History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Michael Poirier Collection/National Archives Albert Jackson Byington, 40, was born on 22 January 1875 in Elmira, New York, United States. He immigrated to Brazil in 1895. He was a successful electrical engineer and imported the first electric motor to Brazil. On 4 July 1901 he married Pearl Ellis McIntyre. Pearl was born on 3 December …
Arthur Mathews, 38, was a British citizen from Montréal, Québec, Canada. His ticket for Lusitania was 13168. His cabin aboard the ship was B-94. Mathews survived the Lusitania sinking. According to family history, Mathews was from the UK but had emigrated to Canada. When his sister Harriet Matilda Colston (nee Mathews) was widowed and left with 4 sons to raise, …
Herbert Colebrook, 35, was a Lusitania survivor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a British subject. Aboard Lusitania, his ticket was 10866 and his cabin was B-111. He was saved from the Lusitania disaster and returned to North America aboard the American Liner St. Paul on 13 June 1915. References Kalafus, Jim and Michael Poirier …
Joseph Charles, 48, was of the Musson Book Company. He was traveling aboard Lusitania on business, taking manuscripts over to England. He was also taking his daughter Doris overseas as a precaution. Doris had been in a serious relationship with a man named Elliot Lawler, and her parents thought that Doris was too young to …
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