History, Passenger & Crew Biographies, and Lusitania Facts
Doris Charles, 21, was the daughter of Joseph Charles of the Musson Book Company. Joseph was taking 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 be married. Doris and her father survived the Lusitania disaster, …
image credit: Paul Latimer/Halifax Evening Mail, 11 May 1915. Alfred Clarke, 55, owned A. R. Clarke and Co. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which made leather linings, vests, and moccasins. He was a British subject, married, and had a son and daughter. On the last voyage of the Lusitania, his ticket was 13105 and he stayed in …
George Copping (1861 – 1915), 53, was a commercial merchant and commissioned agent who traveled among Canada, the United States, and England frequently. He was president of the Reliable Knitting Company and the founder of the G. R. Copping and Sons Manufacturing Company. He was traveling aboard Lusitania with his wife Emma. Both he and …
Kathryn Hickson, 57 (?), was sister to fellow passenger Caroline Hickson Kennedy. Kathryn worked with Caroline in Caroline’s fashion business, Hickson and Company. While Caroline often went to Paris for fashion shows, Kathryn’s fatal trip aboard Lusitania was to be her first trip to Europe. Both sisters perished in the sinking of the Lusitania. Life Kathryn …
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