Mr. Thomas Ohan Stephen

Thomas Stephen, 23, was a United States citizen of Persian descent from Chicago, Illinois, United States traveling aboard Lusitania with 12 other Persians to learn the fate of their families following the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.  Thomas Stephen and his traveling companions John Jacob Baba and Frank Baba survived. From the Sunday 9 May 1915 New York Times, page …

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Mr. Patrick J. McLoughlin

Patrick McLoughlin, 35, a British subject and Irish national from Tully, Calry, County Sligo, Ireland, had been a waiter in a hotel in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. He had a wife and 4 children in Ireland and was on his way to join them. McLoughlin survived the Lusitania sinking. McLoughlin was the son of John …

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Mr. Harold Smethurst

Harold Smethurst, 27, was a British national from New Philadelphia, Ohio, United States.  He was traveling on Lusitania with his wife Alice.  During the sinking, Harold put Alice in a lifeboat and, saying that women and children were to go first, Harold did not join her despite her protests.  After Alice’s boat left, Harold put on a life …

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