Dr Ernest Moraweck
- Biography
| Name: Dr Ernest Moraweck
Born: 1858 Age: 54 years Last Residence: in Frankfort United States Occupation: Doctor 2nd Class passenger First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912 Ticket No. 29011 , £14 Destination: Frankfort United States Died in the sinking. Body Not Recovered |
Dr Ernest Moraweck was born in [?February] 1858 in [?Davenport], Iowa to Anton Moraweck (1828-1906) and Claudine (Klaudina) Kroboth Moraweck (originally from Zabrez, Moravia, 1834-1892). He was the oldest of three children, the others being Claudine, born 1867, and Alvin, born 1876.
Shortly after Ernest was born, the family moved to Tell City, Perry County, Indiana where Anton and Claudine owned and operated a hotel, first called the Steiner House, and later the Hotel Moraweck.
The following excerpt is from the book, Perry County - A History:
| By his [Anton Moraweck's] marriage, May 13, 1856, to Claudine Kroboth, three children were born of whom the eldest became a physician of international reputation. Dr Ernest Moraweck was a specialist whose authority carried weight in the clinics of Vienna and Berlin no less than the United States, and it was while returning from one of his frequent voyages across the Atlantic that he lost his life in the tragic sinking of the Titanic, April 15, 1912. His wife, Amelia Basler of Tell City, had died several years earlier, no offspring resulting from the marriage. |
In April 1912 Moraweck was living in Frankfort, KY. He boarded the Titanic at Southampton. During the voyage he shared a dining saloon table with Kate Buss. After the collision Dr Morawick met Kate and he offered to investigate the reason for the engines stopping.
Dr Morawick died in the sinking. In his will, dated 18 May 1904, in Louisville, Kentucky, Ernest left his worldly goods to his sister Claudina Coldewey (nee Moraweck), and his brother Alvin.
Notes
The name Moraweck has been written many ways, including Marawetz
(as on the ship list showing the arrival in America of Ernest's father)
and Morawick. However, the most common, and the one that appears
on the wills of both Ernest and his father and on the tombstones of his
parents, in Tell City, Indiana is Moraweck.
References
Thomas James De La Hunt (1980) Perry County - A History. Cook &
McDowell, Pub., 719 E. 6th Street, Owenboro, Kentucky 42301.
Acknowledgements
Duane F. Gerstenberger
Related Articles and Documents
| Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville KY (1912) | DR. ERNEST MORAWECK NOW COUNTED AMONG THE DEAD |
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