History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Margaret S. Kelly, 34, was the oldest of ten children. In 1889, her parents had immigrated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States from Ireland. She was a naturalized US citizen. The rest of her family (her cousins and grandparents) was still in northern Ireland, so in spring of 1915, Margaret boarded to Lusitania to see her …
image: Cleveland Plain Dealer, Saturday, 8 May 1915, page 2. Elizabeth Horton, 51, was from Sheffield, England. She came over to the United States in June 1914 to be with her daughter, Mrs. Allen Bartlett of 99 Holyoke Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio, United States who had just become a mother. Elizabeth’s husband and two other …
Robert Cannon, 52, was a British subject from the Isle of Man working for the British Government and serving as an inspector on Lusitania to safeguard the ship. Cannon was lost in the Lusitania sinking. His body was recovered, number 176. This biography is made possible by a collaboration with Peter Kelly and the Merseyside Maritime …
Dr. James McDermott, 38, was a ship’s surgeon aboard Lusitania who worked with the Lusitania‘s assistant surgeon, Joseph Garry. McDermott was from Cork, Ireland, but lived in Wallasey, Liverpool. Isaac Lehmann saw McDermott and Purser McCubbin calmly smoking on deck during the sinking. Dr. McDermott was lost in the Lusitania disaster. His body recovered, #200, and …
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