And another - Helen Churchill Hungerford

She was a survivor of the Titanic sinking.

Mrs Edward Candee (Helen Churchill Hungerford), 53, was born in New York City on October 5, 1859 the daughter of Henry Hungerford and Mary E. Churchill. She was educated in various private schools in New Haven and Norwalk, CT. She married Edward Candee and had one daughter, Edith, who married Harold C. Mathews.

Helen considered herself to be an author and lectured on the Liberal Arts and the Orient. Among her writings were: "Susan Truslow" in 1900, "An Oklahoma Romance" in 1901, "How Women May Earn a Living" in 1900, "Decorative Styles and Periods" in 1906, "The Tapestry Book" in 1912, "Angkor, the Magnificent" in 1924, "New Journeys In Old Asia" in 1927, and "Weaves and Draperies" in 1931. She was decorated by the government of French-Indo China in 1929 and was a member of the India Society of London as well as the Les Amis de l'Orient of Paris.

Mrs Candee boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a first class passenger. She was travelling to Washington DC. She was rescued in lifeboat 6. She had given an antique cameo of her mother to Edward A. Kent for safekeeping as she thought he would have a better chance of surviving the sinking than she did. Although Mr Kent died, his body was recovered and the cameo was found in his clothing and returned to Mrs Candee. She was a strikingly beautiful woman and Archibald Gracie included her in his "Our Coterie" group.

Mrs Candee died in York, York County, Maine on August 23, 1949.

There is a long illustrated biography here:
http://www.encyclopedia-t...nica.org/lifes_decor.html

A fifth family connection - Esther Royce was my first cousin, 9 times removed. The three passengers at the end of this report descend from her.


Descendants of Esther Royce


Generation No. 1

1. ESTHER3 ROYCE (NEHEMIAH2, ROBERT1) was born 1677. She married JOHN BULL. He was born 1670, and died 19 Apr 1705 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT.

Child of ESTHER ROYCE and JOHN BULL is:
2. i. THOMAS4 BULL, b. 22 Oct 1699, Farmington, Hartford Co., CT; d. 1770, Farmington, Hartford Co., CT.


Generation No. 2

2. THOMAS4 BULL (ESTHER3 ROYCE, NEHEMIAH2, ROBERT1) was born 22 Oct 1699 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT, and died 1770 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT. He married THANKFUL BUTLER. She died 06 Jul 1734 in West Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.

Child of THOMAS BULL and THANKFUL BUTLER is:
3. i. SAMUEL5 BULL, b. 26 Feb 1722, Connecticut; d. Oct 1799.


Generation No. 3

3. SAMUEL5 BULL (THOMAS4, ESTHER3 ROYCE, NEHEMIAH2, ROBERT1)1 was born 26 Feb 1722 in Connecticut, and died Oct 1799. He married JERUSHA HOPKINS. She was born 08 May 1725 in Connecticut, and died 19 Jun 1791.

Child of SAMUEL BULL and JERUSHA HOPKINS is:
4. i. JESSE6 BULL, b. 17 Oct 1767, Connecticut.


Generation No. 4

4. JESSE6 BULL (SAMUEL5, THOMAS4, ESTHER3 ROYCE, NEHEMIAH2, ROBERT1)2,3 was born 17 Oct 1767 in Connecticut. He married CHLOE BROCKETT4,5 08 Jul 1790. She was born 23 Nov 1766 in Connecticut, and died Abt. 1840.

Notes for JESSE BULL:
Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: Jesse Bull
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1757
Birth Location: Harwinton
Parent Name: Samuel
Parent Name: Jerusha

Early Connecticut Marriages
Early Connecticut Marriages: Sixth Book
North Haven
From Fair Haven Church Records
page 22
Jesse Bull & Chloe Brocket, July 8, 1790

Child of JESSE BULL and CHLOE BROCKETT is:
5. i. JESSE BROCKETT7 BULL, b. 16 Apr 1791, Connecticut; d. 25 Jul 1851.


Generation No. 5

5. JESSE BROCKETT7 BULL (JESSE6, SAMUEL5, THOMAS4, ESTHER3 ROYCE, NEHEMIAH2, ROBERT1)6 was born 16 Apr 1791 in Connecticut, and died 25 Jul 1851. He married ABIGAIL ANDERSON. She was born 25 Dec 1788 in Connecticut, and died 12 Nov 1842.

Notes for JESSE BROCKETT BULL:

Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: Jesse Bull
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 16 Apr 1791
Birth Location: Harwinton
Parent Name: Cloe

Child of JESSE BULL and ABIGAIL ANDERSON is:
6. i. SUSAN ABIGAIL8 BULL, b. 12 Jul 1826, Hartford, Hartford Co., CT; d. 12 Mar 1882, Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH.


Generation No. 6

6. SUSAN ABIGAIL8 BULL (JESSE BROCKETT7, JESSE6, SAMUEL5, THOMAS4, ESTHER3 ROYCE, NEHEMIAH2, ROBERT1)7 was born 12 Jul 1826 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT, and died 12 Mar 1882 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH. She married PAUL WICK7 10 Dec 1846 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH, son of HENRY WICK and HANNAH BALDWIN. He was born 01 Oct 1824 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH, and died 13 Jun 1890 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH.

Child of SUSAN BULL and PAUL WICK is:
7. i. GEORGE DENNICK9 WICK, b. 24 Jun 1854, Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH; d. 15 Apr 1912, At sea - Titanic.


Generation No. 7

7. GEORGE DENNICK9 WICK (SUSAN ABIGAIL8 BULL, JESSE BROCKETT7, JESSE6, SAMUEL5, THOMAS4, ESTHER3 ROYCE, NEHEMIAH2, ROBERT1)7 was born 24 Jun 1854 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH, and died 15 Apr 1912 in At sea - Titanic. He married (1) MARY CAROLINE CHAMBERLAIN7 01 Oct 1877 in Ohio. She was born 19 Feb 1860 in Cleveland, OH, and died 03 Mar 1893 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH. He married (2) MARY HITCHCOCK7,8 1896, daughter of WILLIAM HITCHCOCK. She was born 12 Oct 1866 in Ohio, and died 30 Jan 1920.

Notes for GEORGE DENNICK WICK:
Mr George Dennick Wick, 57, was born in Youngstown, Ohio on 24 June 1854, the son of Paul Wick and Susan Bull Wick.

George Wick was originally married to Mary Chamberlain (born 19 February 1861) and a daughter Mary Natalie Wick was born on 2 August 1880. George's wife Mary died on 2 March 1893 and in 1896 he married Mary Hitchcock, their son George D. Wick, Jr. was born in 1897.

The family on a tour of Europe, while in France they met Washington Roebling and Stephen Weart Blackwell who would also be aboard the Titanic on the voyage home.

George Wick boarded the Titanic in Southampton with his wife, daughter Natalie, his cousin's daughter Caroline Bonnell, and Elizabeth Bonnell. They travelled as first class passengers, the Wick's ticket was No. 36928 the fare was ú164 17s 4d.

Mr and Mrs Wick were in their cabin at the time of the collision. Natalie Wick and Caroline Bonnell came to the cabin to tell them that a crew member had advised them to put their life jackets on.

Mr Wick did not believe that anything could be wrong. "Why, that's nonsense, girls," he said, "This boat is all right. She's going along finely. She just got a glancing blow, I guess." The young women left and soon the Wicks were told to go to A deck. They went up and the two young women found them. After Caroline Bonnell brought her aunt Elizabeth Bonnell up, the group went up to Boat Deck.

The Wick and Bonnell ladies got into lifeboat 8. George Wick was last seen waving at them from the railing. He died in the sinking.

A memorial service was held in his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio on April 24, 1912. A family member travelled to Halifax, hoping to identify his body but it was never recovered.

Notes for MARY HITCHCOCK:
Mrs George Dennick Wick (Mary Hitchcock), 45, was born on 12th October 1866 in Ohio, the daughter of W. Hitchcock. The Hitchcocks owned iron works in Youngstown, Ohio.

Mary, known to her friends as Mollie, was the second wife (married 1896) of George Dennick Wick. George had a daughter Mary Natalie Wick from his previous marriage and on July 29, 1897 (in Youngstown) Mollie gave birth to a son George Dennick Wick, Jr. In 1900, George Jr. was living with his grandmother at her home on Wick Avenue in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio. He died in Brecksville, Ohio in April of 1971.

Mollie boarded the Titanic in Southampton travelling in first class with her husband, daughter Natalie Wick, her husband's cousin's daughter Caroline Bonnell, and Elizabeth Bonnell.

When the collision occurred, Mrs Wick thought that a boiler had exploded. They were in their stateroom when her daughter and Caroline Bonnell came to tell them that the Titanic had struck an ice berg. Mr Wick declared that nothing could be wrong. Later, a crewmember must have told them to put on their life preservers and go up on deck. There, they were met by Natalie and Caroline. Caroline went below to bring her aunt Elizabeth up on deck. Then the Wicks and Bonnells waited. The women were placed into lifeboat 8. Mollie Wick looked up and watched her husband stand at the rail and wave goodbye. They drifted about for five hours in the cold before being rescued by the Carpathia.

Mrs Wick's name was not on the initial lists of survivors and the Ohio newspapers speculated that she had died. George Jr. did not find out his mother had survived until several days after the sinking. He and William F. Bonnell were among the family members that travelled to New York City to meet the Carpathia. When they applied for tickets to enter the restricted area, they found that dozens of reporters had already claimed tickets as family members.

Mrs Wick refused to believe that her husband George was lost and remained in New York for several days with her family awaiting news.

Mollie Wick died on 30th January 1920.

Child of GEORGE WICK and MARY CHAMBERLAIN is:
i. MARY NATALIE10 WICK9, b. 02 Aug 1880, Youngstown, Mahoning Co., OH; d. 12 Oct 1944, England.

Notes for MARY NATALIE WICK:
Miss Mary Natalie Wick, 31, from Youngstown, OH boarded the Titanic at Southampton with her father George Dennick Wick and stepmother Mary Wick. She shared cabin C-7 with Caroline Bonnell.

Miss Wick, her mother and Miss Bonnell were rescued in lifeboat 8.

Natalie married Lt. Col. Thomas St. Aubyn Nevinson in 1916. She died on October 13, 1944 in England following surgery.



Endnotes

1. Connecticut Town Records (Barbour Collection).
2. Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records prior to 1800, (New Haven Co., CT: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1896-1906).
3. Connecticut Town Records (Barbour Collection).
4. Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records prior to 1800, (New Haven Co., CT: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1896-1906).
5. Brockett, Edward Judson, The descendants of John Brockett, one of the original founders of New Haven Colony, (East Orange, N.J.: unknown, 1905.).
6. Connecticut Town Records (Barbour Collection).
7. Encyclopedia Titanica, (Website), "Electronic."
8. ~U. S. Federal Census Data, 1870 Ohio, Mahoning, Youngstown.
9. Encyclopedia Titanica, (Website), "Electronic."

Thanks, Beth! Glad to know someone reads this stuff.

I connect with another family, a man, his wife, and their son. The notes for the man and those for his wife are very long, and some of it isn't very pleasant to read. These accounts bring the Titanic back into reality, unlike the recent glitzy movies about that disaster.

Warning - I wasn't kidding about the "long" part.

Notes for Washington Dodge

Dr Washington Dodge, was born in California in 1859, the son of M. T. Dodge and Eliza Rodgers.

Dr. Dodge was married to Ruth Vidaver. He had a son, Henry, from a previous marriage (1).

A prominant banker from San Francisco, California, Dodge boarded the Titanic at Southampton with his wife Ruth and Washington Dodge Jr their only son. Travelling as first class passengers, the family occupied cabin A-34 (ticket number 33638, £81 17s 2d).

Dr Dodge was rescued in lifeboat 13.

He later suffered a breakdown and shot himself, dying on 30th June, 1919.

DR. DODGE AND FAMILY MAY HAVE MISSED TITANIC
San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday 16 April 1912
Page 2

[Photo] Assessor Washington Dodge, Mrs. Washington Dodge

Relatives of Assessor Received Word That He Would Stop Over in Paris

Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning the "Chronicle" was notified by relatives of Washington Dodge that there was a strong probability that the City Assessor, who was reported lost with the male passengers of the Titanic, was still in Paris with his wife. His mother, Mrs. Eliza Dodge, who resides in Berkeley, stated she was sure her son and family are not among the ill-fated voyagers. Speaking for the mother, Robert Hayes Smith said to the "Chronicle": "We are confident that we will receive word from Paris...[missing] The Dodges are prominent socially in San Francisco, the marriage of Dr. Dodge to Mrs. Fontaine, widow of a French sugar magnate, seven years ago being a social event of prominence here. The boy, who accompanied them to Europe and was with them at the time...[missing] Harry Dodge, a son of Dr. Washington Dodge by a former marriage, is employed in San Francisco, and Miss Vida Fontaine, Mrs. Dodge's daughter by a former marriage, is now in school in San Mateo. Dr. Dodge and his family were returning from Europe after a short vacation. He had been under treatment of a specialist in Paris. Dr. Dodge was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors in 1896, and two years later he was elected Assessor. He has held that office since...[missing] Recently it was reported that he would retire the Assessorship upon his return here and accept the appointment as vice-president of the Anglo-California and London-Paris National Bank. Dr. Dodge was educated in California and graduated from the medical department of the University of California.

DR. DODGE AND HIS FAMILY ARE SAFE
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday 18 April 1912
Page 1

Assessor Sends Two Messages From Carpathia to His Son Here-- Mayor Wires Reply

Relieving the deep anxiety of his relatives and thousands of friends in this city, Dr. Washington Dodge, Assessor of San Francisco, yesterday sent two messages to his son, stating that he and the members of his family who were on board the Titanic are safe. Peculiar circumstances in the receipt of news of survivors on the Carpathia have kept the family's friends and relatives worried since the first word of the wreck. Dr. Dodge's name appeared on the first list of survivors and the fears for his safety were...[text missing]

WIRES SON OF SEFETY

The good news, settling all rumors at rest permanently, was received first at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the following message, addressed to Harry Dodge, care of the Pacific Hardware Company. It reads as follows:

"ABOARD CARPATHIA, April 17,--Harry Dodge, care Pacific Hardware Company, San Francisco--All well. Notify mother and sister. (Signed) "FATHER."

The second was received at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and reads:

"Harry Dodge, care Assessor's Office, San Francisco--All well. (Signed) "FATHER"

It is thought that his delay in notifying his family and friends of his safety was due partly to the fact that he was kept busy in his professional capacity as physician in caring for the other survivors, hundreds of whom undoubtedly are broken in spirit

MAYOR SENDS GREETINGS

News of Dr. Dodge's telegram was carried immediately to Mayor Rolph, who sent out the following message of congratulation eastward a few moments later:

"April 17, 1912.--Dr. Washington Dodge, care White State Steamship Company, New York city, N. Y.-- San Francisco, for the last forty-eight hours, has been sick at heart over the thought of your death in the terrible disaster of the ill-fated Titanic.

San Francisco's Assessor Tells Story of the Wreck of the Titanic
San Francisco Bulletin
Friday 19 April 1912
From Which He Escapes After Thrilling Experience

NEW YORK, April 19.-Dr. Washington Dodge of San Francisco, at the Hotel Wolcott here, gave the following account of the wreck:

"We had retired to our stateroom, and the noise of the collision was not at all alarming. We had just fallen asleep. My wife awakened me and said that something had happened to the ship. We went on deck and everything seemed quiet and orderly.
"The orchestra was playing a lively tune. They started to lower the lifeboats after a lapse of some minutes. There was little excitement

SHIP SEEMED SAFER.

"As the lifeboats were being launched, many of the first-cabin passengers expressed their preference of staying on the ship. The passengers were constantly being assured that there was no danger, but that as a matter of extra precaution the women and children should be placed in the lifeboats.
"Everything was still quiet and orderly when I placed Mrs. Dodge and the boy in the fourth or fifth boat. I believe there were 20 boats lowered away altogether. I did what I could to help in keeping order, as after the sixth or seventh boat was launched the excitement began.
"Some of the passengers fought with such desperation to get into the lifeboats that the officers shot them, and their bodies fell into the ocean.
"It was 10:30 when the collision occurred, and 1:55 o'clock when the ship went down," he said. "Major Archibald Butt stood with John Jacob Astor as the water rolled over the Titanic.

CAPTAIN WAS CALM.

I saw Colonel Astor, Major Butt and Captain Smith standing together about 11:30 o'clock. There was absolutely no excitement among them. Captain Smith said there was no danger.
"The starboard side of the Titanic struck the big berg and the ice was piled up on the deck. None of us had the slightest realization that the ship had received its death wound.
Mrs. [Isidor] Straus showed most admirable heroism. She refused in a very determined manner to leave her husband, although she was twice entreated to get into the boats. Straus declined with great for to get in the boat while any women were left.
"I wish you would say for me that Colonel Astor, Major Butt, Captain Smith and every man in the cabins acted the part of a hero in that awful night.
"As the excitement began I saw an officer of the Titanic shoot down two steerage passengers who were endeavoring to rush the lifeboats. I have learned since that twelve of the steerage passengers were shot altogether, one officer shooting down six. The first-cabin men and women behaved with great heroism."

OWES LIFE TO STEWARD.

One of the stewards of the Titanic, with whom Mrs. and Mrs. Dodge had crossed the Atlantic before on the Olympic, knew them well. He recognized Dodge as the thirteenth boat was being filled. The steerage passengers were being shot down and some of the steerage passengers were stabbing right and left in an endeavor to reach the boat.
The thirteenth boat was filled on one side with children, fully 20 or 30 of them, and a few women. All in the boat were panic-stricken and screaming. The steward had been ordered to take charge of the thirteenth, and, seizing Dodge, pushed him into the boat, exclaiming that he needed his help in caring for his helpless charges.
Dodge said that when the boats were drawing away from the ship they could hear the orchestra playing "Lead, Kindly Light," and rockets were going up from the Titanic in the wonderfully clear night. "We could see from the distance that two boats were being made ready to be lowered. The panic was in the steerage, and it was that portion of the ship that the shooting was made necessary.
"I will never forget," Mrs. Dodge said, "the awful scene of the great steamer as we drew away. From the upper rails heroic husbands and fathers were waving and throwing kisses to their womenfolk in the receding lifeboats."

DR. DODGE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday 22 June 1919
Page 1, column 3, continued page 2, column 2

EX-ASSESSOR FIRES BULLET THROUGH HEAD

Little Hope for His Recovery From Wound Inflicted in Garage Basement

ILLNESS BELIEVED CAUSE

Long Prominent Politically and in Financial Circles of City

Dr. Washington Dodge shot himself in the forehead at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the basement-garage of an apartment house at 840 Powell Street in which he made his home. He was removed to the St. Francis Hospital, and probably will die, in the opinion of Dr. John Gallwey and Dr. Theodore Rothers, who are attending him.
The bullet from Dr. Dodge's pistol fractured his skull and drove fragments of bone deep into the tissues of the brain, an X-ray examination showed. The skull was fractured a second time when Dr. Dodge fell to the cement floor of the garage.
A short time after the shooting Dodge revived, staggered into the automatic elevator that operates from the basement to the lobby of the apartment house, and pressed the button. The wounded many had neglected to close the door and the elevator did not move.
A porter on the first floor heard the buzzer.
"Close the door," he shouted down the shaft.
Dr. Dodge obeyed. A moment later the elevator reached the lobby, and, struggling to open the door, the wounded man fell forward on the floor.
"He said he wanted to go somewhere," the porter told Dr. Gallwey. "We couldn't make out very well what he was saying."
Dr. Dodge was removed to his apartment and the physicians were called. He was unable to speak coherently, although at intervals he was aroused from a condition of semi-consciousness.
Mrs. Dodge returned to her home a few minutes after her husband shot himself. She was prostrated.
Dr. Dodge had planned to accompany Mrs. Dodge to Santa Barbara this morning. She had left the apartment an hour before to make a number of purchases. Dr. Dodge's young son and his stepdaughter were in the house at the time of the shooting.
Friends of Dr. Dodge have been unable to determine how long he lay unconscious in the basement garage before the shooting was discovered. None heard the report of the pistol. He was very weak from loss of blood when he staggered from the elevator.
On the floor of the garage Dr. Gallwey and Dr. Rothers found a fragment of the bullet.
Dr. Dodge's condition made an operation inadvisable last night.
"Dr. Dodge has been ill more than a year," Dr. Gallwey said. "A month ago the illness became much more severe, and with it developed a bad mental state."
Washington Dodge has been a conspicuous figure in San Francisco for many years. Beginning life as a physician, he quickly reached a leading place in that profession and had a large practice. A liking for politics led him into the public service and he was elected a Supervisor in 1898. At the end of his term he was elected Assessor of San Francisco and was re-elected three times. After serving as Assessor fourteen years he resigned in 1912 to accept the vice-presidency of the Anglo and London Paris National Bank.
In the spring of 1912 he took passage for Europe on the ill-fated Titanic and was one of the survivors of that famous ocean tragedy when the vessel struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic, April 14.
In December, 1917, Dr. Dodge undertook to straighten out the tangled affairs of the Poulsen Wireless Corporation, which was operated by the Federal Telegraph Company. In this he was fairly successful, but the work required so much time that he resigned from the bank and gave it all his attention. His attorney, Gavin McNab, said last evening that a law suit connected with this affair so preyed upon his mind, because he thought it reflected on his honor, that it was undoubtedly the cause of the attempt on his life.
Dr. Dodge was born in Sonora, Tuolumne county, in 1859. He has been married twice and has a son by each wife. The elder is in business and the younger is twelve years old. He owns a fine ranch of 360 acres in Colusa county, where he intended to make his home.

DR. WASHINGTON DODGE TRIES SUICIDE; MAY DIE
San Francisco Examiner
Sunday 22 June 1919
Page 1, column 1, continued page 6, column 4

[Photo]

Mind of S.F. Leader Fails; Shoots Self

Former Assessor Uses Revolver in Garage at Home; Found by Wife; Taken to Hospital

Suit Brought in Connection With Poulsen Wireless Co. Is Held Responsible for Act

Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker and former Assessor of San Francisco, attempted suicide at 5 o'clock last night by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He is at the St. Francis Hospital and may die.
Strain and worry over litigation brought against him as the result of his connection with the Poulsen Wireless Company is said to have caused him to seek death.
The suicide attempt was made in the garage in the rear of his home at 840 Powell Street. He was found by his wife.
Gavin McNab, attorney and lifelong friend of Dr. Dodge, made the following statement on behalf of the family last night.
"The suit brought against Dr. Dodge by Tilden Tognazzini and Charles F. Leege, both vice-presidents of the Anglo California Trust Company, claiming that they bought stock of the Poulsen Wireless Company on the market because Dr. Dodge said it was good, is directly responsible for his act."
"They did not claim that they bought the stock through him, but I know that he felt that this was the first attack made upon his honor."
"Dr. Dodge cared nothing about the financial side of the suit, but the assault upon his good name overcame him. He collapsed under the strain and was suffering from temporary insanity."
The suit for $57,615 damages against Dr. Dodge was brought in Marin county. The complaint was unverified, according to McNab, and he had the suit transferred to this county. Dr. Dodge denied each of the charges under oath.
The suit was brought on January 15 of this year. Tognazzini and Leege charged that on the representation of Dr. Dodge they purchases 6,900 shares of Poulsen Wireless stock, paying the average of $11.35 per share. At the time of the purchase of the stock, between September, 1917, and August, 1918, the value of the stock, the plaintiffs claimed, was but $3 a share. Dr. Dodge, they stated in their suit, knew that the stock was not worth more at the time they purchased it.
Dr. Dodge's resignation as president of the Poulsen Wireless Company, followed on January 25.
In December, 1912, Dr. Dodge became president of the Federal Telegraph Company, holding the place until last January, when he resigned. At the time of his resignation it was rumored that he had been forced out, but this he denied. His resignation, he said, was voluntary, because he could not agree with his associates, E. W. Hopkins, vice president of the company, and John L. Deahl, a director, resigned at the same time.
Dr. Dodge is 60 years of age. He is a graduate of the medical department of the University of California. He entered political life for the first time in 1898, when he was elected supervisor. He was active in politics during the regime of Mayor James D. Phelan. Two years later Dr. Dodge was elected assessor, holding the position for four successive terms, when he retired to become vice president of the Anglo-London and Paris National Bank in April, 1913.
Dr. Dodge, his wife and their son, Washington Dodge, Jr., were on the White Star liner Titanic when she struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic off the Newfoundland banks in April, 1912. In the excitement that followed the crash, Mrs. Dodge and their son, who was then five years old, were placed in a lifeboat on the starboard side, while Dr. Dodge manned an oar in a lifeboat on the port side.
When the giant vessel broke in two and sank, Dr. Dodge believed that his wife and son had been lost. It was not until he was picked up by the steamship Carpathia on the following morning that he learned that his wife and son had been rescued and were passengers on the same vessel, having been picked up only a few hours before he was rescued.
Dr. Dodge, upon the advice of his physician, Dr. John Gallwey, was to have gone to Santa Barbara this morning for his health.
Besides his wife, Dr. Dodge has three children, Harry Dodge, who is in the import business in San Francisco; Washington Dodge, Jr., and Miss Vieda Dodge.

DR. DODGE STILL IN SERIOUS CONDITION
San Francisco Bulletin
Monday 23 June 1919
Page 4, column 3

Dr. Washington Dodge, who attempted suicide on Saturday night, is still in a critical condition at the St. Francis Hospital.
Dr. John Gallwey, who performed the operation, said that the bullet wound was comparatively insignificant, but that the fracture of the skull and hemorrhage had left Dr. Dodge in a grave condition.
Mrs. Dodge, who has been seriously ill since the news of her husband's attempt at suicide, was unable to see her friends yesterday. Gavin McNab, close friend of the injured man, said that he knew of no motive for Dr. Dodge's act.

DR. DODGE DIES AS RESULT OF WOUNDS
San Francisco Call & Post
Monday 30 June 1919
Page 2, column 2

[Photo]

Dr. Washington Dodge, former banker, supervisor, library trustee and assessor of San Francisco, died at 9:25 o'clock this morning at the St. Francis Hospital from a bullet wound self-inflicted a week ago Saturday. Up till two days ago hope had been held out for Dr. Dodge's recovery. Saturday, however, he lapsed into unconsciousness and failed to rally.
Dr. Dodge entered public life in San Francisco in 1896 with his election as supervisor. He served in that office two years. At the end of that time he was elected assessor. He remained in this office for fourteen years, resigning to accept the vice presidency of the Anglo and London Paris National Bank.
As assessor Dr. Dodge inaugurated many reforms, and the efficiency and honesty with which he performed the duties of that office were attested to by the enormous majorities he received at the polls.
Subsequently Dr. Dodge served with distinction as a member of the Board of Library Trustees.
In 1912 Dr. Dodge was a passenger on the ill fated liner Titanic.
In 1917 Dr. Dodge undertook the task of straightening out the affairs of the Poulsen Wireless Company, and this necessitated his resigning from the bank. He was fairly successful in his new task, but is said to have worried over a suit recently filed against him by Tilden Tognazzini and Charles F. Leege, which he thought was a reflection on his honor.
Dr. Dodge is survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter--Harry Dodge, Washington Dodge, Jr. and Miss Vida Dodge. Arrangements are being made for the funeral, which will probably be held Thursday.

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Notes for his wife, Ruth Vidaver

Mrs Washington Dodge (Ruth Vidaver), was born in Cleveland, Ohio on 27 March 1878, the daughter of Nathaniel Vidaver and his wife.

Ruth had been married previously and had a daughter Vida (1).

In 1912 she lived in San Francisco, California. She boarded the Titanic at Southampton with her husand Dr Washington Dodge and her son Washington Dodge Jr. The family bought ticket No. 33638 at a cost of £81 17 2d. They occupied cabin A-34.

Mrs Dodge and her son were rescued in lifeboat 5.

Ruth Dodge died in Manhattan in July 1950.

DR. DODGE'S WIFE TELLS STORY OF TITANIC WRECK
San Francisco Bulletin
Tuesday 30 April 1912
Reaches Home with Husband and Son after Terrible Experience at Sea.

Seated in the library of her home on Washington street, amid a profusion of flowers sent by friends to express their welcome home, Mrs. Washington Dodge again told the story of her experiences on the night the ill-fated Titanic went down.
Dr. and Mrs. Dodge and their 5-year-old son, Washington Dodge Jr., arrived in the city yesterday afternoon, little the worse for their experience. The parents' one anxiety is for the boy, who is seriously ill from the effects of the exposure to the ice-chilled air on the night of the disaster.
"Was it cold?" said Mrs. Dodge. "You can imagine how cold it was when I tell you that we passed fifty-six miles of icebergs after we got on the Carpathia . The baby had nothing on but his pajamas and a life preserver.
"I think it is foolish to speak of the heroism displayed. There was none that I witnessed. It was merely a matter of waiting your turn for a lifeboat, and there was no keen anxiety to enter the boats because everybody had such confidence in that wretched ship. The officers told us that they had wireless communication with seven vessels, which were on the way to relieve us, and the men believed themselves as safe on board as in the boats. It seemed the vaguest possibility that the ship might sink before one of the seven vessels arrived.
"Of course, I left the Titanic before it began to settle into the water. The steerage passengers had not come on deck. In fact, there were few on the deck from which we left and more men than women.

TOOK SECOND BOAT.

"It happened this way. There seems to have been an order issued that all women should congregate on the port side of the vessel. The vessel was injured on the starboard side, and even when I left the ship there was a slight list to starboard. We did not hear this order. I was in my stateroom, had retired again after the accident when the doctor came saying he had met our steward and had been told to get into a life preserver. I slipped on my fur coat over my night robe and preserver, put on my shoes without stockings; I did not stop to button them.
"We had made a practice of sitting on the starboard side of the deck, the gymnasium was there, and naturally when we went above we turned to starboard. They were lowering boats. I entered the second boat with my baby. This boat had an officer in command, and enough officers to man the oars. Several women entered with me and as we commenced to lower the boat the women's husbands jumped in with them. I called to the doctor to come, but he refused because there were still a few women on deck. Every woman in that second boat with the exception of myself, had her husband with her.

BOATS HALF FILLED.

"I supposed all the women were congregated on the port side because it would naturally be the highest side, and the safest because [it would be] the last to go down. We had no idea then that there would not be enough boats to go around. In fact, the first boats were only half filled.
"There must have been some confusion in orders, else I do not see why some of the women were not sent from port to starboard to enter those boats being lowered there. My husband got into the thirteenth boat. At that time there were no women on the starboard side. There was not one women in the boat he entered, and no member of the crew.
"Bruce Ismay entered the fifteenth boat from starboard. It was being lowered at the same time, and the doctor says he remembers this because there was some fear that the boats might swing into each other as they were lowered down the side of the vessel.

CRYING OF THE DOOMED.

"The most terrible part of the experience was that awful crying after the ship went down. We were a mile away, but we heard it-oh, how we heard it. It seemed to last about an hour, although it may have been only a sort time, for some say a man could not have lived in that water over fifteen minutes. At last it died down.
"Our officer and the members of the crew wanted to go back and pick up those whom they could, but the women in the boat would not left them. They told them if they attempted to turn back their husbands would take the oars from them, and the other men outnumbered the crew. I told them I could not see how they could forbid turning back in the face of those awful cries. I will remember it until I die, as it is. I told them: 'How do I know, you have your husbands with you, but my husband may be one of those who are crying.'"
"They argued that if we got back where the people were struggling, some of the steerage passengers, crazed with fear and the cold, might capsize the boat struggling to get it, or might force the officers to overload so we would all go down."

WOMEN HYSTERICAL.

"After the crying died down, tow or three of the women became hysterical-about what I don't know; they were missing none of their people. I was trying to keep baby from realization of what was happening, but when these women shrieked he would begin crying and asking, 'Where's papa?'
"Finally I did what everyone thinks a strange thing. I changed lifeboats in midocean. We overtook the first boat. It was hardly half filled. They offered to take any of us aboard, and to get away from the hysteria of the others I changed.

ON THE CARPATHIA.

"The most pathetic thing was the scene on board the Carpathia during the rescue. As each boat drew up the survivors would peer over, straining to see the face of someone they had left behind. They were the young brides - everybody on board, of course, had known they were brides, and they had watched them laughing and promenading with their husbands.
"The moans of anxiety and disappointment as each boat failed to bring up those that they were looking for were awful and finally that awful despair which fell over everyone when we knew there were no more boats to pick up.
"Still they would not give up hope.
"'Are you missing anyone?' the passengers would ask each other, never 'Have you lost anyone?'

KINDNESS OF PASSENGERS

"Too much cannot be said of the kindness of the Carpathia's passengers. They gave up staterooms, they took the very clothing off their bodies for us. I left the Carpathia wearing garments given me by a women whose name I do not know and will never know."
She exhibited the bloomer trousers she had cut for Baby Dodge from a blanket given her by a sailor.
"I am sorry that I knew the names of so few passengers. There were two men aboard particularly, who every day used to come on the sun deck to play with the baby, and we often fell into conversation. Those men were not among the survivors. I do wish I h ad known their names that I might tell their wives some of the beautiful things they had said to me of their home life, casually, in these conversation."

CAPT. SMITH ENDED LIFE WHEN TITANIC BEGAN TO FOUNDER
Washington Times
Friday 19 April 1912
Stories of His Suicide Differ, One Woman Asserting He Shot Himself, and Another Describing His Drowning
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Unable to bear the terrible strain of the disaster that overtook his mighty ship, Capt. E. J. Smith killed himself and gave to the seas a life spent in mastering her cunning and thwarting her designs.

Survivors' stories of the tragic end of the commander are rife, but differ strangely. Miss Gretchen Longley, a member of a prominent New York family, who was rescued, says that she knows Captain Smith sent a bullet into his brain. On the other hand, Mrs. Washington Dodge, whose story is one of the vivid tales recited of the catastrophe, says that Captain Smith jumped to his death from a life raft.

Mrs. Dodge claims that Captain Smith, in the terrible hour that followed the crash, was pushed from his ship to a raft. She also asserts that, once on the life raft the commander never faltered in his determination, and leaped to his death in the swirling waters.

Miss Longley's story relates that Captain Smith was alone in his library when his trained mind told him that hope was gone, and supplanted only by death and despair.

Two Try To Die By Their 0wn Hands

"Captain Smith made two attempts to kill himself," said she, "and at last he succeeded. He was in his library when the officers saw him with a revolver in his hand. They rushed their superior officer and tore the gun from him. The captain struggled with them desperately, broke away, and rushed to the bridge, where he killed himself, placing the revolver to his mouth and firing."

Another story of the death of Captain Smith was told by Mrs. Washington Dodge, of San Francisco.

"I had my son with me," she said, "but my husband did not get on the boat, and I was sure he was lost. I was frantic with grief

"When the first explosion came I knew the Titanic was doomed, and I prayed earnestly to God to save my husband.

"After the explosion I could see something of the panic on the Titanic. A few knelt and prayed, but the majority surged around the decks, a maddened mob. You see, they had opened the steerage gate and all were together.

"Then I saw a man who I am sure was Captain Smith. He was being pushed onto a life raft. He flung his arms about and struggled like a mad man. It was easy to see he did not want to go. But the men who pushed him (probably the remaining ship's officers) insisted and at length they got him onto the raft. He looked wildly about for a moment, waving his arms in despair and supplication. Then he leaped off the raft into the ice-caked sea which closed over his head forever."

"A woman in my boat moaned and fainted when she saw the captain take his life and I felt sick at heart for I thought of my absent husband. The men and women in my boat ceased their lamentations and listened quietly as the sweet, soothing strains of 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' floated over the water. Oh, what a balm that was to our agonized hearts. We could not but believe in the all-controlling power of the Heavenly Father when we saw that ship sinking with these musicians standing nobly at their posts trying to bring comfort to the last moments of those fated to go.

"When that ship went down I asked God to help me for my son's sake to be brave. I thought my husband had gone down, too. Those dreary, fearful hours in the open boat I cannot speak of without trembling. My boy complained continually of the cold, and I tried to warm his litle [sic] chilled hands and feet the best I could. When we were taken aboard the Carpathia I felt like death and if it had not been for my son I would have gladly died. I had been ten hours on the Carpathia when I met my husband face to face. His face was lined with deep sorrow. I started at him and he stared at me as if he could not believe his eyes. He staggered toward me and looked into my eyes. He patted my hair and kept saying my name over and over again. Then we both fell sobbing into each others arms. Then a look of terrible grief overspread his face as he said: 'Where is the boy? My God, where is the boy?' When I told him that little Washington was safe and sound, his joy knew no bounds.

"God has been kind to my family and I am a happy woman today."

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Another connection - Dorothy Annan and her husband George Achilles Harder. For George:

Mr George Achilles Harder was born on 22 October 1886 in New York City, the son of Victor Achilles Harder and Minnie Mehl.

Harder graduated from the Pratt Institute and in 1909 joined the Essex Foundry, later part of Central Foundry of which he was chairman until 1938.

Harder and his new wife, Dorothy Annan Harder boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as first class passengers. They occupied cabin E-50 (ticket number 11765, £55 8s 10d).

The couple were rescued in lifeboat 5.

According to George's grandson, Mr and Mrs Harder had saved three things from the Titanic (apparently taken from the cabin and still owned by the family today): Mrs Harder's fur coat, a bottle of brandy, and a button hook for Mrs Harder's shoes.

The couple are the subjects of a well known photo taken on the Carpathia. The photograph shows them in discussion with Sallie Beckwith.

Whilst returning to New York on the Carpathia, Harder and some other survivors (Frederic K. Seward - Chairman, Karl H. Behr, Molly Brown, Mauritz Björnström-Steffansson, Frederic Oakley Spedden and Isaac Frauenthal) formed a committee to honour the bravery of Captain Rostron and his crew. They would present the Captain with an inscribed silver cup and medals to each of the 320 crew members.

Mr Harder was one of the Titanic survivors who testified before the U.S. Senate Investigative Committee.

The Harder's were frequently asked to lecture about the Titanic disaster but they refused. Like so many other men who escaped, George Harder found the stigma of surviving the Titanic disaster difficult to live down. Many people looked down upon the men who saved themselves when over one hundred women and children went to their deaths. It was only during the last few years of his life that George Harder spoke to his two daughters about the sinking - giving them details that he thought nobody ever knew. He perhaps may have forgotten that his testimony before the U.S. Senate Investigation was still on record.

In the years following the disaster Dorothy suffered from kidney problems, she died young in 1926. After her death George remarried and his second wife, Elizabeth, was 15 years his junior.

George's father, Victor Achilles Harder, died in New York in August of 1914, and his mother, Minnie Mehl Harder died there in early December of 1934. A brother, Victor A. Harder, Jr. died in 1941, and the unnamed sister listed in his obituary, Hortense Whelan, died in 1980 at the age of 89. That same year, George's second wife Elizabeth died at the age of 79. His son, George Achilles Harder, Jr., died in 1989.

When he died on 26 May 1959, George Achilles Harder was living at 531 East Seventy-second Street, New York City. He was buried at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, just a few hundred feet from the grave of Wyckoff Van der hoef, a fellow Titanic passenger who perished in the sinking.

And another.............

Mr William F. Hoyt was a former resident of Cleveland, Ohio and the son of Charles E. Hoyt. He had been the captain of the Lakeside Bicycle Club and was also connected with the Lozier Bicycle Company. William Hoyt was connected with the Sterling & Welch, Co. and was a resident of New York City. He had been going to Europe for several years as a buyer for the Houghton, Lee & Hoyt Company. He was returning from Europe on one of these trips, boarding the Titanic in Cherbourg and travelling in first class.

William Hoyt was heavily built and the survivors of lifeboat 14 struggled to haul him out of the water. He was bleeding from the nose and mouth. Fifth Officer Lowe reported "After we got him in the boat we took his collar off so as to give him more chance to breathe, but unfortunately, he died. He was too far gone when we picked him up." He was buried at sea by sailors from the Carpathia. His brother travelled to Washington, DC to ask crew members if they knew anything about his brother but without success.

ONE VICTIM LEGALLY DEAD
New York Times
Saturday 27 April 1912
Surrogate Accepts Proof That William F. Hoyt Perished in Disaster
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The first victim of the Titanic disaster to be pronounced legally dead
was William F. Hoyt. Surrogate Cohalan accepted proof of Mr. Hoyt's
death yesterday and granted letters of administration to his brother,
Gordon C. Hoyt of 7,919 Franklin Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. The Surrogate
required the administrator to furnish a $40,000 bond.

Mr. Hoyt, who was a member of the firm of Houghton, Lee & Hoyt, sailed
on the Titanic in the first cabin. Gordon Hoyt told the Surrogate that
be had received word of his brother's sailing in a cablegram from Paris,
and as soon as he heard of the disaster he telegraphed to his brother's
firm in this city and came here April 18. He said other relatives live
at Ocean Park, near Los Angeles, Cal. Both parents live there with two
brothers, Charles S. and Carl H. Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt's estate probably does
not exceed $25,000 in personal property and he had no real estate.

Harold G. Lowe, fifth officer of the Titanic, told Gordon Hoyt that
after the Titanic sank he had heard moaning and had found a large man
held up by a life preserver. The man was so heavy that it took all the
strength of the lifeboat's crew to get him on board. The man died after
being rescued. An affidavit by Lowe was attached to the application for
letters of administration. This told how Mr. Hoyt's body had been
identified. In his pockets were cards and papers and a watch and chain
of peculiar workmanship. The cards included a membership card in the New
York Athletic Club and an identification card issued by the Fidelity and
Casualty Company of New York. Mr. Hoyt was buried at sea from the
Carpathia on April 16, Lowe stated.

This is getting comical, if the stories weren't so grim.

The next connection is to my OTHER royal line, so now my Titanic file has 1438 individuals.

Mr Daniel Warner Marvin, 19, from New York, NY, was the son of Henry Norton Marvin.

Henry Norton Marvin was founder of the early motion picture production houses of American Mutoscope and the Biograph Company. The studios were situated in an old New York City "brownstone" on 14th street and Fifth Avenue. The building's previous owner was a member of the Cunard family. The film pioneer David Wark Griffith made his first films with Henry Marvin and his partner. Henry's brother was also a cameraman at the studio.

In the early years of the century Biograph had a lawsuit with The Edison Group (which was tied to Thomas Edison laboratories) over claims of patent infringment for making films using the Edison Camera. However, Henry Norton Marvin's Company had in their employ, a former employee of the Edison group who had been instrumental in inventing the camera in the first place. He developed another camera, which got around the patent restrictions, and in the meantime, the Business Manager of Biograph, a fellow named Kennedy, had purchased the rights to the Latham Loop, the process that enabled the film to run in a continuous loop behind the lens. The lawsuit resulted in an arranged Association between The Edison Group and Biograph.

Daniel's marriage to Mary Farquarson was not filmed, however, the ceremony was restaged for the camera. The London Daily Mirror reported it to be the very first wedding to be "cinematographed".

Daniel and Mary boarded the Titanic at Southampton as first class passengers. They were returning to New York City from their honeymoon in Europe. They occupied cabin D-30.

On the night of the accident Daniel assisted his wife to a boat with the words "It's alright, little girl. You go. I will stay." Daniel died in the sinking, his body, if recovered, was never identified.

Among the crowds that gathered at the New York offices of White Star on April 15 1912 were relatives of both Daniel and Mary Marvin: Mrs Frank Farquarson and Mrs W.H. Marvin learnt that Mary had been saved but there was no word of Daniel Marvin.

This next one is connected to me through two lines of mutual ancestors.

Walter Chamberlain Porter

On May 13, 1865, Walter Chamberlain Porter was born to Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Porter in the old Porter home on Benefit St. Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Worcester Public Schools and after went to work for his father, at the Samuel Porter Last Manufacturing Company, 25 Union St., Worcester, MA, learning the last making business. (A shoe last is the 'mold' to which every individually designed shoe is built around. Commonly in 1912, they were made of iron or wood. The Porter's manufactured wood shoe lasts. Today shoe lasts are commonly made from plastics.)

While a young man of 21 years of age, Mr. Porter secured a leave of absence from his work and cruised from Boston through the West Indies to South American waters aboard a large sloop-rigged pleasure yacht with friends. At that time, he narrowly escaped from being shipwrecked during a hurricane. As Mr. Porter told the story to his friends and members of his family, the boat was partially dismasted and was tossed about on a wild sea for several days.

Mr. Porter's widow, Mrs. Mabel Porter said she had understood, from her husband's version of the trip, while the yacht was not altogether wrecked, the party had the narrowest kind of escape." It was a pleasure boat of good size for those days, " said Mrs. Porter " I think the boat's size saved it from the storm." Upon his return he went back to work for his father and remained in the business until 1891, when he retired to the country and opened a grocery store in Holden, MA. (Holden is located on the outskirts of Worcester).

His early training however, asserted itself strongly and he returned again to work for his father, this time as a sales manager of the firm. Mr. Porter became a partner in 1897. On August 1,1903, Mr. Porter and Walter E. Bigelow, a lifelong friend, bought out the business. Mr. Porter took charge of the sales department and Mr. Bigelow assumed charge of the manufacturing end of the business. Each year saw the business of the company increase and the sales territory steadily spreading throughout North America and Europe.

European orders came unsolicited for more than three years, and it was the direct result of such business that led Mr. Porter to find time to make a business tour of that country to further strengthen the business relations which had been established. It was his first foreign business trip, made to acquaint a growing number of European customers with a member of the firm and get ideas to further increase its foreign business market. He sailed from Boston, aboard the Megantic, another White Star liner, on February 20, 1912 with his two travelling companions: George Quincy Clifford, president of the George E. Belcher Last Co., of Stoughton ,MA and John Edward Maguire of the Dunbar Pattern Co., Brockton, MA.

While abroad the three businessmen had visited trade centres of England, Germany, France, Austria and other European countries. Mr. Porter's last letter home was an optimistic one but carried with it a tinge of homesickness. He wrote that while he was in excellent health and his pleasure trips had been incidental nature, he very much wanted to return home to Massachusetts.

"The coal strike is serious," Mr. Porter wrote to business partner and friend, Walter E. Bigelow on March 31, 1912, "but the officers of the White Star line assure us that the Titanic will sail April 10 on schedule time. I have had a fine trip, enjoyed every minute of it, and have found business prospects quite bright, but how do I wish it was today instead of the 10th of April that I was going to sail for home."

Walter C. Porter, George Q. Clifford and John E. McGuire boarded the Titanic as first class passengers. Clifford and Porter held ticket no. 110465, ( £ 52) Porter occupied cabin C-110, Maguire was in the next-door cabin, C-108 and Clifford was in A-14. All three men perished in the tragedy. Mr. Porter's body was discovered after the sinking by the MacKay Bennett (#207). Both Mr.Maguire's and Mr.Clifford's bodies were not recovered.



NO. 207. - MALE. - ESTIMATED AGE, 40. LIGHT MUSTACHE AND - HAIR.

CLOTHING - Green overcoat; dark suit; blue cardigan; blue silk pajamas.

EFFECTS - Gold ring on right hand; gold with diamond on left; glasses in case; 2 fountain pens; silver match box; diamond pin; knife; keys; diamond ring; glasses; memo with pocket book; tie clip; 2s. 6d.; letter case; gold wedding ring.

FIRST CLASS PASSENGER.

NAME - WALTER C. PORTER.

Mr. Waldo E. Sessions, of George Sessions Sons Co., Worcester, MA., undertakers , was sent to take charge of Mr. Porter's body in Halifax from the Curling rink. Mr. Sessions had a letter of introduction to the medical examiner of Halifax , Dr. Finn, from Dr. David Lovell, who was Dr. Finn's roommate at Columbia college. "The White star line people are giving the people there every possible courtesy and the officials and all the people of Halifax are extremely courteous. The hotels are all crowded and the city is packed with people," said Mr. Sessions, "I was surprised to find Mr. Porter's body in such a fine state of preservation. Everybody is trying to assist in the identification of bodies and in getting them to parts of the country where they belong. All the ordinary red tape accompanying the transportation of bodies through the country is being waived to railroads and state officials. Usually there are strict laws to be complied with and hermetically sealed caskets are demanded by the law in the transportation of bodies on trains. All of this is being waived by the officials and it helps greatly."

Mr. Porter's body was released on April 30, 1912 and was returned to Worcester, by train, for burial in Hope Cemetery, on Webster St., next to his parents and late first wife, Louise. Mr. Porter was twice married. His first wife was Louise Philips, daughter of Oscar E. Philips of the Heywood Boot & Shoe Co, Worcester, MA. She died in 1905. Eighteen months later Mr. Porter was married to Mrs. Mabel L. Sanford, widow of Charles L. Sanford, who survived him. He left two children, Miss. Helen I. Porter, a teacher at West Haverstraw, N.Y., and O. Stanley Porter, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; two stepchildren, F. Lyndon Sanford and Miss Nellie R. Sanford, Worcester; and a sister, Mrs. Albert J. Gifford, of 9 King St. Worcester.

At the time of his death in 1912, Walter C. Porter resided at 10 Lenox St. in Worcester and was a member of the Commonwealth Club, the Lakeside Boat Club, the Worcester Automobile Club and the Worcester Commercial Travelers Association. He was at one time a member of Worcester's Light Infantry.

The diamond in the stickpin recovered with his body is worn today in an engagement ring by the wife of O'Stanley Porter's son Jack's son Walter. Around 1997, when the movie Titanic came out, the T.V. show "EXTRA" did a segment on the stone calling it "the real Titanic diamond".

The Samuel Porter Last Manufacturing Company, formerly located at 25 Union St. Worcester, MA, is now Maxwell Silverman's Toolhouse Restaurant and Club Maxines. This restaurant is very elegant and interesting as it is designed with many large, old tools (laythe's etc...) painted over although none have been traced directly to the Porter's old company.