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Paterson Morning Call	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
Washington Times	TELL THEM NO WOMAN DIED BECAUSE I WAS COWARD ---GUGGENHEIM NEW YORK, April 20---"This is a man's game and I will play it to the end," was the word that Benjamin Guggenheim, the millionaire smelter magnate, sent to his wife from the ill-fated Titanic. The message was delivered to the stricken widow by John Jo...	20th April 1912
Newark Evening News	HAWTHORNE YOUTH ON TITANIC WAS A HERO HAWTHORNE, May 3---Through Frank Turnquist, one of the stewards of the Titanic, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Johnson, of Diamond Bridge avenue, have learned that their son, William C. Johnson Jr., who was a petty officer on the ill-fated steamship, mig...	3rd May 1912
MinnPost.com	MINNESOTA CONNECTIONS ADD EVEN MORE POIGNANCY TO TRAVELING 'TITANIC ARTIFACT EXHIBITION' Jack and Rose weren't really on the Titanic. But Malcolm Johnson, a Swedish farmer heading for Minneapolis, was. And Walter Douglas, son of the founder of Quaker Oats, went down with the ship while on his way back to Minnesota from a European shopping trip....	9th June 2009
L'Illustré, revue Hebdomadaire Suisse	JACK THAYER JR. AND BARBARA STANWYCK A man identified as "Jack Thayer Jr", shown visiting Barbara Stanwyck on the set of Fox movie "Titanic" (1953). Jack told star Barbara Stanwyck about his mother, who inspired Miss Stanwyck's character. [Jack Thayer Jr died in 1945 ed.]...	13th September 1956
	LEADBELLY : THE TITANIC Huddie Ledbetter - Leadbelly Blues singer/songwriter Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana in 1885. Leadbelly remarked in th...	15th October 1948
Chicago Examiner	TITANIC WIDOW KILLED BY A FORMER SUITOR San Francisco, Feb. 24---Mrs. S. L. Johnson of Tacoma, Wash., a Titanic widow and a bride of two weeks, was shot and instantly killed at the Sutter Hotel to-day by Abraham Pepper, a former suitor. Mrs. Johnson formerly was Mrs. Herman Kla...	25th February 1914
Chicago Daily Tribune	MERCHANT FAINTS FROM JOY page 3 Business Man Swoons on Learning Relatives Were Rescued from Titanic Wreck Aurora, Ill., April 17- [Special]- Oscar W. Johnson, 32 years old, a business man living at St. Charles, Ill., fell over in a dead faint ...	18th April 1912
Guernsey Evening Press	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
New York Times	PASTOR IS CONGRATULATED Clergyman Who Refused to Marry Astor Gets Approving Messages --- Special to The New York Times --- NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 7---The Rev. Edward A. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist Church here, received many congratulation...	8th September 1911
Newark Evening News	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
	RELIEF FUND DETAILS Copperthwaite, B. Lived at 39 Mount Street, St Marys, Southampton. Occupation - Fireman. 22 years old. (Born in Hampshire). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) ...
	LAST CONTACT WITH TITANIC? Pete Morrall Was Jack Mew the last man to have contact with Titanic before she left Southampton?...
BBC News	'JACK PHILLIPS' - THE MAN WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE TITANIC John George Phillips who was nicknamed 'Jack' gained posthumous fame as the man who tried to save the Titanic and all those on board....	15th July 2010
	CARD WRITTEN BY JACK PHILLIPS Written just a few months before he joined the Titanic...	1911
Washington Times	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
	ELEANOR JOHNSON SHUMAN IN HER ELGIN, ILLINOIS HOME Survivor...	August 1997
	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...
	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
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	JACK BUTTERWORTH Brian J. Ticehurst Butterworth, Jack. Lived at 270 Priory Road, St Denys, Southampton. Was 23 years old. Occupation on board the Titanic - Saloon Steward. (Born in Manchester). (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913). Number 326. Butterwort...	2002
bbc.co.uk	GODALMING MUSEUM CELEBRATES TITANIC HERO JACK PHILLIPS An exhibition honouring one of the heroes of the Titanic disaster has opened in his home town in Surrey. Jack Phillips, the chief telegraphic officer on the ship which sank in 1912, went down with the vessel. His last message was received three minutes before the Titanic disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean. Godalming Museum's exhibition, which runs until 12 May, is one of a series of events in the town commemorating the centenary of the loss of the ship....	11th March 2012
	A POSTCARD FROM TITANIC On 11 April 1912, John Adams (real name Richard May) posted a card to his sister in Holsworthy, Devon. It read - "Dear Ethel, Just a few lines to tell you that I have found Jack and we are going on all right. We are having it fairly c...	11th April 1912
Worcester Evening Gazette	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
	PRIDEAUX FAMILY INFORMATION John Arthur Prideaux (k/a Jack) was born at Southampton, Hampshire on 24 April 1888 at a house in Victoria Road, Woolston. He was the son of John Davey Prideaux and Annie Elizabeth (formerly Slade). His father, originally from Teignmouth, Dev...
	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...
Paterson Morning Call	MET DEATH LIKE A HERO ---------- William Johnson, Nineteen-year-old Hawthorne Boy, Went Down on the Titanic ---------- NEWS CAME YESTERDAY ---------- Not Known Until Then That He Took Passage on the Ill-Fated Ship---Borough Grieved...	3rd May 1912
New York Times	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
	JACK RYERSON	1924
	CLEAN-SHAVEN MCQUILLAN, THE MYSTERY BLADE-DONOR? Senan Molony (William McQuillan, from a family photo)...
	JACK PHILLIPS Pictured (left) with a colleague aboard the Adriatic...
	CAPTAIN SMITH AND JACK PHILLIPS From an unidentified French paper...	1912
New York Times	CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS blurb...	21st April 1912
	MARCONIGRAM To: Hardy, Oakleigh, Holyrood Avenue, Highfield, Southampton, England. "Safe and well. - Jack"...	18th April 1912
Chicago American	3 VICTIMS LAUD TITANIC FILM Ann Marsters Three Survivors of the Titanic--the only three in Illinois--watched a screening yesterday of "A Night to Remember," an enormously exciting drama of the sinking of that magnificent liner on its maiden voyage 27 y...	25th February 1959
BYU Universe	TITANIC THE MUSICAL MAKES DEBUT AT SCERA For years the focus of what happened on the Titanic has been Hollywoods tragedy of Jack and Rose....	19th April 2011
San Francisco Examiner	DOCTOR DODGE IS OPERATED ON; CONDITION SERIOUS Page 13, column 7 Former Broker and Assessor Very Low After Attempted Suicide With Pistol Following an operation at the St. Francis Hospital yesterday, the condition of Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker and Assessor ...	23rd June 1919
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
Titanic Research	THE ODELL TITANIC ALBUM Brian Odell Lily Odell, Kate Odell, Jack Odell, Richard May and Stanley May were all travelling together. Jack was eleven at the time and he and Kate brought along their cameras. Kate took a large number of photos, one of which was one of the last known ph...	13th September 2011
New York Times	FIERMONTE HELD ON OLD CHARGE BELLMORE, L. I., July 2---Enzo Fiermonte, former pugilist and husband of Mrs. Madaline Force Astor Dick, was arrested today at the Roosevelt Speedway on a three-year-old traffic violation charge he is said never to have answered. He is accused of spe...	3rd July 1937
Chicago Tribune	OTHERS ARRIVE DESTITUTE Two men and a girl from Sweden, Oscar Hedmann, Carl Johnson, and Anna Sjoblom, spent several hours in Chicago yesterday on their way west. All found themselves in New York without a cent. They were taken to an immigration home and clothed ...	26th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	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
Foxnews.com	LAST US SURVIVOR OF TITANIC DISASTER DIES AT 99 BOSTON - Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has died, a funeral home said Sunday. She was 99. Asplund, who was just 5 years old, lost her father and three brothers - including a fraternal twin - when the "practically unsinkable" ship went down in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.She died Saturday at her home in Shrewsbury, said Ronald E. Johnson, vice president of the Nordgren Memorial Chapel in Worcester, Mass....	7th May 2006
Cook County Herald	CALLS MRS. ASTOR HEROINE Sailor of Titanic Says She Gave Her Shawl to Baby of Steerage Passenge New York, April 22---Jack Foley, a member of the crew of the Ti...	26th April 1912
Norwich Evening News	MY REMARKABLE TITANIC TALE When he takes to the stage to play a passenger on the doomed cruise liner Titanic, nine-year-old Jack Daly's thoughts might turn to his own family - he is related to one of the victims of the so-called 'unsinkable' ship. ...	21st January 2008
New York Times	PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...	11th October 1914
	JACK PHILLIPS IN A FRENCH BOOK FOR CHILDREN This drawing by G. Dutriac was published by Hachette in the first French book about the Titanic, 'Les Petits Naufragés du Titanic' in 1913. The authors of the novel were J. Jacquin and A. Fabre....	1913
	MEMORIAL HEADSTONE In Loving Memory Of George Simmons Died 31st October 1920 Aged 87 Also Mary Ann Simmons Died 7th March 1921 Aged 88 Also Jack, Son of the above Dr...
New York Times	MARRIED IN EARLY DECEMBER A brilliant and fashionable assemblage gathered at noon yesterday in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, on Fifth-avenue, to witness the marriage of Miss Florence Schieffelin, a daughter of George R. Schieffelin and a great favorite in New-York society,...	5th December 1888
Ontario Vital Records	SPENCER VICTOR SILVERTHORNE BIRTH RECORD E.R.Barclay, Registrar Ontario birth record for Spencer Victor Silverthorne...	17th October 1876
	CHICAGOANS SEEK SURVIVORS At the local White Star office inquiries were made today for Katherine McCarthy by her brother, John McCarthy, 4634 Wallace street, who is certain she was a passenger on the Titanic and was coming to Chicago. Information regarding Nora Cummin...	19th April 1912

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