SS St. Louis Passenger List - 2 October 1897

Front Cover of a Cabin Passenger List for the SS St. Louis of the American Line, Departing Saturday, 2 October 1897 from Southampton to New York, Commanded by Captain William G. Randle. | GGA Image ID # 158ce4e85b. The List Was Folded in Half, Resulting in a Crease Across the Center of the Passenger List.

Second Cabin Passengers

1. Mr. C. P. B. Alsop (Note 1)
2. Mrs. Alsop
3. Miss B. Armitage
4. Miss Gussie Andren
5. Mr. Halmar Aspelin
6. Miss Minnie Anderson
7. Miss Annette Ahlgren
8. Rev. Frere Anaclet
9. Mr. Carl H. Anderson
10. Mr. Henry A. Boorse
11. Mr. Wm. Blarney
12. Mr. Stephen Burke
13. Miss Barbara Burke
14. Mrs. Alfred Barley
15. Master Greyson Barley
16. Master Hunter Barley
17. Mr. Trevor Bradburne
18. Mr. E. J. Brice
19. Mrs. A. B. Bernard
20. Mrs. Louisa Beuscher
21. Master Andrew Beuscher
22. Mr. Fredk. Barnard
23. Mr. Henry Barnard (Note 2)
24. Mrs. Barnard
25. Mr. H. Bartlett
26. Mrs. Braccamoule - Not on Board
27. Miss Augusta Billing
28. Rev. Frere Borromeo
29. Mr. Joseph Blosh (Note 3)
30. Mr. Hjalmar Beckman
31. Mr. Alfred Brandt (Note 4)
32. Mr. Solomon Berg
33. Mr. Eric Bouthron
34. Mrs. Curtis
35. Mr. B. Cohen
36. Mr. E. W. Cranston
37. Mr. Dennis Connell
38. Mr. Daniel Connell
39. Mrs. Gaston Cazaux
40. Master Paul Cazaux
41. Master Marcel Cazaux
42. Mrs. L. Clare
43. Mr. A. Cochrane
44. Mrs. Cochrane
45. Mrs. E. Dauncey
46. Mrs. S. E. Daisley
47. Miss Delahays
48. Mr. Chas. Duce
49. Mr. M. Des Georges
50. Mr. Adolf Daniel
51. Rev. Frere Epiphaues
52. Rev. Frere Esteve
53. Mr. L. F. Edwards (Note 5)
54. Miss Maria Ek (Note 6)
55. Miss Lina Ericson
56. Mrs. Grace French (Note 7)
57. Miss Fortescue
58. Miss Fortescue
59. Mrs. Ferguson
60. Mr. John W. Fletcher
61. Mr. F. Fletcher
62. Mr. Farlot
63. Mrs. E. Farlot
64. Mrs. Wm. Gilbert
65. Mr. E. T. Getchell
66. Miss M. E. Gilkes
67. Miss Ida J. Grundy
68. Dr C. F. Guntner (Note 8)
69. Mrs. M. Gould
70. Mrs. It. Gould
71. Miss Anna Grandstedt
72. Miss Mary Gibbons
73. Miss Mathilda Gorànson
74. Miss Emily Galliard
75. Mr. Waldemar Gioskov
76. Mr. Rd. Hester
77. Miss Leonora Hay
78. Mrs. Hall
79. Mr. John Haug
80. Mrs. Haug
81. Mrs. Hennig
82. Miss Laura Hayter
83. Miss Sarah Harrison
84. Mr. J. Hohenadel (Note 9)
85. Mr. John Harper
86. Mrs. Harper
87. Master George Harper
88. Master Arthur Harper
89. Mrs. Hubbell
90. Mr. Carl Haglund
91. Mr. Oscar Hellberg
92. Mr. Robert Hawkesworth
93. Mr. Wm. Jones
94. Mrs. Jones
95. Miss Florence Jones
96. Miss Elsie Jones
97. Master Frank Jones
98. Mr. Alfred Jagnetty
99. Miss Amy Jenkings
100. Mrs. Hilda Jernberg
101. Miss Ellen Jernberg
102. Master Gustaf Jernberg
103. Miss Laura Jernberg
104. Miss Julia Jernberg
105. Miss Ruth Jernberg
106. Master August Jernberg
107. Mrs. Johanna Johanson
108. Master Johan A. Johanson
109. Mrs. E. E. King
110. Miss Lizzie King
111. Miss Rhoda King
112. Master Rd. King
113. Mr. J. E. Kennedy
114. Mr. Wm. Kennedy
115. Mr. Joseph Karlson
116. Mr. Krafner
117. Mr. Bans Lee
118. Mrs. Petrine S. Lee
119. Mr. Edwd. Loosemore
120. Mr. J. L. Laplace (Note 10) - See Second Cabin Prepaid Memorandum
121. Miss Sigrid Lundahl
122. Mr. Louis Leman - Not on Board
123. Mr. C. D. Lymber
124. Miss Mary MacDonald
125. Mrs. Emma Mailhouse
126. Mr. Albert W. Miles
127. Mrs. Mary Mulcahy
128. Mr. John Miller
129. Mrs. Miller
130. Miss Kate Miller
131. Master John Miller
132. Master Martin Miller
133. Mrs. Lucy Mintram (Note 11)
134. Mr. Chas. Bernard Martin
135. Mr. Alfred Mellgren
136. Mrs. Alla Steen Moller
137. Mr. Chas. de Montmorency
138. Mrs. de Montmorency and two children
139. Mr. Wm. Mason (Note 12)
140. Mr. W. Marton
141. Mr. Leon Malkin
142. Mr. P. S. Newell (Note 13)
143. Mr. Chas. Nouwens
144. Mrs. Alma Elizth. Nilssen
145. Miss M. Thorberg Nilssen
146. Mr. James Joseph O'Carroll
147. Mr. A. O'Dahl
148. Rev Frere Ounable - Not on Board
149. Miss M. Pearson
150. Mr. B. Palmer
151. Mr. M. Panims
152. Mr. Henry P. Peters
153. Mr. Chas. Redman
154. Mrs. Alfred Read
155. Mr. R. D. Richards
156. Miss Maud E. Richards
157. Miss Susan Rouse
158. Mr. Gus Rose
159. Mrs. Anna Reed (Note 14)
160. Miss Maria K. Rodgers
161. Mr. Win. Sachlelan
162. Mr. Iganz Slanz
163. Miss Saunderson
164. Miss Smyth
165. Miss Schworer
166. Mr. Louis Schipfer
167. Mrs. Kate Smith
168. Miss Mary Schmidt
169. Rev Jas. Sanaker
170. Mrs. Sanaker
171. Master George Sanaker
172. Master Ar. Sanaker
173. Mr. Louis Seaman (Note 15)
174. Miss Elsie Steiner (Elsie Catherine Steiner (1869–1940) of Aylmer, Elgin, Ontario, Canada)
175. Miss Ragnhild Sjoholm
176. Mr. E. N. Sawyer
177. Mr. W. H. Shinnick
178. Miss Ida A. Svenson
179. Madam Strassburger (Note 16)
180. Mr. Nelson Sawyer (Note 17)
181. Mrs. J. A. Tompkins
182. Mr. John S. Townsend
183. Mrs. Townsend
184. Mr. E. A. Tickner (Note 18)
185. Mrs. F. Tucker
186. Miss Serine Toil
187. Mrs. E. Taylor
188. Miss Hulda Vestring
189. Mrs. Mary Jane Williams
190. Miss Ethel Williams
191. Miss Rubie Williams
192. Mr. W. H. Williams
193. Mr. R. Whyte
194. Mrs. Whyte
195. Miss Marion Wayne
196. Mrs. Katharine Woodcock
197. Miss Mary B. Woodcock
198. Miss Isabella Wilkie
199. Mrs. Isaline Wright
200. Mr. Walter Wright (Note 19)
201. Mr. Horace Wright
202. Mrs. Ellen Whyburn
203. Miss Ellen Walkley
204. Miss Beatrice Walkley (Note 20)
205. Miss Lottie Wallen
206. Miss Hilda Wallen

Passengers Not on Board

1. Mrs. Braccamoule
2. Mr. Louis Lemon
3. Rev. Frérs Oanable

Additions to List

1. Rev. Frére Amable
2. Mrs. Bracamonte
3. Capt. C. E. Malm
4. Mr. Thomas Reynolds
5. Mr. Magnus Walch

Notes to Second Cabin Passengers

1. Mr. C. P. B. Alsop was a prominent Australian art collector, virtuoso, and active spiritualist during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Residing in Sydney, he frequently attended well-known séances, documenting early phenomena of physical mediumship alongside figures like C. C. Massey. Alsop was highly regarded in Sydney's cultural circles as a contemporary collector of fine art, etchings, watercolors, and mezzotints. In January 1884, he auctioned off his renowned, lifelong collection of paintings through the auctioneers Bradley, Newton, and Lamb. Alsop was a notable figure in historical accounts of spiritualism in Australia. He frequently attended séances, including documented circles involving the medium Charles Herne. Original newspaper advertisements and passenger records featuring Mr. C. P. B. Alsop are currently archived on platforms like the National Library of Australia Trove Database and the Spiritualists' National Union Library.
2. Henry Barnard (1811-1900) was an educator , jurist, and the first U.S. commissioner of education (1867–70). With Horace Mann , he shared early leadership in improving the U.S. educational system.
3. Possibly Joseph Samuel Bloch (1850–1923): A prominent Austrian Rabbi, politician, and journalist. In the late 1800s, specifically starting in 1884, he edited the Österreichische Wochenschrift and became a leading figure in the Austrian Parliament fighting antisemitism.
4. Alfred Brandt (1846-1899) was a German civil engineer who was primarily responsible for the successful driving of the Simplon Tunnel, one of the largest of the great Alpine tunnels.
5. In the late 1800s, Mr. L. F. Edwards (Lewis F. Edwards) was a prominent and wealthy businessman based in Athens, Georgia. He was a major planter, manufacturer, and president of the Mallison Braided Cord Company. His grand Victorian mansion on Milledge Avenue was considered one of the city's finest residences.
6. Miss Maria Ek was a Swedish immigrant who arrived in America in the early 1900s. Emigrating with only a Bible and $10, she was part of a broader late-1800s and early-1900s trend where having a Swedish maid was viewed as an upper-class status symbol. Settling in Fort Collins, Colorado, she found enviable employment as a maid for the prominent banker and town founder, Franklin Avery, and his wife, Sarah.
7. Possibly Grace French (1858–1942) who established herself as one of the very first resident landscape artists in the Dakota Territory, she produced the vast majority of her notable work slightly after the late 1800s. Born in New Hampshire in 1858, she received rigorous artistic training at the Lowell School of Industrial Design, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the School of Drawing and Painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She relocated to the Black Hills in the Dakota Territory around 1885 with her mother and sister to join her extended family. Best known as the first resident landscape painter in South Dakota, she captured the raw, untouched frontier. She also taught art at Black Hills College in Hot Springs and was instrumental in setting early art standards. Her original oil paintings and historical artifacts, including Still Life with Eggs and The Artist's Mother, are preserved in collections at the South Dakota Art Museum.
8. Dr. Charles F. Guntner was a notable figure who operated a medical practice, occasionally wrote religious and philosophical texts, and owned the "Sanitberry Fruit Farm" in Crafts, New York (near Mahopac). In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was known as a medical professional who maintained a respected practice and also engaged in international travel, notably returning from Europe on the SS St. Louis in October 1897.
9. Mr. J. Hohenadel refers to John William Hohenadel (1869–1958), a prominent German-American brewer in Philadelphia. In 1894, he established the J. Hohenadel's Falls Brewery (also known as the Falls Brewery) located at the intersection of Indian Queen Lane and Conrad Street in the East Falls neighborhood. The brewery was a quintessential late-1800s community operation. While it never reached the massive national scale of other Philadelphia institutions, it produced about 30,000 barrels annually just prior to Prohibition. The brewery produced popular pre-Prohibition labels such as Indian Queen Ale and Health Beer. Like many small brewers, the original Falls Brewery operations were forced to shut down during Prohibition in 1920. It reopened briefly after the repeal but ceased beer production in December 1952.
10. Mr. J. L. Laplace likely refers to the San Francisco-based lithographer who provided engravings and illustrations for historical texts during the late 19th century. He produced the wood engravings and lithographs for the historical reference book History of Placer County, California (originally published in the late 1800s). His detailed illustrations helped preserve the visual and geographical history of California's Gold Country, capturing the landscapes, structures, and prominent figures of the era. His Second Cabin ticket cost $49.10 in 1897.
11. Mrs. Lucy Mintram and her husband, William Mintram, were well-known figures in the British hospitality industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. William Mintram was the landlord of the historic George Inn in Roborough (New Forest, Hampshire), taking over the pub in 1898 and managing it until his retirement in 1916. Mrs. Mintram assisted him in running the establishment, which is common for family-run public houses of that era.
12. William Mason (1837–1913) was a patternmaker, engineer and inventor who worked for Remington Arms, Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, and Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the 19th century. Mason was an inaugural member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and over the course of his life he patented 125 inventions for firearms, ammunition, firearm manufacturing machinery, steam pumps and power looms. Winchester historian Mary Jo Ignoffo called Mason, "one of the most significant designers of the nineteenth century".
13. Mr. P. S. Newell refers to Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (1862–1924), an American artist, author, and cartoonist who built his reputation in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is best remembered for his gentle humor, visual puns, and novelty picture books. He was a pioneer in using a book's physical form to tell a story. He is most famous for his upside-down book Topsys & Turvys (1893), as well as The Hole Book (1908), which featured an actual die-cut hole through the pages to track the path of a bullet. In the late 1800s, he became a major contributor to leading national magazines, publishing illustrations and humorous verses in Harper's Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, Scribner's Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. In the early 1900s, Newell was commissioned to provide iconic, whimsical illustrations for the Wonderland Wiki editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1901) and Through the Looking-Glass (1902).
14. Anna Medora Morrison Reed (1849/50-1921) was an American poet, lecturer, and suffragist, who for many years, was also the editor and publisher of a newspaper and a magazine. She was one of the most prominent literary women of the West in her day and was one of the best-known residents of Mendocino County, California, where she had resided for a great part of the time since 1872. Her associates included Gertrude Atherton, Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, and George Sterling. Besides writing for the press, she published between 1880 and 1896 various editions of her poems. Among her accomplishments, Reed was noted as being the only woman to have delivered the state agricultural address, which she did at the state fair in Sacramento in 1893.
15. Possibly Louis Livingston Seaman, FRGS (1851–1932) was an American surgeon who served in the United States Army, and a writer of many works. He was born in Newburgh, New York.
16. Possibly Henrietta Strasburger, who served as a key witness in the highly publicized 1893 inquest investigating the abuse of inmates at the Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge (a Canadian poorhouse) in Ontario, Canada. In June 1893, Henrietta Strasburger testified under oath against the poorhouse's Keeper, Peter Itter, and Matron, Alvina Itter. She courageously reported accounts of severe physical maltreatment. This included the Matron pulling inmates by their hair and punishing them with "bread and water" in jail cells. Her testimony was published in the Galt Reformer on June 23, 1893, prompting a formal Standing Committee inquest into the facility.
    
17. Possibly S. Nelson Sawyer (1858-1939) attended the Classical Union School of Palmyra, Phillips Andover Academy, and Albany New York Law School, from the last of which he received a degree in 1883. He was admitted to the bar the same year and practiced alone and in partnership for six years. It was during this time that Sawyer held several minor elective posts, sitting as Justice of the Peace, Village Clerk, and Village President of Palmyra. Subsequently, he was twice elected District Attorney for Wayne County, holding office from 1889 to the close of 1894. He was twice elected to the post of Wayne County Judge and Surrogate, which he held from 1898 to his appointment to the Supreme Court for the Seventh District in the Spring of 1907. He was subsequently twice elected to this court, on which he remained until his mandatory retirement at the close of 1928. The bulk of his tenure was as a trial judge, with only the period from November 1926 to his retirement spent on the bench of the Appellate Division, Fourth Department.
18. Mr. E. A. Tickner is most historically recognized as the first landlord of the Phelps Hotel (also affectionately known as "Old Tick's Inn") in Phelps, New York. His historic tenure at the property began with its grand opening on January 1, 1868, and he ran the establishment through the late 1800s. Tickner established a reputation as a celebrated host and manager, often hosting large community events like the New Year's dinner and dances for the local region in Gibson Hall. He and his hotel were later memorialized in the writings of American author Bellamy Partridge.
19. Walter Livingston Wright (1872–1946) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as president of Lincoln University from 1936 to 1945. He had been a professor of mathematics at Lincoln since 1893 and served as acting president from 1924 to 1926. His successor was Lincoln's first Black president, Horace Mann Bond.
20. Miss Beatrice Walkley was a figure in the performing arts during the turn of the 20th century, notably crossing the Atlantic on the American Line's SS St. Louis in October 1897. Historical census records for the UK indicate a Beatrice Walkley, born in Birmingham, England, around 1887. Miss Walkley was a rising theatrical talent and later a prominent name in Edwardian stage productions.

Back Cover of a Second Cabin Passenger List for the 2 October 1897 Voyage of the SS St. Louis. | GGA Image ID # 158cf7bd4e