First Class

Mrs. Ida Sofia Hippach, 44, wife of prominent Chicago plate glass dealer, Louis Albert Hippach of Tyler and Hippach, Co. and her daughter Jean, aged 16 were returning to Chicago after a trip abroad to recover from the anguish of losing two young sons in the Iroquois Theater fire.

Ida died in 1940 and Jean Hippach Unander-Scharin died in 1974. Both are interred in Rose Hill Cemetery in Chicago.

Miss Ann Eliza Isham, 50, daughter of prominent Chicago attorney Edward Swift Isham, law partner of Robert Todd Lincoln and Arthur L. Ryerson, was born and raised in Chicago. She was returning after a visit to a sister in France and was planning to spend the summer at the family summer home in Manchester, Vermont. Ann is one of the four First Class women who did not survive the sinking. There is a memorial stone to her memory in the family plot in Vermont.

Erwin G. Lewy, 30, was the treasurer of the Chicago jewelry firm of Lewy Brothers. Born in Arkansas, the son of Benno and Bertha Lewy, he had been on an annual buying trip to Europe and was returning to his home in Chicago.

The Arthur Larned Ryerson Family consisting of Arthur, 61, his wife Emily Maria Borie Ryerson, 48, and children Susan Parker, (Suzette) 21, and Emily Borie, 18, and John Borie (Jack) 13, had been vacationing in Europe for the winter and had been called back to their home in Philadelphia by the tragic auto death of their son Arthur Jr. Arthur Sr. perished on the Titanic, wife Emily later remarried William F. Sherfesse, and died on vacation in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1939. Daughter Suzette married George Patterson IV and died suddenly in 1921. Daughter Emily Ryerson Clarke Cooke died in 1986, and son John B. died in 1986. All are buried in the family plot at their summer home in Cooperstown, N.Y. In about 1905, the Ryerson family relocated from Chicago to Philadelphia when Arthur Sr. retired from active law practice.

Second Class

Mrs. Amelia H. Lemore, 45, wife of James Henry Lemore, was returning to Mellen, Wisconsin after visiting her parents in England. She later lived in Chicago and worked as a lens specialist at an optical company until returning to England in her final years, dying there in 1950.

Miss Lucy Ridsdale, 58, recently retired as a nursing home operator in London, was moving to the United States to spend her final years with sisters and their families who were living in the Midwest. She eventually settled in Chicago where she died in 1946.

Charles E. Williams, 23, was the world racquet champion from England and was traveling to the United States to take part in the world championships in 1912. He regularly traveled to America to compete and in 1924 moved his family to Chicago. Where he was employed as a tennis instructor at several local clubs. He died in Chicago in 1935 and is interred at Rose Hill Cemetery.

Third Class

Miss Hilda Maria Hellstrom, 22, was immigrating from Sweden to Chicago in 1912 and lived with an aunt in Evanston until her marriage to John Edward Larson in 1915. The family then moved to Highland Park where they lived for many years. Hilda died at her daughter’s home in Streaton, Illinois in 1962.

Miss Anna McGowan, 17, was traveling to Chicago with her aunt, Katherine McGowan who had run a rooming house in Chicago. Aunt Katherine did not survive the sinking but Anna (Annie) continued on to Chicago and lived there with relatives. She married Raymond A. Straube and lived the remainder of her life in Chicago, dying in 1990.

Karl Albert Midtsjo, 21, was immigrating from Norway and survived the sinking. He married in 1913 and spent most of his later life in Maywood working as a gardener. He died in Aurora, Illinois in 1939.

Miss Berta Olivia Nilsson, 18, was immigrating from Sweden to Chicago. She married a police officer , William Christensen in 1913 and lived the rest of her life in Chicago where she died in 1976.

Miss Velin (Vivian) Ohman, 22, was immigrating from Sweden, survived the sinking and married Henry Forsander who was a pattern maker. She lived the remainder of her life in Chicago and died in 1966.

Aaron (Abe) Willer, 37, a tailor, was returning to his home and family in Chicago after a year in London. He died in the sinking.