Miss Jean Gertrude Hippach
- Biography
| Name: Miss Jean Gertrude Hippach
Born: Sunday 30th September 1894 Age: 17 years Marital Status: Single. Last Residence: in Chicago Illinois United States 1st Class passenger First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 111361 , £57 19s 7d Cabin No.: B18 Rescued (boat 4) Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912 Died: Thursday 14th November 1974 Cause of Death: Cancer Buried: Rose Hill Cemetery Chicago Illinois United States |
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Miss Jean Gertrude Hippach, 16, was born in Chicago, IL, the daughter of Louis Albert Hippach and Ida Sophia Fischer.
Jean had been touring Europe with her mother. They boarded the Titanic in Cherbourg as first class passengers. They occupied cabin B-18.
Jean slept through the collision, awaking when the steam began roaring through the funnels.
Jean and her mother were rescued in Lifeboat 4.
They returned to their home in Chicago where Jean married a Mr Unander-Scharin and continued to live in Evanston, Illinois. She was later divorced and lived out her life near the town of Osterville, Massachusetts. She was the mother of one son and two daughters. Her son, Howard H. Scharin was born in Chicago April 30, 1921 and died in Creston, North Carolina on January 26, 1996. Her daughter Louise Moss still resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and daughter Jean Spalding now resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Travelling Companions (on same ticket)
Mrs Ida Sophia Hippach
References and Sources
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts Standard Certificate of Death
Chicago Daily Tribune (Illinois), 17 April 1912
Passport Application, Bureau of Citizenship, Jan 18 1912
Credits
Phillip Gowan, USA
Homer Thiel, USA
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| New York Times (1922) | FIND HEADQUARTERS OF CHICAGO GUNMEN | |
| New York Times (1940) | CHICAGO'S GLAZERS ACCUSED ON PRICES | |
| New York Times (1946) | JEAN SCHARIN ENGAGED | |
| New York Times (1952) | MRS. LOUISE JONES WED IN BAY STATE | |
| New York Times (1953) | MRS. LOUISE U.-S. JONES IS ENGAGED TO MARRY |
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