October 1909

148 items found relating to : October 1909


	STEPHEN & ANNIE HOLD Newly married at St. Keverne, Cornwall on 18 October 1909, Annie's first trip to America with her husband Stephen Hold was on board Teutonic. They arrived at New York on 24 November 1909 having departed from Southampton. The ship's manifest sh...	1909
	DATE OF MARRIAGE Marriage...	21st October 1909
	BOARDWALK 1909 (FRONT) Atlantic City, 1909....
	NEWYORK 1909 (BACK) New York. June 22/1909. "Hope you all are well. We will be home on Tuesday. We have had a pleasant stay here. Love to all, Uncle Henry and Lee....
	MCINERNEY FAMILY GRAVESTONE Of your charity pray for the soul of Ellen McInerney who died 17th October 1909 aged 32 years also of her beloved husband Thomas McInerney who was lost in wreck of SS Titanic 15th ...
	ATLANTIC CITY 1909 (BACK) Atlantic City. April 1, 1909. "We are having a pleasant stay here. The weather is fine. Love to all from Uncle Henry and Lee."...	1st April 1909
Le Soir	WILLIAM THOMAS STEAD IN 1909 This picture of William Thomas Stead was taken in Constantinople in 1909 and published by the Belgian paper 'Le Soir' on 5 May 1912 in their 'Titanic special issue'...	5th May 1912
	ATLANTIC CITY 1909 (FRONT) Atlantic City; Boardwalk and Hotel Blenheim, 1909....	1st April 1909
	HUDSON THEATRE PROGRAMME 1909 The cover of the Hudson Theatre programme for Henry B. Harris' production of "The Third Degree" (1909), one of his biggest hits....	1909
TravelVideo.tv	TITANIC TO DOCK AT LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER STARTING OCTOBER 3, 2009 Tickets are now on sale for Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, viewed by more than 22 million people worldwide and hailed as a must-see. The Exhibition features 150 artifacts and opens at the Louisville Science Center in Louisville, Ky., on October 3....	22nd September 2009
	ELEANOR CASSEBEER 1909 PASSPORT
Voyage	HERCULANEUM John P. Eaton In addition to maneuvering Titanic after launch, Herculaneum also assisted during Titanic’s sea trials out of Belfast on 2 April 1912. Alexandra Towing Co.,...	2nd November 2004
	NEWYORK 1909 (FRONT) Hotel Knickerbocker. New York City, 1909. An Astor family Hotel, the Knickerbocker, designed by Trowbridge and Livingston, opened in 1906. It stood at the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, and its theater district location made it popular with people in the entertainment industry; Enrico Caruso maintained a suite at the Knickerbocker, as did Lusitania victim Charles Frohman. In 1921, the Knickerbocker was converted to business use by Vincent Astor, son of its original owner. For 19 years, Newsweek magazine was headquartered in the former Knickerbocker. The old hotel outlived its other rivals on Times Square~ the Hotel Astor which was demolshed in 1968, and the Claridge which was removed in 1972. It came full circle when in the 1980s, under the stewardship of Leona Helmsley, it was restored and partially converted back to luxury apartments....
	BOARDWALK 1909 (BACK) Atlantic City,.Aug 2/09 "Wish you were here. You would enjoy the bathing here- it's fine. Love to all & yourself. Uncle Henry and Lee."...
	EDWARD HENRY BAGLEY (RESEARCH ABOUT HIS LIFE) Edward Henry Bagley was born to Edward Bagley and his wife Lucy Bagley (nee Longhurst) on the 4th March 1879. The family lived at 17 Wightman Street, Plaistow, London. His father worked as a labourer at a soap works, and by the time of the boy's bapt...	2003
	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...
	ELEANOR WIDENER IN 1909 Eleanor Elkins Widener in evening wear and a strand of her famous pearls ...	1909
	HARRISON FISHER'S ROSES One of Harrison Fisher's first illustrations of Dorothy Gibson, entitled "Roses" (1909)...	1909
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	SOS : TITANIC NOT THE FIRST USER Brian J. Ticehurst OVER the years many myths and fallacies have grown up around the Titanic. Not least the myth that the Titanic was the first vessel to use the International Distress Call 'SOS'. This is not so - the facts are these:- ...	22nd November 2005
	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION QUICK, MISS PHYLLIS MAY. Saved in Lifeboat number 11. Born 27th July 1909. Died 15th March 1954, and was buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan, Section 20, lot 1542. Family stayed together in lifeboat, Mrs. Qu...
	PROBATE REPORT [from Liverpool Library] Snape, Lucy Violet of Well Lane, Sandhills, Whitley, Surrey, widow. Administration (with will limited) London 11th October to Edward James Lennard, cowman. Effects £234.14s 2d....	11th October 1912
Voyage	LUCIGEN John P. Eaton Lucigen – Lucigen Steamship Co., (H.E. Moss & Co.) Departed Bremen, Germany 8 March for New York. On 24 March at 46 degrees N, 46 degrees West, encountered heavy pack ice with numerous bergs...	2nd January 2005
	LORD SURROUNDED BY GRINNING PASSENGERS Captain Stanley Lord surrounded by grinning passengers, c. 1909...	1909
	KNORR The Research Ship Knorr, from which the wreck of the Titanic was discovered, 1st September, 1985The vessel is pictured at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in October 1999....
	MEMORIAL In Memory of William Stone, late Inspector of L & S W Railway, died November 13th 1909 aged 64. Also of Agnes Mary Jane, wife of the above, died March 3rd 1929 aged 85. Also of Edmund Stone, son of the above, who was lost ...
	OXFORD ALUMNI, 1715-1886 Page 223 of the Oxford Alumni has - CARTER, Ernest Courtenay, 3rd son of George of Compton, Berkshire, Clergyman. Matriculated 18 October 1880, aged 22. St. John's College. Batchelor of Arts 1884....	1887
Belfast Telegraph	CENTENARY TRIBUTE TO TITANIC BUILDERS The centenary of work beginning on RMS Titanic has been marked by a symbolic keel laying ceremony at Titanic Quarter. John M Andrews, great-nephew of Titanic designer Thomas Andrews and president of Belfast Titanic Society, unveiled a memorial plaque on a replica keel plate which has been erected on the exact spot on the Titanic slipway where construction began in 1909....	1st April 2009
	GRAVESTONE OF EUGENE DALY EUGENE DALY'S gravestone in St Raymond's cemetery, the Bronx. The Titanic survivor, a 'beloved father and grandfather' is said to be "safely home at last." Died October 30, 1965. ...
	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...
	ASHES (URN) Tyrell William Cavendish: Born October 1875. Drowned on S.S. Titanic, April 15th 1912 Julia Florence Cavendish: Born 3rd November 1886. Died 16th January 1963...
Atlantic Daily Bulletin	PURSER MCELROY Hugh Walter McElroy was born on 28th October 1874 at 3, Percy Street, Liverpool, the son of Richard McElroy, and his wife Jessie (nee Fox). On Hugh’s certificate his father’s occupation is shown as Shipbuilder, [he was a ships carpenter] and he was k...	April 1999
News Wales	TITANIC SHOW SAILS IN An exhibition devoted to the ill-fated Titanic ocean liner is arriving in Swansea later this year.he Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition depicts the story and tragedy of the giant vessel and will be on display at Swansea Museum from October 20....	24th August 2007
New York Times	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
	PROBATE REPORT FROM LIVERPOOL: EDWARD DODD Edward Charles Dodd of Bannisters Hotel, Queens Parade, Southampton. Marine engineer. Administration Winchester 21st October, 1912 to Henry Charles Dodd retired plumber. Effects £184.16.1d....	21st October 1912
	PROBATE REPORT Calendar of Probate 1912:LATIMER, Andrew of Glenwyllin Road, Waterloo,Lancashire, ship steward, died 15th April 1912at sea. Probate, Liverpool 7th October to JennieLatimer, widow. Effects £3082 9s 3d....	1912
Belfast Telegraph	TITANIC ROOM TO HOST ART EVENT The historic rooms where the Titanic was designed a century ago have been selected to host one of Northern Ireland's most prestigious art events. The 127th Annual Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition will be held in the Titanic Drawing Offices of Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast from September 19 to October 19....	12th September 2008
	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...
	LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
	PROBATE REPORT (ALFRED BENJAMIN CHIBNALL) Alfred Benjamin Chibnall of Box End, Kempston, Bedfordshire died 11 October 1929 Probate Northampton 19 December to Harry Lionel Peacock auctioneer and James Kingswell Prettejohn retired insurance official Effects £10808 18s...	1929
	PROBATE REPORT FROM WINCHESTER RECORD OFFICE: EDWARD DODD Dodd, Edward Charles, Bannisters Hotel, Queens Parade, Southampton. Engineer. At sea. Administration: Winchester 21 October 1912 to Henry Charles Dodd retired Plummer. Estate £184 16s 1d....	21st October 1912
shorenewstoday.com	LIFEBOAT BELIEVED TO BE FROM TITANIC ON DISPLAY STARTING SATURDAY - SHORE NEWS TODAY A lifeboat believed to be from the Titanic will be on exhibit at Silver Moon Antiques in the Shore Mall beginning Saturday, Oct. 22 to help raise funds for the Absecon Lighthouse. In December of 2007, Absecon Lighthouse came into possession of a donated Titanic exhibit, which included a Titanic-era original Harland and Wolff Lifeboat, circa 1909, believed to be one of the Titanic lifeboats....	19th October 2011
	MINUTES OF TITANIC RELIEF FUND, LIVERPOOL AREA COMMITTEE No. 125. Miss Marion Hodgkinson. Minutes state: Widow deceased 25th January 1914. Full allowance paid to 31st March 1914. Liverpool C & G P Committee 9 7 1914. 10/- per week for 12 months as from 1st October 1914 then reconsider....	1st December 1915
	OLYMPIC LEAVING FOR JARROW SCRAPYARD, OCT. 1935 The Olympic pictured on October 12th, 1935, in Southampton, hours before beginning her last trip to the Jarrow scrapyards. This striking view shows how impressive the Olympic was....	12th October 1935
Examiner.com	TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON VIEW IN ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER BEGINNING OCTOBER 1 Almost a century ago on a calm April night in 1912 the "unsinkable" Titantic went down after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2280 passengers on board the maiden voyage of the world's largest ship perished that night including business tycoons, artists and film stars, government dignitaries and immigrants dreaming of a new life in America.....
Chicago Daily News	CHARLES WILLIAMS OBITUARY Williams—Charles Williams passed away Oct. 27, beloved husband of Lois Williams, fond father of Eugene, Ninian, John, Dorothy, Jean and Hilda. Funeral services Wed., Oct. 30th, at 2 pm, from residence, 5524 Lakewood av. Interment Rosehill ce...	29th October 1935
The Times	ESTATE OF TITANIC SURVIVOR Mr. JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY, of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, W., a former president of the International Mercantile Marine Company and chairman of the White Star Line, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, who died on October 17, ...	4th December 1937
The Times	AROUND THE WORLD IN A YACHT [ADVERTISEMENT] Commander C. H. Lightoller, DSC, RD, RNR, and Mrs Lightoller are inviting ladies and gentlemen to join in a ten months cruise on their 3,000-ton motor sailing yacht "Westward." Sailing end of October, visiting West Indies, South Sea islands an...	30th August 1924
	LOUISE LAROCHE AND ACTOR PAUL RUDD IN PARIS Young actor Paul Rudd met Titanic survivor Louise Laroche in October 1995...	1995
	LAUNCH OF THE OLYMPIC - 1910 From L'Illustration, 29 October 1910...	29th October 1910
Gazette & Herald	SONG PAYS TRIBUTE TO CHILD TITANIC VICTIM A poignant song about the youngest victim of the Titanic disaster will feature in a concert at Seend Cleeve this month. The electric folk band Sackful of Sovereigns, with Potterne bass player Steve Sawyer, will debut the song Unknown Child at the concert on October 18....	14th October 2008
The Times	TITANIC LOVE CHILD'S ASHES SCATTERED IN THE ATLANTIC The ashes of the child conceived aboard the Titanic by a runaway couple, whose romance inspired the blockbuster film, have been scattered on to the Atlantic. Yesterday the crew of a new Tamar Class lifeboat off Padstow, Cornwall, scattered the remains of Ellen Walker, who died, aged 92, in October last year. ...	2nd November 2006
Unidentified Newspaper	PERINE On October 1 1967, ADA E. (nee Hall) of the Masonic Homes, Cockeysville; the beloved wife of the late William R. Perine; mother of Rev. William Ball and Mr Edgar William Ball. Funeral services at the William Cook-Brooks —Towson — Fu...	1967
News Wales	SWANSEA MUSEUM EXHIBITION ONE OF BEST IN UK The Titanic Honour and Glory exhibition currently running at Swansea Museum in Victoria Road has been named in Britain's top five by The Times newspaper. It's the only exhibition in Wales to have made the cut.Thousands of visitors have been to see Titanic Honour and Glory since it was unveiled in October....	23rd January 2008
Daily Telegraph	TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York...	27th October 1910
	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)...
Chicago Examiner	OLYMPIC TO BE REBUILT Special Cable to the Examiner. Belfast, Sept. 24---The White Star Line announces definitely that the steamer Olympic, sister of the Titanic, will come to Belfaast from Southampton for renovation. She will be ma...	25th September 1912
	FAY FAMILY GRAVESTONE In loving memory of our dear father, Andrew Fay, beloved husband of Mary, who died 14th October 1914 aged 58 years "Sweet Heart of Jesus be my Salvation" also Thomas, son of the above who lost his life on the Tita...
	BIRTH CERTIFICATE : WILLIAM DUFFY Diocese of Tuam Parish of Castlebar. Postal Address: Main Street Castlebar. I certify that according to the Register of Baptisms kept in this parish. William L. Duffy was born on 8th of October 1875 and was bap...	8th October 1875
Toronto Star	NEW TITANIC ARTIFACTS UNVEILED AT HALIFAX MUSEUM HALIFAX A rosette fashioned from splintered pieces of the Titanic's grand staircase and a simple canvas bag used to transport one man's belongings to his grieving widow were unveiled Tuesday in Halifax, where 150 victims of the infamous maritime disaster are buried.The items, which were acquired in October from an auction in England, have been placed on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 97 years after the ill-fated luxury liner sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic....	16th April 2009
	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...
Chicago Tribune	MRS. IDA HIPPACH LEAVES $85,000 ESTATE TO DAUGHTER The will of Mrs. Ida S. Hippach, leaving an estate estimated at $85,000 to a daughter, Mrs. Jean Unander-Scharin of Lake Forest, was filed for probate yesterday. Mrs. Hippach died a month ago at the age of 74 in her home at 2808 Evanston.&nb...	22nd October 1940
	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...
New York Times	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
timesandstar.co.uk	CHILDREN INVESTIGATE TITANIC LINKS IN MARYPORT A TITANIC project in Maryport will end with a premier film show at the town’s Wave Centre in October. Thirty-five Maryport children spent last week exploring the town’s maritime heritage and its links to the Titanic through Thomas Ismay, who was born in Maryport and founded the White Star line of which the Titanic was part. The children interviewed experts on the subject like John Whitwell, Cliff Ismay and volunteers at the Maryport Maritime Museum....	4th August 2011
New York Times	INCREASING PROFANITY AMONG BOYS [LETTER TO THE EDITOR] To the Editor of The New York Times: Of late we see accounts both in the United States and Canada calling attention to how profane and bad language is increasing among the boys. The truth of this cannot be denied by any one...	30th June 1909
	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...
New York Times	BOSTON BANKS TO MERGE H. K. Hallett to Head Combined Atlantic and Fourth National --- Special to The New York Times --- BOSTON, July 21---The death of Arthur W. Newell, President of the Fourth National Bank, who was lost on the Titanic, is abou...	22nd July 1912
Chicago Tribune	THIRD OF FAMILY TO MEET TRAGIC END Nineteen year old Howard Hippach is the last of the three sons of Louis A. Hippach, wealthy plate glass and window glass manufacturer, to meet a tragic death. Howrd Hippach was killed Thursday afternoon when a motor car which he was driving ...	31st October 1914
New York Times	TITANIC SURVIVOR MARRIES Miss M. Froelicher Weds R.J.F. Schwarzenbach in Switzerland --- Robert J. F. Schwarzenbach of 471 Park Avenue was married to Miss Marguerite Froelicher of Zurich, Switzerland, one of the survivors of the Titanic, on Monday at Zurich....	9th January 1913
Chicago Tribune	FRED A. WEBER Chicago Tribune, Monday, October 29, 1962, s. 3, p. 8: Obituaries Fred A. Weber Salt Lake City, Oct. 28 (AP)---Fred A. Weber, 72, one of the last surviving crew members of the Tita...	29th October 1962
	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...
	THE LAURENTIC/MEGANTIC EXPERIMENT The Olympic-class liners were fitted with two triple expansion engines, which powered the port and starboard propellers, and a low-pressure turbine, which powered the center propeller. This propulsion system was first tested on the White Star sister...
	1881 CENSUS - LIVERPOOL Hugh Richard Walter McElroy was born at 3 Percy Street, Liverpool on 28 October 1874. He was the son of Richard R. McElroy and Jessie (formerly Fox). At the time of the 1881 census he was living at 6 Eversley Street, Toxteth, Liverpool with h...	1881
Worcester Journal	NEW PLAY ABOUT JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY NINETY-eight years after she sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic comes a play about the man who was in charge of the Titanic. The Man Who Left the Titanic, a new play by Patrick Prior, is performed at the Norbury Theatre this weekend....	21st October 2010
	FAMILY GRAVESTONE IN MEMORY OF HUGH MCELROY WHO DIED ON THE 3RD DAY OF APRIL 1870 AGED 56 YEARS. ALSO OF RICHARD, SON OF HUGH MCELROY WHO DIED ON THE 9th DAY OF JUNE 1888 AGED 44 YEARS. AND OF MARY HANNAH MCELROY DIED 9th APRIL 1890 AGED 44 YEARS. ...
Chicago Examiner	POET KEMP LOCKED UP AS STOWAWAY Oceanic Officials to Prosecute Him at Souithampton Special Cable to the Examiner Plymouth, Oct. 3--Harry Kemp, the poet who eloped with the former wife of Upton Sinclair, was a stowaway on...	4th October 1913
The Times	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
New York Times	BIG ASTOR TAX FOR STATE Estate with Strauss [sic] and Guggenheim's to Yield Nearly $6,000,000 --- ALBANY, July 2---State Controller Sohmer will not take any steps looking to the appraisal of the estates of John Jacob Astor, Isidor Straus, and Benjamin Guggenhe...	3rd July 1912
The Times	LORD MERSEY - NEW VISCOUNT His Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of a viscounty of the United Kingdom upon:--- THE RIGHT HON. LORD MERSEY Lord Mersey's reputation as a Judge and as an authority on inte...	1st January 1916
The Times	MR. CHARLES M. HAYS MISSING (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) --- MONTREAL, APRIL 18 --- A message by wireless telegraphy from the Carpatlhia was received at the offices of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in Montreal this morning signed ...	19th April 1912
	NORTHLEW, DEVON -1901 CENSUS John Hall Lovell was born at Pynda Farm in the parish of Hatherleigh, mid-Devon in early 1892. He remained at that address until 1897 when he and the family moved to Lower Gorhuish Farm in the parish of Northlew. The 1901 censu...	31st March 1901
Haddonfield News	HADDONFIELD HOMES: RESIDENCE OF FREDERICK SUTTON Frederick Sutton was born June 15, 1850, in County Suffolk, England, and educated in private schools of Cambridgeshire. He came to Philadelphia in 1870 and began business with White Bros. & Co., Coffee Importers, at No. 27 South Water Street. In 1877...	10th June 1893
	VARIOUS MEMORIALS TO ARTHUR WILLIAM MAY Named on the right hand panel of the St. Augustines Church Memorial, (Maritime Museum) Southampton. also has a stone in Fair view Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Titanic section, number 141. (Late in 1990 I found a grave at ...
The Times	LADY HARLAND'S WILL Dame Rosa Matilda Harland, of Baroda, House Kensington Palace-gardens, W., who died at Tunbridge Wells on October 21, daughter of Mr. Thomas Wann, of Vermont, Belfast, and widow of Sir Edward Harland, Bt., M.P. for North Belf...	10th February 1912
	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 ...
Shoreham Herald	SHOREHAM MAN WAS TITANIC HERO A COOK on board the Titanic, who reportedly saved a baby from Captain Smith's arms, as the liner was sinking, was from Shoreham. Isaac Maynard was born in Shoreham on October 8, 1880. The son of Shoreham lifeboat coxswain Hiram Maynard, he was an entrÃ©e cook on the ill-fated voyage, which ended with the liner sinking on April 15, 1912....	15th July 2009
Berkshire Eagle	TITANIC TAMPERING WITH GOWN Trevor Jones A 1909 black, sequined evening gown its owner says is worth at least $3,000. Sometime last month, where it was kept at the Mason Library in Great Barrington, it was damaged. A tear in the fabric. Sequins missing. And with no clear culprit, the owners claim a library employee vandalized the vintage dress. Town officials retort that it's just as likely the owners are at fault. ...	17th July 2009
Voyage	MUSGRAVE John P. Eaton On October 1911, when Titanic was moved from the deep water wharf to the Alexandra Wharf to clear a convenient mooring for the incoming Olympic, the move was accomplished with the assistance of the ...	12th December 2004
Voyage	COLLINGWOOD John P. Eaton (Akties Collingwood) (Zernichow & O. Gotaas) Arrived at Belfast ( Musgrave Channel) 16 October 1908 from Bangkok via the Azores carrying a cargo of teak wood logs which in a finished sta...	28th November 2004
	HARLAND AND WOLFF PHOTOGRAPHER CELEBRATED IN NEW TITANIC EXHIBITION Celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the launch of RMS Titanic will begin on Thursday with the opening of a major photographic exhibition....
	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...
New York Times	MRS. A. H. RICE DIES IN A PARIS STORE New York and Newport Society Woman, Wife of Explorer, Noted for Philanthropy --- A SURVIVOR OF TITANIC --- Lost First Husband and Son in Disaster---Gave Library to Harvard University --- Special Cable to THE ...	14th July 1937
New York Times	BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD BIG SHIPS EASY TO BUILD --- Only Limited by Docks and Channel, Says English Yard Manager --- Among the passengers who arrived yesterday on the White Star steamship Celtic was the Right Hon. Alexander M. Carlisle...	11th July 1910
New York Times	WALDMANS SEEK DIVORCE Mother of Children Who Fell to Death Here Sues in Paris --- Copyright by The Chicago Tribune Co. --- PARIS, Nov. 27---Mrs. Barbara Guggenheim Waldman, whose two children were killed in a thirteen-story fall from the roof o...	28th November 1929
	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...
	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...
L'Eclaireur de Nice et du Sud-Ouest	MORT DE M. GOLDENBERG FONDATEUR DU FLAMBEAU FRANCO-AMERICAIN C’est avec un vif regret que nous apprenons le décès, survenu hier, de M. Sam Goldenberg, président-fondateur du Flambeau franco-américain. M. Goldenberg, citoyen américain, était âgé de 73 ans. C...	12th October 1936
New York Times	TWO MEN HURT ON OLYMPIC President Ismay Sails on Her to Return on New Titanic...	25th January 1912
The Times	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
Unidentified Newspaper	WIFE OF STATE FARM FOUNDER DIES AT 80 MRS. MECHERLE SURVIVOR OF ILL-FATED TITANIC Mrs. Sylvia Mecherle, 80, widow of the founder of State Farm Insurance Companies, died at 12:36 a.m. Thursday at Brokaw Hospital, where she had been a patient for 14 months. Her fu...	15th January 1965
Croydon Times	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
Chicago Tribune	NEWS OF THE SOCIETY WORLD : MRS. RYERSON RETURNING One of the many evidences of Mrs. Marshall Field’s loyalty to Chicago, in spite of nearly a decade spent away from here, is that she has always kept her box for the symphony concerts and has never failed to fill it with friends at each after...	13th October 1913
Voyage	ALEXANDRA John P. Eaton Alexandra Towing Co., Ltd. Alexandra assisted during Titanic’s launch on 31 May, 1911 and during her sea trails Port of R...	14th November 2004
Voyage	ROYAL EDWARD John P. Eaton Canadian Northern Steamships, Ltd. Westbound Avonmouth to Halifax. On 8 April encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the subsequent Titanic disaster site : 42 degrees 50’N, 49 degrees 30’W to 42 degrees 30’N 50 degrees 1...	10th May 2005
Voyage	GLENDUN John P. Eaton GLENDUN (Antrim Iron Ore Co., LTD.) On Sunday, December 10th, 1909, the immense stern framing of Titanic was transported from Darlington Forge Company’s works at Darlington by the North Eastern Railway...	26th October 2004
New York Times	STEAM PUMP HAS GOOD YEAR Two-thirds of the Business Was Done in Last Half of the Period --- President Benjamin Guggenheim of the International Steam Pump Company in his annual report to the stockholders says that abou...	12th May 1910
	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...
	FAMILY INFORMATION : GEORGE PELHAM George Pelham was one of six children, having four sisters and one brother: Thomas Walter (born Jan [1867]?), Ann (born 1 April 1869), Caroline (born 26 July 1872), George was next, Elizabeth (born 26 October 1875) and Louis...	11th August 2005
New York Times	HOKAN B. STEFFANSON DIES AT 78; FINANCIER WAS ON THE TITANIC Page 45, columns 2-3 Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, a financier, died Monday night at Doctor's Hospital after a long illness. His age was 78 and he lived at 56 East Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Steffanson was a survivor of t...	23rd May 1962
New York Times	LORD MERSEY DIES IN HIS 90TH YEAR Regarded as the Grand Old Man of the English Legal Profession --- HEADED SHIPPING INQUIRIES --- Presided at Investigation into the Lusitania, Titanic and Other Disasters --- Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES...	4th September 1929
Daily Chronicle	LAST WILL & TESTAMENT LOST ON TITANIC In the High Court of Justice Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division (Before the Rt. Hon. Samuel Evans, President) In the goods of S. S. Jacobsohn, deceased. page 3 This was a motion by a wid...	23rd July 1912
New York Times	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
Titanic Research	THE FLEECING OF HUGH WOOLNER Senan Molony Thomas Woolner...	4th February 2007
Gare Maritime	THE LOSS OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA Jim Kalafus The worst wreck, in terms of verifiable fatalities, on the North American west coast...	3rd December 2006
Progress	PORT SUNLIGHT Progress : the Journal of Lever Brothers Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Tit...	July 1912
The Times	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...	24th November 1902
	MARIA PANULA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH Maria Panula and her husband Juha Panula on their wedding day 14 Feb. 1892...	19th September 2011
	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)....
Progress - the Journal of Lever Brothers	PORT SUNLIGHT DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY ASSOCIATED Port Sunlight was directly and indirectly associated with the great suspense, and subsequent sorrow, which thrilled this country and the world when the new and gigantic White Star Liner Titanic heir of all the ages of constructive ...	July 1912
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea News	CHRISTOPHER HEAD A former Mayor of Chelsea was among the 1,523 lost in the Titanic disaster of April 1912. Christopher Head served as Mayor between 1909 and 1911 and had been a Conservative councillor since 1906. According to contemporary accounts, Head wa...	April 1998
New York Times	SEALED ASTOR PAPERS FILED Rockland County Sends Them to Dutchess---Everything Secret --- Special to The New York Times --- POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Nov. 10---The sealed papers in the divorce action of Ava Willing Astor against John Jacob Astor were fil...	11th November 1909
New York Times	MARY GARDEN'S SIDE IN SUIT Bill for Gowns "Outrageous," Her Lawyer Wrote Lucille, Ltd. --- A statement in behalf of Mary Garden was made yesterday by her attorney, Jacob Klein, concerning the suit filed against her in the Supreme Court on Tuesday by Lucille, Ltd...	22nd May 1919
New York Times	KARL H. BEHR DIES; DILLON, READ AIDE Page 87, column 3 Vice President of Banking Firm for 24 Years Once Known as Leading Tennis Player. Karl H. Behr, vice president of Dillon, Read & Co., bankers, 28 Nassau Street, who was one of the country's leading tenni...	16th October 1949
New York Times	MRS. M. S. WALDMAN WINS PARIS DIVORCE Two Other American Women Also Receive Decrees From the French Courts --- TRAGIC ACCIDENT RECALLED --- Waldman Children Fell to Death From Penthouse Apartment Here in October, 1928 --- PARIS, Feb. 25 (AP)---Th...	26th February 1930
Unidentified Newspaper	SAMUEL L. GOLDENBERG, TITANIC SURVIVOR, DIES This article was published at the time of Sam Goldenberg's death, in October 1936. The paper is unidentified, it could be The Herald Tribune, a paper published in Paris in English, for the English speaking community in France. ...	1936
New York Times	THE LOSS OF JAMES CLINCH SMITH Amid the maelstrom of mourning in connection with the recent disaster, (which was indeed "Titanic,") the city press seems to have overlooked the loss of one of our most estimable citizens. I refer to Mr. James Clinch Smith, a bro...	24th April 1912
Telegraph.co.uk	RUSTY KEY TO FETCH £50,000 AT TITANIC AUCTION A rusty key, which enabled the Titanic's crew to try to rescue hundreds of mail bags from the sinking ship, is expected to fetch more than £50,000 at an upcoming auction.The key was for the door of a staff stairwell which was opened so that the crew could start unloading the mail from the bowels of the ship....	11th April 2009
The Shields Gazette	PHYLLIS COULD HAVE DIED ON TITANIC, BUT LIVED TO 102 A WOMAN whose life was almost cut short has died after reaching the grand old age of 102. Five-year-old Phyllis Ray should have been a passenger on the ill-fated Titanic as her family set out to start a new life in America....	30th April 2009
Belfast Titanic Society	CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC'S LAUNCH BELFAST TITANIC SOCIETY COMMEMORATES CENTENARY OF RMS OLYMPIC’S LAUNCH The Belfast Titanic Society will mark 100 years since the launch of Titanic’s sister ship, RMS Olympic with a short ceremony on ...	14th October 2010
New York Times	MISS ASTOR TO WED RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN He Was Recently Divorced From One of the Daughters of Czar Alexander II --- ONE OF ANCIENT LINE --- Bride-to-Be Is Daughter of the Late John Jacob Astor of New York --- Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES...	4th July 1924
Boston Daily Globe	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
BBC News	LAST TITANIC SURVIVOR DIES AT 97 The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic has died aged 97....	31st May 2009
	TITANIC RELIEF FUND MINUTE BOOK (From: Mansion House Titanic Relief Fund Booklet, March 1913) Number 102. Foster, Elizabeth Ann, mother. Foster, Mary, widow. Children: Vera and Leah. All class G dependants. (From the Titanic Relief Fund Minute Book number 2, S...
	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...
Chronicles of the Cumming Club (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
	CAPTAIN LUDWIG STULPING OF THE S.S. BIRMA Senan Molony CAPTAIN Ludwig Stulping (Liudvikas Stulpinas) was born on December 4, 1871 in Zarenai parish, Jomantai, Lithuania. He would be 40 at the time of the Titanic disaster. ...	28th December 2006
Philadelphia Inquirer	J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found dead, his wrists and throat cut, in a parked automobile near the P....	23rd September 1945
Titanic Research	TRUE SURVIVORS Brian J. Ticehurst ...	14th April 2007
	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
New York Times	HAROLD SANDERSON, SHIPPING MAN, DIES Former Head of International Merchant Marine Stricken While in North of Italy --- DIRECTED WHITE STAR LINE --- Came From a Family of Leaders in Maritime Matters Both Here and in England --- Special Cable to T...	27th February 1932
Philadelphia Inquirer	JOHN B. "JACK" THAYER III:OBITUARY J.B. THAYER, 3D, ENDS LIFE IN AUTO John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania and a member of an old Philadelphia family, who had been reported missing since Wednesday, was found d...	23rd September 1945
	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...
	E. J. SMITH, COPTIC AGROUND AND RIO---TWO OUT OF THREE AIN'T BAD? Mark Baber E. J. Smith, Coptic Aground and Rio---Two out of three ain’t bad? There are several standard White Star history volumes which associate E. J. Smith...
Titanic Research	LORD MERSEY— OBITER DICTA Senan Molony HERBERT Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister, told the House of Commons at the beginning of May 1912 that the Court of Inquiry to be presided over by Lord Mersey would afford “the best means of arriving at a conclusion with...	13th March 2005
New York Times	VINCENT ASTOR AS HEAD OF HIS FAMILY Would Probably Share $100,000,000 Estate With Stepmother in Event of His Father's Death --- IS NOT YET 21 YEARS OF AGE --- Settlement of $10,000,000 Upon Col. Astor's First Wife Believed to Comprise His Daughter's Share...	17th April 1912
Santa Barbara News-Press	RUTH BLANCHARD DIES, WAS SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Ruth Becker Blanchard, a survivor of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, died Friday at home in Santa Barbara. She was 90. Mrs. Blanchard died of complications of a stomach ulcer and old age, said Don Lynch, spokesman for the Titanic Hist...	8th July 1990
Le Patriote Républicain de la Savoie	A GREAT BRITISH JOURNALIST LE PATRIOTE REPUBLICAIN DE LA SAVOIE Sunday 28 April 1912 A GREAT BRITISH JOURNALIST Amongst « Titanic »’s missing passengers, says Le Cri de Paris, one of those whose death will be most regretted will be W.-T. Stea...	28th April 1912
	DOWN WITH THE OLD CANOE Dorsey Murdock Dixon (14 October 1897 - 17 April 1968) - Guitar, Vocals Howard Dixon (19 June 1903 - 24 March 1961) - Steel Guitar Dorsey Dixon and his younger brother Howard were born in the South Carolina mill town of Darli...	25th January 1938