History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…d the decision of the Commission. This case is before the Umpire for decision on a certificate of the two National Commissioners[a] certifying their disagreement. From the record it appears that Jessie Taft Smith, then 39 years of age, was a passenger on the Lusitania, which was torpedoed and sunk shortly after 2 o’clock p. m. Friday, May 4, 1915. She was en route to join her husband, John W. Smith, then 44 years of age, who she married October 2,…
…s approval on the provision that it be stressed that it was only a precaution and that there was no danger. On the day of the Lusitania disaster, Friday, 7 May 1915, he was resting in his E deck cabin when he heard a “thud accompanied by the sound which I can best describe as of an iron safe falling to iron from a height of thirty or forty feet[.] ” He said that as he came into the passageway, it smelled of sulfur and powder. Mitchell ended up in…
…Sullivan but often recorded his name as “Sullivan,” as it had been convention for Irish to drop the “O” in their names due to pressure from the English who then controlled Ireland. The Branders died within three months of each other and left everything to Julia. Julia and Flor were married and moved into the city. Flor’s father often wrote asking the couple to come back to Ireland to manage the family farm, but enjoying their life in America, they…
…y 1914. In 1915, Belgian Red Cross fundraiser Marie Depage solicited Houghton for help. They would work on the Western Front field hospitals with her, her husband Dr. Antoine Depage, and nurse Edith Cavell. Dr. Houghton had told Marie that he signed a new will the night before leaving New York on the Lusitania. Marie had not, in response describing herself as a “happy fatalist” (Hoehling/Hoehling, 79). While on board, James found out his is old co…
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