Mr Philipp Edmund Mock, was born in New York City on 16 August 1881 the son of German immigrants Richard and Emma Mock. Richard Mock died in New York City in 1905. Philipp studied art in Europe and attended Suwanee University. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He also served in the U. S. Armed Forces during the Spanish-American war.
Mr Mock was travelling home on Titanic, with his sister, Emma Schabert. Both were rescued in lifeboat 11.
Following the disaster Mock married Alvis Ehrman who was born February 3, 1881 and died in August of 1963. The couple, who were childless, resided in New York, where Mr Mock became involved in banking, as well piano manufacturing. The couple moved from New York to Florida in 1935, where Mr Mock began instructing art at The Casements in Ormond.
He had memberships in the Ormond Golf and Country Club and the Alpine Mountain Club in Switzerland.
Philipp Mock passed away on 16 June 1951, at the Halifax District Hospital, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. His body was forwarded to the Carey Hand Crematory.
His remains are interred at Oak Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama (Block 9, Lot 57).
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There seems to be a typing error because C78 is also listed as the cabin the Minahan party (husband, wife and sister) occupied. I think Mr Mock most probably was in the same cabin as his sister, Mrs Schabert, C28.
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