Museum hosts Titanic exhibit, postcard show

[Andrew Clarkson]

WILDWOOD – Of the 1,517 men, women and children who died in the Titanic disaster, some are still remembered today: John Jacob Astor IV, then the world’s richest man; millionaire Benjamin Guggenheim, who originally planned to book passage on the Lusitania; and Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy’s in New York.

A man with local connections also perished on the fateful maiden voyage, and his story is part of a 100th anniversary exhibit of Titanic photos and memorabilia 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at the Wildwood Historical Society George F. Boyer Museum.

According to the April 18, 1912 edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Never was so much sympathy expressed by residents of Five Mile Beach as over the tidings that Frederick Sutton, the well-known businessman, probably perished in the wreck of the steamer Titanic.” Two days later, the Camden Daily Courier reported that Sutton, director of the Marine National Bank in Wildwood, had died “beneath the turbulent waters of the Atlantic.” A week after the tragedy, Sutton was hailed by his fellow bank officers as “one of the many men who stepped back on the ill-fated steamship Titanic in response to that noble Anglo-Saxon sentiment ‘women and children first’ and thus died that others might be saved.”

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[VW1956]

Hello Andrew. I know I've said this a few times before but the title of this thread sounds really interesting so on looking to see where it is being held I see it's in the USA. Oh well, mustant grumble as we got Southampton. . Ken.