1945-2023 DUBLIN John R. England, 78, passed away peacefully July 25, 2023, in Dublin, Ohio. John was born Feb. 9, 1945, in Cumberland, Maryland, to the late John Harvey and Carrie LaVerne (Kniseley) England. His early childhood was spent on the England Family Farm near Bedford, Pennsylvania. He and his parents moved to Salem, […]
Francis Davis Millet
Millet was smoking and playing cards in a gentleman’s lounge on the Titanic when he heard commotion outside the room about 20 minutes after the accident.
The East Bridgewater native rushed into the hallway and a passenger told him the ship had struck an iceberg.
Millet, 65, an internationally celebrated painter traveling first class with Major Archibald Butt, military aide to President William Howard Taft, found a warmer jacket and overcoat in his cabin and then went back onto the deck.
A passenger who survived the sinking recalled seeing Millet, Butt and John Jacob Astor IV, the richest passenger aboard the ship, helping people onto lifeboats.