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Mr Erik Gustaf Collander : 2nd Class Passengers

Summary
Born: Saturday 19th April 1884
Age: 27 years
Last Residence: in Helsinki Finland
2nd Class passenger
First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 248740 , £13
Destination: Ashtabula Ohio United States
Died in the sinking.
Body Not Recovered

Mr Erik Gustaf Collander

Mr Erik Gustaf Collander, 28, from Helsinki, Finland, was the son of Dr Paul Collander.

Erik Collander was trained as an engineer and worked as technical director at a large paper mill near Helsiki.

Collander left Finland on April 1, 1912. He was travelling to the United States on a pleasure trip and to study. According to the Ohio newspapers he had planned a surprise visit his cousin, Dr. Paul J. Collander of Ashtabula, Ohio.

Collander boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger and perished in the disaster, his body, if recovered, was never identified.

References
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 20 April 1912
Ashtabula Beacon (Ohio), 20 April 1912
Claes-Göran Wetterholm (1988, 1996, 1999) Titanic. Prisma, Stockholm. ISBN 91 518 3644 0

Acknowledgements
Leif Snellman, Finland
Homer Thiel, USA