History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Evan Jones, 65, was a Welshman and naturalized American citizen from Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, lost in the Lusitania disaster on 7 May 1915. He was planning to retire to his native homeland. His death aboard the Lusitania triggered a massive court case over the rights of his illegitimate daughter, a native-born British subject, to inherit his estate. …
Dr. Daniel Moore, 36, of Yankton, South Dakota, United States, was a surgeon by profession. He was one of a party of American surgeons who had volunteered their services to the British War Office. Moore recalled Lusitania zigzagging some time before the ship was torpedoed. The lifeboat he entered, #14, as Lusitania was sinking was …
194
4
3k
432
