2000) REDISCOVERED POSTCARD STRENGTHENS LINK BETWEEN TOWN AND TITANIC
Castle Cary's connection with the world's most famous shipping disaster has been strengthened still further. This is because a New Forest pensioner has discovered a postcard found on the ship, which was to be sent to the wife of a local butcher....
2nd March 2000  
Chicago Inter Ocean (1912) 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  
New York Times (1934) EX-WIFE GIVES UP CLAIM ON W. K. DICK
Bride of Fiermonte, Boxer, and Once Widow of J. J. Astor, Rejects Dower --- GOT DIVORCE LAST JULY --- She Also Relinquished $300,000 Income From First Husband's Estate When She Wed in 1916 --- Mrs. Enzo Fierm...
21st March 1934  
New York Times (1937) J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR
Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...
19th October 1937  
New York Times (1915) 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  
  THE CAVE LIST
When the body of Sal...
   
New York Times Book Review (1900) HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING
HOW WOMEN MAY EARN A LIVING. By Helen Churchill Candee. 12mo. Pp. ix-342. New York: The Macmillan Company. $1. --- The day has surely come when women as well as men may put their shoulders to the wheel of fortune. To meet...
10th February 1900  
New York Times (1933) 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  
New York Times (1922) 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 Hi...
19th August 1922  
New York Times (1959) VINCENT ASTOR DIES IN HIS HOME AT 67
Vincent Astor, millionaire real estate owner and head of the American branch of the famous family, died yesterday in his apartment at 120 East End Avenue. Mr. Astor, who was 67 years old, succumbed to a heart attack at 1 A. M. A spokes...
4th February 1959  
New York Times (1912) 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 (1912) BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
Elected President of International Steam Pump Co. in 1909 --- Benjamin Guggenheim was born in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1865, the fifth of the seven sons of Meyer Guggenheim, founder of the famous house of M. Guggenheim & Sons, who came to...
16th April 1912  
New York Times (1912) 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  
New York Times (1912) COL. JOHN JACOB ASTOR
Wealthy Society Man and an Author and Inventor as Well --- Col. John Jacob Astor, the American head of the Astor family, has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous club member...
16th April 1912  
  (1972) ALFRED NOURNEY OBITUARY
Translated from German language by Arne Mjaland: He died 60 years after the Titanic. Tennis club lost honour member . On the April 15 1912 he experienced the most terrible night in his  life. In  February this ye...
18th November 1972  
  1976 LETTER FROM MRS. SNYDER ABOUT HER EXPERIENCE ON TITANIC
By letter postmarked 11/22/76, Mrs. Rawley Miller (Mrs. Snyder's daughter) was so wonderful as to send me the following typewritten letter, signed by Mrs. Snyder, with a handwritten note from Mrs. Miller. ...
   
New York Times (1916) 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  
The Toronto Daily Star (1912) LAST MAN TO LEAVE TITANIC WAS COLONEL GRACIE, U.S.A.
------------------- Was in That Last Awful Swirl That Followed When Monster Sank------Came to Surface Aft...
19th April 1912  
Washington Times (1912) FRANCIS D. MILLET, SOLDIER, PAINTER, AND CONNOISSEUR
Francis D. Millet, while comparatively unknown even to Washingtonians, despite the fact that he has made this city his home for years, and has given the best of his artistic life toward the beautification of Washington, was one of the city’s most pic...
16th March 1912  
New York Times (1894) GUGGENHEIM-SELIGMAN
Delmonico’s was the scene of one of the handsomest weddings of the season at 6 o’clock last evening, when Miss Florette Seligman, the youngest daughter of James Seligman, was married to Benjamin Guggenheim, a son of Meyer Guggenheim of 66 West Sevent...
25th October 1894  
New York Times (1911) COL. ASTOR TO WED MADELEINE FORCE
Father of 18-Year-Old Debutante in Society Announces the Engagement --- MET JUST A YEAR AGO --- Col. Astor's Marked Attentions Soon Gave Rise to Rumors of Betrothal- Wedding Plans Not Yet Made --- Formal anno...
2nd August 1911  
New York Times (1928) WALDMAN DEATHS AGAIN HELD ACCIDENT
Police After Second Inquiry Stick to Original Theory of Children's Fall --- WORKMEN TELL OF TRAGEDY --- Describe the Mother's Frantic Efforts to Save Sons---Norris Investigation to Go On --- The second police...
24th October 1928  
 

 
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