Endres, Caroline Louise, 38. Nurse, 1st Class.
She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1874. Caroline graduated at the St Luke’s Hospital School of Nursing in New York. In 1912 she was a private nurse to Madeleine Astor, who was pregnant. She boarded the Titanic with the Astor party at Cherbourg. During the sinking she boarded Lifeboat 4 with Madeleine. She died after 1938 in Philadelphia, PA.
Evans, Alfred Frank, 24. Lookout.
Alfred Evans (Chris Dohany, USA).
Born in Hampstead in 1888 he went to sea and served as a lookout on the Oceanic, transferring to the Titanic later. He and George Hogg were on duty from 6 to 8 pm on the night of the collision. They then handed over to Jewell and Symons for the 8 to 10 watch. He was asleep when the ship collided with the iceberg.
Evans and Hogg relieved Fleet and Lee at eight bells (12 am), remained there for 20 minutes then went to the Boat Deck where he boarded Lifeboat 15. He later lived in Southampton and worked in a local shipyard until he had to retire following a fall. Evans died in 1974, aged 86.
Evans, Edith Corse, 36. 1st Class.
Edith was born on 21 September, 1875, and lived in New York. She boarded at Cherbourg and joined the group of sisters, Mrs E Appleton, Mrs J Brown and Mrs R Cornell, who were under the ‘protection’ of Col Gracie. A fortune-teller had recently warned her to beware of water.
After the main lifeboats had left Col Gracie came upon Mrs Brown and Edith, so led them to Collapsible D, which Second Officer Lightoller was loading. Edith turned to Mrs Brown and said, “You go first. You have children waiting at home.” Mrs Brown stepped into the boat but Edith hesitated, and it left without her.
Seaman William Lucas shouted up to her from Collapsible D, “There’s another boat going to be put down for you.” But there was no other boat and the words of the fortune-teller came true as she was among the few First Class women to perish.
Farquharson, William Edward, 39. Engineer.
Born in Liverpool in 1873 he served his apprenticeship then joined the Anglo-American Tool Company. He first went to sea in 1895, then joined the White Star Line as Assistant Second Engineer on the Teutonic. He and his wife, Martha, had three children.
Farquharson later served on the Seuvic and Majestic before returning to the Teutonic as Senior Second Engineer. He served on the Oceanic before being transferred to the Titanic, where he stood by during the construction phase. When the Titanic sank he and other engineers kept the generators going as long as possible. His body was not recovered.
There is a memorial to him at the Farquharson family grave at Toxteth Park Cemetery in Liverpool.
Fleet, Frederick, 24. Lookout.
Frederick Fleet (Wikipedia).
Born in Liverpool on 15 October, 1887, he never knew his father and was abandoned by his mother. He was raised in foster homes, orphanages and Dr Barnardo Homes until 12, when he was sent to a training ship. Fleet went to sea as a deck boy in 1903 and worked his way up to Able Seaman, then was a Lookout on the Oceanic for four years before joining the Titanic.
On 14 April he took over the watch with Reginald Lee at 10 pm. Just after seven bells he saw a dark mass ahead, so struck three bells and telephoned the bridge, reporting “Iceberg right ahead.” The reply was “Thank you.” The ship swung to port and the starboard side scraped against the side of the berg. The lookouts were relieved 20 minutes later.
Fleet went to the Boat Deck, where Second Offficer Lightoller ordered him to assist Quartermaster Hichens in loading and launching Lifeboat 6. As they were being lowered with 28 women and children aboard Major Peuchen joined them by sliding down the davit rope.
Fleet was called on to testify at the Senate Hearing, as he was the first to see the iceberg. He then served on the Olympic, but found that the company regarded surviving crew as embarrassing reminders of the disaster. He changed to the Union Castle Line until he retired from the sea in 1936, aged 49. He then worked for Harland & Wolff building ships, then as shore Master at Arms of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. He finally sold newspapers in the streets of Southampton.
His wife died on 28 December, 1964, and her brother then evicted Fleet. He committed suicide two weeks later and was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave in Hollybrook Cemetery, Southampton. In 1993 the Titanic Historical Society erected a headstone over his grave.
Fortune, Mark, 64. 1st Class.
Fortune (nee McDougald), Mary, 60.
Ethel Flora, 28.
Alice Elizabeth, 24.
Mabel Helen, 23.
Charles Alexander, 19.
Mark Fortune was born in Carluke, Wentworth County,
Mark Fortune (Encyclopedia Titanica).
Ontario, Canada, on 2 November, 1847. The son of a farmer he became a self-made man, spending some years in San Francisco. In 1871 he moved to Manitoba, where he married Mary McDougald from Portage la Prairie. She was born in Ontario on 12 May, 1851, and grew up with 14 brothers and sisters.
The Fortunes’ had six children and lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he was a city councillor and trustee of the Knox Presbyterian Church. He was a real estate speculator, brash, confident and successful. In 1911 Fortune built a 36-room mansion. He never travelled without a moth-eaten Winnipeg Buffalo Coat. Mary tried to talk him out of wearing it, but he insisted on taking it on a trip to Egypt with his family.
The two eldest children, Robert and Clara, stayed in Winnipeg while the rest accompanied his European tour. Ethel, born on 22 September, 1883, postponed her wedding so that she could shop for a trousseau in Europe and chaperone her younger siblings.
Alice, born on 10 May, 1887, was engaged to Charles Allen at the time. She was sitting on the veranda of Shepherd’s Hotel in Cairo when a fortune teller approached her and said, “You are in danger every time you travel on the sea, for I see you adrift in an open boat. You will lose everything but your life.” William Sloper, who fancied Alice and was with her, wrote it down in his memoirs. He cancelled his voyage on the Mauretania in order to travel with them on the Titanic.
Mabel, born on 3 November, 1888, was highly strung and attractive, but spoiled. She had fallen for a jazz musician, Harrison Driscoll, and her parents hoped to end the romance by taking her away on the overseas trip for a few months.
Charles Fortune (Courtesy: Alan Hustak, Canada).
Charles Fortune was born on 13 October, 1892. He graduated from Bishop’s College, Lennoxville, Quebec, excelling academically and in athletics. He would enrol in McGill University on his return from the Grand Tour of Europe.
After the collision Mark Fortune had come on deck in his Buffalo Coat, joking that it had come in handy on such a cold night. Ethel left her sisters on deck as she thought that getting into a lifeboat was a waste of time. She returned to her cabin to find a steward who informed her that her mother had left for the boat. He escorted her to Lifeboat 10 and she had to jump in as it was being lowered.
She said, “The people in the boat caught me.” Mary and the girls were rescued in Lifeboat 10, whereas Mark Fortune and his son, Charles, were lost in the sinking. The chimes in Winnipeg’s Knox United Church were installed in their memory. Mary never remarried and died in Toronto on 8 March, 1929, aged 76.
Ethel married Crawford Gordon in 1913. They moved to Jamaica in 1920 and thence to London, England, where he was manager of the Bank of Commerce. Their first son, Crawford Gordon II, became head of the Canadian aircraft manufacturing plant A V Roe, which in the 1950’s produced the Avro Arrow military aircraft. Ethel died in Toronto on 22 March, 1961, aged 77, and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Alice married Charles Allen on 8 June, 1912. He had graduated in law and soon gained prominence in government and commercial circles. He practiced law and later became Assistant to the Canadian Manager and Director of the National Surety Company in Montreal. They had a daughter, Mary, who lived in Chester, Nova Scotia, where they had a vacation home and to which they retired. Alice died on 7 April, 1961, aged 73, and is buried in the local cemetery.
Mabel married Driscoll in 1913 and they had a son, Robert. The marriage didn’t last and she left to live with another woman, Charlotte Armstrong. Her son went to boarding school while she lived with Armstrong in Victoria, British Columbia. She died there of heart failure on 19 February, 1968, aged 79.
Francatelli, Laura Mabel, 30. Secretary, 1st Class.
She was born in London in 1882. As secretary to Lady Duff-Gordon she boarded the Titanic as a first-class passenger. Laura was rescued in Emergency Lifeboat 1, later dubbed the ‘millionaire’s boat, with her employer and ten others.
A photograph was taken of all but one of the boat’s occupants on the Carpathia. Laura married Max Haering, a hotelier, and lived in Switzerland for some time. She died in London on 2 June, 1967, aged 85.
Frauenthal, Henry William, 49. Doctor, 1st Class.
Frauenthal (nee Heinsheimer), Clara, 42.
Frauenthal, Isaac Gerald, 43.
Dr Henry Frauenthal (New York Herald 17 April 1912).
The sons of German immigrants Henry and Isaac were born at Wilkes-Barr, Pennsylvania, respectively on 13 March, 1863, and 7 October, 1868. They had two other brothers and two sisters. Henry graduated with a degree in analytical chemistry in 1888 and worked as a chemist, then studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital medical College.
He qualified as a doctor in 1890 and for the next 11 years worked in partnership with an orthopaedic surgeon before entering private practice. His specialty was the treatment of joint diseases and in 1904 he set up a clinic to pioneer treatments. The clinic flourished and in 1908 another building was added.
Isaac (Gerry) Frauenthal studied law at New York University and set up a practice in the city. His brother and Clara Heinsheimer went on a visit to Europe. She was a daughter of German immigrants and was born in Cincinnati. Ohio, on 1 December, 1869. She married Dr Henry Frauenthal in France at the end of March, 1912, and two weeks later boarded the Titanic at Southampton.
They were joined by Gerry at Cherbourg. He was mild mannered and unassuming and not as large as Henry. He had a dream before boarding, “It seemed to me that I was on a big steamship that suddenly crashed into something and began to go down.” He had the dream again whilee on the Titanic, so needed no encouragement to board a lifeboat.
After the collision Clara boarded Lifeboat 5, then as it was being lowered the two brothers leaped into it. Henry was a large man who weighed 250 pounds. He landed on top of Annie Stengel and broke some of her ribs. On the Carpathia Gerry Frauenthal joined the committee which decided on rewards for Captain Rostron and his crew.
Dr Frauenthal returned to his practice which blossomed. He added a further building in 1914 and over 48,000 treatments were given during the next year. They had no children but raised a foster-daughter, Natalie. He and Clara had mental problems. On 11 March, 1927, he leaped from the seventh floor of his hospital building. He left the major part of his money to the hospital with a proviso that his ashes be scattered from its roof on the 50th anniversary of its founding.
Gerry Frauenthal never married. He died of heart failure in New York on 16 November, 1932, aged 64, and is interred at Fresh Pond Crematory, New York. Clara was hospitalised in Connecticut due to mental illness following her husband’s suicide and died at Blythewood Sanitarium, Greenwich, Conn, on 30 March, 1943, aged 73. She is buried at Fresh Pond Crematory, Middle Village, New York.
Froelicher, Maximilian ‘Max’ Josef, 61. 1st Class.
Froelicher (nee Stehli), Margaretha Emerentia, 48.
Hedwig Margaritha ‘Maedi’, 22.
Maximilian was born in Switzerland on 24 September, 1851. He worked for silk merchants, R Stehli-Hausheer & Sohn, and regularly visited New York, working there from 1876 to 1884. His employer’s daughter, Margaretha Stehli, was born on 15 February, 1864. They were married on 5 September, 1885, and by 1894 had five children. Among them was Margaritha (Maedi), born in Zurich on 13 August, 1889.
Maedi met her future husband, Robert Schwarzenbach, 35, a Swiss man who was managing director of a silk weaving factory in New York. She graduated in early 1912, then boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with her parents. On the night of 11 April she became very seasick and her mother stayed with her.
On Sunday evening, 14 April, Max played cards with Alfons Simonius and Max Staehelin in the first class smoking room until 11 pm. They then retired to their staterooms. When he felt the collision Max became upset. He and his daughter dressed and ran up to A Deck. They looked over the rails then returned to their cabins.
When a steward told Margaretha to don a lifejacket Max told Maedi to do likewise. They went to the Boat Deck where the women boarded Lifeboat 5. Shortly before it was lowered Max was allowed to enter it. He recalled, “While we were rowing away from the steamer, her lights still burning brightly, with the iceberg as a background, the scene was remarkable and fascinating. The steamer slowly sank, bow first. The water was covered with small boats and rafts.
“The Titanic sank until the forward half was submerged and then there was a loud crash. The lights went out. Others who left the boat after we did, say she broke in two. After the boat had sunk we began to search for food. There was nothing to eat in the lifeboats. We could not even find fresh water. Fortunately, one of the gentlemen had some stimulants with him, which was given to the women.”
On the Carpathia Max sent telegrams to advise his relatives and firm that they had survived. He and his son, Max, then travelled to Toronto and Montreal on business. Margaretha and Maedi had meanwhile stayed in New York with her brother, Emil Stehli. The Froelichers returned to Europe on 21 May aboard the Kronprinz Wilhelm. Maedi remained in New York and married Robert Schwarzenbach on 4 January, 1913. They lived in Jericho and had a daughter and two sons.
Max died of heart failure on 22 November, 1913, aged 62. He was buried in the family plot at Enzenbuehl Cemetery, Zurich. Margaretha became the centre of her family until her death on 21 March, 1955, aged 91. She was buried alongside her husband.
Maedi’s husband died on 3 August, 1929. Two years later she moved with her children to South Norwalk, Connecticut. She became known to her American family as Margit. Her son Robert (1917-1988) was a member of the United States Olympic Ski Team and became a fighter pilot, patrolling the Swiss/German border during World War II. Maedi returned to Zurich to die near her daughter. She died on 16 July, 1972, aged 83, and is buried in the Sihlfeld Cemetery, Zurich.
Funk, Annie Clemmer, 38. 2nd Class.
Annie Funk was born on 12 April, 1874, in Bally, Penn. Her ancestors had been Mennonite immigrants from Germany in the late 1700’s. She attended school at West Chester, Pa, and the Mennonite Training School in Northfield, Mass, then worked with immigrants in the slums of Chattanooga, Tenn, and Paterson, NJ.
In December 1906 Annie was sent as the first female Mennonite missionary to India. She learnt to speak Hindi and opened a one-roomed school for girls. Early in 1912 she received a telegram that her mother was ill and she was to return home immediately. Annie travelled via Bombay and Marseilles and boarded the Titanic at Southampton. She celebrated her 38th birthday aboard.
After the collision she was woken by stewards and went on deck. As she was boarding a lifeboat a woman pushed her aside, calling “My children. My children!” The last seat was taken and Annie stood back. Her body, if recovered, was never identified.
Futrelle, Jacques Heath, 37. Author, 1st Class.
Futrelle (nee Peel), Lily May, 35.
Jacques Futrelle (Wikipedia).
He was a descendant of French Huguenots and born in Pike County, Georgia, on 9 April, 1875. His father was a teacher at Atlanta College. At the age of 18 Futrelle began working for the Atlanta Journal. Two years later, on 17 July, 1895, he married Lily May Peel, 19, in Atlanta, where she had been born on 26 May, 1876. They lived at Scituate, Mass, and had two children, Virginia (1896-1981) and Jacques Jnr (1898-1979).
Futrelle moved to the New York Herald and in 1902 began writing detective and science fiction novels. He then managed a theatre in Richmond, Virginia, and took part in plays before joining the editorial staff of the Boston Herald. He wrote over forty stories based around ‘The Thinking Machine’. May also authored several novels and magazine articles.
In 1912 they travelled to Europe where Futrelle wrote several magazine articles. On the night before sailing on the Titanic they celebrated his birthday in London with several friends. The party ended at 3 am, then they packed and headed for Southampton.
After the collision Futrelle took May to Collapsible D. On the way she saw a group of men with ‘smoke-blackened faces’ standing in a group and staring at her. “They said nothing but their eyes seemed to say, ‘At least you have a chance, we have none’.” She pleaded with her husband to board as well, but he refused and said that he would come in a later lifeboat. The last she saw of him was he standing with John Jacob Astor and smoking a cigarette. She later lamented, “If my husband had got drunk that night [of the party], he might not have sailed, and he might be alive today. But he never did drink much.”
His last work ‘My Lady’s Garter’ was published posthumously in 1912. May inscribed in it under a photo of Futrelle, “To the heroes of the Titanic, I dedicate this my husband’s book”. She returned to her home at Scituate, where she died on 29 October, 1967, aged 91. May is buried at St Mary’s Cemetery but her grave is unmarked. No local newspaper carried a notice of her death.