History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
…erMichael PoirierJudith Tavares References: Hickey, Des and Gus Smith. Seven Days to Disaster, pages 36, 93, 126, 178, 218-9, 228, 270. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981. “Founder of the Company.” Hook Plastics. Online. <http://www.hookplastics.com.au/Content.aspx?p=Founder>. “Long Battle in the Water.” New York Times, Monday, 10 May 1915, page 3. Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Berkley Books, 2002. Share this: Print Email Pinterest…
…e Loney family of Allen and Catharine and their daughter Virginia. Elise accompanied the Loney family on their trip to England, where Allen Loney was part of the British Ambulance Corps and Catharine would spend the summer caring for wounded soldiers. Elise, Allen, and Catharine were lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk. Virginia survived. Life Elise was born in France as Elise Schauring and immigrated to the United States in 1887. She h…
…ame from the family of John McKesson, the co-founder of the pharmaceutical company McKesson and Robbins, through which the McKessons, too, made a fortune. Catharine gained a younger brother, George McKesson Brown, who was born in 1878. Sadly, their mother Virginia died that same year. Catharine’s father remarried sometime after 1880, this time to Ruth Arabella Loney, the second daughter of William Loney of Baltimore. George and Ruth had two sons,…
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