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Philadelphia Inquirer	LOIS THAYER OF ROSEMONT; ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS Lois Thayer, 82, a member of a prominent Philadelphia family, died Saturday a the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She lived at 103 Airdale Rd., Rosemont, PA. The former Lois Buchanan Cassatt, she was a great-great-niece of Jame...	26th June 1977
Philadelphia Inquirer	THAYER WATCH FOUND IN HOME A gold watch, reported missing following the discovery of the body of John B. Thayer, 3d, financial vice president of the University of Pennsylvania , in his parked automobile last Friday, mysteriously turned up at his home yesterday. A f...	22nd September 1945
	REDWOOD : THE HOME OF JOHN B. THAYER "Redwood" the Estate of John B. Thayer, Vice President, Pennsylvania Railroad. This was located on Cheswold Lane, Haverford, Pennsylvania. ...
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
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
New York Times	COL. WILSON POTTER Big-Game Hunter Obtained Heads for Smithsonian Institution --- PHILADELPHIA, June 12 (AP)---Col. Wilson Potter, big-game hunter and University of Pennsylvania football star in 1906 and 1907, died last night at his home here after a long...	13th June 1946
	HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL Wall plaque at the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Harry Elkins Widener A Graduate Of This University Born January 3, 1885 Died At Sea April 15, 1912 ...	May 2008
New York Times	MRS. LOUISE U.-S. JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY Mrs. J. Hippach Unander-Scharin of Wianno, Mass., formerly of Chicago and Lake Forest, Ill., has announced here the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, to John Maclay Mirkil, son of William I. Mirkil of Meadowlane Farm, New...	26th August 1953
Chicago Examiner	LAKE SHIP FLAGS LOWERED Placed at Half-Mast in Memory of President J. B. Thayer Duluth, April 20--Flags were placed at half-mast on all ships of the Anchor Line in the harbor here today, out of respect for President J. B. Thayer of that lin...
Philadelphia Inquirer	MRS. JOHN B. THAYER Mrs. John B. Thayer, widow of John B. Thayer, prominent Philadelphian and Pennsylvania Railroad official, died yesterday on the 32nd anniversary of her husband's death in the Titanic disaster. She was 72. When the Titanic sunk on April 14,...	15th April 1944
New York Times	HENRY SLEEPER HARPER Henry Sleeper Harper was about 42 years old and lives at 131 East Twenty-first Street. He is the son of Joseph Wesley Harper, a member of the old firm of Harper & Brothers, which gave way in 1900 to the present publishing house of that name. Mr. Har...	16th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. EMMA W. BUCKNELL Widow of University Founder Dies at Saranac Lake Camp --- Special to The New York Times --- SARANAC INN, N. Y., June 28.---Mrs. Emma Ward Bucknell, 75 years old, widow of William Bucknell, founder of Bucknell University, d...	29th June 1927
Daily Telegraph	TITANIC FOR MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - 1910 VISION Passengers to take railway connection to New York...	27th October 1910
Chicago Tribune	THIRD SUICIDE IN FAMILY MYSTERY Northwestern ‘U’ Student Kills Himself Two years ago Dr. John R. Minahan, wealthy and prominent surgeon of Green Bay, Wis., was summoned to Chicago. His oldest son, John Jr., had ended his life in a frat...	20th February 1925
New York Times	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	DEATH NOTICE SMITH---James Clinch, lost on the Titanic, April 15. Memorial services will be held at St. James's Church, St. James, L. I., Saturday, May 11, at 3:30. Train leaves Pennsylvania Station at 1:25 P. M....	9th May 1912
Philadelphia Inquirer	THAYER FAMILY GETS BACK MISSING WATCH Timepiece, Gone when Body was Found, Returned Mysteriously The missing gold watch of John B. Thayer, 3d, who was found dead in his parked automobile last Friday, has turned up. The watch was missing when Thayer's...	24th September 1945
	HARRY ELKINS WIDENER MEMORIAL LIBRARY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
9news.com	MOLLY BROWN'S 144TH BIRTHDAY JUBILEE - 9NEWS.COM This Sunday, a family-friendly birthday bash is planned for the Denver icon and Titanic survivor at her namesake house and museum on Pennsylvania Street. Molly Brown has been the subject of many books, movies and stage productions, ......	12th July 2011
New York Times	MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE Church in Barnstable Is Scene of Marriage to John Maclay Mirkil, Marine Ex-Officer --- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- BARNSTABLE, Mass., Sept. 19---Mrs. Louise Unander-Scharin Jones, daughter of Mrs. J. Hippach Unander...	20th September 1952
Minneapolis Star Tribune	WHAT REALLY SANK THE TITANIC? Tim Foecke grew up in Edina and Howard Lake and earned B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in material science and engineering from the University of Minnesota....	11th June 2009
The Times	CALLS TO THE BAR The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the degree of the Utter Bar:--- By the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple. John Charles Bigham, Esq., of the University of Lodon...	11th June 1870
New York Times	JEAN SCHARIN ENGAGED Chicago Girl Will Be Married to Edward Cudahy Spalding ---- Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES --- CHICAGO, Feb. 21---Announce has been made by Mrs. J. Hippach Unander Scharin of this city of the eengagement [sic] of her daught...	22nd February 1946
New York Times	ACTRESS SUES DE CAMP Horace S. De Camp, who married the widow of Daniel V. [sic] Marvin, one of the victims of the Titanic disaster, a year ago, has been sued by Miss Florence E. Clark, an actress, for $50,000 for breach of promise. Yesterday an application was made in ...	19th December 1914
	GENERAL INFORMATION Kantor, Mr. Sehua. Missing. Aged 34 years. Of Moscow Russia, en route to 1735 Madison Avenue, New York. To study medicine. Was also a commission agent and was importing several trunks of valuable furs, he was a university graduate....
New York Times	MRS. POTTER GETS GIMBEL AWARD PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28 (AP)---Mrs. Thomas Potter Jr., an active Red Cross worker since 1916, has received the eighth annual Gimbel Award presented to “Philadelphia’s outstanding woman of 1939.” Mrs. Potter, secretary of the Southeastern Pennsylvania ...	29th December 1939
	GENERAL INFORMATION KANTOR, MRS. MARTIN. Saved in Lifeboat number 10. c/o City Office. Wife of Sinai Kantor. A University graduate in dentistry. Lived with cousins in New York City....
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review	CARNEGIE SCIENCE CENTER SEEKS LOCAL TITANIC CONNECTIONS The Carnegie Science Center today put out a call seeking local connections to the doomed RMS Titanic. On May 24, the North Shore Science Center will open Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, featuring a recovered piece of the ship's hull and more than 260 artifacts. Western Pennsylvania RMS Titanic descendants are asked to tell their family histories by sending an e-mail....	15th May 2008
New York Times	HARVARD'S LARGEST CLASS GRADUATED Degrees for 1,205 Students at the University’s 274th Commencement --- LOWELL TALKS ON WAR --- Says Conflict Imposes Burden Upon Us---Widener Memorial Library Is Dedicated --- Special to The New York Times...	25th June 1915
CBC.ca	TITANIC DISSOLVING FASTER THAN EXPECTED ENGINEER The Titanic is disintegrating faster than previously thought says a Dalhousie University engineer who predicts researchers have about 15 years before natural bacteria dissolve most of the shipwreck....	6th December 2010
FOXNews.com	AMERICAN RESEARCHERS DISPUTE CLAIMS OF 'POLITE' TITANIC VICTIMS American researchers are firing back at a Swiss university researcher's report that 'politeness' led to the deaths of 225 British passengers aboard the Titanic....	23rd January 2009
	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...
	PERSONAL INFORMATION Miss Hildur Elisabeth Hirvonen, 2, was born in Finland on 15th February 1910 as the daughter of Alexander Hirvonen and Helga Elisabeth Lindqvist. She lived in Taalintelidas, Finland. Hildur boarded as a third class passenger at Southa...	1912
Vallejo Times-Herald	'TITANIC' CREW READY TO DOCK AND ROLL Capt. Edward John Smith was 62 with white beard. Joe Harney is 28 and clean-shaven. No matter. When the recent University of California, Davis graduate dons faux facial fur, jacket replete with medals and sword, he'll be the doomed skipper of the "Titanic."...	5th October 2007
Nashville City Paper	¢&EURO;ËœTITANIC' SETS SAIL WITH HELP OF LOCAL COLLEGE STUDENTS When the curtain rises on Circle Players' new production of Titanic: The Musical, audiences will experience all the engaging drama you might expect of this harrowing tale. But we'll also enjoy a bit of theater magic, courtesy of four Tennessee State University engineering students....	19th January 2009
	THE DOUGLASES REMEMBERED BY NIECE Ellen Williamson, niece to the Douglases, wrote a book published by Iowa State University Press: "When We Went First Class, a recollection of good times". She decribes her uncle and aunt's experience on the ship, but also on the Nomadic in Cherbourg....
	HARRY ELKINS WIDENER LIBRARY Exterior, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Endowed by his mother Eleanor, and opened in 1915....	May 2008
Evening Bulletin	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
Sunderland Echo	WEATHERMAN SEARCHES FOR CLUES TO TITANIC SINKING Titanic investigators have enlisted a Wearside expert to help reveal the weather conditions during the doomed liner's final voyage. Sunderland University climatologist Dennis Wheeler has made a name examining ships' logs dating back to the seventeenth century to understand weather patterns....	30th July 2007
	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
Kerry Sentinel	THE TITANIC'S TRALEE DOCTOR FRIENDS TO HONOUR HIS MEMORY Queenstown, Monday. It is a pleasure to know that the many memorials which are to be raised in connection with the Titanic disaster, the popular Irish physician, Dr F N O'Loughlin is not to be forgot...	25th May 1912
Fulton County Daily Report	LAW PROFESSOR HELPS ATLANTA COMPANY BECOME SOLE OWNER OF TITANIC ARTIFACTS With special thanks to Emory University law professor David J. Bederman, an Atlanta company can now make, with a high degree of certainty, this claim: Artifacts recovered from the Titanic wreck site are theirs, all theirs....	8th August 2007
Camden Post-Telegram	MR. SUTTON'S BODY TO BE SENT HOME Dr. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, in Halifax to Care for Corpse of Titanic Victim -- WIDENER'S BODY IS BURIED AT SEA --- Dr. F. H. Tomlin, of Haddonfield, is in Halifax, N. S., to receive the body of Frederick Sutt...	27th April 1912
New York Times	MRS. ELOISE HUGHES SMITH REWEDS HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Apr. 10---Mrs. Eloise Hughes Smith, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, to whom a divorce was granted a month ago from Robert P. Daniel of Philadelphia, another survivor of the same disaster, was married Saturday at Ironton, Ohio,...	11th April 1923
New York Times	R. NORRIS WILLIAMS 2D, TENNIS TITLIST, DEAD AT 77 Survivor of Titanic's Sinking Was on 7 Davis Cup Teams---Pennsylvania Historian --- Special to The New York Times --- PHILADELPHIA, June 3---R. Norris Williams 2d, former national tennis champion and a survivor of the sin...	4th June 1968
New York Times	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
iccoventry	?100M TOURIST CENTRE WILL BE TRULY TITANIC THE man behind the Titanic Heritage Trust, based in Coventry, has announced ambitious plans for a ?100 million tourist centre dedicated to the doomed liner.Howard Nelson, founder of the trust, based at Coventry University Technology Park, in Puma Way, Parkside, said he was "very determined" to make the plans a reality. ...	13th September 2006
New York Times	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 ...	29th October 1910
com	UTTER LUNACY! SCIENTISTS CLAIM MOON SANK THE TITANIC Did the heavens conspire to sink the Titanic? A couple of US astronomers argue just that, saying a “supermoon event ” may have dislodged the iceberg which sank history’s most famous cruise liner. It might seem hard to believe, but Olson David and Russell Descher, two Texas State University astronomers, say an out-of-this-world lunar event really might have sparked the chain of events that sank the RMS Titanic on April 15 1912....	9th March 2012
Western Morning News	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

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