Postcard labeled "Beechwood/Residence of John Jacob Astor" from the NHS collections
John Jacob Astor of Beechwood, Bellevue Avenue. Wife survived six months pregnant and gave birth to JJ Astor 5th who lived until 1992.
Margaret Tobin Brown, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” of Colorado. Rented Meunchinger-King cottage on Redwood Street and Bellevue Avenue. Suffrage partner of Alva Vanderbilt at Marble House rally. Click here to read more from a previous History Bytes.
William Earnest Carter and family all survived. Lived at Quarterfoil on Narragansett Avenue.
William C. Dulles perished. Lived next to Carters.
Margaret B. Hayes survived and married Dr. Charles Easton. Buried at St. Mary’s in Portsmouth, RI.
James Clinch Smith and family perished, lived at corner of Harrison and Halidon Avenues.
George D. Widener of Philadelphia. Wife survived and built Miramar on Bellevue Avenue in 1914. She remarried Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice.
Karl Howel Behr, visitor tennis champion.
Clarence Bloomfield Moore, visitor Horse Show participant.
Richard Norris Williams, visitor tennis champion.
The back of the card is postmarked April 9, 1912, just days before the Titanic sank. From the NHS collections.