History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
image: New York World, May 1915. Wallace Phillips was born in Manhattan, New York, United States to Henry W. and Ella Phillips. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1911. Shortly afterwards, Phillips went abroad to become managing director and chairman of the Pyrene Company, Ltd. As of 1915 his home …
image: Cleveland Plain Dealer, Saturday, 8 May 1915, page 2. Janet Stevenson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, near the city of Glasgow. Eighteen months previous to her fateful voyage on the Lusitania, she married William Stevenson, who had also been born near Glasgow. William was a molder and came to the United States several years before …
Gerda Neilson Third Class Passenger Saved [No Picture Provided] Born Gerda Theoline Neilson c. 1885 Norway Died 2 June 1961 (age 76) Liverpool, England, United Kingdom Age on Lusitania 29 Occupation Dressmaker Citizenship British Residence Brooklyn, New York, United States Other name(s) Gerda Welsh Spouse(s) John Welsh (1915 – 1941, his death) Signature Gerda Neilson, …
Samuel Friedman, 28, was a United States national from Brooklyn, New York, United States. He was one of the co-owners of Friedman and Co., Importers. Samuel was lost in the Lusitania disaster. He was on the Monday, 10 May 1915 list of missing Americans. His body was either never recovered or never identified. Life Samuel was …
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