Dr. Carl Elmer Foss

Dr. Carl Foss Second Cabin Passenger Saved image credit: US National Archives/Michael Poirier Born Carl Elmer Foss 10 June 1887 Fordville, North Dakota, United States Died 25 February 1924 (age 36) Havre, Montana, United States Age on Lusitania 27 Cabin number E deck Rescued by Indian Empire Occupation Physician and surgeon Citizenship United States Residence …

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Mrs. Alfred Duckworth (Elizabeth Ann Smith)

Elizabeth Duckworth Third Class Passenger Saved [No Picture Provided] Born Elizabeth Ann Smith 1863 Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Died 1955 (age 92) Taftville, Connecticut, United States Age on Lusitania 52 Lifeboat 21 Rescued by Wanderer (Peel 12) Occupation Textile mill worker Citizenship British (England) Residence Taftville, Connecticut, United States Other names Elizabeth Rushworth (first …

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Mr. Ernest Sedgwick Cowper

Ernest Cowper Second Cabin Passenger Saved Ernest Cowper and Helen Smith in Queenstown.  Image:  New York Times, Sunday, 30 May 1915. Born Ernest Sedgwick Cowper c. 1883 Died 4 January 1939 (age 56) Seattle, Washington, United States Age on Lusitania 32 Traveling with Richard Rogers (employer) Citizenship British (Canada) Residence Toronto, Ontario, Canada Ernest Cowper, …

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Master Paul Bretherton

Paul Bretherton (1912 – 1980), 3, was traveling to England aboard Lusitania with his sister Elizabeth “Betty” and mother Norah to see their grandparents.  Norah, who was also pregnant at the time, and her children traveled in second cabin.  Norah, Paul, and the unborn child survived the sinking.  Betty did not. Paul was born in 1912 in southern California, as his mother …

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