The president later broke down weeping while delivering the eulogy at Butt's funeral.He died on Titanic only a few years later, and his story is a terrifyingly arbitrary fluke of fate. I couldn't prepare anything in advance to say here. Everybody who knew him called him Archie. "His life was spent in self-sacrifice, serving others. "If Archie could have selected a time to die he would have chosen the one God gave him," Taft said, in a private memorial service, according to the Smithsonian. There are a number of unverified accounts of Butt's behavior during the sinking - with many sensationalized stories of the military officer leading the evacuation or threatening male passengers who tried to ignore the ship's "women and children first" protocol. He served Roosevelt's successor William Taft in the same capacity.Īrlington National Cemetary's website noted that Butt's "health began to deteriorate in 1912 because of his attempts to remain neutral during the bitter personal quarrel" between Roosevelt and Taft, possibly prompting his decision to travel to Europe. Later, he became President Theodore Roosevelt's military aide in 1908. She survived prison but died shortly after the war.īutt led a distinguished - and varied - career before perishing during the Titanic disaster.Īccording to Arlington National Cemetery's website, Butt started out as a reporter, but later enlisted in the US Army during the Spanish-American War. Later, while living in Italy in the 1940s, the former actress was imprisoned by fascists. As WWII began, there were allegations that she herself was a Nazi sympathizer - the veracity of those rumors is unclear. Gibson quit acting shortly afterward.Īfter that, Gibson's life is a bit cloudy. Her affair with a prominent film producer was a scandal in America and prompted Gibson to move to Paris. Gibson subsequently appeared as herself in a now-lost 1912 film about her experienced called " Saved from the Titanic." According to the History Press, Gibson sported the same clothes in the film as she had on during the disaster. "I will never forget the terrible cry that rang out from people who were thrown into the sea and others who were afraid for their loved ones," Gibson told a newspaper reporter shortly after the disaster, according to the History Press. She grabbed her mother and together they escaped the ship on the first lifeboat. Gibson reportedly heard the ship crash into an iceberg. She was 22-years-old when she booked a passage on the Titanic. In the wake of the tragedy, Sir Duff-Gordon received criticism for not adhering to the ship's "women and children first" evacuation policy.Ī few years later in 1915, Lady Duff-Gordon escaped death again after canceling her voyage on the doomed Lusitania.Īfter getting her start as a young girl in vaudeville, Gibson went on to become a model and launch a career as a silent film star. I recall being pushed towards one of the boats and being helped in." A few men who crowded in were turned back at the point of Captain Smith's revolver, and several of them were felled before order was restored. When disaster struck, they both escaped on the first lifeboat that embarked off the ship.Īccording to Vogue, Lady Duff-Gordon described the scene on the Titanic, saying, "Everyone seemed to be rushing for that boat. The Duff-Gordons booked a trip on the Titanic in order to travel to New York City on business.
Lady Duff-Gordon was a top British fashion designer, whose innovations included the precursor to the modern day fashion show. Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his wife Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon were two of the most prominent passengers on board the Titanic.ĭuff-Gordon was a major landowner and society figure in the UK, known for his fencing skills.
Woodlawn Cemetary in the Bronx memorialized Isidor and Ida Straus with a cenotaph bearing a line from the Song of Solomon: "Many waters cannot quench love -neither can the floods drown it." Isidor's body was recovered from the ocean, but Ida was never found. The couple was last seen together on the deck of the Titanic. She also gave her a mink coat, quipping that she wouldn't need the garment anymore. Ida then ordered her maid to board a lifeboat. When her husband urged her to evacuate the ship, she reportedly responded, "We have lived together for many years. He declined, saying he wouldn't board a raft until every woman and child had gotten off the ship. Isidor and his brother later acquired Macy's, and he eventually became a powerful businessman and a member of the US House of Representatives.Īccording to Today, Straus was offered a spot on a lifeboat while the ship was sinking. The couple first met after the Civil War when a penniless Isidor Straus moved to New York City, according to Premier Exhibitions. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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