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| EDITH RUSSELL'S PARIS BROTHEL Sometime in 1930s Edith Russell was considering the purchase of a new apartment in Paris. She found one that suited her taste for the original and shared her excitement about it with friends, General Sir Sidney and Lady Lawford (parents of actor Pete... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION MBE awarded March 1946. Purser SS Mataroa of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd. Awarded for long and meritorious service at sea and in dangerous waters during the war. He served as a Purser for the company for 20 years, tr... | ||||||
| FAMILY MEMORIES William Dyer was my great great uncle - my Mother's Mother's Uncle. He was known in the family as Uncle Will. My Grandmother was the same age as his children (cousins). She died in February 2004, and these are her memories. William Dy... | ||||||
| ELOPEMENT Mr Denis Lennon and Mary Mullin were actually eloping to the United States together, hence the shroud of secrecy and the reason why the two are listed as brother and sister. The truth is Denis found a job as barman in the Mullin family's ... | ||||||
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GEORGE HENRY HUNT WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC George H. Hunt, of 1309 Sotuh Ruby Street (Philadelphia), it was discovered yesterday, was one of the victims of the Titanic disaster. He had been visting his parents in England for several months and h... | |||||
| UNLISTED PASSENGERS AND CREW Numerous stories are told of people who were booked on the Titanic but, for one reason or other, failed to travel on her. Some are true, the vast majority are probably untrue. Quite a few of these claims probably relate to passengers who had... | ||||||
| THE TITANIC The story of the most awful shipwreck of modern times may not be a pleasant subject for either the relator or the hearers but there is an interest in the details of the loss of the Titanic which warrents me in telling the story. And having been on... | ||||||
| CHINESE SAILORS ON THE TITANIC Eight men, all Sailors from Hong Kong, boarded the Titanic together at Southampton with third class ticket #1601 at a cost of £56 9s 11d. Six of the men: Lee Bing, ... | ||||||
| LIFEBOAT SPECIFICATIONS The design of Titanic's lifeboats was supervised by Chief Ships Draughtsman Roderick Chisholm and the bopats were constructed at the Harland and Wo... | ||||||
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TITANIC CONNECTIONS WITH LIVERPOOL Titanic, Carpathia, Californian were all Liverpool registered ships. The Titanic was scheduled to visit the port on the voyage from Belfast to Southampton but this was cancelled almost at the last minute. ... | |||||
| TITANIC DISCHARGED CREW Crew members, most of whom had "signed-on" but, for one reason or another, failed to board the ship or were not aboard when the accident occurred. ... | ||||||
| MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT' Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ... | ||||||
| EDWARD HARRIS, PANTRYMAN Edward Harris was the 4th son of Thomas Harris, a part-time prison warder who lived at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. After leaving school Edward worked for several years at the town's railway station. His employers were S... | ||||||
| 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... | ||||||
| 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... | ||||||
| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Lemberopoulos, (Exact spelling should be Lymperopoulos) Mr. Peter. Missing. Greek. En route to Stamford, CT. Aged 30 years. Has a memorial in St. Johns Churchyard, Agios Sostis community, Messinia, Greece. This memorial was unveiled on 3rd Ju... | ||||||
| MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER JOHN WEIR Col John Weir was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born on May 14th 1852 to parents John Weir and Jane Gillies. He had two brothers and two sisters: James b. 28/5/1856, Sarah b. 16/2/1858, George b. 29/1/1862 and Jane b. 30/7/1864. John marri... | ||||||
| ADOLPHE SAALFELD POST-DISASTER Saalfeld was in the First Class Smoking Room when the collision occurred; he was advised by a steward to go to the boat deck. In his cabin he had left samples of perfume that he was taking to America, but managed to pocket a menu card.... | ||||||
| INFORMATION FROM THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY, STAFFORD Hodgkinson, Leonard. Engineer. Stoke man educated at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. With White Star for several years. WAS forty-six years of age and his birthplace Liverpool. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. Hartley, Armour and Fanning... | ||||||
| MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget... | ||||||
| EDITH LOUISE ROSENBAUM RUSSELL (1879-1975) Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 12 June 1879, the fashion writer, consultant, importer, buyer and stylist Edith Louise Rosenbaum began her career abroad as a saleswoman in 1908 for the Maison Cheruit in the Place Vendome in Paris. Later she wrote for th... | ||||||
| INFORMATION ABOUT JOHN JAMES BOREBANK Borebank, Mr. John. J. Missing. First Class Passenger. Cabin D22/1. Occupation - Horticulturist, c/o Lodges of the World, Winnipeg, Canada. Real Estate agent. Left Winnipeg in the Spring of 1911 for the Coronation of King George V. Then was re... | ||||||
| 1901 CENSUS The 1901 Census reveals that Henry Ryland Dyer had an elder brother, Samuel Dyer, born in Jhansi, India 1885. He was described in the census as an Apprentice Engraver ... | ||||||
| MANSION HOUSE TITANIC RELIEF FUND From the Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet (March 1913) Number 38. Biggs. Thomas, Father. Biggs Mrs. Mother. Both class G dependants. From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, Southampton Ar... | ||||||
| PETER DENNIS DALY BY HIS GRANDSON "What follows is the story of PDD and his Titanic involvement as told to me by my father (Richard) and supplemented by my uncle Nicanor (who in the 20's settled in Buenos Aries, Argentina) joining other established Dalys there: Paul, (bachelor), Vict... | ||||||
| ACCOUNT BY MARSHALL DREW 'When the 'Titanic' struck the iceberg at 11.40 pm, I was in bed. However, for whatever reason I was awake and remember the jolt and cessation of motion. A steward knocked on the stateroom door and directed us to get dressed, put on life preservers a... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest Charles Cann was born in the village of Chapel Amble in the parish of St Kew near Wadebridge, Cornwall in 1883. He was the son of William Cann (labourer)and Sarah Jane Cann. (Sarah was 27 years younger than her husband and had been widowed sh... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Henry Philip Creese was born in Falmouth, Cornwall in 1868. He was the son of Charles and Jane Creese. He had an elder brother, William Creese who was to lose his life on 19 November 1917 when the submarine, SS Jutland, was torpedoed off the Britta... | ||||||
| FILLBROOK FAMILY INFORMATION Joseph Charles Fillbrook (k/a as Charles) was born in Truro, Cornwall in 1894. He was the son of William Fillbrook, a mason by occupation and Kate (nee Vincent). He had five siblings, Edward John, William Arthur, George, Rose Hetta (k/a Rosetta) and... | ||||||
| LETTER FROM CATERINA GILARDINO, NIECE OF VINCENZO GILARDINO I do not know the year Vincenzo Gilardino came to England but it must have been in the last years of the 1800s because in 1901 my father (Paulo) Gustavo, Vincenzo's brother, was sent to England by their father to try + persuade Vincenzo to return to ... | ||||||
| COLERIDGE FAMILY INFORMATION Reginald Coleridge was born in 1883 at 23 Bitton Street, Teignmouth, Devon. He was the only son of Charles Coleridge (cabinet maker) and Annie. He had a younger sister named Augusta. Reginald’s grandfather, James Coleridge (1824-1904... | ||||||
| HOLD FAMILY INFORMATION In this article, to avoid confusion, the Stephen Hold lost on Titanic is referred to as Stephen jnr and his father as Stephen snr. Porthoustock in the parish of St Keverne is a small fishing village located close to the southern tip of... | ||||||
| HELEN MELVILLE SMITH The daughter of master mariner Edward John Smith and Sarah Eleanor Pennington, was born on Saturday 2nd April 1898 at 20 Alexandra Road, Waterloo, Litherland, near Liverpool. The birth was registered by Edward John Smith on 3rd May 1898. Helen Melvi... | ||||||
| MARCONIGRAMS SENT AND RECEIVED BY CAPTAIN SMITH ON THE TITANIC Marconigram to Commander Empress of Britain, 12 April, 1912, which read: Many thanks for your kind message from all here. Smith. Marconigram: 14th April 1912, 12.55pm. Commander Baltic. Thanks for your message and good wishes. Had fine... | ||||||
| MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi... | ||||||
| ALLUM FAMILY INFORMATION Owen George Allum was born in a village called Mabe near Falmouth, Cornwall in 1894. His father, William Allum (b.1865 Bray, Berkshire) was a gardener by occupation who had married Clara Alice Eggleton (b.1867 Jersey, CI) at Wokingham, Berkshi... | ||||||
| PENNAL FAMILY INFORMATION Thomas Frederick Pennal (to use his full and correct names) was known as Frederick and because of uncertainty with his surname, for example, he appears on the Titanic Engagement Sheet as F. Pumal (Ref. No 178, 1st Class Victualling Dept.) he has unti... | ||||||
| PASCOE FAMILY INFORMATION Charles was born on the 18 March 1867 in the village of Breage, a few miles west of Helston in south-west Cornwall. He was baptised at the parish church on 18 August 1867 and was the son of Anthony and Jane Anne Pascoe. (The 1881 UK census shows his... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Elizabeth Walton Allen was born on 1st October 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the daughter of George Washington Allen (1853-1917)a Judge from St. Louis and Lydia Jeanette McMillen (b. 1853)from Indiana. They married on 21st June 1876 in St. Lou... | ||||||
| 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... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Constance's father, David H. Willard (1852-1916) was originally from Wisconsin but when he married to Miss Cora Day (1856-1916), he moved to Minnesota and was employed by his father-in-law at Minneapolis in the lumber business. David W... | ||||||
| POOK FAMILY INFORMATION Percy Robert Pook was born in Torquay, Devon in 1876. His birth being registered at Newton Abbot in the June Quarter of that year. He was the son of Henry Pook (house decorator) and Kate (nee Manley) who had married at Torquay in early 1872.... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION William Tracy Eustis (1822-1906), from Boston, married to Martha Gilbert Dutton (1828-1900), also from Boston, on 3rd October 1849. The couple had six choldren: Eleanor Tracy (1851-1922), Henry Dutton (b. 1853), Mary St. Barbe (b. 1857), Elizabeth Mu... | ||||||
| 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).... | ||||||
| EDWARD THOMAS STONE FAMILY INFORMATION Edward Thomas Stone was born in 1882/83 in Shirley, Southampton. He himself quotes his birthplace as Cornwall when signing on Titanic but this appears to be erroneous. (It is currently assumed that he lived there for a while when young). He was the ... | ||||||
| PARSONS FAMILY INFORMATION Edward Parsons (Chief Storekeeper) was born in Barnstaple, North Devon in 1875. He was the son of James Hill Parsons and Rebecca. One of 6 children his siblings were Edith (b.1865 Bradworthy, Devon), Richard (b.1868 Exeter, Devon), James (b. ... | ||||||
| EXTRA INFORMATION William Edwy Ryerson was born on 7th dec 1878 in Portland Dover, the son of George Arthur Ryerson and Catherine Hamilton. William had a brother, George A Ryerson born in 1880. when Williams father died on 21 january 1881, his mother took him and his... | ||||||
| PROUDFOOT FAMILY INFORMATION Richard Royston Proudfoot, signed on as a trimmer for the Titanic engine department in April 1912. His birth was registered at Plymouth, Devon in the September Quarter of 1890. He was the son of Royston Jesse Proudfoot and Jane Gendle (nee W... | ||||||
| HAMBLYN FAMILY INFORMATION Ernest William Hamblyn was born in Plymouth, Devon and his birth was registered there in the December Quarter of 1865. He remains elusive in early life but has been traced to Shirley, Southampton in the England & Wales 1901 census. It h... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Norman Campbell Chambers (1884-1966) was the son of James Cambell Chambers, from Pennsylvania, and Jeanette Hargleroad (b. 1855), also from this state. James and Jeanette later settled in New York. He was first married to Bertha M. Gr... | ||||||
| ACCOUNT BY GERALD DUQUEMIN His brother, Gerald, of Capelle's Building Stores, Guernsey, takes up the story: ''I was only ten years old at the time the Titanic went down but I can remember very well what results the sinking brought home. We heard about it on the ... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Mrs Stephen Hold (Annie Margaret, nee Hill) was born in the fishing village of Porthoustock in Cornwall and baptised at the parish church of St. Keverne on 23 May 1883. She was the daughter of Augusta Lavinia Hill. Annie’s mother was the daugh... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION ALLEN, Miss Elisabeth Walton. Saved. Cabin B5. (Saved in Lifeboat number 2). (Niece of Mrs. E. S. Roberts and cousin of Miss Georgette Madill, which see). Home address: Tunbridge Wells, England. (Mrs. J. B. Mennell). Insurance c... | ||||||
| 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. ... | ||||||
| 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... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Bess Waldo Daniels was the daughter of Arville F Daniels and Sarah J McCully. she had an older sister born in August 1883 called Mabel H Daniels.... | ||||||
| Beneath This Stone | BOOKLET ABOUT CLEWER CHURCHYARD OWEN GEORGE ALLUM was a passenger on the "unsinkable" White Star Liner, Titanic which struck an ice berg and sank on her maiden voyage. Owen Allum was one of the 1,489 whose lives were lost. He had lived at Gerald Villas, Vansittart Road, Wind... | |||||
| GRAVE Here Rest In Christ Owen George Allum Shipwrecked on the Titanic and Drowned At Sea April 14th, 1912, Aged 17 years. Nearer My God To Thee [In the Winter 1989 issue of the Atlantic Daily Bulletin it was repo... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Stokes, Mr. Phillip Joseph. Missing. c/o Thomas Cook & Son, Ludgate Circus, London, UK. Lived at 91 Hawstead Road, Catford, S.E. c/o Thomas Cook & Son, Paris, France. Bricklayer. En route to uncle Mr. Phillip O'Grady, Kewanee, Illinois. Aged 25 yea... | ||||||
| REV. HARRY PARSONS (YOUNGER BROTHER OF EDWARD PARSONS) Rev. Harry Parsons was born on 26 November 1878 in Barnstaple but spent his early years living with his family in Plymouth. He entered the Ministry of the Bible Christian Church in 1899 and subsequently spent a short time at Cheriton F... | ||||||
| DYER FAMILY INFORMATION Henry Ryland Dyer, or Harry, was born in Jhansi, India on 21 December 1887 during the time that his father was serving with the 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment as a Quartermaster Sergeant. Harry’s father, Henry Thomas Dyer was born a... | ||||||
| CHARLES VALENTINE CLARKE Charles was born on St Valentine’s Day in 1883. His parents were Harry Clarke and his wife Jane Emma (nee Hall). He was born in Cosham, (which was in the district of Widley at that time), Portsmouth in Hampshire. The family home was a public house ca... | ||||||
| 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,... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION William Edwy Ryerson was the son of George Arthur Ryerson (1851-1881) and Catherine Eleanor Hamilton (1854-1889). He was born in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. His parents were married in 1875 and had three sons: George (b.1877), William Edwy (b. 1878)... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Hodge, Charles. WAS twenty-nine years of age, and held a second engineer's certificate. His birthplace was Devonport. He served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Davey, Sleep & Co., of Plymouth. He had been in the service of the White St... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION AGED thirty-four years, was born in Manchester. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. H. H. Hall & Co., of Liverpool after which he was employed by Messrs. Campbell and Isherwood, Ltd., Bootle, Hame Electric Company, Liverpool and the Northern E... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION HARRIS, MRS. IRENE R, (NEE WALLACH). Saved in Lifeboat D. Cabin C83. European address - c/o Fraulein Woolf, Kapellenstrasse 81, Wiesbaden. Germany. (Born 15th June 1876, died 2nd September 1969). Buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale... | ||||||
| FRANK ANDREW FAMILY INFORMATION The following biography has been compiled with the assistance of descendants of Frank Andrew who reside in Cornwall. It should be pointed out that no birth certificate exists for Frank despite extensive searching and it should also be made known tha... | ||||||
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RAISE THE TITANIC MODEL LANGUISHES IN MALTA THE weather-beaten remains of the giant model used for the 1981 film flop "Raise the Titanic" is rapidly disintegrating in the village of Kalkara, Malta. The 55-foot-long steel hull now provides an uncanny above-sea-level glimp... | |||||
| CAPT. WILLIAM CREESE Henry Creese's eldest brother, William Creese, was born in 1857 and was a mariner by occupation. He had married in about 1889 to Alice (formerly Smith) whom he had met whilst based in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Their first 2 children, Hen... | ||||||
| WONNACOTT FAMILY INFORMATION Dorothy Wonnacott was born in Plymouth in 1885. She was a daughter of Arscott and Mary Jane Wonnacott. Her parents, both originally from the Holsworthy area of mid-Devon had married in about 1878 and were living in Plymouth from that time.... | ||||||
| TURPIN FAMILY INFORMATION William John Robert Turpin was born in Plymouth, Devon in 1883. He was the son of John R Turpin (general labourer) and Mary Jane. They had married in about 1880 and were living in Commercial Street, Plymouth at the time of the 1881 census. Both wer... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Mr. Smart was the president of the American Cold Storage and Shipping Co., and lived at the Victoria Hotel in New York. When he travelled to England, he simply checked out of the hotel, and took all of his personal belongings with him. Some of those ... | ||||||
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ANCHOR MADE BY TITANIC CREW SURVIVOR This anchor was fashioned following the disaster by Irish AB William McCarthy, of Cork, who was saved in lifeboat 4. McCarthy was praised for his heroism by Mrs Walter Miller Clark, who said he had conducted himself "most commendably." ... | |||||
| PENGELLY (PENGILLY) FAMILY INFORMATION Frederick (Fred) William Pengelly was born in the parish of Calstock, East Cornwall in early 1893 whilst his father was working in the area as a mining engineer. Fred’s father, Frederick William Cardell Pengilly (sic) was born in 1861 ... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Sofia was a maid. She was born in the village of Riistavesi, near Kuopio, in 1874. She moved to Helsinki in 1905, where she worked at the School For The Blind for three years. After this job she worked for some time at the Missionary House, and then ... | ||||||
| REGINALD GEORGE SMITH & HUGH WALTER MCELROY It is quite likely that Hugh Walter McElroy (purser) and Reginald George Smith (saloon steward) were acquainted as they both had brothers who were Roman Catholic Priests. Father Richard McElroy and Father Aloysius Smith both served to... | ||||||
| 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)... | ||||||
| EPITAPH ON GRAVE OF R.N. WILLIAMS II IS FROM "SNOW-BOUND" The grave of Richard Norris Williams II and his wife, Frances "Sue" has the following lines: Yet love will dream, and Faith will trust That somehow, somewhere, meet we must. These lines are from the John Greenlea... | ||||||
| STANLICK FAMILY INFORMATION Cordelia (Delia) Stanlick was born at Tywardreath, Cornwall in 1878. She was the daughter of Thomas and Amelia Stanlick. Her father, born in Devon in 1832 worked as a miner and in later years as a farm labourer. The 1881 Cornwall Census has t... | ||||||
| LOBB FAMILY INFORMATION The correct origins of William Arthur Lobb, third class passenger on Titanic have now been established. The 1891 Cornwall Census shows that William Arthur Lobb was born in the parish of Luxulyan (5 miles NE of St. Austell) in 1881 and that he was th... | ||||||
| AMERICAN RED CROSS RELIEF BOOKLET [Case no 286] (English). An aged English woman was drowned while coming to this country, after the recent death of her husband, to make her home with her only daughter. The daughter's husband, a waiter, at the time of the disaster was recoveri... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION Mary was the daughter of Frank Farquarson and his wife, Jessie Carmichael. she had one younger sister called Tudelle Farquarson. On 21st October 1912, Mary gave birth the child she was carrying while on Titanic. she named her, Mary Mar... | ||||||
| ROAMING AROUND: MEMOIRS OF A MARCONI OPERATOR Extract The next year went past for me in many experiences of life and places. I was a fully fledged Marconi operator, had visited my Australia of loving memories, Norway, with its North Cape, where I had taken photographs... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION En route to daughter 446 West Street, New York City. Ticket E77. Had been recently widowed. Mary Mack was the daughter of George Lacy and Mary Evory, and that she was first married to John Arber, second to Edward Mack.... | ||||||
| LAWRY FAMILY INFORMATION Charity, who travelled as a third class passenger with her husband Alexander Robins was born in the parish of St. Mewan, Cornwall on 18 January 1865. At the time of the 1871 Census, aged 7, she was living at St. Austell with her parents and 8 ... | ||||||
| NANCARROW FAMILY INFORMATION William Henry Nancarrow was the only son of the second marriage of Thomas Nancarrow (b1819). His mother was Maria (b1840). His birth took place in or near St. Austell, Cornwall in 1877. His father was described in the various census returns ... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Jersey Address: 28 Old St. Johns Road, Jersey. In 1996 his family were still in business in Southampton - Baitdiggers and Fishing Tackle Dealers. Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road, also had hi... | ||||||
| REPORT TO MARCONI TRAFFIC MANAGER [EXTRACT] Harold Bride, Junior Marconi operator in his Report of April 27th to W. B. Cross, Traffic Manager, Marconi Co. says: Just at this moment the Captain said: ''You cannot do any more; save yourselves.'' Leaving the Captain we climbed on top of th... | ||||||
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THE BLUE PLAQUE A PLAQUE commemorating Harold Bride, Second Wireless Operator on the RMS Titanic has been placed by the London Borough of Bromley on Number 58, Ravensbourne Avenue, Shortlands, Kent - the house where he grew up. The plaque was unveiled on Wednesday ... | |||||
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MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO SUZETTE RYERSON AND HER MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER This memorial plaque appears on a stone monument at the entrance to Hacklebarney State Park, Long Valley, New Jersey. The monument was erected on the occasion of a 32 acre land donation made by Adolphe Edward Borie to the state of New Jersey and mem... | |||||
| OBITUARY WAS born on the 31st March, 1880, at Whitehaven, Cumberland. When quite young his parents moved to Blackburn, where he passed his apprenticeship days with the firm of James Davenport, of the Canal Works. From this firm he went to Messrs Howar... | ||||||
| GENERAL INFORMATION Previous to his Titanic trip he had made at least two other sea voyages, both times on the Lucania, once in 1907 and again the following year. He was 5' 4 1/2" tall, with dark brown hair and brown eyes and, by 1901, at age of 36, was married with a f... | ||||||
| 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... | ||||||
| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Mr. William Lahtinen a minister of religion aged 30 years lived in Minneapolis USA. He was returning from a visit to relatives in Kemi, Finland with his wife and Lyyli Silven whose father was Reverend Lahtinens cousin. During the visit... | ||||||
| HUGH FITZPATRICK'S CHILDREN Hugh Fitzpatrick had two children, Rose and Rev. Dan Fitzpatrick, S. J. Rose was born on 10th October, 1912 6 months after the sinking. Rose married Joe Fitzpatrick and family (Joe, Dan, Margaret, Maura, Paul, Brian, Denis, and Eugene)... | ||||||
| NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS The Los Angeles Times of April 17th 1912 stated that he was a brother of E. D. Rood of El Centro, California. The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) of April 13th 1992 stated that he was the Vice President and General Manager of the Pacific Coast Creosotin... | ||||||
| MINUTE BOOK OF THE WHITE STAR COMPANY The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay (in the chair) and others. During the meeting it was announced that the following cases were reported toget... | ||||||
| HUTCHINSON - BODY 170 (UNIDENTIFIED) IT IS likely that body number 170 is that of Hutchinson. It was buried at sea. The estimated age was 25, and the corpse had keys marked "Carpenter's locker", with a wood rule, silver watch and chain. The Halifax Coroner's records ... | ||||||
| FAMILY INFORMATION ABOUT ARTHUR PAINTIN, HIS WIFE AND CHILD Alice and Arthur courted for four years before they married. Arthur had intended to come out of the merchant Navy in 1912 because Alice was pregnant, Titanic being his last planned voyage. He and Alice wanted to buy a small hotel in Ox... | ||||||
| BLUE JACKET (Owner: P. Kavanagh) Departed St. John’s, Newfoundland 12 March 1912 with a capacity 86 ton cargo of codfish for Oporto, Portugal. Encountering high winds, heavy seas and ice, she had to put into another Newfoundland port for several days... | ||||||
| BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION He was saved in Lifeboat Englehardt C. His home address was Fanners Lane, Lymington, Hants. His official occupation was - Fireman's Messman and he was 39 years old . (He was originally born in Hampshire). Last ship before the Titanic was the RMS ... | ||||||
| RED CROSS REPORT Greenberg, Mr. Samuel. Missing. c/o Alex. Wolff, 154, Nassau Street, New York City, USA. Russian citizen. Body forwarded to Mrs. Greenberg, Bronx, New York City. Permit issued May 2, 1912, Borough, ... | ||||||
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TITANIC BLUEPRINT "R.M.S. Titanic" Harland & Wolff design dept schematic scale blueprint of "Titanic's" plumbing & water systems. Approx 9ft x 20ins. This drawing was the personal property of W.D. Wilson esq., leading draughtsman at Harlan... | |||||
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JOHN QUINN: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY John Quinn was born in Belfast on 3rd March 1876 the son of a shoemaker, he was one of ... | |||||
| RED CROSS FUND REPORT ON ASPLUNDS (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number P. 114. Asplund. Widow, two children and mother received a grant of £150. Farmer from Sweden, returning from visit to relatives. Aged 40 years, born 7th ... | ||||||
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ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY CENOTAPH Maj, Butt, a devout Episcopalian, chose the Celtic cross. There is a plaque on each side of the base. : On the back: A devoted son and brother, an efficient officer... | |||||
| 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... | ||||||
| 1911 Census | WILLIAM EDWARD BESSANT IN 1911 CENSUS William Bessant was residing at 36 Henry Road, FREEMANTLE, Southampton at the time of the 1911 census. He was recorded as being a labourer. He was arried to Emily Ellen for 17 years. They had five children Char... | |||||
| FRIENDS FOR LIFE Fifty-five year old Ella White, the wealthy widow of a Manhattan businessman, was short and stout with an outspoken, often brash personality. Her companion, Marie Grice Young, 36, tall, slim and soft-spoken, was a music teacher from Washington. The p... | ||||||
| LEAD KINDLY LIGHT The Hymn "Lead Kindly Light" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. Verses 1-3 were written in 1833 by John Henry Newman (1801-1890). While traveling in Italy as a young priest... | ||||||
| THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY The Hymn "There is a Green Hill Far Away" was one of those sung at the hymn service lead by Revd. Ernest Courtenay Carter. The words were written by Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander (1818-1895), in 1848, for the collection Hymns for Li... | ||||||
| TITANIC RELIEF FUND (From the Minute Book of the White Star Company) The White Star Company had a Committee meeting on 23rd July 1912 at 10 Winter Street, Liverpool at 11.55am. Present Mr. J. Bruce Ismay... | ||||||
| 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 ... | ||||||
| HENRY BREWER'S WIFE? This is the family story as it has been passed to me form my grandparents, Edith and William Prewitt, now deceased and my father, Ronald Prewitt, very much alive as of 11/25/2005 born 3/16/1920. I spoke with him this ev... | ||||||
| MR BENJAMIN HOWARD & MRS ELLEN HOWARD Mr & Mrs Benjamin HOWARD On researching Benjamin Howard and his wife Ellen Howard who both perished, their bodies were never found. I have been able to locate some details about them and their family members.... | ||||||
| MR WILLIAM ANGLE & MRS FLORENCE AGNES ANGLE NEE HUGHES Mr William ANGLE & Mrs Florence Agnes ANGLE nee HUGHES Researching Mr William ANGLE I have been able to trace the following information. William Angl... | ||||||
| GOODWIN FAMILY UPDATED BIOGRAPHIES Goodwin, Mr. Charles Frederick. (40). Missing. Watson's Court, High Street, Melksham, Wiltshire. Ticket number CA2144 cost £46 18s 0d. There is a memorial to the whole famil... | ||||||
| MRS ADA E BALL (BALLS) NEE HALL Mrs Ada E BALL (BALLS) nee HALL Ada E HALL married Martin... | ||||||
| ERNEST WALDRON KING FAMILY INFO I believe E. W. King's father, Thomas Waldron King, was my great-great-grandfather John King's brother, and that their parents were Thomas King, who was a Church of Ireland scripture reader in Selerna, County Galway, and Elizabeth. Here's ... | ||||||
| ABOUT MARY MCGOVERN AS TOLD BY A RELATIVE Date of Birth: April 1890 Place of Birth Clarbally, Corlough Co. Cavan, Ireland Mary was making the trip to New York alone, traveling by train from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim to Queenstown to board the Titanic. Her ticket cost 7 po... | ||||||
| DEATH OF A CRESWELL SOLDIER According to an obituary in the Worksop Guardian Mr. Hardwick lived at 70 Duke Street, Creswell. He succumbed following an illness of two days at the Fulham Hospital, London. He had only been a soldier for eight weeks, having been in training ... | ||||||
| WILLIAM GREENFIELDS ACCOUNT William was involved in his Father's fur business and sailed to Russia once a year to purchase pelts. Blanche went with him this time to buy silk in Paris for the linings of the coats. William met his ... | ||||||
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CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR? AT THE START of Chapter 5 in Walter Lord's A Night To Remember, the author writes: ... | |||||
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EUGENE DALY - BY HIS DAUGHTER EUGENE Patrick Daly was born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, on January 23, 1883. He was the oldest of a fairly large family. Ireland was under British rule in those years and many young Irishmen... | |||||
| WILLIAM MCMASTER MURDOCH William McMaster Murdoch was born 28th February 1873 in Dalbeattie, Scotland. He was the fourth of seven children of Captain Samuel Murdoch and his wife Jeanie. The Murdochs had been a se... | ||||||
| 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. ... | ||||||
| OREGON'S ONLY FIRST CLASS PASSENGERS: THE WARRENS Frank and Anna Warren were the only first class passengers on the Titanic from the state of Oregon. They were returning from Europe after a three month celebration of their 40th wedding anniversary. Frank Warren may wel... | ||||||
| NESHAN KREKORIAN : CLARIFICATIONS Mr. Krekorian had 3 children, not 4. Minor spelling error: city is St. Catharines, not St. Catherines. He was single when he left for North America - his first wife was killed by the Turks. My recollection of how he got into bo... | ||||||
| THE STRANGE MYSTERIES OF MOVIE MAKER WILLIAM HARBECK William Harbeck was one of the very first moving picture film makers. In 1911 his film of southern Alaska became the center of a major story. American railroad tycoon J P Morgan and Meyer Guggenheim bought up claims for large tracts of land in Alaska... | ||||||
| CONFUSION OVER A NAME: YROIS OR YVOIS Almost since the Titanic sank there has been confusion over the name of a second class passenger. What we know for positive was that her first name was Henriette. She was traveling with film maker William Harbeck. They both lost t... | ||||||
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HMS HECATE'S ROLE IN DISCOVERY OF TITANIC WRECK I read with interest on this site regarding HMS Hecate's apparent role in the discovery of Titanic in 1977. Actually this is a mistake. I served on board HMS HECATE between 1980 and 1982... | |||||
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JOHN COTTER, HARBOR PILOT FOR QUEENSTOWN To all who are interested in John Cotter, Harbor Pilot for Queenstown My name is Peter Gauthier and I am the Great, Great Grandson of said John Cotter. Specifically, one of his daughters Maggie or Margaret, who my mother is named ... | |||||
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Belfast Telegraph | FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR TITANIC'S 'LITTLE SISTER' NOMADIC Some 1,600 curious visitors have poured across the gangplank of Titanic’s ‘little sister’ since last week to see the vessel before wholesale restoration gets under way. Although plans for SS Nomadic’s restoration had been delaye... | ||||
| THE WHITE STAR LINE THE WHITE STAR LINE, 1870.-The White Star Line was originally composed of a fleet of fast-sailing American clipper-ships, by the "Champion of the Seas," "Blue Jacket," "White Star,"... | ||||||
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WILLIAM FARR PENNY William Farr Penny was my great uncle. In this wedding photo of my grand parents, George Stoddart Starling to Winifred Marian Penny 7 June 1897, William can be seen in the middle standing directly behind his mother Annie Maria Penny (nee Farr).... | |||||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | BELFAST, PORT OF Belfast, Port of. Belfast Harbour, the premier harbour of Ireland, is at the head of Belfast Lough, in latitude 54° 36' N., 5° 56' W. The time of high water at full and change is 10 hours and 43 minutes. The ri... | |||||
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NEBRASKAN SURVIVOR RARELY SPOKE OF TRAGEDY Einar Gervasius Carlson, formerly Karlsson was born in Oakarshamn, Sweden on June 19, 1890. He was 21 years old when he and a friend, Johan Charles Asplund boarded the Titanic for the United States. They were originally booked on the ship Adriatic... | |||||
| THE ADDERGOOLE PARISH LOSS John Bourke, his wife Katherine, his sister Mary, Honora Fleming and Mary Mangan were from the townland of Carrowskeheen (quarter land of the little bush), Lahardane, Addergoole Parish, Co Mayo, Irish Republic. All perished. Data from the 1911 cen... | ||||||
| THE ROSSENDALE BARD FROM ADDERGOOLE Andrew Houston was born in Doonbreedia in the parish of Addergoole, Lahardane, Co Mayo, Irish Republic on 1st May 1849, and would have attended Rathkell National School w... | ||||||
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GéRALD-GODIN BUILDING, MONTRéAL This is a picture of Gérald-Godin Building, located at 360 McGill Steet, Montréal. That's where Mr Hays had his Montréal Grand trunk offices.... | |||||
| The Times | SWEARING-IN OF MR. JUSTICE BIGHAM QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION (Before MR. JUSTICE MATHEW, MR. JUSTICE WILLS, MR. JUSTICE LAWRANCE, MR. JUSTICE WRIGHT, MR. JUSTICE BRUCE, and MR. JUSTICE KENNEDY.) In the absence of the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justic... | |||||
| Kenosha Telegraph-Courier | MRS. HANSON IS HOME MRS. HANSON IS HOME _____________________ ... | |||||
| War Cry! | WAR CRY! THE SALVATION ARMY While women weep as they do now I'll fight! While little children go hungry as they do now I'll fight! While men go to prison, in and out, in and out I'll fight! I'll fight to the very end! General William Boo... | |||||
| DR ALFRED PAIN - IN MEMORIAM IN AFFECTION AND REMEMBRANCE OF A KIND AND A DUTIFUL SON AND NOBLE YOUNG MAN AND IN APPRECIATIVE RECOGNITION OF THE SYMPATHY OF MANY TRUE FRIENDS, THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVELY DEDICATED. Alfred Pain was born at Ham... | ||||||
| Hanford Sentinel | RELIVING A TRAGIC NIGHT ON THE SEA Searching for one's roots has become a national pastime. What use to take years to research has become much simpler with the use of computers. Genealogy is no longer the sole intellectual occupation of a few scholars. Anybody can tract the history... | |||||
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ANDREA DORIA : THE SINKING OF THE UNSINKABLE Excerpeted from Alive on the Andrea Doria! The Greatest Sea Rescue in History by Pierette Domenica Simpson - ... | |||||
| 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 ... | ||||||
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Belfast Telegraph | EU FUNDING TO BOOST RESTORATION OF TITANIC TENDER SHIP The restoration of a tender ship which ferried passengers to the doomed Titanic was boosted today with the award of over £2 million in European funding. Last month auditors expressed concern that the £7 million refit of ... | ||||
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Belfast Telegraph | TITANIC'S SISTER SHIP NOMADIC 'LEFT TO ROT' The Titanic’s little sister has been left to all but rot away for three years as she awaits decisions on how she will be restored, it has been claimed. Rupert Keyzar has spent almost three years caring for SS Nomadic, the tender that carried fi... | ||||
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(1844) | FIRST USE OF MORSE CODE These four words were the first ever to be flashed over the electric telegraph wire. They ran in Morse Code on a line from Washington to Baltimore in 1844. Samuel Morse had sent the first electrically coded message at the age of 53, after h... | 1844 | |||
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(1847) | BAPTISMAL RECORD OF WILLIAM PIRRIE Pirrie---J. A. Pirrie of Quebec merchant, and Eliza his wife had a son born on the thirty first day of May and baptized on the seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty seven, named William by John Cook, D.D., Min'r... | 17th June 1847 | |||
| New York Times | (1869) | PERSONAL - LADY DUFF GORDON The death of Lady DUFF GORDON was announced in London on July 17. Her Ladyship, who wielded an easy and agreeable pen, was one of the best known writers on Egyptian life and scenery. Lady DUFF GORDON had long been consumptive, and, as the atmosp... | 29th July 1869 | |||
| The Independent | (1875) | THE PERILS OF PASSENGERS ANOTHER very terrible wreck of an iron steamship has been reported and a loss of human lives has been the consequence, which must cause a shudder to the intending passengers to Europe this season. The unfortunate ship was the "Vicksburg"... | 24th June 1875 | |||
| Chronicles of the Cumming Club (1887) | (1887) | SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART. SIR EDWARD J. HARLAND, BART.; 'the sixth of a family of eight.' His father, Dr. Harland, a graduate of Edinburgh University, practised in Scarborough until nearly the period of his death, in 1866. He was a man of remarkable skill... | 1887 | |||
| New York Times | (1889) | THE TEUTONIC LAUNCHED A WHITE STAR STEAMER THAT IS EXPECTED TO BEAT ALL RECORDS --- BELFAST, Jan. 19---The new White Star steamer Teutonic was launched this morning from the Queens Island yard. The companion ship, Majestic, of ... | 20th January 1889 | |||
| New York Times | (1891) | A MAGNIFICENT WEDDING JOHN JACOB ASTOR MARRIED TO MISS AVA L. WILLING --- THE CEREMONY TAKES PLACE AT THE HOME OF THE BRIDE'S FATHER IN PHILADELPHIA--HUNDREDS OF NOTABLE NEW-YORKERS PRESENT --- PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Feb. 17---New-York practicall... | 18th February 1891 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | JOHN QUINCY ADAMS AND ISIDOR STRAUS TALKED OF Among those politicians who have been industriously at work during the last two weeks speculating as to the make-up of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, a new name was suggested yesterday. It was that of John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who was said to ... | 7th February 1893 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | FAVORS ISIDOR STRAUS RICHARD CROKER SAYS HE IS NOT OPPOSED TO BUSINESS MEN --- JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10---Richard Croker, Thomas F. Grady, John R Sexton. and John F. Carroll, well-known Tammany men, who have been in Florida since la... | 11th February 1893 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | BUSINESS MEN OF NEW-YORK---ISIDOR STRAUS Isidor Straus is a fair type of the broadminded, public-spirited men through whom this city maintains its commercial supremacy and its metropolitan character. Knowing the entire alphabet of his business, quick to seize upon and improve opportunities ... | 29th October 1893 | |||
| New York Times | (1893) | FIREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE Stubborn Fire in the Cellar of 679 Broadway---One Man in the Hospital --- For two hours last evening firemen fought a fire in the sub-cellar of the five-story building 679 Broadway, adjoining the Broadway Central Hotel. Dense, stifling ... | 7th November 1893 | |||
| 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 | |||
| The Times | (1895) | HARLAND, SIR EDWARD J. OBITUARY --- SIR EDWARD HARLAND, M.P. Sir Edward James Harland, Bart., M. P. for North Belfast, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, Glenfarne-hall, Enniskillen. He was found dead in bed. Except for a chill... | 25th December 1895 | |||
| (1897) | LETTER WRITTEN BY FR. BYLES TO HIS BROTHER WINTER My Dear Winter: I am staying on in Germany after taking departure of the others in the hopes of getting a tutorship here for a few months. I thnk it is w. doubtful if I shall succeed; if not I shall go home probably in a week or two. I have b... | 14th September 1897 | ||||
| The Times | (1897) | PIRRIE HONOURED FOR SERVICE AS LORD MAYOR BELFAST, DEC. 14.To-night a banquet was given to the Right Hon. W. J. Pirrie, J.P., Lord Mayor of Belfast, and Mrs. Pirrie by the citizens on the occasion of the approaching termination of the second year of Mr. Pirri... | 15th December 1897 | |||
| The Times | (1898) | PIRRIE BECOMES FIRST HONORARY BURGESS OF BELFAST BELFAST, JULY 24 Mr. W. J. Pirrie, High Sheriff of county Antrim, and ex-Lord Mayor of the city, entertained at Ormiston on Thursday the Judges of Assize, Lord Chief Baron Palles and Lord Justice... | 25th July 1898 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | NEW YORK YACHT CLUB New Members Admitted---Models for the Paris Exposition --- The adjourned third general meeting of the New York Yacht Club was held yesterday afternoon in Delmonico's, Beaver Street. The principal business transacted was the election of ... | 16th June 1899 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | THOMAS ISMAY HONORED BY CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, July 20---Mr. Thomas H. Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, was to-day presented with the freedom of the city in recognition of his services to Belfast ... | 22nd July 1899 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | COL. ASTOR READY TO SERVE Would Willingly Go Out to the Philippines---Does Not Approve of W. W. Astor's Course --- Special to The New York Times --- RHINEBECK, N. Y., Aug. 10---Col. John J. Astor was home at Ferncliff yesterday, and the corresponde... | 11th August 1899 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | THOMAS HENRY ISMAY DEAD Founder and Chairman of Board of Directors of White Star Line---Gave £20,000 for Poor Sailors --- LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23---Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White Star Line Steamship Company, died... | 24th November 1899 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | DEATH OF MR. T. H. ISMAY We regret to announce that Mr. Ismay died at his residence, Dawpool, near Birkenhead, about 6 o'clock last night, after a long illness. The immediate cause of death was collapse of the heart, following on operations performed for an internal trouble.... | 24th November 1899 | |||
| New York Times | (1899) | THOMAS HENRY ISMAY [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To The Editor of The New York Times: The death of Thomas Henry Ismay deserves more than a passing notice. In the extraordinary development of the commercial marine of Great Britain during the last quarter of a century he had been one o... | 25th November 1899 | |||
| The Times | (1899) | FUNERAL OF MR. ISMAY In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of Mr. Ismay were buried yesterday in the churchyard at Thurstaston, Cheshire. The road along which the funeral cortége passed w... | 28th November 1899 | |||
| New York Times | (1900) | DOG SHOW OPENS TO-DAY With more than 2,000 canine candidates for blue ribbons to be judged, the annual bench show of the Westminster Kennel Club will begin in Madison Square Garden this morning at 9 o'clock and continue until Friday. The show this year will be the largest... | 20th February 1900 | |||
| (1901) | WENDRON PARISH, CORNWALL. 1901 CENSUS The 1901 census for Wendron, Cornwall reveals Frederick James Banfield, aged 17. A grocers assistant he was at home with his widowed mother, Ellen (his father had died in September 1900)and younger brother William John. Also in Wendron was hi... | 1901 | ||||
| (1901) | CENSUS Edward Parsons was living at 5 Eleanor Road, Litherland, Liverpool with his wife, Clara at the time of the 1901 census. At this date 3 of his 5 children had been born, their birthplaces were shown as Bootle. The children were - Charles... | 1901 | ||||
| New York Times | (1901) | A PLAN TO FEED ENGLAND Cold Storage and Shipping Company's Plants in English Cities --- They Will Contain Products Worth Hundreds of Millions---Americans Conceive the Scheme --- J. M. Smart, who is connected with the Southampton Cold Storage Com... | 26th May 1901 | |||
| New York Times | (1901) | BIG BET ON SHAMROCK DOUBTED BY BROKERS F. H. Brooks Does Not Believe Any One Will Give Odds of 5 to 3 --- J. A. Chambers of Pittsburg Says that No Such Wager Was Made in That City --- There is doubt in Wall Street and thereabouts as to the "big money" said to h... | 5th September 1901 | |||
| New York Times Book Review | (1901) | THE AUTHOR OF "AN OKLAHOMA ROMANCE" The author of "An Oklahoma Romance," the story of a love affair complicated with a land claim, which the Century Company are publishing, is Mrs. Helen Churchill Candee. She is a New Yorker of a family that has been well known in the metropolis for... | 19th October 1901 | |||
| Town and Country | (1902) | MASTERS OF THE SEA The Personal Side of Some of the Popular Captains of Atlantic Liners "I suppose Captain V— is still in command of the A?" asked a woman, as she was about to engage her passage on one of the fleet trans... | 19th April 1902 | |||
| New York Times | (1902) | COL. ASTOR’S $300 RIDE Paid the Owner of a Horse Which Was Frightened to Death by His Automobile --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., May 21---Henry Gormand of Rhinebeck received $300 from Col. John Jacob Astor the other da... | 22nd May 1902 | |||
| The Times | (1902) | FIREMAN KILLED WIFE Western Assizes William Mintram, 33, a mariner, was tried for the wilful murder of Eliza May Rose Mintram, his wife, at Southampton, on October 18th [1902]. Mr Evans Austin, and Mr E. L. Craik appeared for the prosecution on beh... | 24th November 1902 | |||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made her way, last evening between 6 and 8 o'clock, up New York Bay and the North River to the White Star piers at the foot of Banks Street. The huge vessel was the new transatlantic lin... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| New York Times | (1903) | LINER CEDRIC IN PORT Largest Steamship Afloat Pronounced Steady as a Rock --- Gales and High Seas Made No Impression on Her, and None of the Passengers Was Seasick --- The largest steamship ever constructed slowly made he... | 21st February 1903 | |||
| New York Times | (1904) | GRISCOM IS NO LONGER HEAD OF SHIP COMBINE J. Bruce Ismay is Chosen for Its President --- FREE HAND FOR THE NEW MAN --- His Predecessor Remains in the Company as Chairman of the Board of Directors---Ismay to Live in New York --- Clement A. Griscom ... | 24th February 1904 | |||
| The Times | (1904) | MRS. PIRRIE HONORED BELFAST, April 5 --- At the meeting of the City Corporation to-day Alderman John McCormick moved a resolution electing and admitting Mrs. Pirrie an honorary burgess of the city of Belfast in recognition of her signal... | 6th April 1904 | |||
| The Times | (1904) | MRS. PIRRIE AWARDED FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF BELFAST BELFAST, APRIL 20 The freedom of the city of Belfast, unanimously voted by the council some weeks ago, was formally presented to Mrs. Pirrie at the town-hall to-day in the presence of a large and distinguished company. The mu... | 21st April 1904 | |||
| New York Times | (1905) | J. P. MORGAN AS A GRANDPA Eager as a Boy to Meet the Home-Coming Hamilton Children --- When the White Star steamship Oceanic reacher [sic] her pier from Liverpool yesterday morning the most eagerly expectant person awaiting her was J. Pierpont Morgan, who was t... | 23rd November 1905 | |||
| New York Times | (1906) | WIRELESS JOKER AT SEA Passengers of the Baltic All Stirred Up by Fake Dispatches --- When the White Star liner Baltic, in yesterday from Liverpool, was two days out of Queenstown, some one who was characterized by the officers ... | 13th January 1906 | |||
| New York Times | (1906) | HUGE WAVE SWEEPS OCEANIC Captain Thrown from the Bridge and Left Unconscious --- While plowing her way through the worst weather met with on the North Atlantic lane in many months, the White Star liner Oceanic, in last night from Liverpool, was boarded... | 29th November 1906 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | WHITE STAR LINE AFTER CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC Service to Channel Ports Also to be Installed by Cunard Line --- WILL RIVAL GERMAN BOATS --- Mails to Two-thirds of England and All Scotland and Ireland Will Be Delayed by This Action --- The announcem... | 8th January 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com... | 8th March 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | MORGAN ON THE OCEAN Sailed Yesterday on the Baltic to be Gone Until July --- J. Pierpont Morgan sailed for Liverpool yesterday on the White Star Line steamer Baltic. On account of the tide the Baltic sailed at 5 o'clock in the morning. M... | 14th March 1907 | |||
| The Times | (1907) | OBITUARY: MARGARET ISMAY MRS. ISMAY, widow of Mr. Thomas Henry Ismay, the founder of the White Star Line, and mother of Mr. Bruce Ismay, head of the International Mercantile Marine Company, died yesterday morning, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Geoffrey Drage, in Cad... | 10th April 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | STEAD'S FAREWELL TALK We're So Busy, He Thinks, We Don't Realize What Our Mission is --- William T. Stead, editor of The London Review of Reviews, made his last address on his present visit to this country before the Young Men's Christia... | 6th May 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | THE BIGGEST LINER IS NOW IN PORT Adriatic Arrives After a Very Successful Maiden Voyage --- NO JARS ON THE TRIP --- Passengers Give Praise for Smoothness of Voyage on New White Star Liner --- The Adriatic, the biggest of transatlantic ... | 17th May 1907 | |||
| The Times | (1907) | LAWN TENNIS: THE INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Page 12 Keen interest was shown yesterday in the Doubles match at Wimbledon between Australasia and America, for had the former succeeded in adding another win to their dual win of Saturday, they would have qualified to play the holder... | 16th July 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | MUST PRODUCE MINE STOCK John Weir Held In Contempt for Dodging Sheriff's Attachment --- The Appellate Division yesterday reversed an order of the Supreme Court denying a motion made on behalf of Sheriff Hayes to compel John Weir to produce 42,000 shares of sto... | 17th July 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | MORGAN'S WILD AUTO DASH The Financier Catches an Express Train in the Berkshires --- Special to The New York Times --- PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 8---J. Pierpont Morgan to-day pursued an express train in an automobile and caught it.... | 9th September 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | INSANE WOMAN DEPORTED Miss Hyman, Who Came to Visit Her Brother, Had Suicidal Mania --- Closely guarded to prevent her carrying out her suicidal mania, Miss Jessie Hyman, a well-dressed woman about 28 yours old; was deported yesterday on the White Star ... | 12th September 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | OBITUARY NOTES FRED JOEL SWIFT, a well-known resident of the East New York section of Brooklyn, died in Nyack, N. Y., on Monday night. He was forty-five years old and a native of Herkimer County, N. Y. For a number of years Mr. Swift had been in the rea... | 23rd October 1907 | |||
| New York Times | (1907) | LADY DUFF GORDON SEES CHNIATOWN Ciceroned by Chuck Conners, "an Admirable Character in His Place" --- COMPLIMENTS BY BOTH --- Mr. Conners Says He Always Did Like Socialist Hair and Mrs. Glyn Reminded Him of "Her Nobs" --- Lady Duff Gordon of Londo... | 23rd December 1907 | |||
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Daily Telegraph | (1908) | ISMAY YACHT TORPEDOED! (Photo: HM Torpedo Boat Hunter) Action against a Naval Officer The hearing was begun on Saturday before His Honour Judge Percy Gye and a jury, at the Isle of Wight County Court, of an action brought by M... | 1908 | ||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | (1908) | SOUTHAMPTON, PORT OF Southampton, Port of. The Southampton Docks, now owned and managed by the London and South-Western Railway Co., are situated within a perfectly sheltered harbour, and have the unusual natural advantage of double tides, with pract... | 1908 | |||
| Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908) | (1908) | HARLAND AND WOLFF, LTD. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast. Shipbuilding in Belfast as a progressive industry is of comparatively recent growth, and yet there is probably no commertial [sic] centre more prominently identified with the trade to-day than th... | 1908 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | P. A. B. WIDENER HOME; SUBPOENAED AT PIER His Famous $500,000 Van Dykes Sent on Six Weeks Ago to Lynwood Hall --- SERVED IN TRACTION SUIT --- Dr. Holland Decorated by Kaiser and Fallieres for Gifts of Carnegie Casts of Diplodocus --- Afte... | 10th July 1908 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | COL. ASTOR IMPORTS A NEW BREED OF DOG Animal, Which Society Is Expected to Take Up, Is a Cross Between a Bear and a Hound --- GROWLS AT CUSTOMS MEN --- Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Praises Hammerstein's Productions---Duchess of Marlborough's Return Delayed --... | 22nd September 1908 | |||
| New York Times | (1908) | COL. ASTOR AT NEWPORT Will Improve Beechwood, Where He and Mrs. Astor Will Live --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I., Nov. 30---Col. John Jacob Astor is contemplating extensive improvements to Beechwood, which has become his pro... | 1st December 1908 | |||
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Le Petit Journal | (1908) | M. FALLIERES SENDS MESSAGES TO KING GEORGE AND PRESIDENT TAFT Armand Fallières was President of the French Republic in 1912; following the Titanic disaster, he sent two telegrams on 17 April 1912. One to King George: - « A Sa Majesté George V, Roi du Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d’Irlande et... | 17th December 1908 | ||
| The Times | (1909) | JUDICIAL CHANGES His Majesty has been pleased to approve the following appointments to take effect on the 10th inst., namely:--- The Hon. Mr. Justice Bigham to be President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of... | 4th February 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | $1,000,000 FOR WITLEY COURT Lord Pirrie Buys Estate Upon Which Whitaker Wright Spent $3,500,000 --- LONDON, May 9---Lord Pirrie has purchased Witley Court, near Hazelmere, one of the finest estates in England. It formerly belonged to Whitaker Wright, who committe... | 10th May 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | CUBA REFUSED HIS PEANUTS And as Baumann Lost Over the Deal He is Suing His Partner --- John D. Baumann, a jute and gum merchant at 120 Maiden Lane, is seeking damages in the Supreme Court against Salvador Comas on the charge of alleged conversion, the basis of ... | 7th August 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | SMUGGLERS PLAN TO OUTWIT LOEB Collector Hears of Attempts to Take Off Dutiable Goods in Small Boats --- STRICT WATCH AT PIERS --- Hold-Up and Search of Steamship Captains Themselves Reveals Thoroughness of New Search --- Now that Collector Lo... | 17th August 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | COL. ASTOR’S WIFE SEEKS SEPARATION Lawyer Appointed Referee by Justice Mills to Take Testimony in the Case --- GREAT SECRECY ABOUT IT --- Suit Comes Nearly a Year After Mrs. William Astor's Death---Col. Astor Yachting with His Son --- Mrs. Ava... | 27th October 1909 | |||
| New York Times | (1909) | MRS. ASTOR OBTAINS DIVORCE QUIETLY No Names Mentioned in Proceedings Before Justice Mills, Who Grants Interlocutory Decree --- ALL PAPERS IN CASE SEALED --- It Is Understood Counsel Had Earlier Agreement on Disposition of Children and Financial Settlement... | 9th November 1909 | |||
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New York Times | (1909) | GIANT SHIPS SOON TO JOIN THE ATLANTIC FLEET Olympic and Titanic, Carrying 5,000 People---12,000 Tons Heavier, 50 Feet Longer Than Any Ship Afloat VISITORS to the commercial capital of Ireland by way of the Victoria Channel through Belfast Lough for the first time ca... | 12th December 1909 | ||
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(1910) | SUSAN CHISHOLM Roderick Chisholm and Susan Anderson (died 1961) married in 1896. They had two children Alyce (born 1897) and Jimmy (born 1898)... | 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | ASTORS TO BE RECONCILED? Wife's Lawyers Fail to Ask for a Final Divorce Decree --- Special to The New York Times --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Feb. 18---It had been expected that the application of the attorneys for Mrs. Ava Willing Astor for a final d... | 19th February 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | MRS. ASTOR ASKS A DECREE Seeks Final Order in Her Divorce Suit in White Plains --- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 1---Counsel for Mrs. Ava Willing Astor filed a note of issue to-day for a motion to make permanent the interlocutory decree of divorce she obtained fro... | 2nd March 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | UNSEALED DECREE IN ASTOR DIVORCE On Final Judgment Court Does Away with Secrecy by Order to Dutchess County Clerk ---- CROWD IN THE COURTROOM --- Report That Mrs. Astor Receives Only $50,000 a Year Not Contradicted --- The terms of the final... | 5th March 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | PUZZLED BY GAY MODELS Women Imported by Lady Duff Gordon Teased Immigration Inspector --- Too much levity carne near causing five young Englishwomen to spend the night on the White Star liner Adriatic instead of coming ashore with the other passenger... | 5th March 1910 | |||
| New York Times | (1910) | DYING MAN’S SON FOUND Potter Coming from Alaska to Atlantic City to See His Father --- ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 28---For more than a month the family of Col. Thomas Potter, who is dying at his seaside home here, has been searching for his favorite son, Wil... | 29th October 1910 | |||
| (1911) | 1911 CENSUS - ALLISON FAMILY In the 1911 Canadian census, The Allison family are living at 464 Roslyn Avenue in Westmount, Quebec. Hudson's occupation is listed as "financial broker". He worked 40 hours a week and had life insurance at the time of the census. Bes... | 1911 | ||||
| The Living Age | (1911) | THE FLOATING ISLANDS Today, a floating city; tomorrow, a floating island. No other word is spacious enough for the gigantic ships now coming into existence. Next midsummer the largest ship in the World will be ploughing the Atlantic under the flag of th... | 18th February 1911 | |||
| 1911 Census | (1911) | THE SAGE FAMILY IN THE 1911 CENSUS The Sage family in 1911 were living at 246 Gladstone Street, Peterborough. The house had 5 rooms. Name: John G. Sage Relationship to ... | 2nd April 1911 | |||
| (1911) | SHIP MANIFEST on 15th April 1911, Hudson arrived at New York from Liverpool, England. He was on board the S.S Campania, 29 years old, married his occupation was a broker, he could read and write, his residence was Montreal, Canada. he had no nearby freinds or rela... | 15th April 1911 | ||||
| New York Times | (1911) | CUSTOMS MEN CALL LADY DUFF-GORDON After Arresting Manager of Her Shop on Charge of Undervaluing Imported Gowns --- WANT HER AS WITNESS --- Only Employe, Not President, of Lucile, Limited, Now, It is Said -... | 26th May 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | RUSH TO CONSOLE LADY DUFF-GORDON Stream of Visitors to Her Shop, Where Government Says Undervalued Gowns Were Shown --- SECOND ARREST IS MADE --- Abraham Merritt Surrenders to Answer Charge of Undervaluation in Customs Cases --- Abraham Merritt, f... | 27th May 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LUCILE GOWNS SEIZED All Imported Goods Taken from Lady Duff-Gordon's Establishment --- There was excitement among the half-dozen models from abroad whom Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon recently placed in her fashionable dressmaking establishment, Lucile, Limited, at ... | 28th May 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | CHANGE IN COMMODORES Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo... | 6th June 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | LADY DUFF-GORDON EXAMINED Declared She Merely Lent Her Name to Corporation, Lucile, Limited --- Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon visited the Federal Building yesterday with her counsel, Bainbridge Colby, to have a talk with Assistant United States District Attorney Wemple... | 6th June 1911 | |||
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(1911) | OLYMPIC'S MAIDEN STOP IN CHERBOURG LE RÉVEIL - Mercredi 14 juin 1911 PAQUEBOT GEANT C’est pour le moment l’ « Olympic », qui appartient à la « White Star Line ». Nous en avons parlé lors de son lancement. La Compagnie vient de l’inaugurer avec solennité par un ba... | 14th June 1911 | |||
| Outlook | (1911) | THE RACE FOR OCEAN SUPREMACY A little more than ten years ago I crossed the Atlantic on the first trip of what was then the largest ocean liner in the world. A distinguished ship-builder who made the voyage at the same time expressed the opinion that this steamship marked the... | 24th June 1911 | |||
| Women's Wear Daily | (1911) | EDITH L. ROSENBAUM'S LETTER She Describes Some of the Newest Things in Furs (Special Correspondence of Women’s Wear) Paris, July 17, 1911 – With the intensity of the present Paris heat, which is most unusual, one is really almost unable to see anyt... | 25th July 1911 | |||
| 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 Dramatic Mirror | (1911) | GOSSIP OF THE STUDIOS Dorothy Gibson has been engaged as leading woman for the New American stock of the Éclair Company. Her portrait appears on another page. She had gained some attention on the stage before going into pictures and had also posed for Harrison Fisher, the... | 9th August 1911 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | COL. ASTOR MAY WED ANY DAY Leaves in Noma with Miss Force and Her Family for Astor Country Home --- LAND AT FERNCLIFF TO-DAY --- Belief That the Ceremony Will Take Place There---Labor Day Visit with Trunks --- Rumors that the wedding ... | 2nd September 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | ASTOR OFFERS $1,000 AS MARRIAGE FEE Rev. Dr. E. C. Johnson, Newport Baptist, Refuses to Perform Ceremony with Miss Force --- METHODIST ALSO DECLINES --- Clergyman Told That Wedding Was, Planned for To-day---No Application Made for a License --- ... | 7th September 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | SAY ASTOR WEDDING IS NEAR AT HAND Friends Confidently Expect the Ceremony to Take Place Within a Few Days --- HIS YACHT IN READINESS --- Miss Force, the Bride-elect, Apparently Doing Her Final Shopping---Ceremony Probably in Connecticut --- There w... | 8th September 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | GREENWICH EXPECTED THE WEDDING Special to The New York Times --- GREENWICH, Conn., Sept. 7---The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of New York came to Greenwich this evening and is the guest of J. H. FlagIer in North Street, where he has often visited this Sum... | 8th September 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | CLERICAL CARPENTER TO MARRY COL. ASTOR Rev. Mr. Straight of Providence, R. I., Pauses in Housebuilding to Undertake the Job --- VISITED BY ASTOR LAWYER --- All Arrangements Said to Have Been Made for a Ceremony at Newport---Colonel and Fiancee Sail ---... | 9th September 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | COL. ASTOR WEDS MADELEINE FORCE Early Morning Ceremony at Beechwood, the Bridegroom's Newport Home --- REJECTS CLERICAL CARPENTER --- Dr. Joseph Lambert Officiates in Place of the Rev. Mr. Straight---Colonel for Remarriage Only Once --- Spe... | 10th September 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | CRITICISE PASTOR WHO MARRIED ASTOR Bought to Do a Nasty Job, Says the Rev. Mr. Richmond, and Others Join Attack --- WEDDING CALLED AN OUTRAGE --- No Conscientious Minister Could Have Performed it, Say Congregational Official---Carpenter-Parson Not Paid... | 11th September 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | CHIMNEY BURGLARS ROB FEATHER STORE Drop Down to Rosenshine's Like Santa Claus and Not a Burglar Alarm Sounded --- CARRY OFF $3,000 IN GOODS --- Insurance Companies in Despair, as Doors, Windows, and Exits Were Wired to Catch Robbers --- The be... | 18th October 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | MINISTER WHO WED ASTOR QUITS CHURCH The Rev. Joseph Lambert Resigns Pulpit in Providence Because of Criticism --- SAYS HE'LL GO INTO BUSINESS --- Many a Pastor Has Done for Poor Men What He Did for a Rich One and Escaped Censure, He Declares ---... | 8th November 1911 | |||
| New York Times | (1911) | J. P. MORGAN SAILS; IS GOING TO EGYPT No Worry in Washington, Where He Is to Testify Some Time About Steel and Money --- NOT ON PASSENGER LIST --- Lords Deceis [sic; should be "Decies"] and Camoys, with Their American Brides, Also on th... | 31st December 1911 | |||
| (1912) | BARKWORTH'S ACCOUNT Dictated to Mrs. Francis because his hands had been frozen. I was sitting in the smoking room with my friends when we heard a grinding sound which caused the ship to tremble . . . Engines seemed to stop. Walking out on deck, through th... | 1912 | ||||
| Transactions of the Devonshire Association | (1912) | HENRY FORBES JULIAN 'Mr Julian, one of the noble band of heroes who sacrificed their lives in the Titanic disaster on 14 April 1912, so that the women and children might be saved, was the son of Mr Henry Julian, of Cork and Bolton, and belonged to a mixed... | 1912 | |||
| (1912) | TRANSCRIPT OF LETTER BY WILLIAM DICKSON MACKIE Gateside Margery Park Rd Forest Gate E 15/03/12 My Dear Sister Just a line to let you know that I am still in the land of the living. You will see by the above address that I am at home. ... | 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | LETTER FROM JACK BUTTERWORTH Prior to leaving on the Titanic, Jack had been courting his fiancee (a Miss May Hinton of Woolston, Southampton) and they had agreed to become engaged. Jack wrote the following letter (actual letter see next column) which was posted at Queenstown: (n... | 1912 | ||||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | GLOOM AT HOLSWORTHY This disaster has cast a gloom over Holsworthy, there being no less than seven passengers from this district on board the ill-fated vessel. Mr. L. Braund, a native of Bridgerule, who had been on a visit to his native home after several years absence ... | 1912 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER FROM STAGG TO HIS WIFE Dear Bertie, Just a few lines to let you know I arrived on board all right but what a day we have had of it, it's been nothing but work all day long but I can tell you nothing as regards what people I have for nothing will be settled ... | 1912 | ||||
| Derbyshire Times | (1912) | CHESTERFIELD VICTIM A young lady who has intimate relatives in Chesterfield was among the officers on the ill-fated Titanic. She is Miss Evelyn Marsden, and is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson, Ash Tree, Chesterfield. A nurse-stewardess in the first saloon, Miss Mars... | 1912 | |||
| Unknown | (1912) | LEST WE FORGET by Marie G. Young - A Survivor of the Titanic Miss Marie G. Young, Former Music Teacher at the White House, Rescued From the Titanic, Describes the Sufferings of Some of the Survivors Six months have elapsed since the ... | 1912 | |||
| Primitive Methodist Leader | (1912) | OUR BOYS ON THE 'TITANIC' April 1912 There were three of them sailed with her - Percy (Bailey), Harry (Cotterill) and George (Hocking). The first named we knew well, for although all were brought up in our Sunday school the latter two had ceased attending regu... | 1912 | |||
| (1912) | PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Eliina Honkanen, 27, was born in Finland. She lived in Saatrjkvi, Finland and had a family in Helsingforfs. She boarded as a third class passenger at Southampton, her ticket cost £7 18s 18d. Her destination was 16 West Street, Q... | 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | PERSONAL INFORMATION Mrs Alexander Hirvonen (nee Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist), 22, was born in Finland on 2nd January 1890 as daughter Carl and Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Helga was married to Alexander Hirvonen and had a daugh... | 1912 | ||||
| Bournemouth Echo | (1912) | A SWANAGE MAN'S STORY OF THE DISASTER Iceberg mistaken for a cloud The Two Swanage survivors of the ill-fated Titanic messers J W. Gibbons of Studland and Charles Burgess arrived in England on Sunday in the "Lapland". They both arrived in Swanage on Tuesday afternoon and e... | 1912 | |||
| (1912) | BIOGRAPHY - FROM INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS MAGAZINE 1912 THE Commander of the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith, Royal Naval Reserve, (widely know as E.J. by all passengers and crew) was very well known and was one of the most popular masters in the Atlantic service. He was in command of the Olympic, and her... | 1912 | ||||
| Guernsey Evening Press | (1912) | MR. J. DUQUEMIN c/o Porgos, St. Sampson, Guernsey. Reported Saved. News was received at noon today of the safety of Mr. Joseph Duquemin. Mr. Joseph Duquemin, of Portgrat, Vale, a quarryman, aged about 30. He accompanied M... | 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW An Exonian on board was Mr Harry Dyer, second son of Q.M.S. Dyer and Mrs Dyer of Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter. A smart young fellow, 25 years of age, he was fourth engineer, having transferred from the Olympic. He was in Exeter for a short holiday a... | 1912 | |||
| Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville KY | (1912) | DR. ERNEST MORAWECK NOW COUNTED AMONG THE DEAD F. Leingruber, manager of Dr. Moraweck's farm near Brandenburg yesterday gave up all hope for the safety of the former Louisville man who was a passenger aboard the Titanic and who is reported as missing. Mr. and Mrs. Leingruber learned through a mut... | 1912 | |||
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(1912) | GENUINE WHITE STAR LINE ENVELOPE SAVED BY MME LAROCHE Mme Laroche saved this 'second class' envelope in a pocket of the coat her husband Joseph put on her shoulders minutes before leaving the Titanic. This envelope had contained the passage tickets bought at the Paris offices of the White Star Line, at ... | 1912 | |||
| Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters | (1912) | HENRY S. HARPER [Extract] Henry Sleeper Harper, who was among the survivors, is a grandson of John Wesley Harper, one of the founders of the Harper publishing business. H. Sleeper Harper was himself an incorporator of Harper & Brothers when the firm b... | 1912 | |||
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(1912) | CUP & SAUCER FROM TITANIC This Spode Coplands gold and cobalt blue cup and saucer were made specially for Titanic. This cup and saucer, along with a few more pieces in this pattern, were taken off the ship before it left Queenstown as souvenirs by crew or passengers. This rem... | 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 | |||
| (1912) | CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY : HENRY WILDE THE appalling disaster to the Titanic has taken away, in the person of Lieut, H. T. Wilde, RNR, one of the most promising officers serving with the White Star Line. Lieut. Wilde, who was chief officer of the Titanic, commenced his sea career in the s... | 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | CONTEMPORARY OBITUARY WAS born in Southampton forty-three years ago. He served his apprenticeship in the works of the London and South-Western Railway Co., and after other appointments sailed in vessels owned by the company as second engineer. Four years were spent with t... | 1912 | ||||
| Lloyds Weekly News | (1912) | LORD CHARLES BERESFORD TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK SQUAD A fine tribute to the engineers and boiler room staff of the ‘Titanic’, the ’Black Squad’, who stood their posts in the bowels of the ship, to the last, was paid by Lord Charles Beresford in a letter to the Times. He Wrote: - “In the lat... | 1912 | |||
| (1912) | SONGE D'AUTOMNE Songe d'Autmone (Dream of Autumn) was composed by Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 - 22 March 1963). Joyce, popularly known as the "English Waltz King", had considerable success in England with this piece which was included in the repertoire for White... | 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | THE TITANIC : OUR STORY SUNDAY morning, April 14, 1912, was a beautiful clear day, high wind and cold. Elizabeth and I wrote letters before service, remarking at the service that they did not sing the hymn "For Those in Peril On the Sea." Then read the chart an... | 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN IN PARIS London Didn't Know Financier was on the Olympic --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, Jan. 5---When the Olympic's passengers reached London to-night some surprise was occasioned by learning that J. Pi... | 6th January 1912 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER FROM F.D. MILLET AND THE NEW BEDFORD LIBRARY A letter written by F.D. Millet shortly before he left on a trip to Rome early in 1912. In the letter he discusses his plans for painting murals for the New Bedford Public Library in Massachusetts that was being remodeled. In the letter he mention... | 6th February 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | DRESSMAKERS' QUICK FLIGHT Patrons, Too, Leave Without Ceremony When Fire Threatens --- A small but spectacular fire at 19 and 21 West Thirty-sixth Street shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon caused considerable excitement on Fifth Avenue among... | 17th February 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | RACE MEETING AT AUTEUIL *** By Marconi Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times *** PARIS, Feb. 17---*** Mrs. Brandeis Cohn, Loyal B. Cohn, Walter H. Cohn and Emil Brandeis, who had been in Switzerland for the last six months, have arrived in Paris... | 18th February 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MAJOR BUTT'S SUIT A WONDER Sails Away in it for Rome, the Envy of the Ship ---------- Major Archibald Butt, military aid [sic] to the President of the United States, sailed yesterday for Europe on the North German Lloyd liner Berlin for a rest in a suit... | 3rd March 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THREATENED BANKER BELL Mrs. H. C. Gage Arrested---Said He Kept Her Out of Washington Society --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, March 11---Through the instrumentality of Charles J. Bell, a banker, and a cousin of Alexander Graham ... | 12th March 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 | (1912) | J. P. MORGAN DUG INTO EGYPT'S PAST Financier Superintended the Search for Early Christian Cemetery at Khargeh. --- BUILT A HOUSE IN DESERT --- Had Force of Man at Work Under Egyptian Engineers, and Enjoyed Himself in Flannels ---... | 16th March 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | J. P. MORGAN IN ROME Arrives There from Naples with His Sister, Mrs. Burns --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, March 16---J. P. Morgan and his sister, Mrs. Burns, arrived from Naples this... | 17th March 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | POMPEII CHARMS MR. MORGAN He Is Especially Captivated by the Frescoes in New Excavations --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- NAPLES, March 17---When J. Pierpont Morgan went to Pompeii Friday he was a... | 18th March 1912 | |||
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Pall Mall Gazette | (1912) | COAL STRIKE NEWS BILLBOARD Advert for the Pall Mall Gazette in March 1912, suggesting that miners are "blackmailing the nation" (with obvious pun intended) by failing to work pits in their demand for better pay. If the coal strike had continued a few days longer, the... | 23rd March 1912 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | ROME NOW CROWDED Frank Millet, the President of the Consolidated American Academy, is about to turn his face homeward, although he came from New York less than a month ago. However, important affairs take him back to the land of his birth. He is accompanied by Majo... | 31st March 1912 | |||
| Castle Carey Visitor | (1912) | CARYITES ON BOARD The loss of the Titanic has been keenly felt in Castle Cary: as apart from its being a National Disaster, there were a number of Caryites on board. Mr. Sam Herman, for many years a butcher in the town, and for some years proprietor of the Britannia H... | April 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare... | April 1912 | |||
| Grimsby Evening News | (1912) | UNTITLED As a lad Mr. Moody served two years in HMS Conway a sail training vessel moored on the river Mersey, after that time he gained the Extra Certificate showing that he was bright. He joined the sailing vessel Boadicea on leaving, and would have served t... | April 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | AN ASHTEAD VICTIM SAFE AGAINST ANYTHING BUT AN ICEBERG Another Surrey passenger on the Titanic was Mr. George H. Hunt, head-gardener at Ashtead Park. Mr. Hunt, who has for about four years been working in Philadelphia as head-gardener on a large estate, and who has a wife and two children living in that ... | April 1912 | |||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. CHAPMAN Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, Liskeard, were also among the lost. Mrs. Chapman declining to go without her husband. Mrs. Hocking tells of how Mrs. Chapman was behind her when they were getting into the lifeboat. But when Sarah found that her husband J... | April 1912 | |||
| Guernsey Evening Press | (1912) | JACK POINGDESTRE Jack Poingdestre, whose parents lived at 28, Old St. John's Road Jersey, also had his home in Southampton. A month earlier he had been on the crew of the Oceana when it sank of Newhaven. That had been on March 16th. He at least was used to shipwrecks... | April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | LOCAL MAN, BRIDE, TITANIC VICTIMS John H. Chapman and Wife met Death, His Body recovered. John H. Chapman, who, with his wife, Elizabeth Chapman, lost his life in the Titanic disaster, was from more than two years a resident of Spokane and was returning here with his b... | April 1912 | |||
| Bridgwater Mercury | (1912) | T. THRELFALL, LEADING FIREMAN T. Threlfall, leading fireman, told a stirring tale of how his watch went down to their duty in the stokeholds after the ship had struck, how on an order from the bridge they were sent up on deck at 1.20 am by the engineers, who themselves stayed ... | April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | AN ECHO OF A PAST TRAGEDY The Diary of Frederick Hamilton (Cable Engineer: MacKay Bennett) The White Star Line, owners of the SS Titanic chatered two cable-laying steamers Mackay-Bennett and Minia to locate and identify bodies, including. Two... | April 1912 | ||||
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Daily Sketch | (1912) | STEWARD'S PREMONITION : THOMAS WHITELEY Mr. Thomas Whiteley, a steward on the Titanic, who was saved. He states that the two men in the crow's nest, who were rescued, were very indignant, and said that their warnings concerning the presence of an iceberg ... | April 1912 | ||
| New York Times | (1912) | BELIEVE MRS. GAGE HAS SOCIAL DELUSION Her Threats Against C. J. Bell, Alienists Testify, Were Due to Form of Paranoia --- DAUGHTER NAMES INFORMANT --- Says Mrs. Archibald Gracie Told That Banker Blocked Mother's Plans---Belva Lockwood Defends Her ---... | 5th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN TO MEET KAISER Report That Settlement of Italian-Turkish War Will Be Discussed --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, April 5---According to a dispatch from Modena, sent out by the Ex... | 6th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN BUSY IN ROME Wishes the Papers Would Stop Saying He Is Ill --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- ROME, April 6---This year J. Pierpont Morgan has not had his usual luck in regard to the wea... | 7th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN MAY ACT AS A PEACE ENVOY Berlin Thinks That, Unofficially, He Will Try to End the Turkish-Italian Conflict --- TO VISIT CONSTANTINOPLE --- After Seeing Kaiser at Venice---Belief That Turkish Officials Will Listen to Him Respectful... | 9th April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER BY FR BYLES TO MISS FIELD Dear Miss Field, On boar... | 10th April 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | ALBERT ERVINE'S LAST LETTER "Yours received in Cherbourg, France yesterday evening. We have had everything working nicely so far, except when leaving Southampton. As soon as the Titanic began to move out of the dock, the suction caused the Oceanic, which was alon... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | LETTER TO HIS OLD FRIEND ALFRED PARSONS ''On board R.M.S. Titanic April 11, 1912. Dear Alfred I got yours this morning and was glad to hear from you. I thought I told you my ship was the Titanic. She has everything but taxicabs and theatres., Table D' Hote, Restau... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | LETTER TO HIS SON FRANK, WRITTEN ON BOARD AND POSTED AT QUEENSTOWN Dear Frank, I hope that you got to Belfast all right and started work on time, I got your wire from Liverpool. We have made a good run from Southampton everything working A1, we nearly had a collision with the New York and Oceanic when ... | 11th April 1912 | ||||
| (1912) | 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 | ||||
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(1912) | LETTER FROM WILLIAM J. MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - QUEENSTOWN April 11th, 1912 Dear Mother, ... | 11th April 1912 | |||
| Shore Press | (1912) | SHE LOSES BROTHER IN TITANIC WRECK In the wreck of the White Star liner Titanic, Mrs. A. J. Ripley of Long Branch lost her brother, Arthur E. Nicholson. He was in the tea business and maintained an office at 128 Front street, New York. It had been his custom each year ... | 12th April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | 1ST CLASS MENU SAVED BY MISS ELISE LURETTE Miss Elise Lurette, a French passenger who was Mrs Spencer's travelling companion (more than 'maid'), used to lose her way on the Titanic. She did not speak English and she had crossed her cabin on a plan she showed to other passengers when she did n... | 12th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TO PROVE MRS. GAGE DESCENDANT OF KINGS Defense Introduces Family Tree in Proceedings Brought by Banker C. J. Bell --- ROOSEVELT'S ROYAL ORIGIN --- Miss Gage Testifies That an Ancestor of Colonel Was a Scottish King—--Threaten Mrs. Gracie with Arrest ---... | 12th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MRS. GAGE BLAMES ALL ON MRS. GRACIE Court Adjourns to Give District Attorney Time to Find Missing Witness --- C. J. BELL STILL NERVOUS --- Banker Insists Upon Mrs. Gage Being Returned to the Asylum for Fear of a Tragedy --- Special to The New Y... | 13th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MR. MORGAN ANNOYED Resents Intimation That He Would Deal with "Mona Lisa" Thieves --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- FLORENCE, April 12---J. Pierpont Morgan is much annoyed over the ... | 13th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | WHY MAJOR BUTT, THE PRESIDENT’S AIDE, WENT TO ROME By a Veteran Diplomat --- That President Taft has made up his mind to follow the custom of the non-Catholic Courts and Governments in Europe, on the subject of the precedence to be accorded to Cardinals in the United States, no matter w... | 14th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | J. PIERPONT MORGAN WILL BE 75 YEARS OLD THIS WEEK During All That Time He Has Successfully Hidden from the Public His Real Self, Which Combines Diffidence and a Gentleness Very Unlike the Gruff Autocrat Familiar to Wall Street --- Should J. Pierpont Morgan feel moved n... | 14th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | READS BULLETIN, COLLAPSES C. J. E. Clayton Feared All His Family Had Perished --- As the details of the Titanic disaster were being thrown out by The Times bulletins shortly before midnight, a well dressed man on the arm of a friend wedged his way through the cr... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LORD ROTHES AWAITS WIFE Was to Have Met Her at Pier When Titanic Arrived --- An intimate friend of Capt. Smith, a prominent shipping man, who was seen at the Plaza last night, said that Capt. Smith had been informed by the White Star Company that he was to ret... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | PRESIDENT TAFT STUNNED Wires White Star Line for News of Major Butt --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15---President Taft did not know of the sinking of the Titanic or of the danger of his old friend, Major Archibald Butt, ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| 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) | HENRY B. HARRIS Well-Known Theatrical Manager Who Has Won Many Successes --- Henry B. Harris, who leaped into prominence in the New York theatrical field only about half a dozen years ago as manager, and producer, was, nevertheless, a veteran of many y... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | FRANK D. MILLET'S CAREER Noted Artist Famed as War Correspondent and Traveler --- Frank D. Millet, a noted artist and correspondent, was born at Mattapoisett, Mass., in 1846. His adventurous temperament led him to enlist as a drummer boy at the beginning of the Civ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | STRAUS A FAMOUS MERCHANT Member Both of R. H. Macy & Co. and Abraham & Straus --- Isidor Straus, who, with Mrs. Straus, was aboard the Titanic, was born in Rhenish Bavaria on Feb. 6, 1845. His father's family came to this country in 1852, and settled at Talbott... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | HAD PREMONITION OF HARM Annie Ward, Cardeza Maid, Saved from Titanic, Didn't Want to Go Aboard --- Miss Annie Ward, maid to Mrs. J. W. M. Cardeza, of Germantown, who was saved from the wreck of the Titanic, had a premonition that something was going to happen ... | 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 | |||
| Associated Press | (1912) | PROFOUND GRIEF FELT OVER PARIS - LADY DUFF GORDON AND HER HUSBAND PROBABLY AMONG THE DEAD By Associated Press. Paris, April 16. - The American colony in Paris was plunged into profound grief by definite news of the stupendous loss of life caused by the wreck of the Titanic. Hundreds of prominent American residents and Ameri... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TEN FROM THIS STATE ON TITANIC Four of Them Are Reported to Be Saved. ---------- STENGELS RESCUED ---------- Many Others on Liner with Relatives and Friends in This Section. ---------- ARE SEEKING INFORMATION ---------- ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | KARL H. BEHR, TENNIS PLAYER, AMONG SAVED Special Service of the NEWS MORRISTOWN, April 16---Word was received here today by Frederick H. Behr, of Headley road, that his brother, Karl H. Behr, of 777 Madison avenue, New York, the noted tennis player, was among the passengers ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Trenton Evening Times | (1912) | TRENTON MEN ABOARD GIANT TITANIC WHICH MEETS DISASTER IN ICE Washington A. Roebling II, and Stephen W. Blackwell among Hundreds of Passengers who are taken Off in Lifeboats when Maiden Voyage Seemed Likely to End in Sinking of World’s Biggest Vessel Returning to their homes in Trenton after a t... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- William E. Carter, 37 years old, of Philadelphia, a nephew of Joseph W. Carter, of 43 South Broad street, a well-known Elizabeth resident, is one of the pas... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | LAKEWOOD INQUIRIES Special Service of the NEWS LAKEWOOD, April 16---Included among the first cabin passengers on the Titanic were Mrs. A. T. Compton, her daughter, Miss S. W. Compton, and her son, A. T. Compton Jr., of Lakewood and New York. The last-na... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | (1912) | DR. DODGE AND FAMILY MAY HAVE MISSED TITANIC Page 2 [Photo] Assessor Washington Dodge, Mrs. Washington Dodge Relatives of Assessor Received Word That He Would Stop Over in Paris Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the "Chronicle" was notified by... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Examiner | (1912) | SACRAMENTO PAIR IN PASSENGER LIST Special Dispatch to “The Examiner.” SACRAMENTO, APRIL 15.–Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hold of this city were passengers on the Titanic. They were returning from a visit to Mrs. Hold’s father and other relatives in Cornwall, where they were m... | 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 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC News of Relatives Anxiously Awaited by Families In This City ---------- SCHOOL FLAGS ORDERED AT HALF-MAST ---------- Fred Jefferies, of 21B Florida street, is anxiously awaiting word of his sister, two brothers and... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | ELIZABETHANS ON BOARD BIG LINER TITANIC [Links to the earlier parts of this article can be found on the summary pages for the members of the Renouf/Jefferys family and the Carter family.] Among those who visited the White Star steamship offices in New York to-day in an endea... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | RAHWAY MAN ON LOST SHIP Arthur Keefe Passenger on Liner Titanic ---------- SISTER ANXIOUSLY AWAITS NEWS OF DISASTER ---------- (Special to the Journal) Rahway, April 16---Almost frantic with anxiety and grief, Mrs. Margaret O’Brien... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | WORD RECEIVED HERE OF C. M. HAYS’S RESCUE Among those well known in this city and suburbs whose name has been flashed as among the rescued from the Titanic, is Charles Melville Hays, president of the Grand Trunk and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway companies, of Canada, of Canada, a nephew of... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT President's Aid Had Gone on a Special Mission to the Pope --- Special to The New York Times --- WASHINGTON, April 15.-Major Archibald Willingham Butt, President Taft’s Military Aid, [sic] was returning on the Titanic afte... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ARCHIBALD GRACIE Prominent in Washington---His Wife's Whereabouts Not Known --- WASHINGTON , April 15---Archibald Gracie, one of the Titanic's passengers, is well known in Washington and New York society. His wife has recently attracted attention by le... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | FREDERICK K. SEWARD Frederick K. Seward is a member of the firm of Curtis, Mallet, Prevot & Colt of 30 Broad Street, and had been to Europe on business for his firm. He was graduated from Columbia University in 1899, bring a prominent member of the Glee Club during his ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | FORMER BOSTON RESIDENT Alexander O. Halverson [sic] of New York Opened the Cluett, Peabody & Co Office Here. Among the reported missing or unaccounted for among the passengers on board the steamship Titanic who were rescued from the disabled ship was Alexander O. Halverson... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | DISASTER AT LAST BEFALLS CAPT. SMITH Veteran Commander of Titanic Went Forty Years Without Accident of Any Kind --- WHITE STAR'S BEST OFFICER --- Declared Only Recently That He Did Not Believe Modern Ships Could Be Sunk --- Capt. E. J. Smith, i... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | TITANIC INSURED FOR $5,000,000 LONDON, April 15- The Titanic was insured for $5,000,000. No definate information is obtainable as to the amount of valuables on board but it is generally understood that the vessel took diamonds consigned to dealers whose estimated value is as high ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MISS GRACIE HEARS FATHER IS AMONG PASSENGERS SAVED Capital Resident Said to Be Aboard the Carpathia With Others Taken From the Titanic --- STEAMER IS NOW HEADED FOR SOME AMERICAN PORT --- Col. Archibald Gracie, 1627 Sixteenth street, is saved from the wreck of the Titanic ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | PRESIDENT’S AIDE AMONG PASSENGERS ON CRIPPLED SHIP Major Butt Was to Have Returned to Capital Shortly --- Major Archibald Butt, military aid to President; Clarence Moore, prominent in Washington social and financial circles, as well as one of the city’s best known horsemen; Frank D. Mil... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | PRESIDENT AND FRIENDS OF MAJOR BUTT FEAR HE WENT DOWN WITH SHIP "The White Stare [sic] Line Company his searched its list of survivors for the name of Major Archibald Butt. We regret to say that his name does not appear up to the present time among those known to be saved.” The above message, in e... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. CHURCHILL AMONG THE PASSENGERS RESCUED FROM TITANIC Another Washingtonian who sailed from Southampton Wednesday on the ill-fated Titantic [sic] was Mrs. Churchill Candee, prominent in Washington social circles, whose residence is at 1718 Rhode Island avenue northwest. Mrs. Candee's name appears on the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. DESHLER HEARS HER SISTER-IN-LAW IS SAFE; NO WORD FROM BROTHER "God grant that my brother, too, is safe," said Mrs. Frances Silvey Deshler of the Wilmington apartments Wyoming avenue northwest, when told today by a Times' reporter that her sister-in-law, Mrs. William B. Silvey, of Duluth, Minn., was among the pa... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | ARCHIBALD BUTT, MILITARY AIDE TO PRESIDENT TAFT Major Archibald de Grafenreid Willingham Butt, who was on the Titanic, was returning to Washington on sick leave, and expected to resume his duties as military aide to President Taft at once. Suffering from that mild poisoning which follows an unendi... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | LIST OF WASHINGTONIANS ON FATED STEAMER GROWS As the list of passengers sailing from Southampton on the Titanic last Wednesday is made more complete, the list of Washingtonians known to have been on board grows larger. The list now contains the names of five Washingtonians who make this city the... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | SENATOR GUGGENHEIM FEARFUL THAT HIS BROTHER IS DEAD Senator Simon Guggenheim of Colorado waited eagerly and anxiously today for some word that would indicate the fate of his brother, Benjamin, who was a Titanic passenger. Senator Guggenheim this forenoon had not given up all hope, but he was fearful t... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | CAPTAIN SMITH BELIEVED TITANIC TO BE UNSINKABLE That Captain Smith believed the Titanic and the Olympic to be absolutely unsinkable is recalled by a man who had a conversation with the veteran commander on a recent voyage of the Olympic. The talk was concerning the accident in which... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | MRS. CORNELL IS SISTER OF PROMINENT MAGISTRATE BAYSIDE, April 16---Mrs. Edward W. Appleton, who was on the Titanic, is the wife of Edward W. Appleton, of this village. With her is Mrs. J. M. Brown, a relative, from Boston, who had spent some time at the home of the Appletons. Both women are rep... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | WYCOFF VAN DERHOEF HAD BIG CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Wycoff Van Derhoef, of 109 Joralemon street, was one of the wealthiest and best known residents of the Eastern District and Secretary of the Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Van Derhoef was on his way from a visit to his sister in Euro... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | KARL H. BEHR, TENNIS EXPERT, AMONG RESCUED Karl H. Behr is a prominent lawyer of 40 Wall street, Manhattan. Mr. Behr who is a member of the West Side Tennis Club, of Manhattan, is prominent in the sporting world. He gained prominence as a tennis player, winning several championships and some ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | FRIENDS EXPECT TO HEAR FROM MRS. SWIFT SOON The relatives of Mrs. Margaret Swift, the widow of Fred Joel Swift, who lives at 171 Arlington avenue, are expecting momentarily to hear from her. Their hopes are based on the assurances given them at the offices of the White Star Line. ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | SORROW AT HARDER HOME DESPITE HOPEFUL MESSAGES Word was received at the home of Victor A. Harder, at 117 Eighth avenue, that his son George A. Harder and the latter’s young bride, who was Mrs. Dorothy Annan, of Manhattan, daughter of the late Edward Annan, of Brooklyn, who were passengers on the ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | AGONIZED WAITING IN TORONTO FOR THE SHIP THAT PASSED IN THE NIGHT S.S. Titanic Cape Race April 14 Mrs. Geo. E. Graham, 240 Dufferin st., Toronto, Canada ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | HAD LETTER LAST FRIDAY BROTHER STEWARD ON TITANIC Charles Lydiatt Had Been Steward on Every Boat on White Star Line--Brother Waiting for News "Only last Friday Sergeant George Lydiatt, of No. 4 Police Stat... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC DISASTER The terrible tragedy of the Titanic, even though it is possible to hope that fuller information may mitigate it, presents several mysteries. Whence and how came the reports spread everywhere yesterday that the passengers had ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| The Evening Telegram | (1912) | HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS ON STEAMER TITANIC Each Boat Would Accommodate Fifty People---Equipped with All Modern Improvements. Speaking about the lifeboat equipment of the Titanic, M... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Post | (1912) | NO HOPE FOR MORE SURVIVORS ST. JOHNS , N.F. April 16.- All hope that any of the passengers or members of the crew of the Titanic, other than those on the Carpathia, are alive was abandoned this afternoon. All the steamers which have been cruising in the vi... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | EAST ORANGE PEOPLE REPORTED SAVED Word has been received by Colonel Henry A. Potter, of 95 Harrison street, East Orange, that Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., his brother’s widow, is among the passengers who were rescued from the Titanic. With her was her daughter, Mrs. Boul... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | BROTHER OF MONTCLAIR MAN ON MISSING LIST Henry Mitchell, one of the second-cabin passengers on the Titanic, who is among the missing, was on his way from Guernsey, England, to visit the family of his brother, John C. Mitchell, of 19 Portland place, Montclair. The brothers had pla... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TWO TRENTON FAMILIES FEAR FATE OF YOUNG MEN TRENTON, April 16---Two prominent young Trentonians aboard the Titanic are Washington A. Roebling, second, and Stephen W. Blackwell, who were returning home from an automobile trip through Europe. Mr. Roebling is a son of Charles G. Roebl... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | NEWARKER IN CHARGE OF THE TITANIC’S MAILS John S. March, a Newark man, was in charge of the mails on board the Titanic. With his daughter, Miss Nettie March, he lived at 59 Emmett street. For nine years Mr. March has been crossing the ocean in charge of the mails on many liners. ... | 16th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 Tribune | (1912) | 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 | (1912) | NEW VERSION OF BUTT'S TRIP Was Passenger on Titanic at the Whim of Close Friend --- Richard B. Watrous, Secretary of the American Civic Association, with offices in Washington, watched the bulletin boards in Times Square with great anxiety yesterday to see if any... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Aberdeen Daily Journal | (1912) | ABERDEEN ENGINEER ABOARD As indicated on Monday, there were no Aberdeen passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel, but we learn that a Torry engineer was a member of the crew. About ten days ago Mr. James Fraser, 85 Menzies Road, received a letter from his son, Mr. James Fra... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | BAYSIDE'S LOSS IN DEATH OF HENRY B. HARRIS BAYSIDE, L. I., April 17---All Bayside is saddened by the belief that Henry B. Harris, the theatrical manager, perished with the sinking of the Titanic. Mr. Harris had a charming home in Broadway, Bayside, and was a regular summer resident of the vil... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | ARTHUR KEEFE ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ABOARD THE TITANIC New York Papers This Morning Give His Name In List of Passengers Embarking at Southampton ---------- FEAR HE IS AMONG MISSING ---------- His Sister in East Rahway Feels That He Met His Fate When The Ill Starred Vessel Sank... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | HAD PREMONITION OF DISASTER Nurse in Home of Mrs. J. B. Earnshaw Distrusted Early Despatches of Safety of Passengers --- A curious instance of the premonitions which are communicated to members of a family or even a household in time of disaster, was illustrated i... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| La Presse | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS Two Survivors This afternoon, the Daily Mail welcomed in their Parisian offices, rue des Capucines, the American doctor Joseph Leidy. Mr. Leidy was visiting the Daily Mail reporters in order to show them a wireless he had just received ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | FOUR ON BIG LINER CLEVELAND BOUND Page 1 Three Men and One Woman on Way to This City May Have Gone Down Many Parts of Ohio Represented in Lists of Victims When the news of the greatest sea distater ina century was flashed to Cleveland ye... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS WERE TO VISIT IN ARLINGTON Among those reported saved from the wreck of the Titanic are Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, England, who were expected to visit Arlington as guests of Mrs. Etta Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue. They left home to join Mrs... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | HADDONFIELD MAN ON BOARD TITANIC Nothing Yet Heard from Frederick W. Sutton Whose Name is on Passenger List --- BUDGET OF GOSSIP FROM THE BOROUGH --- Fredrich [sic] W. Sutton, a highly esteemed wealthy resident of Haddonfield is said to have been on board... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | COUSIN OF CITY CLERK DONNELLY AMONG RESCUED Elmer Taylor, Paper Cup Manufacturer, Mrs. Thos. Potter, Mrs. Boulton Earnshaw (Olive Potter) and Miss Hayes Are Safe On Carpathia ---------- COTTAGE SECTION HERE IN FERMENT ---------- Many Atlantic City people ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1912) | TWO WEST HOBOKEN MEN WERE AMONG VICTIMS ON TITANIC So far as can be learned two of the victims of the Titanic disaster lived in West Hoboken. They are John Ashby, father of Arthur Ashby, of 629 Traphagen street, and Albert Walker, father in law of Charles Robertson, proprietor of the Colonial Theatre... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Journal | (1912) | 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 Daily News | (1912) | “EARS” OF TITANIC FAIL Local Hydrographic Experts Tell of Device on Bows to Catch Vibrations. Iceberg’s Drift Noiseless Operator of Submarine Phone Probably Crushed At His Post When Prow Was Smashed A ship’... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Chronicle | (1912) | GIVES LIFE FOR LOVE OF HUSBAND Relatives Here Believe Wife of Isidor Straus Refused to Leave His Side. That her devotion to her husband, refusing to leave the ship unless he accompanied her from the ill-fated Titanic, cost the life of Mrs. Isidor... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Concord Enterprise | (1912) | MRS. J. MURRAY BROWN "Among the passengers o the Titanic was Mrs. J. Murray Brown, widow of the late J. Murray Brown, and mother of Mrs. George S. Keyes of Concord. Mrs. Brown went to England in the early part of March, accompanied by her sisters, Mrs. E. D. A... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Gloucester Citizen | (1912) | HODGES HENRY P. : GLOUCESTERIAN'S BROTHER UNLISTED WITH THE SAVED [Photo] Among the Titanic victims was Mr. H. P. Hodges, of The Cotswolds, Highfield Lane, Southampton, who is an elder brother of Mr. R. Hodges, of Melcombe, Vicarage Road, Gloucester, one of the staff at Hatherley Road Council Schools... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Two residents of Ilfracombe, Devon were in the Titanic, viz., Mr. Robert Phillips, aged about 45 years, and his daughter, Alice, a young woman about 19 or 20. For some time he was barman in the Royal Clarence Tap, and subsequently was in the employ ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among those on board the Titanic was a son of Mrs Parsons of Bronshill Road, Torquay. Mr Edward Parsons had been in the service of the White Star Line practically all his life and has a wife and five children at Southampton. He was visiting his mot... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Mr Forbes Julian of Redholme, Braddons Road, Torquay, was a passenger on the Titanic. It is known that Mr Julian was on board when the liner left Southampton last Wednesday, it being his intention to spend several weeks in the United States. Up to ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among the Cornish passengers on board the Titanic were Mr & Mrs Chapman, of Carpuan Farm, St Neot, returned home about six months ago from the United States, where he had been engaged in mining. While at home he had married a Miss Lawry, of St Neot,... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | EDGAR & FRED GILES, PORTHLEVEN Edgar Giles, aged 20, his brother Fred, aged 22, well behaved young men, had been in the employ of Mr. Wells, of the posting establishment, Porthleven. Both sailed in the Titanic, going to join another brother at Camden. The father has been unable ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | JERSEY PEOPLE WHO HAD RELATIVES ON BOARD PERTH AMBOY, April 17---Great anxiety in [sic] felt in this city by the members of the Parker, Jaudon, Marsh and Hechheimer families, who had near and distant relatives among the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic. Owner of Local Plan... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | OVERCOME BY GOOD NEWS One of the first to appear at the office of the (White Star) company was Edward Frauenthal, of 786 Lexington Ave., who had two brothers on the Titanic, Dr. Hyman and J.C. Frauenthal. Both are reported saved. When he was told that his brothers' names ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THE DUFF GORDONS From London came a cablegram (to the White Star office), asking for news of Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon. The cable remained unanswered for some time as line officials and their employees had more than they could attend to in the handling of inquir... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | STRAUS'S SECRETARY WAITS ALL NIGHT A representative of the Straus family was at the White Star steamship office continuously yesterday, waiting for news of Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus. Sylvester Byrnes, Mr. Straus's secretary, had remained in the office all night. With ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | NOT BOATS ENOUGH (SAYS MRS. GUGGENHEIM) Many inquiries were made at the (White Star Line)office during the day about Benjamin Guggenheim, but no hopeful reply could be given as Mr. Guggenheim's name was not included in any of the lists of survivors received. About 10 o'clock... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | THE HARRISES Numerous and anxious were the inquiries (at the White Star Line office) for Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Harris. Mr. Harris is one of the city's best known theatrical managers. Scores of his friends, both in the theatrical and the business wo... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FEAR ANOTHER NEWARKER GONE ---------- Augustus Smith, Passenger on Titanic, Whose Name Is Not Among Saved. ---------- HAYS ALSO AMONG MISSING ---------- The name of Augustus Smith, twenty-two years old, of 59 Halsey street, was added ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | REPORT LOSS OF 5 PERSONS COMING HERE Two Women Only Ones of Reniff Party on Titanic Believed Saved ---------- FAMILY OF BENJAMIN PEACOCK UNACCOUNTED FOR ---------- There is mourning in several Elizabeth households to-day, as a result of the loss of the Titan... | 17th April 1912 | |||
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La Chronique de Bayonne | (1912) | S.S. NIAGARA HITS AN ICEBERG « New York. Le transatlantique « Niagara » est arrivé. Il rapporte que dans la nuit de mercredi, presque à l’endroit où le « Titanic » a coulé, le « Niagara » est venu donner dans un banc de glace. Le choc fut si violent qu’aussitôt le commandant fit... | 17th April 1912 | ||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | A PLYMOUTH PASSENGER One of the second class passengers on the Titanic is Mr. Fred Banfield, who left Plymouth on 9th inst., to join the vessel. He spent some years in business with a well known firm in Bedford-street, Devonport, but previously had worked as a miner in ... | 17th 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 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | THREE OF TEN JERSEY PASSENGERS ARE SAFE Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel and Henry Blank Reported Among Those Rescued from the Titanic Wreck --- Up to a late hour last night only three of the ten New Jersey passengers on the Titanic were definitely known to be among the survi... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | TO FIND BODIES HALIFAX N.S., April 16- The Parisian steamed through much he??? field of ice looking for passengers from the ill-fated ship. No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckage, which covered a large area. The Parisian rep... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | 3500 SACKS OF MAIL ON TITANIC NEW YORK, April 16- Postmaster Edward M. Morgan stated today that the White Star liner Titanic had on board 3500 sacks of mail. It is not likely, he said that the mails were saved because during the few hours that the vessel floated after running int... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | CAPT SMITH UNCLE OF RED BANK MAN Capt. E. J. Smith, R. S., who was in charge of the Titanic, was an uncle of Alex. Smith of White street, Red Bank. The latter Mr. Smith has been a resident of Red Bank for some time, conducting a garage in White street, near Broad street. He stated... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MOORE’S PARTNERS GIVE UP HOPE OF HEARING FROM HIM H. W. Hibbs, of Hibbs & Co., the brokerage firm with which Clarence Moore was connected, definitely gave up hope this morning that his partner had been saved from the Titanic. Moore’s friends are said to have generally come to the same conclusion.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | HEARTFELT SYMPATHY OF FRIENDS HERE GOES TO MRS. L. P. SMITH Of the many soul-wringing sad pathetic partings that took place as the Titanic, with its precious burden, awaited the inrush of the waters that were to lower it to a grave two miles beneath the surface of the Atlantic, that between Mrs. Lucien P. Smi... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TITANIC MAIL CLERK’S WIFE ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR NEWS ABOUT HIM Mrs. Lelia Woody, wife of O. S. Woody, United States mail clerk aboard the Titanic, is in Clifton, Va., today, anxiously awaiting news of the disaster, and hoping against hope he did not go down with the wrecked steamer. Woody is well ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TITANIC’S CAPTAIN HAD LONG RECORD ON THE HIGH SEAS As Captain of Olympic Smith's Vessel Hit British Cruiser Last Fall --- If the twentieth century retained a belief in the power of malignant spirits and the human passions of natural forces, the termination of the career of Capt. E. J. S... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | MAJ. BUTT TOLD FRIENDS HE HAD FEAR OF MISHAP Remarks of the President's Aid Before Going Abroad Are Recalled --- President Taft yesterday made earnest efforts to obtain news of Maj. Archibald Butt, his military aid. He communicated two or three times with the White Star offices i... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | BROTHER OF BROOKLYNITE, A PRIEST, WAS ON TITANIC Two of the visitors to the White Star line offices were Laurence M. Byles, Vice President of the W. E. Byles Company, Ltd., of 90 Wall street, Manhattan, and his brother, W. Hunter Byles, of Omaha. They went to inquire as to the safety of another bro... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | LONG ISLANDERS WHO WERE ON TITANIC Some Whose Names Are Not on the List of the Saved --- GREENPORT, April 17---All Greenport is fearful that James V. Drew and Marshall, the 5-year-old son of William J. Drew, brother and partner of James Drew, are among the Titanic’s dead... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | L. I. YACHTSMEN WILL MISS FREDERICK M. HOYT Frederick M. Hoyt, broker and yachtsman, was one of the passengers who is believed to have gone down with the ship. His offices are at 45 Broadway and his city home at 112 East Seventy-third street, Manhattan. He has a beautiful summe... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | JAMES CLINCH SMITH SAW MUCH HAPPINESS AHEAD It is recalled that James Clinch Smith, whose name is on the list of those aboard the Titanic but not among those of the survivors, went abroad to the [sic] effect a reconciliation with is wife. She has been intensely interested in music, almost, it... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Brooklyn Daily Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Daily Northwestern | (1912) | SAW THE ICEBERG S. V. Silverthorne of St. Louis. was one of the three or four saloon passengers on the Titanic who saw the deadly iceberg just after the collision. "I was in the smoking room reading near a bridge whist game at one of the tables," he said.... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Northwestern | (1912) | A SAD FAREWELL William F. Bonnell, a cousin of the party, made the following statement as coming from Mrs. Wick: "When the collision occurred, Mrs. Wick and her husband were In their Stateroom. They thought that a boiler, had exploded. When they reached ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Scotsman | (1912) | STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER In the House of Commons yesterday Lord Charles Beresford (U, Portsmouth) asked the President of the Board of Trade whether there was any later news as to the Titanic. The Prime Minister, who replied, said the news received by th... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS ------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | C. M. HAYS' CAREER When the White Star Liner Titanic struck an iceberg, it is feared Charles Melville Hays, president and general manager of the Grand Trunk Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad was carried down with the doomed steamer. Mr. Hays had been in ... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME --------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | SOUTHAMPTON TOWN OF MOURNING SOUTHAMPTON, April 16.---Distressing scenes have been witnessed thruout the morning at the White Star offices here, which have been thronged by the relatives of the crew of the Titanic. The town is absolutely stunned by the news of t... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| New York Sun | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | F. K. SEWARD SAVED Included in the list of rescued is F. K. Seward, of 529 West 112th street, New York, a nephew of Dr. John L. Seward, of 416 Main street, Orange. Mrs. Seward said today that her husband’s nephew had been in Europe on a two months&rsquo... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | WIRELESS FROM THE STENGELS First Direct Personal Message Received from Jersey Folk in the Disaster ---------- BOTH ON THE CARPATHIA ---------- Direct intelligence from Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of this city, now on the rescue ship Carpathia, was received h... | 17th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SHOCK OF DISASTER KILLS WOMAN BROCKTON, Mass., April 17---Miss Katherine E. Maguire, 50 years old, heartbroken by the news that her nephew, John E. Maguire, was among those probably lost on the Titanic, was taken violently ill to-night and died within a few moments. She had been... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MARCONI CHEERED FOR WIRELESS FEATS Modestly Gives Credit to Other Inventors and Speaks of Life Saving from Titanic --- FIRST LECTURE IN AMERICA --- Prof. Pupin Childes Speaker for Praising Other Inventors for Discoveries That Were Only by Marconi ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Southport Visitor | (1912) | MR. JAMES WALPOLE As stated in Tuesdays Visitor among the crew of the ill fated liner was Mr. James Walpole, brother of Mr. Horace Walpole, of 17 Line-street, Southport and brother-in-law of the late Mr. W. E. Browne. A native of Southport... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Le Mémorial des Pyrénées | (1912) | MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT MAJOR ARCHIBALD BUTT New-York, April 17. President Taft sent messages everywhere he could, so anxious was he about the fate of his aide-de-camp major Archibald Butt. Butt was on his return journey from Rome where Taft ha... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | SIXTEEN OHIOANS ARE STILL MISSING Page 1 Reports Fails to Account for All of State's Representatives on Titanic Relatives of Passengers Watch for Word of Loved Ones "Missing" still stands against the names of sixteen of the forty-four Ti... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | TITANIC STRUCK ON CLEAR NIGHT Story of Parisian Operator Deepens Mystery of Disaster to White Star Line Warning Was Repeated Secrecy of Wireless Messages Pertaining to Wreck Maintained by Capt. Haines Halifax, N. S., April 17—... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Pittsburgh Post | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. ALBERT C. CALDWELL Dr. C.S. Caldwell, 2219 Woodstock Avenue, Swissvale (suburb of Pittsburgh) fears that his cousin and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Caldwell, of near Monmouth, Illinois, are among the missing. Mr. Caldwell had been teaching English in Siam. ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Henry Rogers, of Tavistock, a second class passenger, was the son of the late Mr J G Rogers, stone mason, and grandson of Mr J S Rogers, who carries on the business at Tavistock. The young man was 18 years of age and had been in service with Rev. Ma... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW A Truro passenger, Charles P Fillbrook, resided at Charles Street, with his parents, was on his way to join an uncle at Howder County, Michigan, with the intention of becoming a miner, or of following his trade as a painter. He had not long finished... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW No news has been received as to the fate of Mrs Ellen Wilkes, who hailed from Penzance. She travelled third class, whilst the other members of the party of a dozen from Penzance on the Titanic travelled second class. Mrs Wilkes, who had latterly be... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Cornishman | (1912) | NEWLYN MAN RESCUED AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE SHIP STRUCK The quartermaster at the wheel when the ship struck the iceberg was Mr. Robert Hichens, believed to be a native of Newlyn, who is one of the survivors. Interviewed on landing Mr. Hichens said when the collisi... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Cornishman | (1912) | SAFETY OF A HAYLE MAN - MR. SAMUEL RULE Capt. Rule of Hayle, has received a telegram from his niece announcing the safety of his brother, Mr. Samuel Rule, chief steward of the Titanic. The telegram reads as follows:- ‘Anfield, Liverpool,-To Rule, Carnsew, Hayle. Fath... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Hayle Weekly Mail | (1912) | HAYLE MAN ONE OF THE STEWARDS On enquiring at Hayle we find that no passengers from this town have sailed in the ill-fated vessel, but that Mr. Samuel Rule, of Hayle, occupied the position of chief bathroom steward. Mr. Rule, who formerly lived at Clifton-terrace, is a bro... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | AWAIT COMING OF CARPATHIA WITH RESCUED Relatives of Titanic Passengers Here Grief-Stricken Because of Suspense. ---------- SISTER OF ENGINEER SUFFERS NERVOUS SHOCK ---------- Almost crazed by grief and anxiety over the fate of relatives who are known to have be... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Manchester Evening News | (1912) | MANCHESTER VICTIMS: CHIEF ELECTRICAL ENGINEER ON THE TITANIC Mr. Alfred S. Allsop, the chief electrical engineer of the Titanic, who, it is feared, has gone down in the ill-fated ship, was a Manchester man. He was about 35 years of age, and was born in Brunswick Street, C.-on-M., but he has not lived in the ci... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Mail | (1912) | FATE OF A FAMILY Parents and Nine Children in Titanic Page 6 On board the Titanic were eleven residents of Peterborough, Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Gladstone-street, and their nine children, whose ages range from twenty-two to five years. M... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | AN EXETER PASSENGER It is also stated that Mr. Ralph Giles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Giles of Eaton-place, Exeter, was among the passengers. Mrs. Giles has wired to the Head Office of the White Star Line in London, but has received no reply. Mrs Giles’s sister-in-law... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | FROM WESTCOUNTRY - FURTHER PERSONAL DETAILS Mr. James Drew and family and Mr. James Veale (sic) were from Constantine, Cornwall. Mr. and Mrs. Drew and nephew (Master Marshall Drew) had been home on a visit to his mother (who is 84 years of age, and still ignorant of anything having happened).... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | UNTITLED Mr. W. H. Nancarrow, an engine driver, who had previously been abroad, was returning to some friends. His wife and nine young children reside at Mount Charles, St Austell.... | 18th April 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 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | FOR NEW BEDFORD LIBRARY Artist Millett Bringing Back Sketches for Mural Decorations. New Bedford, April 17- Frank D. Millett, the artist, who was aboard the Titanic and whose name does not appear on the list of survivors, had been engaged to paint the mural decor... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | NAME NOT ON LIST BUT WOMAN IS SAFE Mrs. Edgar Meyer Wires New York That She Is Returning on Carpathia and That Her Husband Is Missing NEW YORK, April 17.- A wireless message was received today by relatives of Mrs Edgar Meyer, daughter of the late Andrew Saks, reporting ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | CINCINNATI GETS MESSAGE By the Associated Press CINCINNATI GETS MESSAGE Steamer Reports Picking Up Call From Stricken Titanic NEW YORK, April 17.- Capt. Schulke of the steamship Cincinnati, which reached port today from Naples an... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | NEVER NEAR TITANIC By the Associated Press NEVER NEAR TITANIC Parisian Has No News Of Disaster Until Long After It Occurs. HALIFAX, April 17.-Capt. Hains of the Parisian, when communicated with, reported that at 10:30 o'cloc... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | NO SIGN OF WRECK Steamer Bruce Sends One Brief Message Reporting Storms. By the Associated Press ST.JOHN'S, N.F., April 17.- Henry Duff Reid, vice president of the Reid Newfoundland Co., owner of the steamer Bruce, said he has re... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | UNKNOWN TITLE The party of seven adults and four young children from Penzance were all bound to Akron. Mr. George Hocking, his mother (Mrs. Guy), who is a widow, and his sister, Miss Hocking, were of St Mary-street, and with them were Mrs. Emily Ri... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | SHOCK OF LOSS PROVES FATAL Brockton Woman Dies Soon After Being Informed That Nephew Is Among Titanic's Victim's Brockton, April 17- Miss Katherine E. Maguire, aged 50, heartbroken by the news that her nephey [sic], John E. Maguire, was among those probaly lost... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | GAMBLERS ON THE TITANIC Many Planned to Cross on the First Trip---"Doc" Owen Not Aboard --- Broadway inhabitants were discussing last night the report that a number of well-known professional gamblers had gone to their death on the Titanic. It was said that t... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WOMAN FAINTS WHEN TOLD BUTT IS AMONG MISSING NEW YORK, April 18---A woman claiming to be the second cousin of Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President Taft, from Plymouth, Mass., called at the White Star line office this morning to inquire whether anything had been heard of her missing ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. MOORE AWAITS WORD OF HUSBAND W. B. Hibbs, Who Went To New York, Not Yet Heard From --- No word from W. B. Hibbs was received at the residence of Clarence Moore this morning. Mr. Hibbs went to New York yesterday to obtain all possible information about Mr. Moore, w... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | NOTHING YET HEARD FROM MRS. CANDEE Daughter Willl Meet Her On Her Arrival On the Carpathia --- Friends of Mrs. Helen C. Candee, who lived at 1718 Rhode Island avenue until her departure for Europe, nearly a year ago, and who is reported saved from the Titanic, had heard ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | PREMONITION CAME TO NOTED NOVELIST Atlanta, April 17---"Turn down a glass for me," was the last written message Jacques Futrelle sent from Europe to a friend in Atlanta. Hugh Cordosk received the following note a few days before Futrelle sailed: "Been all... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | WENT TO DEATH WITH HIS HOUNDS Clarence Moore Had Pack of Prize Animals with Him on the Titanic --- That about a hundred of the finest drag hounds money could buy went to a watery grave with Clarence Moore, for many years master of hounds of the exclusive Chevy Chas... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | CLAIMS MRS. GAGE SUFFERS PARANOIA Dr. William A. White Testifies Concerning Examination of Defendant in Insanity Case --- Dr. William A. White, Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, testified yesterday afternoon before Justice Barnard and a jury, giv... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | MISS HILDA SLAYTER Miss Hilda Slayter, one of the first class passengers saved from the Titanic was coming back to Canada on the Titanic to marry Mr Reginald Lacon, one of the big ranch owners of British Colombia, and son of the late Hon. Mr. Lacon. Miss Slater, wh... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | E.Z. TAYLOR'S ACCOUNT E. Z. Taylor of Philadelphia, one of the survivors, jumped into the sea just three minutes before the boat sank, He told a graphic story as he came from the Carpathia. "I was eating when the boat struck the iceberg," he maid. "There was an... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | HOLDING BACK FACTS OF DISASTER STIRS CRITICISM Charges ranging from indifference to deliberate suppression of news are being made against the White Star officials on both sides of the Atlantic . As ground for these charges one needs to go back only to the rapid sequ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Evanston Daily News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | RULERS COMPLIMENT MORGAN ON BIRTHDAY Financier 75 Years Old Yesterday-Is at Aix and in Excellent Health --- DISASTER ALTERS HIS PLANS --- He Continually Seeks News Regarding the Titanic Catastrophe-Postpones Ceremony at Aix --- Spec... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | CRAZED WITH GRIEF BY FATHER'S DEATH Jersey City Man Whose Father was Aboard the Titanic Taken Into Custody---Driven to the verge of insanity by the thought that his father in allprobability went down with the ill-fated Titanic, Frank Myles, 29 yearsold, liv... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | BAYONNE MAN SAVED, HOBOKEN BOY LOST Joy and Sorrow in Hudson County Homes---Son of Victim Temporarily Insane from Grief ---------- With the latest revision of the lists of saved and lost from the Titanic disaster, joy and sorrow were brought to several ho... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MR. CHRISTOPHER HEAD Mr Christopher Head was the fifth son of the late Mr Henry Head, a well-known London underwriter. He was in his 43rd year, and was educated at Lancing end at Trinity College Cambridge. Called to the Bar ... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Daily Mail | (1912) | THE MAY FAMILY Mrs May, across the way, lost her husband and eldest son. The son was married a year ago and his wife had a baby six weeks ago... Crossing the road I had a talk with the elder Mrs May, a slight, pale woman with dark sorrowful eyes. She ask... | 18th April 1912 | |||
| Barking Chronicle | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER. EAST HAM RESIDENTS MISSING We learn that Mr and Mrs R.J. Rogers, of 11 Southchurch Gardens, East Ham, have a son and a nephew amongst the crew of the Titanic, the deplorable sinking of which has created such widespread consternation... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MRS. CANDEE TELLS OF TRAGIC SCENES AS STEAMER SANK Washington Woman Says Officers Demanded That Women Go First --- By GORDON MACKAY, Staff Correspondent --- NEW YORK, April 19---From the feeble, trembling lips of an aged woman comes the story that tears away the veil of my... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Scarborough Mercury | (1912) | HULL MAGISTRATE REPORTED SAFE Mother Staying at Scarborough Mr. Algernon H. Barkworth, J.P., of Tranby House, Hessle, Hull, who was one of the first-class passengers on the Titanic, is a young man of independent means, and had booked a passage on the Titanic in pre... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Brighton Argus | (1912) | MR. A. H. BARKWORTH Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on the deck. he described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted that the foremast w... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | NO ALARM FELT WHEN STEAMER FIRST STRUCK Passengers Came on Deck to Get View of Big Berg --- TERRIBLE SUFFERING IN THE LIFEBOATS --- Carpathia Gave Tenderest Care To the Rescued---Four Buried At Sea --- BY MISS CAROLINE BONNELL (Copyrighted, ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Leeds Mercury | (1912) | SORROW IN JEWISH HOME In the case of Mr. Herbert Klein, his home, his parents, his wife and children, are all in Leeds, and the Jewish community in the city has been moved to sympathy by the feared loss of one of the most popular of their young men. Mr. He... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | THREE STILL SUFFER FROM PERILS AND COLD Still suffering from the hardships they endured, Miss Cornelia T. Andrews, Mrs. John C. Hogeboom and Miss Gretchen F. Longley, who survived the Titanic disaster, are at the home of Mrs. Arthur H. Flack, of 458 Central avenue, East Orange. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Ilford Graphic | (1912) | ILFORD PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC Ilford has her part to play in the latest tragedy of the ocean. On April 2nd last, Mr and Mrs Ben Hart were present at the "Cauliflower" in their honour prior to their departure for Canada. During the evening they were the recipients of a beautiful I... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | SURVIVOR HERE IN ROLLER CHAIR Titanic’s Barber Tells of His Terrible Experience on Sinking Liner --- SAVED BY RAFT OF CAMP STOOLS --- Augustus H. Whiteman, [sic] whose rescue from the Titanic was told of in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, passed through Cam... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | BURLINGTON COUNTY MAN WAS BLOWN INTO WATER The story of his remarkable escape was told by Augustus H. Weikman, of Palmyra, Burlington County, when he alighted from the Carpathia last night. Weikman was the ship barber on the Titanic, but he assisted in the work of lowering the lifeboats from... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Rahway Daily Record | (1912) | STORY OF DISASTER TO MAMMOTH LINER FROM A SURVIVOR William H. Randolph of This City Hears Sad Account of the Wreck From His Employer’s Widow ---------- MRS. WALTER DOUGLAS SAFE ---------- In Interview She States That Bruce Ismay, After Receiving Warning, Kept Boat at Full ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Denver Times | (1912) | MRS. STOIBER-ROOD DENIES REPORT HUSBAND IS ALIVE Says She Has Positive Evidence He Lost His Life on Titanic Disaster. Recent reports from London that a man seen there had been partially identified as Hugh R. Rood, supposed to have been one of the Titanic victims in April, 1912, have ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | WILLIAM CROTHERS DULLES NOW IS GIVEN UP AS LOST Cousin of Philadelphia Lawyer Says His Absence From Carpathia Shows He Didn't Survive --- On learning that William Crothers Dulles, a lawyer, 316 S. 12th st., was not among the survivors on the rescue ship Carpathia, friends and relativ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | HENRY BLANK DECLARES CURIOSITY SAVED HIM It was the desire of Henry Blank, a jeweler of this city, who lives in Glen Ridge, to find out what caused the shock to the Titanic when she struck the iceberg Sunday night that gave him a chance in one of the boats that saved his life. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | LOST FATHER IN SHIP; HAS MENTAL COLLAPSE JERSEY CITY, April 19---The police found it necessary yesterday to take care of Frederick Myles, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., is among the lost passengers of the Titanic. Young Miles appeared to be under s... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | HOPE LODGE TO MOURN DEATH OF ITS MASTER A special meeting of Hope Lodge No. 124, F. and A. M., of East Orange, which, arranged some time ago, was to have been in the nature of a red-letter day for the master, W. Anderson Walker, will take the form of a lodge of sorrow. The meeting is to b... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | ELIZABETH MAN’S WIFE AND CHILDREN PERISH Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19--- The wife and two children of Benjamin Peacock, of 609 South Broad street, perished on the Titanic, according to the list of those who were on the boat and whose names do not appear in ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | TELLS OF SEEING MEN SHOT DOWN ON TITANIC Special Service of the NEWS ELIZABETH, April 19---Almost prostrated by the terrible experiences which she had undergone since the Titanic went down, Mrs. Peter Renouf, of 21b Florida street, returned to her home here today. She told o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | BELIEVES BROTHER LOST Another who waited in vain for the return of a loved one was Miss Frances Sheppard, a trained nurse, of Newark, who is staying at the home of Mrs. J. H. S. Clark, of 561 North Broad street, this city. Miss Sheppard’s brother, Jonathan Sheppard, of S... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | STENGEL TELLS TRAGEDY STORY Home with Wife, Depicts Wreck Scenes and Perils of Survivors. ---------- DEATH NEAR, VICTIMS JOKED ---------- Days of suspense had been borne by the family and friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of 1075 Broad str... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | TELLS OF WOMEN PULLING AT OARS Page 1 Youngstown Woman Relates Story of Escape from Sinking Titanic Men Tire and Passengers Row Boats to Safety From Disaster From reports received from the steamer Carpathia when it docked at New York ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Christian Science Monitor | (1912) | WOMAN SURVIVOR OF TITANIC TELLS OF THE LAST HOURS OF SHIP Miss Caroline Bonnell Says Great Vessel Stood Still in Tracks and Then Gave a Great Shiver SAW NO CONFUSION (Written for the United Press by Miss Caroline Bonnell) (Copyright 1912 by the United Press) M... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Denver Post | (1912) | LADY DUFF-GORDON TELLS OF SINKING OF GREAT LINER Lady Duff-Gordon dictated the following: I was asleep. The night was perfectly clear. I was awakened by a long grinding sort of shock. It was not a tremendous crash, but more as though someone had drawn a giant finger all along the side of the boat. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chronicle | (1912) | BOUND BROOK INTEREST IN THE WRECK Aside from the deep interest in the loss of the Titanic, Bound Brook had a special anxiety to know the fate of the Ryerson family, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Arthur Ryerson being a daughter of Mrs. John J. Borie and a sister of Adolph E. Borie, of Piedmon... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicagto Daily Journal | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Dowagiac Daily News | (1912) | CARPATHIA LANDS IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE BISHOPS WIRE THEY’RE SAFE Mrs. Bishop Is First Lady to Leave the Wrecked Ocean Liner SEND A WIRELESS First Direct Tidings Came Last Night, and Again This Morning They Send a Message Home --------------- Mr. and Mr... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Trenton Evening Times | (1912) | ROEBLING SAID GOODBYE TO FRIENDS AND THEN PERISHED WITH BLACKWELL, HIS COMPANION "You will be back with us on the ship again soon", were the last words of Washington A. Roebling, II, so far as Trenton relatives know. In an interview this morning at the Waldorf-Astoria between Miss Caroline Bonnell and Ferdinand W. Roebling,... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | STATEMENT BY HAROLD BRIDE The following thrilling statement was dictated today by Mr. Bride, the assistant Marconi operator on board the Titanic, to the New York Times representative, in the presence of Mr. Marconi, who is now staying in Ne... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| St. Ives Times & Express | (1912) | MR. WILLIAM CARBINES Mr. William Carbines, 19, of Nanjivey, was the fourth son of Mr. Nicholas Carbines, and he sailed on the "Titanic" in order to join one of his three other brothers also in Michigan. Although he had been mining in this part of the county for some time... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Herald | (1912) | WOMAN SURVIVOR HEARD SHOOTING Page 4. Mrs. A. A. Dick Says She Could See Men Leaping from Ship That Was Sinking. One of the most comprehensive and connected stories of the disaster was that recounted by Mrs. A. A. Dick, wife of a merchant in Calgary... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | (1912) | SAN FRANCISCO'S ASSESSOR TELLS STORY OF THE WRECK OF THE TITANIC From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck: "We had retired to our stateroom, and the ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVORS TELL DRAMATIC STORY OF SEA'S GREATEST DISASTER IN HISTORY --------------- Union Hill Woman Relates Her Experience, and How She Saved Child--Pathetic Meeting of Little One By Grandparents When the Carpathia Docked--Many Describe Mournful Scenes of Rescue and Picture Graphically the Going Down of the ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | MOTHER AND CHILD SAVED AT VERY LAST Mrs. Elizabeth Dowdell of 215 Park Avenue, Union Hill, who was rescued with her 7-year-old daughter Esther [sic], said: "I had been abroad and was returning to my home in Jersey. I was taken aboard the life boats with my little girl almost at the las... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Cambridge Independent Press | (1912) | MR. R. C. COLERIDGE MISSING Page 5 There seems every reason to fear that Mr. Reginald C. Coleridge, of Hartford, who was among the second-class passengers on the Titanic, has lost his life. Every day since the disaster his friends have anxiously scanned the lists... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Cambridge Independent Press | (1912) | HUNTS. VICAR'S LOSS Page 5 A daily contemporary contained the following on Friday:- ''On his arrival at St. John's (Nova Scotia) yesterday by the steamer Corsican, the Rev. A. C. Crosfield, of Hartford Vicarage Hunts., learned for the first time of the di... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Denver Post | (1912) | PANIC TERRIBLE JUST BEFORE VESSEL SANK 'Seemed as If All the Devils of Hell Had Been Let Loose,' When People Realized Worst, Says Doctor. Mr. Henry W. Frauenthal of New York declared all of the women on board the Titanic were thought to have been safely lowered to the boat... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| St. Annes on the Sea Express | (1912) | LOCAL PASSENGERS There were at least three local residents on board the Titanic' Amongst the passengers was Mr. Arthur Gee, who resided at Morningside, Riley Avenue, St. Annes. Mr. Gee represented Messrs. Whitehead, Summer, Harker, and Company, machinery exporters, o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | ROEBLING WENT DOWN IN TITANIC TRENTON, April 19---Ferdinand W. Roebling, jr., of 216 West Statestreet, late last night telephoned from New York to this city saying that neither Washington A. Roebling, 2d, nor Stephen W. Blackwell was among the rescued passengers on the Carpathia ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | HOME NEWS GAVE CITY FIRST NEWS OF CARPATHIA’S LANDING New Brunswick received the news of the landing of the Carpathia with the rescued Titanic passengers, from the Home News last night. The details of the landing and the passengers’ stories of the disaster, were wired to this office direct, and other bu... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elmer Times | (1912) | MARINE DISASTER [The following paragraph is the only passenger-specific one in a longer article.] Among the Titanic’s passengers reportedly was Frederick Sutton, whose home was at Haddonfield, but who had large business interests in Wildwood. He was ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | THRILLING STORIES BY TITANIC’S SAVED; TEN ON WAY TO ELIZABETH LOSE LIVES ELIZABETH WOMAN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, TELLS OF TRAGEDY ---------- Mrs. Peter Reniff, Only Rescued Member of Local Party of Eight, Gives to Journal Story of Most Appalling Calamity in History of Navigation--Peacock Party Lost -------... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | THRILLING STORIES BY TITANIC’S SAVED; TEN ON WAY TO ELIZABETH LOSE LIVES ELIZABETH WOMAN, TITANIC SURVIVOR, TELLS OF TRAGEDY ---------- Mrs. Peter Reniff, Only Rescued Member of Local Party of Eight, Gives to Journal Story of Most Appalling Calamity in History of Navigation--Peacock Party Lost -------... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC [The beginning of this article appears under Julia Barry's ET entry.] Overcome with grief at the loss of his wife and two children, who were on their way from England to join him in this country, Benjamin Peacock left his boarding plac... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Belfast Newsletter | (1912) | THE LADY PALMIST AND TITANIC PASSENGER Page 9The Central News says - Of the second class passengers of the Titanic, Walter Harris, of Enfield Highway and Percy Thomas Oxenham, of Ponders End, were booked on the "Philadelphia" for New York. Owing to the coal strik... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | DRUNKEN INDIAN IN PASSENGER'S HOME Former Employee Sleeps in Bed of Doctor Who Sailed on Titanic --- MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., April 18---While the friends of William C. Dulles of Philadelphia, who has a summer home at Goshen, a passenger on the lost Titanic, were awaiting with... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Daily Mercury | (1912) | NO NEWS OF MR F. ANDREW, OF REDRUTH Among the passengers of whose fate nothing is yet definitely known is Mr. Frank Andrew (30), of Pencoys, near Redruth. Mrs. Andrew, who lives at Pencoys, with one little child about two years of age, received a postcard from a friend in Plymouth, on ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had br... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES In connection with the Women’s Missionary Auxiliary at the Zion United Methodist Church, St. Austell, on Wednesday evening, Mr. W. J. Nicholls, who presided, referred to the loss of the Titanic. There were those in their own neighbourhood who had be... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Cambridge Independent Press | (1912) | ARTHUR WILLIAM BARRINGER Mr. Arthur William Barringer, son of Mr. William Barringer, of 15 Thoday Street, Cambridge, was a Steward on the Titanic. It is hoped that he may be among those of the crew who were rescued, but his name has not appeared among the survivors. Mr. Barr... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Cambridge Chronicle | (1912) | CAMBRIDGE MAN ABOARD It is feared that a Cambridge man was among those who lost their lives, and great anxiety is felt by his parents, who live in Cambridge, and relatives and close friends, as to his safety. We refer to Mr. A. W. Barringer, a native of Cambridge, who we... | 19th April 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 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | HOLDS BACK MEN AT PISTOL POINT New York- April 19- Mrs. Lena Rogers of Boston was saved from the Titanic in a boat which carried 55 women passengers. Crowded to more than its capacity, the boat was endangered of being swamped when Fourth Officer Louve [sic], who had it in charge, ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | BRAVE COUNTESS TAKES CHARGE OF LIFEBOAT New York, April 19- Miss Alice Farnam Leader, a New York physician escaped from the Titanic on the same boat which carried the Countess Rothes. " The countess is an expert oarswoman." said Dr. Leader, " and thouroughly at home on the water. She pract... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | THE FEARS OF RELATIVES Three inhabitants of Bodmin had relatives on board the Titanic. Mrs. George Pidwell, of Robartes-road, had a sister (Mrs.Lobb), who was going out to America with her husband, and Fathers Smith and McElroy, of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Priory, had bro... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | ASTOR PUT BOY BY WIFE'S SIDE A fine act of heroism by Col. John Jacob Astor was told by George A. Harder, a Brooklyn man, who survived the Titanic disaster. "When Col. Astor had assisted his tearful young wife and her maid into a life boat, he tried to put in a yo... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Scarborough Mercury | (1912) | MR. J. P. MOODY Son of Mr. J. Moody We understand that Mr. J. P. Moody, one of the officers concerning whom no news has been received, is a son of Mr. J. Moody, solicitor, once in practice in Scarborough, and for some years a member of the Scarborough... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Waterford News | (1912) | ASPERSION CAST ON FRANK DWAN AMONG THE TITANIC'S PASSENGERS One of the men connected with the alleged pilfering at Bonmahon mines is also stated to have been on the Titanic. ------ [Theft cases at Bonmahon copper mines occupied newspaper co... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | C. E. H. STENGEL TELLS IN DETAIL OF BATTLE FOR LIVES Escapes in Separate Boat from Wife, Not Realizing Danger --- Lincoln Park Man Says Shock Was Slight, and That Supply of Lifeboats Was Inadequate; Denies That Captain Was Drinking, But Declares He Was Entertaining Ismay ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | WHY WAS THE NEWS SUPPRESSED A reporter for The Newark Star managed to get aboard the Carpathia and made his way to the bridge, where he had an interview with Captain Rostrom [sic] as to why the news of the wreck and the condition of the survivors had been withheld. The followin... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Denver Post | (1912) | UNKNOWN TITLE Another of the survivors who would have embraced death more happily than safety was Mrs. A. O. Horverson, whose husband, who was connected with the Peabody company, went down with the Titanic. With her husband, Mrs. H... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | JERSEY CITY MAN AND BROTHER PERISH John Kieran, who boarded with James Tierney at Grove and Second streets perished, along with his brother Phillip, in the wreck of the Titanic. John was 23 years old and was employed as a bartender at 268 Varick Street. He was a citizen of the United ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | GAZETTE STAFF MAN ON CARPATHIA'S PIER Gives Description of Scenes on Pier Silence Most Oppressive Even Crowd and City Hushed By Homer J. Wheaton Gazette Staff Reporter New York, April 19- News of the Titanics wreck was flashed to the wor... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CHANGE FATAL TO GUGGENHEIM Had Booked Passage on the Lusitania, Whose Sailing Was Canceled --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- LONDON, April 18---A business friend of Benjamin Guggenheim says that had the Lusitania sailed as arranged on Apri... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ROCHESTER GIRL IS SAVED But Traveling Guardian of Little Miss Bentham Is Missing --- Special to The New York Times --- ROCHESTER, April 18---Lilian Bentham of 11 Kay Terrace is saved on the Carpathia, but her mother is suffering from nervous stra... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | DEATH OF MAJOR BUTT MOURNED BY WASHINGTONIANS Persons in Official and Private Life Speak Eulogistically of the President’s Military Aide Who Died---A Soldier --- Men of the United States army and navy, men who lived under the same roof---the men who knew Major Butt most intimately-... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | TAFT FEELS LOSS OF AIDE AS IF HE HAD BEEN BROTHER President, In Statement, Praises Fidelity of Late Military Aide --- President Taft today issued another statement relative to the fate of Major Butt, in which he dwelt particularly on his incapability to indulge in “intrigue or insincer... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | CAPT. SMITH ENDED LIFE WHEN TITANIC BEGAN TO FOUNDER Stories of His Suicide Differ, One Woman Asserting He Shot Himself, and Another Describing His Drowning --- Unable to bear the terrible strain of the disaster that overtook his mighty ship, Capt. E. J. Smith killed himself and gave to t... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | FOUR ARE SAVED IN PHILADELPHIA FAMILY NEW YORK, April 19---William E. Carter, Mrs. William E. Carter, William T. Carter, and Lucille Carter, all of Philadelphia, were saved. All showed evidence of the terrible strain they had undergone. Mrs. Carter was a nervous wreck, but she bore up br... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WASHINGTON MAN TELLS HARROWING DETAILS OF WRECK Col. Gracie Describes Scenes on Titanic After the Accident --- Last of the survivors to leave the sinking Titanic, Col. Archibald Gracie, of Washington, tells a story of horrible hardship in the icy waters after he was swept, clinging t... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | J. J. ASTOR ACTED BRAVELY, DECLARE MANY WHO SAW HIM Millionaire Kissed His Bride Good-by, Saluted, and Then Stepped Back to Allow Women to Get Into Boats --- NEW YORK, April 19---Col. John Jacob Astor kissed his bride good-by as he placed her in the waiting lifeboat. Then he drew himself... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | DUE TO CARELESSNESS, SURVIVOR DECLARES NEW YORK, April 19---C. H. Stengle, one of the first passengers off the vessel, said that the collision of the Titanic with the iceberg was the result of "criminal carelessness." "The ship was going 22 knots an hour when she struck," h... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MEN SNEAKED INTO BOATS, SAYS WOMAN Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, Wife of Novelist, Says Many Were Brave, However --- NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Jacques Futrelle, who was rescued, but whose husband, the novelist, went down with the Titanic, declared today that the men who were sa... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | ISMAY CONDEMNED FOR TAKING BOAT Daughter of Congressman Hughes Tells of Experience In Sea Disaster --- NEW YORK, April 19---Not only did J. Bruce Ismay, managing director or the White Star line, get into one of the first lifeboats to be launched, but he was escorted a... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MAJ. BUTT TO BE HELD MAY 5TH President and Senators Pay High Tributes to Dead Hero --- Memorial services for Major Archibald Butt, whose name is one of the most prominent among the Titanic’s heroic dead, will be held in this city on May 5 under the auspices of Temp... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | WIDENER WAS HEROIC TO END, SAYS FRIEND Traction Magnate Kissed Wife Good-By, Then Went Back To Die --- NEW YORK, April 19---Rushed to Philadelphia in a special train that had been sidetracked at the Communipaw station of the Pennsylvania railroad, in Jersey City, were the su... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | MRS. ASTOR NEAR COLLAPSE AT PIER Young Bride of New Yorker Who Perished on Point of Hysteria --- New York, April 18---Mrs. John Jacob Astor was assisted to the pier from the Carpathia by two officers of the boat. She was hysterical, and so plainly upon the point of col... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | E. N. KIMBALL SAVED Boston, April 18---A wireless message was received at the Hall & Kimball Piano Company here saying that Edwin Nelson Kimball, jr., president of the company, had been saved and is aboard the Carpathia.... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | CAPT. ROSTRON TELLS OF RESCUE The Chief Officer of Carpathia Relates His Thrilling Experiences --- SIGHTED AT DAYLIGHT --- By CAPT. R. [sic] H. ROSTRON --- Statement by the captain of the Cunard steamship Carpathia, rescuer of the Titanic... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | NEWSPAPER MEN ALL MOURN MAJ. “ARCHIE” BUTT Memorial Services in Honor of Hero Who “Died Like a Man” Proposed by Members of Fourth Estate --- In little back offices, littered with paper and adorned principally by typewriters, in bustling news bureaus, in the press room of the Whi... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | ISMAY OUTLINES VIEW OF WRECK Head of White Star Line, Under Guard, Makes First Statement --- New York, April 18---Mr. J. Bruce Ismay left the ship at about 11:15 o’clock to-night and went to the rear of the dock where the offices of the Cunard Line are located. He... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | LIFEBOATS WOULD HAVE SAVED MORE Titanic's Steward, in Giving Story, Says Great Loss of Life Was Due to Their Absence --- SHIP'S ENGINEER, CAUGHT IN DOOR, BEGS TO BE SHOT TO END AGONY --- New York, April 18---The following statement made to-day by Alfred ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | FATHER TITANIC VICTIM; SON LOSES HIS MIND JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 18---Frederick Myles, 30 years old, of 256 Grove street, whose father, Thomas F. Myles, of Cambridge, Mass., was a passenger on the Titanic, is today locked up at the Seventh street police station for safe keeping because he... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Cambridge Independent Press | (1912) | DAVID BARTON David Barton, a Wicken lad, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shaw Barton, of Wicken, was on the Titanic, on his way to the United States. where he intended to settle, and it is feared he is one of those who have lost their lives. He should have left by anothe... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | THE SAD “MIGHT HAVE BEENS” Out of the fragmentary and disjointed reports of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy loom the big facts that compel the action on which congress has promptly engaged not only for thorough investigation of the affair but for formulatio... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | TITANTIC (SIC) STOOD ON END FOR MINUTES BEFORE SHE SUNK (SIC) LIGHTS ALL BLAZED UNTIL SHE TOOK a VERTICAL POSITION and STOOD WITH 150 FEET OUT of WATER---SLOWLY DIVED DOWN. "As we rowed away from the Titanic we look... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | HOW J. B. THAYER DIED Swept from Raft to Which His Son Managed to Cling --- The manner in which John B. Thayer, Second Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, met his death along with eighteen or twenty other men was described last night by Mrs. W. C. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | BOY WIRELESS SAVED THEM Rescues Resulted from Coltain's [sic] Untiring Devotion to Duty --- Harold Thomas Cottam, the wireless operator of the Carpathia, through whose efforts more than to any one [sic] else the saving of a part of the Titanic's passengers wa... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | LINER DID NOT SPEED, ISMAY DECLARES Not the Custom of the White Star Line to Try to Break Records --- TOOK LAST BOAT, HE SAYS --- Awakened by Crash --- Doesn't Know About Bulkheads --- Ship Sank in 2 Hours and 25 Minutes --- ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Daily Banner | (1912) | MET BY STEPSON MRS. ASTOR IN GOOD HEALTH DESPITE DEATH RUMORS. New York, April 19. - There were three automobiles to meet Mrs. Astor. Mr Bobbyn, the colonel's secretary, was on the pier all evening. Preparations were made to... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Daily Banner | (1912) | RESCUED FROM THE SINKING TITANIC WAS CHARLES BURGESS Nephew of Mrs. Brining Of This City A Telegram Received Here from White Star Line The following telegram was received from New York shortly before noon today: ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Toronto Daily Star | (1912) | JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER Canadian Press Despatch New York, April 19.---Col Gracie, U. S. A. who was the sole survivor of those who went down with the Titanic, and was rescued, gave this remarkable statement last night:... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Times | (1912) | PAWTUCKET VISITOR AMONG THE VICTIMS One of the victims of the great wreck was Arthur E. Nicholson of London. England, a frequent visitor to this city. where he occasionally called upon his personal friends, ex senator Lyonas Delany of the firm of the Lyons Delany Company. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | 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 Record-Herald | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Free Press | (1912) | WEST BROMWICH MEN MISSING Among the passengers were the following West Bromwich people, who were on their way to America: Alfred Davies (24), of Harwood Street, West Bromwich: John Davies (22), of the same address; Joseph Davies (17) of the same address; James Lester (39) ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | ATLANTIC SURVIVOR TELLS OF DISASTER E. Z. Taylor, On Telephone With City Clerk Donnelly, Describes AwfulScene---Third Member of His Party, Fletcher Williams, Lost---Did NotHear of Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Earnshaw.----------Atlantic City was in direct personal ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| The Greenwich News | (1912) | GREENWICH PEOPLE SAVED MRS. WILLIAM T. GRAHAM AND MISS MARGARET AMONG RESCUED FROM TITANIC. RELATIVES OF OTHER GREENWICH PEOPLE ON STRICKEN SHIP ALL REACH PORT - TALES OF THE DISASTER FROM MISS GRAHAM AND MR. CARTER'S ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | JERSEY DEATH ROLL DETAILS Besides Residents of This State, Many Victims Had Connections Here ---------- ANGUISH OF THE RELATIVES ---------- In addition to the New Jersey residents who lost their lives in the disaster, fourteen more who met death had friends and r... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | MRS. COMPTON TELLS OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, April 19---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood, N. J., and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated o... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Philadelphia Inquirer | (1912) | PARISIAN'S WIRELESS EXPERT OFF DUTY WHEN TITANIC STRUCK BERG But for This It Is Believed the Stricken Giant's Cries for Help Would Have Been Heard in Time to Save All --------- HALIFAX, N. S., April 18.--With two expeditions on the way to search for Titani... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | THOS. MCCORMACK OF BAYONNE AT ELLIS ISLAND After hours of anxious searching relatives to-day learned that Thomas McCormack, the young Bayonne man who was on the Titanic, was at Ellis Island where he is being detained prior to his readmission to this country. ... | 19th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 Daily Journal | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Stratford Express | (1912) | THE TITANIC DISASTER Mr William Dixon Mackie, fifth engineer on the steamship Titanic, who, it is feared has perished in the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. Mr Mackie, who was 31 years of age, had resided recently when ashore at 2b, Margery Park-road, For... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MRS W. D. MARVIN Mrs W. D. Marvin, of New York, who was on her honeymoon trip, was almost prostrated when she learned on reaching the dock that her husband had not been picked up by some other boat:- As I was put into the boat he cried to me "It's alright, little gir... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | MR. A. H. BARKWORTH Mr. A. H. Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, said he was sitting in the smoking-room when the boat struck the iceberg. He saw Mr. W. T. Stead on deck. He described how the forecastle was full of powdered ice. He noted the foremast was listin... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Sligo Times | (1912) | SLIGO MOURNS In Sligo we have not been saved from mourning as four promising young men and women have given up their toll to the ocean. One of the saddest cases is that of our fellow townsman, as we may almost call him, Mr. Alfred Middleton of Ballisodane. Mr. Mi... | 20th April 1912 | |||
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Evening Bulletin | (1912) | BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA The second wireless operator on the Titanic being taken down the gang plank when the rescue ship Carpathia docked Thursday night. At the time Titanic struck Cottam {sic} was off duty and asleep in his berth, and was compelled to take charge of a lif... | 20th April 1912 | ||
| Daily Enterprise | (1912) | LINER'S LAST MOMENTS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED ---------- Palmyra Resident, Titantic's [sic] Barber, Tells of Thrilling Experience; Shock on Striking Iceberg was Slight; Saw Officer Shoot Man Who Tried to Climb Into Life Boat; Two Explosions Occurred ---------- August... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Aberdeen Daily Journal | (1912) | MR. F. D. MILLET In modern times at any rate the life of a successful artist is unusually placid and uneventful; few have crowded into it such variety as Mr. F. D. Millet, whose loss in the disaster which has befallen the Titanic will be deeply felt by many, both ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Evening Bulletin | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVOR WRITES OF HORROR TO FRIEND HERE “Like Scene on Stage," Says Dr. Alice Leeder in Letter to Mrs. Sarah Babcock --- One of the most interesting accounts of the Titanic disaster which has come to light is in a letter written on board the Carpathia by Dr. Alice Leeder, New... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| North American | (1912) | WOMAN IN WILMINGTON TELLS OF THE DISASTER Special Dispatch to The North American --- WILMINGTON, Del., April 19---Miss Emily Rugg, 20 years old, of the Isle of Guernsey, England, one of the survivors of the Titanic, arrived in this city today, and told a graphic story ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| North American | (1912) | BARBER THROWN FROM TITANIC AS IT SANK Charles Weikman, of Palmyra, N. J., to Quit Sea After 750 Voyages --- HE CLUNG TO WRECKAGE --- A graphic account of the sinking of the Titanic was told yesterday by Charles Weikman, chief barber on the liner, at his home i... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | ARCHIE PUT ME IN A LIFEBOAT Miss Marie Young, of Washington, Tells of Aid's Heroism and Calmness --- By MISS MARIE YOUNG --- Musical tutor to the younger children of former President Roosevelt. She had been studying music in Europe and was returning... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | WRITES OF NEGLIGENCE “MORE THAN CRIMINAL” Two survivors from the wreck of the Titanic, Mrs. Bessie Watt and her daughter, Miss Bertha Watt, of London, who are expected to arrive at Arlington Thursday and spend a week with Mrs. Rita Moore, of 58 Pavonia avenue, are temporarily at 204 West 128... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | SWAM TO BOAT; SAYS SAILORS BEAT HIM Special Service of the NEWS BAYONNE, April 20---The story that he was beaten by sailors when he swam to a lifeboat is told by Thomas McCormack, one of the Titanic survivors, who is now at St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | SAY LIFEBOAT COULD HAVE HELD TEN MORE Special Service of the NEWS BERNARDSVILLE, April 20---That the lifeboat which bore them from the Titanic might easily have contained ten more passengers, is the statement of Mrs. Jane Herman and her twin daughters, the Misses Kate and ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | ROEBLING LAST SEEN WAVING TO LIFEBOATS NEW YORK, April 20---The last seen of Washington A. Roebling 2d by friends among the survivors of the Titanic was as he stood waving a farewell to one of the lifeboats as it left the vessel. Trenton, N. J., relatives yesterday had an interview with ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | SURVIVOR VISITS MONTCLAIR One of the survivors of the Titanic, Miss Edwina Trout, of Bath, England, is the guest of Miss Jennie Holwell, of 209 Bellevue avenue, Upper Montclair. “I can never forget the experience,” said Miss Trout today. “As we pulled away fro... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Post-Telegram | (1912) | CAMDEN MAN MOURNS BROTHERS ON TITANIC Edgar and Fred. Giles Were Bound for This City From England to Make Home With Their Brother William, Who Hourly Expects Word That His Aged Father is Dead --- Bound for this city from England to make their home here with their brother, E... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Akron Beacon Journal | (1912) | AKRON WOMEN TELL THRILLING STORIES OF THEIR RESCUE FROM THE DOOMED SHIP HOCKING AND RICHARDS FAMILIES SAT IN WATER A FOOT DEEP IN A LIFE BOAT Mrs. Emily Richards Tells a Thrilling Story of the Escape of Herself and Her Relatives From the Titanic (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal)... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Akron Beacon Journal | (1912) | MRS. ADDIE WELLS THOUGHT IT WAS BOAT DRILL UNTIL SHE SAW OFFICER'S PISTOL Stood Up All Night Long in Lifeboat, Nestling Her Babies in Her Skirts to Keep Them Warm and Dry and Alive (Special Dispatch to the Beacon Journal) New York, April 20--Mrs. Addie Wells and her two chidlren, Joan, aged ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | REMAINS IN HOPE HUSBAND IS SAVED Mrs. Geo. D. Wick, Denies All Evidence That Youngstown Man is Lost First of Rescued From Titanic Pass Through Cleveland Holding onto what is more than a forlorn hope, when hope in all other breasts is dead, Mrs. George... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | JOY AND SADNESS COME WITH NEWS Happiness or Gloom Seizes Ohio Relatives of Titanic Passengers Memorial Services to be Held for Youngstown Business Man Gladness mingled with grief yesterday when word came that two persons mourned by relatives in Clev... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Elizabeth Daily Journal | (1912) | LEARNS SISTER WAS LOST ON FATED TITANIC Mrs. Thomas Cuffe Prostrated Over Fate of Miss Julia Barry Mrs. Thomas Cuffe, of 148 Livingston street, is prostrated with grief at her home to-day as a result of the loss of her sister, who perished when the waters of the Atlantic cl... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | WILLIAM C. JOHNSON, JR. [The opening paragraphs of this article, which do not relate to Mr. Johnson, have been omitted.] The death of William C. Johnson, Jr., of Hawthorne, has been confirmed when his parents received a message reading as follows: “William C.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Providence Journal | (1912) | STEAD'S BROTHER INDIGNANT-ASKS WHAT RIGHT ISMAY SAVED FROM WRECK London, April 20, 1912- Alfred Stead, brother of William T. Stead who went down with the Titanic is thoroughly aroused over the circumstances under which so many persons went to their doom in the waters of the north Atlantic. He said yesterday: "Spe... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Cumberland News | (1912) | LOCAL VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Carlisle and Border men among the Crew Mr. Joseph Bell left the district when a youth to serve his apprenticeship as an engineer at the works of Mr. Robert Stephenson, on Tyneside, which were founded by the famous engineer of that name who inv... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | GUTTENBERG WOMAN'S SISTER IN HOSPITAL Miss Kate McCarthy, one of the survivors of the Titanic and sister of Mrs. John Woolnough, of 107 Twenty-fifth street, Guttenberg, is a patient in St. Vincent's Hospital, New York, where she was taken upon her arrival on the rescue ship Carpathia. M... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Mr. Leonard Hodgkinson, the fourth senior engineer, was a Stoke man, and has many relatives and friends in the district. As a boy he received his education at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. He served an apprenticeship with Messrs. Hartley and Arnoux, wh... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Derbyshire Times | (1912) | MISS MARSDEN SAVED Miss Marsden the niece of Mr. George Robinson of Chesterfield, is among the rescued. Mr. George Robinson had a telegram yesterday (Friday morning) announcing this fact... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Dowagiac Daily News | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. BISHOP GIVE FIRST AUTHENTIC INTERVIEW CONCERNING TITANTIC [SIC] DISASTER THEY RECITE A GRAPHIC TALE OF THE GREAT SEA DISASTER OF A WEEK AGO. "Ladies and Grooms First" Was Order They Obeyed and Both Left the Ship Together TELL EXPERIENCES WHILE AFLOAT German Baron Would Not A... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | FRENCHMEN'S ACCOUNT PASSENGERS' FAITH IN THE SHIP We were quietly playing auction bridge with a Mr. Smith from Philadelphia, when we heard a violent noise similar to that produced by the screw racing. We were startled and looked at one another under the ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | MR. AND MRS. HARVEY COLLYER Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Collyer and their little daughter. Mother and daughter saved; Mr. Collyer missing. Mr. Collyer's parents live in Leatherhead, Surrey. Leatherhead passengers One taken and two left. Among the passengers were Mr. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Salt Lake Tribune | (1912) | FEAR PROVO WOMAN DISASTER VICTIM Page 3 Special to The Tribune PROVO, April 1900 Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no word had been received in this city of the fate of Mrs. Irene C. Corbett who is supposed to have been a passenger on the Titanic when it... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| San Francisco Bulletin | (1912) | DR. DODGE GIVES STORY OF RESCUE Several Boats Lowered Only Half Filled; "Tumbled In" When Told to. By Dr. Washington Dodge NEW YORK, April 20.-At 10 p.m. Sunday while my wife and I went out for a stroll along the Titanic's promenade deck we found the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Dispatch | (1912) | HARROWING TALE OF SCENES ON TITANIC BY MISS DOWDELL --------------- Many Men Sacrificed Their Lives in Forming Human Ladder to Help Women and Children to the Lifeboats---To Prevent Frantic Women from Hearing the Shrieks of Their Loved Ones, Those in the Boats Sank [sic], "We Parted on the Shor... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | UNION HILL WOMAN SAYS BAND DIDN'T PLAY ON TITANIC ---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell Heard Only the Cries and Sobs of the Passengers as the White Star Liner Went Down at Sea ---------- Miss Elizabeth Dowdell, 30 years old, of 215 Park avenue, Union Hill, one of the Tit... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | RESCUED UNION HILL GIRL'S STORY A story entirely different from that of those rescued from the Titanic is told by Miss Elizabeth Dowdell of 215 Park Avenue, Union Hill. When seen at her home last night Miss Dowdell was very emphatic in telling about the treatment received on board ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | GUGGENHEIM, DYING, SENT WIFE MESSAGE Tried to Do His Duty, He Asked Steward to Tell Her --- “GO DOWN LIKE GENTLEMEN” --- He and His Secretary, Facing Death, Wore Full Evening Dress---Brother Bitter Against Company --- James Etches, assistant ste... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Connaught Telegraph | (1912) | WRECK OF THE TITANIC The White Star Liner, Titanic, which sailed from Southampton on Wednesday, after calling at Queenstown for passengers for New York, collided with an iceberg on Monday morning and was wrecked. She had 1,455 passengers and 903 of a crew, was on her ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Western People | (1912) | AWFUL SHIPPING DISASTER. LOSS OF THE TITANIC WITH OVER 1200 SOULS The great White Star liner, Titanic, the largest ship in the world, which left Southampton on Friday of last week on her maiden trip to New York, collided with an iceberg off the Newfoundland coast on Tuesday last and sank in 1200 fathoms of water (o... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Surrey Advertiser and County Times | (1912) | TWO WITLEY VICTIMS Widows sad experience Among those who were serving on board the ill-fated vessel was Mrs. Lucy Violet Snape, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Leonard, of Well Lane, Sandhills, Witley, who was employed as a second class stewardess. At the ti... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | STAFFORDSHIRE VICTIMS OF THE DISASTER Captain E. J. Smith, the commander of the ill-fated vessel, was a native of Hanley, the son of Mr. E. J. Smith. He was educated at the British School, then under the mastership of the late Mr.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | (1912) | LETTER FROM MR. H. P. HODGES Mr. Hector Young, hon. secretary of the Newtown Ward Conservative Association, received a letter from Mr. H. P. Hodges, the well-known Southampton tradesman, dated April 10th who was a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic, returning thanks for an expre... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | JERSEY WOMEN TELL THRILLING TALES EAST ORANGE, April 20---Generous praise was given yesterday to Col. John Jacob Astor, Major Butt, Vice President Thayer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, President Case of the Vacuum Oil Company, Clarence Moore, George D. Widener and other men who perish... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | COMPTONS TELL OF TITANIC DISASTER NEW YORK, APRIL 20---Mrs. Alexander T. Compton and her daughter, Miss Alice Compton, of Lakewood and New Orleans, two of the Titanic’s rescued, reached here completely prostrated over the loss of Mrs. Compton’s son Alexander, who went down with the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Croydon Times | (1912) | THORNTON HEATH FAMILY AMONG THE MISSING The loss of the Titanc has affected Croydon in at least one case, and that case a particularly pathectic one, it is believed that a whole Thornton Heath family has been lost, together with some relations who saild with them. Mr. and Mr... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Totnes Times & Devon News | (1912) | THE LOCAL PASSENGERS The Countess of Rothes, who was on board the Titanic, which has sunk in the North Atlantic, is among the passengers reported as safe. She is a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Leslie-Leslie, of Adelphi Terrace, Paignton. Definite information on the su... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Western Morning News | (1912) | FROM THE WESTCOUNTRY Captain and Mrs. T. Hoskings (sic), 17, The Green, Shaldon, received a telegram yesterday from Mr. Bock (the former’s cousin), now in America, to the effect that he had travelled down to New York, 300 miles from his home, hoping to meet their son amo... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Le Journal | (1912) | HOW MRS. MEYER ESCAPED Mrs Meyer told reporters that her husband and herself hurried to the lifeboats as soon as the first jolt was felt. She wanted to stay with him but he strongly pushed her inside a boat and told her about their nine year old son, for whom she had to su... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Reading Observer | (1912) | UNTITLED Inquiries made at the local shipping offices by a Reading Observer' representative elicited the fact that there were no Reading people among the passengers. Several local residents had friends and relatives on board. Mr. Stuart Collett, nephew of Mrs... | 20th 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 Telegram | (1912) | FUTRELLE MET DEATH LIKE HERO SAYS WIFE New York, April 19.- Mrs. May Futrelle, whose husband, Jacques Futrelle, the short story writer and novelist, went down with the ship, was met here by her daughter, Miss. Virginia Futrelle, who was brought to New York, from the convent of Notre Dame ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | WOMAN RELATES THRILLING RACE OF CARPATHIA New York, April 19.- Mrs. C.F. Crane of Fort Sheridan, Ill, a passenger on the Carpathia, today gave this graphic account of the Carpathia's thrilling race with death. She said that news of the disaster had become known to the passengers on board the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | SAYS ISMAY CHOSE OWN BOAT CREW New York- April 19- According to Mrs. W.J. Cardeza, of Philadelphia, after she had arrived at the Ritz-Carlton with T.D.M. Cardeza, J.Bruce Ismay was not only safely seated in a lifeboat before it was filled, but he also selected the crew that rowed ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Telegram | (1912) | CAPT ROSTRON'S TRAGIC STORY Wireless Operator Was Undressing with Receiver on His Ear When "S.O.S." Flashed New York, April 19.- Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia told the tragic story of his rescue of the Titanic survivors to the Senate committee this afternoon.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | BRAVE MUSICIANS OF SHIP MEET FATE TRYING TO DROWN CRIES OF THE PERISHING PASSENGERS New York, April 19.-Of all the heroes who went to their death when the Titanic dived to its ocean grave, none, in the opinion of Miss. Hilda Slater, a passenger in the last boat to pull off, deserved greater credit than the members of the vessel's or... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | BUTT A COURTIER TO DEATH, SAYS WOMAN Washington, April 19 – A graphic story of the heroism of Maj. Archibald W. Butt on the Titanic was told today in an interview given by Miss Marie Young, a former resident of Washington. Miss Young is believed to have been the last woman to leave the ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MRS. HARRIS GAINS STRENGTH Mrs. Henry B Harris, widow of the theatrical manager who was lost on the Titanic, was regaining strength yesterday, but she was still in a nervous condition. Her shoulder, which she injured a day before the sinking of the ship, was healing normally. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Star | (1912) | GIRL SAYS FATHER SAVED HER IN WRECK Miss Lillian Cribb Led Through Passageways on Titanic to Lifeboat --- To the rare presence of mind of her father, John H. Cribb, who lost his life when the Titanic sank, Miss Lillian M. Cribb, 17 years old, believes she owes her life. C... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HER HUSBAND AND WENT DOWN WITH TITANIC. Chooses To Die With Husband Woman Defies Command Of Titanic Officer to get into lifeboat DAUGHTER PERISHES TOO. Milwaukee ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK Mrs. J. J. Brown of Denver Tells Story of Her Seven Hours In Lifeboat --- *** --- Mrs. J. J. Brown, wife of a Denver mine owner, told yesterday afternoon to a reporter for THE TIMES at the Ritz-Carlton the story of her se... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Le Petit Journal | (1912) | AN ANGUISHED SISTER Melle Leroy, a maid from Bouvigny-Boyefles (Pas-de-Calais), recently received from her sister who is a chambermaid to the Douglases, a postcard telling her that she was sailing with her employers for New-York. Two days after she received the p... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | PRAISE ASTOR AND BUTT Women Compare Their Conduct to That of "Miserable Specimens" --- Special to The New York Times --- EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 19---High praise was given to-day to John Jacob Astor, Maj. Butt, Vice President Thayer of the P... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TIMES "AD" FOR MISSING BOY E. H. Bull of 33 Linden Street, Bayonne, N. J., recognizing the value of the Lost and Found columns of THE NEW YORK TIMES, has inserted an advertisement in it asking for information concerning Arne Salstrom, [sic] a nineteen-year-old Norwegian boy, w... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | WOMEN REVEALED AS HEROINES BY WRECK *** --- TWO YOUNG MEN'S HEROISM --- Woman Tells How Roebling and Case Saved Her---Others' Tribute to Dead --- Among the chivalrous younger heroes of the Titanic disaster were Washington A. Roebling, 2d, of Tr... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Worcester Evening Gazette | (1912) | BE BRITISH, MY MEN CAPT. SMITH'S ORDER WASHINGTON, April 19- But for the unparalled self-sacrifice and heroism of Capt. Smith and the Titanic's officers, the sea would have claimed an even greater toll when the gigantic ship went down. From the bridge, Capt. Smith called through his megap... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Daily Courier | (1912) | SURE SUTTON HAS PERISHED AT SEA Relatives Return From New York Feeling Sure He Went Down on Titanic --- A DAY'S EVENTS AT HADDONFIELD --- Haddonfield, N. J., April 20---No word has yet been received concerning the whereabouts of Frederick Sutton, and it ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CAPTAIN'S OFFICIAL REPORTS Rostron Tells How the Carpathia Did Work of Rescue --- Just before the Carpathia sailed yesterday afternoon on her interrupted voyage to the Mediterranean, Capt. Rostron, her commander, gave out what he declared to be the first and only... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Camden Daily Courier | (1912) | EXPLOSION PITCHED HIM INTO SEA Titanic's Barber Passes Through Camden on Way to Palmyra Home --- WAS SAVED BY SAILOR SAVED BY HIM --- The 5.28 train to Palmyra from this city last night carried the only survivor of the Titanic wreck from this part of th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | NATION MAY RAISE GREAT MEMORIAL TO DISASTER’S HERO Whole Country Likely to Be Asked to Contribute to Fund for Monument to Major Butt, Who Gave Life for Others --- An agitation has been started at the White House among the friends of Major Archibald Butt for the erection of a memorial mo... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Oxford Times | (1912) | LOCAL PASSENGERS ON THE TITANIC Among those it is feared have lost their lives on the ill-fated vessel, is Mr. Wesley Woodward, of Oxford. Mr. Woodward was the youngest son of Mr. Woodward, of Headington, and a brother of Mr. T. W. Woodward, the well-known tenor singer of Magdalen ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Southampton Times and Hampshire Express | (1912) | MR. C. H. LIGHTOLLER, THE SECOND OFFICER Mr. C. H. Lightoller, the second officer on the ill-fated Titanic, who is reported to be among the survivors, lived at Netley Abbey, and on Wednesday one of our representatives called on his wife at their residence at Hound to convey congratula... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Evening Post | (1912) | LEAPS FROM LINER’S DECK. Major Walker Takes His Life at Sea ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | MAJOR PEUCHEN BLAMES CAPTAIN WHO WENT DOWN WITH HIS SHIP Loss of Titanic, He Says, Was Due to Criminal Carelessness in Running at Full Speed Thru the Ice With a New Crew--Capt. Smith Was Having His Dinner When Crash Came--Major Peuchen Left in Third Boat, Which Had Only 22 People and Could Have... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MRS. ASTOR IS ILL, BUT NOT CRITICALLY Alarming Reports as to Her Condition Formally Denied by Secretary --- VINCENT ASTOR STILL HOPES --- Mrs. Henry B. Harris Slowly Regaining Her Strength --- Robert W. Daniel Receives Friends at... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Syracuse Herald | (1912) | FIRE RAGED ON TITANIC FIVE DAYS ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Washington Post | (1912) | RESCUED WOMAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HEROIC MEN ON TITANIC From the lips of the woman who was saved from the Titanic came today one of the most glowing tributes yet paid to the heroism and self-sacrifice of the brave men who gave their lives that women and children might be spared a watery grave. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | HEARD DEATH CHORUS FOR OVER AN HOUR PARIS, April 19---Three French survivors---Fernand Omont, Pierre Marechal, son of the French Admiral, and Paul Chevre, the sculptor---jointly cabled to The Matin a graphic narrative of the Titanic disaster, in which they repeatedly insist that mor... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MORGAN STOPS FESTIVITIES Deeply Affected by the Disaster, He Halts Aix Celebration --- AIX LES BAINS, France, April 19 --- J. Pierpont Morgan, who has arrived here to participate in to-day's inauguration of the sanitarium he has had built in honor of his ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TAFT'S TRIBUTE TO BUTT WASHINGTON, April 19---President Taft was notified as soon as the Carpathia docked and the corrected list of survivors was made public that Major Butt was not on board. With all hope for the rescue of his aid abandoned, the President to-day issued... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Toronto World | (1912) | HOW MAJ. PEUCHEN ESCAPED. ----------------- Second Officer Lightholder (sic), who had charge of the lifeboats: "In the fourth lifeboat I was running short of seamen. I put two seamen in and one of them jumped out. ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Calgary Herald | (1912) | ANOTHER ADDED TO LIST OF LOST IS ALBERT MALLET, A TRAVELLER MONTREAL, April 20.- The disaster to the Titanic was brought poignantly home to Montrealers today by the arrival in the city of some of the Montreal survivors. At ten o'clock yesterday morning a special train pulled into the Grand Trunk st... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Bath Journal | (1912) | FREDERICK GOODWIN AND HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN MELKSHAM Frederick Goodwin and his wife and six children were on board. They had been living in Melksham for some years. Goodwin was a machine hand at the foundry, and about 40 years of age. The eldest of the children, a g... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | (1912) | STORY OF RESCUE BY A CHICAGOAN Dr. Frank Blackmarr Tells Scenes When Survivors Reached Carpathia WOMEN AT BOAT OARS Spot Where the Titanic Went Down Covered with All Sorts of Debris BY DR. FRANK BLACKMARR OF CHICAGO (A passeng... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Birkenhead News | (1912) | AN ARGYLE THEATRE’S BANDSMAN AMONG THE TITANIC ORCHESTRA One of those on board the Titanic and who it is feared is amongst those who have perished, is Mr. J. F. P. Clarke, formerly a member of the orchestra of the Argyle Theatre of Varieties. Mr. Clarke in his short time he played... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Port Jefferson Echo | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Inter Ocean | (1912) | HUMAN BUZZARDS OF SEA SINK WITH TITANIC Special Dispatch to the Inter-Ocean New York, April 19.—Figures familiar to Forty-Second street will be missing in the cafes of the Great White Way when the lights are brightest as one of the results of the foundering o... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | OBITUARY : THE REV E.C. & MRS CARTER ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | ALARMED COUNTY MAN FINDS SISTER WAS RESCUED D. W. McMillan, of Pleasantville, Reassured as Carpathia Docked ---------- MRS. THOMAS POTTER TELLS ABOUT ASTORS ---------- Weikman, Titanic Barber, Saved, Known to George Lipipncott [sic] ---------- ... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Atlantic City Daily Press | (1912) | LITTLE DISORDER ON TITANIC E. Z. Taylor, of London, Gives Graphic Story of Shipwreck and Rescue ---------- E. Z. Taylor, of Philadelphia and London, and stockholder in the American Mono- Service Co., told his story of the disaster and rescue in a cal... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Witney Gazette | (1912) | CAPTAIN'S SUICIDE ON THE BRIDGE The latest news of the terrible disaster is published this (Friday) morning by The Daily Telegraph who, at 4.00 am, received the following telegram, containing a statement issued by a Committee of the Survivors:- We, the... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | OTHER STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS NEW YORK APRIL 19 The following further statements have been made by survivors:- Mr A.H.Barkworth, of Tranby House, East Yorkshire, sai... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| The Times | (1912) | ON BOARD THE CARPATHIA HOW THE PASSENGERS WERE RECEIVED A passenger on board the Carpathia made the following statement:- I was awakened at 12.30 in the morning by a commotion on the decks which seemed unus... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Cleveland Plain Dealer | (1912) | LOSES ALL HIS MONEY NEW YORK, April 19 – Charles Dahl, an Australian, who took the Titanic from Southampton en rout to his mother’s home in North Dakota, lost in the sinking ship a wallet which contained all the money he had in the w... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Staffordshire Advertiser | (1912) | WEST BROMWICH MEN ON TITANIC Three West Bromwich men, Alfred Davies, aged 21, John Davies, aged 22, and Joseph Davies, aged 17 years, all of Hardware Street, and a relative named James Lester, aged 39, of Wolverhampton are believed to be among the ill-fated passengers. They l... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | ONE SURVIVOR REACHES HOME OF BROTHER Thomas Percy Oxenham, 22 years old, brother of Charles Oxenham, of 966Tonnele avenue, New Durham, is now resting after his frightfulexperience in the Titanic wreck. He came from Pondersend, Eng., to livewith his North Hudson re... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Hudson Observer | (1912) | HOBOKEN MAN LOSES BROTHER IN DISASTER In a little flat at 509 Willow avenue, Hoboken, John Moore is grievingto-day over the loss of his nineteen year-old brother, Leonard, who wasone of the victims of the Titanic disaster.The boy came to America last April an... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | MORE FROM JERSEY MAY HAVE PERISHED IN SEA PATERSON, April 20---Some residents of this city and of Hawthorne fear that several persons near to them perished on the Titanic. The supposed victims are John Mechan, of this city; Arthur Ford, formerly of th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | LATTIMER MOURNED Titanic's Chief Steward Well Known in Boston Prince of Entertainers and a Most Competent Officer Andrew Lattimer, senior chief steward of the Titanic, who was drowned, was well known in maritime and... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Post | (1912) | TITANIC'S WIRELESS CHIEF DIED ON A LIFERAFT New York. April 19.—Philips [sic], the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post till the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life raft, and died before rescuers reached him, according to th... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | HUDSON COUNTY SURVIVORS TELL OF SEA TRAGEDY Union Hill Governess Gives Graphic Recital of Scenes After Giant Ship Hit Iceberg and Went Down---Praises Bravery of Men Passengers---Complains of Treatment on Carpathia --- BAYONNE YOUT... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | 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 Evening Journal | (1912) | ASTOR TO DYNAMITE TITANIC A plan to blow up the wreckage of the Titanic with a powerful explosive in order to recover the body of John Jacob Astor, one of the passengers who was carried down, is being seriously considered to-day by Vincent Astor, son of the late Colonel.... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | NEW ENTRY Chicago Tribune, Saturday, April 20, 1912, p. 3, c. 3: Thomas Foley’s Brother... | 20th April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | THOMAS WHITELEY : DESCRIBES LAST MEAL ON TITANIC “It Was the Gayest Night of Trip Among Diners,” Says Assistant Steward --- New York, N. Y., April 20---Propped up on pillows in a bed in St. Vincent's Hospital this afternoon, Thomas Whitely, an assistant steward in the f... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | PEUCHEN COMES BACK AT ISMAY Charge of Negligence Preferred by Canadian Official Is Supported by Witness --- New York, April 20---Although J. Bruce Ismay branded the story as "absurd," Maj. Arthur Godfrey Peuchen, vice commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | LICENSE ISSUED TITANIC SURVIVOR English Girl Does Not Let Catastrophe Interfere with Her Original Plan --- New York, April 20---Saved from a watery grave when the Titanic was sent to the bottom by a monstrous iceberg, Miss Marion Wright, of Yeovil, Somerset County, En... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | HAROLD BRIDE RESTING The Titanic's Wireless Man Sends Messages Home Through The Times. -- Following the publication of the story of Harold J. Bride, wireless operator on board the Titanic, in all of the leading English dailies yesterday, the following ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | LETTER FROM WILLIAM BYLES TO HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW Bernards' Inn Bernardsville, N.J. April 21, 1912 My dear Mamma, Here we are at Bernardsville...went to St. Vincent's Hospital, when we met first some young boys and afterwards some girls who had been on the... | 21st April 1912 | ||||
| New York Times | (1912) | BEATEN FROM LIFEBOAT Youth Says Sailors Tried to Keep Him In Water --- Mrs. Catherine Evers of 446 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J., whose brother. Thomas McCormick of 38 West Twentieth Street, Bayonne was a second cabin passenger on the Titanic, visited him yester... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | WOMEN WORK HARD FOR RESCUED FOLK Kept Busy Helping Survivors on to Their Destinations in Comfort --- FORTY LEAVE ST. VINCENT'S --- Individuals, as Well as Organized Committee, Give Much-Needed Personal Aid --- The task that was shouldered by... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TRIBUTE TO STRAUS PAID IN SYNAGOGUES Family of Philanthropist Who Died on Titanic Present at Temple Beth-El --- SERMONS ON CATASTROPHE --- Mrs. Benjamin Guggenheim, Made Widow by Wreck, at Temple Emanu-El---General Services To-day --- Services... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | COMFORT FOR OSCAR STRAUS Messages of Sympathy from Every Part of the World --- Oscar S. Straus has been deeply touched by the scores of cablegrams, telegrams, and letters which he has received, each bearing its message of sympathy and paying warm tribute to the... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS Flood of Telegrams of Sympathy Reaches Them from All England. --- Special Cable to The New York Times. --- LONDON, April 20.--Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Phillips of Farncombe, Godalming, parents of "Jack" Phillips, the hero... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Calgary Herald | (1912) | THESE TWO MEN JUMPED OVERBOARD JUST BEFORE TITANIC SANK; ALL LIGHTS LIT WHEN SHE FOUNDERED Special Dispatch to the Herald... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Chicago Tribune | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | GIRL WENT DOWN TO SAVE ANOTHER Miss Evans Gave Up Place in Boat That a Mother Could Live --- Mrs Brown of Acton Tells of Her Rescue Due to Other's Sacrifice --- Saved through the heroic generosity of a young and b... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | ALARM FROM LOOKOUT IGNORED, SAILOR SAYS Officer on Titanic's Bridge Had Warning of the Iceberg from the Crow's Nest. Three warnings that an iceberg was ahead were transmitted from the crow's nest to the officers on the bridge of the doome... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York World | (1912) | LOOKOUT CLAIMS MURDOCH SHOT HIMSELF "As we stood there on Collapsible B, each man holding on to his neighbours shoulder fearful every moment that some lurch would send us off again into that icy water, two of the men I knew had been on watch in the crow's nest... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Herald | (1912) | THOMAS WHITELEY : THREE WARNINGS WERE GIVEN TO THE OFFICER ON THE BRIDGE Thomas Whiteley, Tells of Hearing Men Who Were in Crows Nest Express Indignation Because Mr. Murdock, the First Officer, Repeatedly Refused to Act on Their Report of Danger. ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Evening Journal | (1912) | MAYOR HAS TRIBUTE FOR ISIDOR STRAUS HEROISM OF NOTED AMERICAN AND HIS WIFE PRAISED IN LETTER TO OSCAR STRAUS Praise for the heroism of Isidor Straus and Mrs. Straus was expressed yesterday by Mayor Gaynor in a letter to Oscar Straus of No. 5 West Seventy-sixth Street. ... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| New York Evening Journal | (1912) | MRS. ASTOR ABLE TO GREET FAMILY HAS PARTLY RECOVERED FROM SHOCK AND EXPOSURE, HER PHYSICIAN ANNOUNCES Mrs. John Jacob Astor was able to leave her bed yesterday for the first time since she returned on board the Carpathia Thursday night after bein... | 21st April 1912 | |||
| Chicago American | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Chicago Record-Herald | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Nottingham Daily Express | (1912) | DERBYSHIRE VICTIM Among the missing is George Henry Hickley, a Derby man, who was a steward on board the ill-fated liner. He was well known in the Rowditch district of the town, as he often visited his sister, Mrs. Knowles, wife of Mr. Knowles, of the Lonsdate Dairy,... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Asbury Park Evening Press | (1912) | MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST MAIL CLERK GWINN DIED AT HIS POST ---------- Continued to Work Till Explosion Rent Titanic---Wife is Critically Ill ---------- Among the five postal clerks who stuck to their mail to the last and sank with it when ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Evening Star | (1912) | MAIL CLERK O. S. WOODY WAS LOYAL TO THE LAST STROVE WITH HIS ASSOCIATES TO SAVE THE MAIL MATTER ON THE TITANIC James M Woody of Roxboro, N.C. reached here Saturday afternoon to make inquiry about the death of his brother, Oscar S. Woody, mail clerk, who was among the victims of t... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| North American | (1912) | FEAR BOYERTOWN GIRL, MISSIONARY, WAS LOST READING, Pa., April 21---Mr. and Mrs. James B. Funk, parents of Miss Annie C. Funk, a missionary to Janjgir, Central Province, India, have given up hope of seeing their daughter alive. The mother is seriously ill and the entire family is grief-stric... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FORMER SECRETARY OF PATERSON Y. W. C. A. LOST PATERSON, April 22---Returning from India, where she was engaged in missionary work, Miss Annie Funk, for several years secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, was one of those lost on the Titanic. This was her first furlough in five y... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Greensburg Herald Tribune | (1912) | YOUNG GREENSBURG WOMAN WAS PASSENGER ON ILL-FATED SHIP "Oh, I feel bad, ver' bad, los' money, los' friend. When I stand up I see ship come again, when I shut my eyes. I see people go down, down, down--Oh ver' bad time." And, with the remembrance of it, Mrs. Sophie Abraham, 20 years old, shuddered and bur... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Guernsey Weekly Press | (1912) | REPORTED MISSING: E. H. WHEADON Mr. E.H. Wheadon was in his 67th year. He was the head of the agricultural firm of E.H. Wheadon and Sons, Couture. He was a man of most kindly nature and charitable disposition. Among the members of the family and their very wide circle of friends hi... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Guernsey Weekly Press | (1912) | MR. H. MITCHELL Mr. H. Mitchell, who was aged 73, was on his way to pay a visit to his brother and other relatives. He was an ex-Donzenier of Canton No. 1 and was for some years in business in the boot trade in Mill-street. He was a widower and resided with his daug... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Unidentified Newspaper | (1912) | MR. CHARLES BAINBRIGGE Mr. Charles Bainbrigge was a son of Mrs. Bainbrigge of Rohais Manor. He was returning to Savage's International Stock Farm, Minnesota, U.S.A., where he had spent some years. The London "Globe" contained the following paragraph on Saturday:- Mr. Charl... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Paterson Morning Call | (1912) | MISS FUNK ONE OF THE DEAD Former House Secretary of the Local Y. W. C. A. Was on Titanic ---------- COMING FROM INDIA ---------- Was Missionary There and Intended Spending Part of Furlough in Paterson ---------- A large number... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Evening World | (1912) | HEROIC PRIESTS GAVE UP LIVES TO QUIET CROWDS Went Down on Titanic With Men and Women Grouped About Them. ------------- ALL CREEDS IN PRAYER ------------- Three Girl Survivors Tell How They Chose Death to S... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Herald | (1912) | BRIDE WHO WAS RESCUED FROM DEATH FINDS SHE IS DESTITUTE WIDOW MRS ARGENIA DEL CARLO AND SISTER OF SAN RAFFAELE HOME... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Evening World | (1912) | TWO SURVIVORS CALL ON MAYOR TO ASK RELIEF Steerage Passenger and Sailor Referred to Red Cross Managers of Fund Two survivors of the Titanic called on Mayor Gaynor to-day. One is a sailor who was assigned to help man a lifeboat, the other a steerage passenger who, wearing a li... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | LOST HIS BROTHER ON TITANIC James Van Billings, of South Wales, Pa., and Two Children Lose Lives in Disaster---Brother Here Receives the Sad News ---------- Monroe Van Billings, of this city, this morning received the sad news that his brother, James, and his two ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Daily Home News | (1912) | WRECK VICTIM KNOWN HERE Henry B. Harris, the well-known theatrical man who lost his life in the sinking of the Titanic last week, was a very intimate friend of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Tepper, of this city, and had been touring Europe in company with Mr. Tepper’s brother-in-l... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Montreal Daily Witness | (1912) | YOUNGEST SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC, GLEEFUL WITH FOSTER PARENTS Boy, Eleven Months Old, Saved When Parents Went Down With Wreck, Becomes Centre Of Much Attention And Smiles Happily. Although Travers J.[sic] Allison, eleven months old, did not realise it yesterday, much interest was centred in his c... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Galesburg Republican Register | (1912) | UNKNOWN TITLE Frank Karun, a member of the Austrian immigrant colony in this city, will have some stirring things to tell when he returns to the city of the loss of the big steamship Titanic and his rescue later by the Carpathia . Just at present Mr. Karun is at t... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | INSURED FOR $110,000 Clifford, Who Was Lost, Took Out $50,000 Policy Before Sailing --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, April 21---Either because he had a premonition of death or that he counted the trip a great risk, George Quincy C... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | SMITH CALLED BACK HALF-FILLED BOATS Survivor Says He Heard Command by Veteran Skipper to Take More Aboard --- OTHER TALES CONFLICTING --- Mrs. Emil Taussig Declares Men Were Barred from Boats with Ample Room --- The fact that Capt. Smith realiz... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MRS. ASTOR IS ABLE TO TELL OF RESCUE Thinks She Got Into Last Boat as She Left Husband on Deck --- COMPELLED TO HANDLE OAR --- Rowed Back After Liner Went Down and Helped to Rescue six struggling Men----Maid Aids --- Mrs. John Jacob Astor and he... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Washington Times | (1912) | LIVED NOT IN VAIN, SAYS BUTT’S FRIEND American People Can Learn Lesson From Major’s Life, Is Captain’s Opinion --- INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22---Major Archibald Butt did not give his life in vain in the Titanic disaster, if the American people will take the lesson of his l... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Washington Herald | (1912) | STEERAGE SURVIVOR TELLS STORY OF WRECK Miss Mary Glynn, Visiting Relatives in Washington, Praises Heroism of Passengers on Titanic---Women Tried to Save Men --- The heroic deeds of some of the first and second cabin passengers, as the giant Titanic was preparing for her fina... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| (1912) | SISTER OF PLAINFIELD MAN SAVED LITTLE BOY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wilson of Chestnut St. are home from New York where they had a meeting with Mr. Wilson's sister, Miss Helen Wilson, one of the survivors of the Titanic, who came in on the Carpathia. Miss Wilson is at... | 22nd April 1912 | ||||
| The Times | (1912) | MOURNING IN BELFAST : CAPTAIN SMITH'S PREDICTION The shipbuilding works of Messrs Harland and Wolff (Limited) at Queen’s Island were closed on Saturday, which was regarded as a day of mourning for the members of the staff lost in the Titanic. With one exception all the me... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
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(1912) | LETTER FROM WILLIAM MELLORS TO HIS MOTHER - RICHMOND COUNTY CLUB New York Monday 22/4/12 c/o Mr. Hale Richmond County Club Dongan Hills Staten Island N.Y. Dear Mother, Just a line to let you know I am getting along much better. ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | MONEY LOSS NOTHING---MORGAN But He Is Upset by Loss of Life, Due to Faith in Boat --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- PARIS, April 21---An interesting interview was obtained by a correspondent at Aix w... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Newark Evening News | (1912) | FAMILY OF J. S. MARCH MAY RECEIVE $10,000 WASHINGTON, April 22---Resolutions authorizing $10,000 appropriations for the families of each of the three postal clerks who lost their lives on the Titanic were introduced in the House today by Representative Reilly, of Conne... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| New York Times | (1912) | TO HOLD ISMAY TO THE END Senate Committee Decides on That Course Sailor's Weird Tale Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 21. Chairman Smith of the Senate Subcommittee investigating th... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Boston Daily Globe | (1912) | WHITELEY FINDS UNCLE INTERVIEW WITH TITANIC SURVIVOR BRINGS TELEGRAM FROM NAMESAKE IN PROVIDENCE NEW YORK,April 21 - Through the publication of an interview with him to a Providence, R.I. paper, Thomas Whiteley, ... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | TITANIC SURVIVOR IS HOME Practically recovered from exposure and bruises which he received when the Titanic sunk [sic], Thomas McCormack, 19 years old, of 36 West Twentieth Street, returned to his home Saturday. Since the arrival of the Carpathia he h... | 22nd April 1912 | |||
| Chicago Daily News | (1912) | 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 | |||
| Evening Telegraph | (1912) | STEAMSHIP DIRECTOR A VICTIM New York, April 23. - It was learned today that Jonkheer J. G. Reuchlin,managing director of the Holland-American Steamship Line, had gone down with the Titanic. Mr. Reuchlin was coming to this country to arrange business relative to the opening of t... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Jersey Journal | (1912) | FEAR JERSEY CITY GIRL'S FIANCÉ WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC A few hours after the Titanic with hundreds of her passengers and crew went down to their ocean grave a letter was received in this city by Miss Sarah Weir of 173 Clendenny Avenue, from her sweetheart, Peter Sloan, chief electrician of the ill-fated ... | 23rd April 1912 | |||
| Stirling Observer | (1912) | IN MEMORIAM WILLIAM YOUNG MOYES The news received last week of the awful wreck of the Titanic seems to have stupefied the British and American nations - indeed, has cast a gloom over the whole world - and while the loss of every lif | ||||