RMS Ivernia Passenger List - 1 October 1901

Front Cover of a Saloon Passenger List from the RMS Ivernia of the Cunard Line, Departing Tuesday, 1 October 1901 from Liverpool to Boston, Commanded by Captain J. B. Watt. | GGA Image ID # 11c78667cc

Senior Officers and Staff

1. Commander: Captain J. B. Watt
2. Surgeon: H. Merrall
3. Purser: Ambilose Shea
4. Chief Steward: B. Coyle

Saloon Passegers

1. Mrs. A. N. Allen
2. Mrs. W. P. Andrews
3. Miss A. A. Andrews
4. Mr. Walter R. Ballantyne
5. Mr. F. A. Bicknell (Frank Alfred Bicknell (1866–1943) was a prominent American Impressionist painter known for his landscapes, particularly those created in Old Lyme, Connecticut, France, and during his travels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.)
6. Mr. C. L. Bouvg
7. Mr. Thomas N. Bradley
8. Mrs. Brown
9. Mr. George J. Burns
10. Rev. William J. Butler
11. Miss A. H. Bone
12. Mr. T. P. Cabot
13. Mrs. W. H. Carley
14. Mr. Claude Carlot
15. Mrs. Carlot
16. Mrs. Chaffee
17. Dr. Walter Charming
18. Mrs. Walter Charming
19. Mr. Hayden Charming
20. Miss Rosalie Charming
21. Miss Barbara Charming
22. Mr. Arthur B. Claflin (Arthur Brigham Claflin (1859-1939) Merchant, of 1050 Fifth Avenue, N.Y.C. & Southampton, Long Island, New York. Arthur B. Claflin, retired wholesale dry goods merchant who was formerly a partner in the firm founded by his father, the late Horace B. Claflin. Mr. Claflin was a descendant of the Scottish pioneers of his name who settled the town of Hopkinton, Mass., early in the eighteenth century. His father, a son of John Claflin of Milford, Mass., moved to this city from Worcester, Mass., and in 1843 established Bulkley & Claflin, which in 1864 became H. B. Claflin & Co. In 1890, John Claflin, who died last July, an older brother of Arthur B. Claflin, incorporated the business as the H. B. Claflin Company and he remained as its president until his retirement in 1914.
23. Mrs. Claflin (Minnietta Anderson, whose work as president of the Outdoor Cleanliness Association is well known)
24. Mr. G. D. Clapp
25. Mrs. Clapp
26. Rev. Father Clark
27. Mr. S. Clark
28. Mrs. S. Clark
29. Mr. A. Clark
30. Miss Clark
31. Mrs. W. J. Clark
32. Miss Clark
33. Mrs. H. B. Clement
34. Mr. C. A. Cutter (Charles Ammi Cutter (1837–1903) was a titan of American librarianship in the late 1800s, known for revolutionizing how libraries organized books and served their patrons. During this period, he developed foundational tools for library science that are still used today, most notably the Cutter Author Table and his extensive dictionary cataloging rules.)
35. Mrs. Cutter
36. Mrs. R. H. Davis (Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (1831–1910) was an American author and journalist. She was a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the short story "Life in the Iron-Mills," published in the April 1861 edition of The Atlantic Monthly. Throughout her lifetime, Davis sought to effect social change for African Americans, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working class, by intentionally writing about the plight of these marginalized groups in the 19th century.
37. Miss Delf
38. Mrs. J. M. Doane
39. Mr. J. E. Dockendorf
40. Mrs. Dockendorf
41. Mr. W. E. Edwards
42. Mrs. Samuel Eliot and Maid (Based on records from the late 1800s, "Mrs. Samuel Eliot" most notably refers to Emily Marshall Otis Eliot (1833–1925), wife of the prominent Boston historian, educator, and civic leader Samuel Eliot (1821–1898).)
43. Miss O. B. Emery
44. Mrs. Jonathan Evans
45. Miss Anna Evans
46. Miss Lydia Farnham
47. Mr. H. Fletcher (Likely Horace Fletcher (1849–1919): An American health enthusiast who popularized "fletcherizing," which meant chewing food until it was completely liquefied, often 50–100 times. He claimed this practice improved digestion and reduced food intake.)
48. Mrs. Fletcher
49. Mrs. J. K. Flood
50. Mr. John S. Gittings (John Sterett Gittings (1848-1926) John Sterett Gittings was born in 1848 in Baltimore, the son of William S. and Annie (Aldrich) Gittings. He attended Maryland Agricultural College and studied in Bremen, Germany, and at St. John's College, Oxford, England. He married Rosalie May, and they had five children: Henry May, Frederick May, John S. Jr., Gladys H., and Dorothy Rosalie. Gittings began his career in banking in his grandfather's firm of John S. Gittings & Son, the second oldest private bank in the South. He became president of the bank in 1880 and held that position until 1912 when he closed the firm. Gittings also served on the boards of Merchants National Bank, Maryland Life Insurance Company, and Eutaw Savings Bank. His political career was started in 1866 when he was appointed paymaster general of the State militia, an office he held until 1870. In 1882 Gittings was elected to the House of Delegates from Baltimore County and he served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He was appointed State Treasurer from 1885 to 1886, and in that capacity he served as a member of the State Board of Public Works.)
51. Miss Mary E. Haskell (Mary Elizabeth Haskell, later Minis (1873–1964), was an American educator, best known for having been the benefactress of Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran.)
52. Mr. E. M. Hayden
53. Mrs. Hayden
54. Master G. Hayden
55. Mr. Alexander Henderson
56. Master Alex. E. Henderson
57. Miss Jane W. Henderson
58. Mr. O. Herford (Oliver Herford (1860–1935) was a renowned British-American author, artist, and illustrator often referred to as the "American Oscar Wilde" due to his biting wit and whimsical style.)
59. Mr. H. L. Higginson (Henry Lee Higginson (1834–1919) was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a patron of Harvard University.)
60. Mrs. Higginson and Maid (Ida Olympe Frederika Agassiz)
61. Dr. John Homans (John Homans (1877–1954) was an American surgeon who described Homans' sign and Homans' operation. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and was educated at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. His residency was undertaken at Massachusetts General Hospital, and was followed by work in Baltimore and London. He returned to Boston to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1912. Towards the end of his career he worked at Yale University as the Carmalt Visiting Professor, returning to Peter Bent Brigham during World War II. Homans worked on developing hypophysectomy with Harvey Cushing, and they and Samuel James Crowe published the first evidence of the link between the pituitary gland and the reproductive system in 1910. He later worked on peripheral vascular disease, helping to popularise the ligation of the saphenofemoral junction for treatment of varicose veins, and advocating ligation of the subsartorial vein to stop migrating clots causing pulmonary embolus. He described the sign which bears his name in 1944, and reported the first instance of deep venous thrombosis occurring in flight in 1954 in a doctor who had flown between Boston and Caracas. He was also interested in lymphoedema, developing the Homans operation for this condition.)
62. Mrs. C. D. Homans
63. Mr. Thomas Horsfield
64. Mr. W. G. Horton
65. Mrs. Horton
66. Miss Grey Hughes
67. Mrs. Henry F. Hurlbert
68. Mr. Henry F. Hurlbert, Jr.
69. Mrs. J. Chester Inches
70. Miss Natica Inches
71. Mr. William Irwin (Likely William G. Irwin (1843–1914): A British-born capitalist and "Sugar King" who built a massive fortune in the Kingdom of Hawai'i after 1875. He formed a major partnership with Claus Spreckels in 1881, dominating sugar, shipping, and banking.)
72. Mrs. Jacob
73. Miss Jacob
74. Mrs. Otis N. Jones
75. Miss Jones
76. Rev. J. Wynne Jones
77. Mr. Henry H. Kelt
78. Miss Rosetta Key
79. Mrs. T. A. Lewis and Maid
80. Mr. Allen Lewis
81. Mrs. George Linder
82. Miss Linder
83. Miss Ethie B. Linder
84. Mr. Gustav Lundberg
85. Mrs. Lundberg
86. Miss Harriet McCarter
87. Rev. Father McGlew (Reverend Father James McGlew was a prominent Catholic priest in Massachusetts during the late 1800s, serving as the pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Chelsea from 1867. He was instrumental in developing the parish's educational infrastructure, overseeing the completion of a convent, a girls' school (1871), and a boys' school (1889).)
88. Mr. J. E. Merrill
89. Mrs. Merrill
90. Mr. A. D. Middleton
91. Mrs. Middleton and Maid
92. Miss Middleton
93. Mr. David Montgomery
94. Mrs. Montgomery
95. Rev. P. N. Mosher
96. Mr. F. G. Nind
97. Miss E. G. Norton
98. Mr. George C. Phillips
99. Mrs. Phillips (Jennie A. Granlee)
100. Dr. G. C. Powell
101. Mr. M. E. Pierce
102. Mrs. J. T. Prince
103. Miss Edith Probyn
104. Miss Carrie Probyn
105. Miss Dora Probyn
106. Miss Mabel Probyn
107. Miss Rebecca Renwick
108. Miss Margaret Renwick
109. Mr. S. Ridenour
110. Mrs. Ridenour
111. Mr. John Ridenour
112. Mrs. Chandler Robbins
113. Miss E. Robins (Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952) was a prominent American-born actress, novelist, and suffragist who achieved fame in London during the late 19th century. Renowned for pioneering the performance of Ibsen's heroines (such as Hedda Gabler) on the English stage, she also published influential, often anonymous, fiction addressing feminist issues.)
114. Mr. Charles L. Rogers
115. Mr. G. D. Rumsey
116. Mrs. Rumsey
117. Mr. John E. Sanford
118. Miss K. I. Sanford (Likely refers to Maria Louise Sanford (1836–1920), a prominent American educator, lecturer, and one of the first female professors in the United States. After leaving a teaching position at Swarthmore College in 1879, she joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, where she became a popular and influential professor of English. In the late 1880s, she suffered heavy debt due to poor real estate investments. Instead of declaring bankruptcy, she chose to pay back her debts through extreme personal economies, showcasing her dedication. Known for her active community leadership, she was described as "the best-loved woman in Minnesota". During this period, she was known for her public speaking and lecturing on various subjects. Maria Sanford continued her work well into the 20th century, retiring in 1909 but continuing to lecture, particularly during World War I.)
119. Mrs. Sellew
120. Miss Josephine H. Short
121. Mrs. Francis Smith
122. Miss Marjorie Smith
123. Miss Esther N. Stokes
124. Mr. Charles F. Stone
125. Mrs. Stone
126. Mr. Percival M. Stone
127. Mr. Charles B. Stone
128. Miss Grace H. Story
129. Mr. John Sweetman (John Sweetman (1844–1936) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as an Anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1890s, but later radicalised. He was one of the founders of Sinn Féin and was the party's president from 1908 to 1911.)
130. Mrs. Sweetman (Agnes Hanly)
131. Mr. George H. Swift (George H. Swift (1878-1951), whose father founded the Swift Co. meat packing firm, was chief of company's interests in New England States.)
132. Mr. George F. Swift, Jr.
133. Mr. Nat Swift (Nathan Butler Swift (1881-1903) Son of the President of Swift & Company Loses His Life. Decedent Was One of the Noted Football Players of the Country. Nathan B. Swift, the oldest son of Louis F. Swift, president of Swift and Company, died In his fathers house at Lake Forest yesterday from an accident he received on the polo field at the Onwentsla Club Saturday. He was struck on the head with a polo ball driven by Sidney C . Love or W . W . Rathbone. He was only twenty-three.)
134. Mr. H. F. Talbot
135. Mrs. Talbot
136. Mr. H. C. Thomson
137. Mrs. Thomson
138. Mrs. Charles R. Train (Mrs. Charles R. Train was the wife of Charles Russell Train (1817–1885), a prominent Massachusetts attorney general, U.S. Representative, and Republican politician.)
139. Professor P. Walderstrom (Paul Petter Waldenström (1838–1917) was a pivotal Swedish theologian, educator, and politician, acting as the leading figure of the 19th-century Swedish Free Church movement (Mission Friends). He challenged the Church of Sweden's doctrine of atonement, served in the Riksdag (1884–1905), and helped form the Swedish Mission Covenant in 1878.)
140. Mrs. Walderstrotn (Matilda Fredrika Teodora Hallgren)
141. Mr. W. O. Walker
142. Mr. J. A. R. Waters
143. Miss M. J. Watts
144. Mr. Richard Webb
145. Mrs. Webb
146. Mr. A. S. White
147. Mrs. White and Maid
148. Master Harry White (Harry Dexter White (October 29, 1892 – August 16, 1948) was an American government official in the United States Department of the Treasury. Working closely with the secretary of the treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., he helped set American financial policy toward the Allies of World War II. He was later accused of espionage by passing information to the Soviet Union.)
149. Miss Dorothy White
150. Master Stamford White
151. Mr. Samuel White
152. Miss M. D. Whitney
153. Miss Emily Williston
154. Miss Adelaide Wood
155. Mr. A. H. Zeller (August Zeller (1863-1918) was an American sculptor and teacher. An exceptional carver, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) under Thomas Eakins. He moved to Paris in 1890 to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and studied further in the studio of Auguste Rodin. His most prominent commissions were for two Civil War monuments: the 96th Pennsylvania Infantry Monument (1888), on the Gettysburg Battlefield; and the Schuylkill County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (1891), in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Zeller spent his final years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as curator of sculpture at the Carnegie Institute of Fine Arts and as an instructor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.)

Information for Passengers

Meals will be served in the Saloon at the following times :

• Breakfast from 8:30 to 10:00 am
• Luncheon at 1:00 pm
• Dinner (a la Carte) at 7:00 pm
• Supper, if required, must be ordered before 10 o'clock

The Bar will be closed at 11:00 pm and the Smoking Room at 11:30 pm

The Second Steward has the arrangement of the seats at table.

Divine Service on Sunday at 10:30 am

All enquiries regarding Baggage should be addressed to the Purser.

Steamer Chairs may be hired from the Deck Steward at a cost of 4/- for the voyage.

Valuables and money should be deposited with the Purser, who will give a receipt for same on the Company's form.

Passengers should obtain a receipt on the Company's form for any additional Passage Money or Freight paid on board.

Information as to the methods of Customs Inspection at Boston, dutiable articles and rate of duty thereon, can be obtained from the Purser.

Passengers are notified that dogs cannot be landed in Great Britain unless a license has previously been procured from the Board of Agriculture, London. Forms of license must be obtained by direct application to the Department before the dog is taken on board.

Special trains are run between Riyerside Station, Liverpool, and Euston Station, London, in connection with the arrival and departure of these Steamers. All the other Railway Stations in Liverpool are within a few minutes' drive of the Landing Stage.

Back Cover, Cunard RMS Ivernia Track Chart - 1 October 1901. | GGA Image ID # 11c789edb8