francis davis millet

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    Cherbourg or Southampton: Butt and Millet

    Where dit Francis Millet board the Titanic? It is not quite clear. Some lists say Southampton, together with Butt. Others say Cherbourg. Also on Encyclopedia it is not clear. Ont he page of Millet; "He boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a first class passenger (ticket number 13509, £26 11s) He...
  2. Arun Vajpey

    Butt & Millet

    I have read that Major Archibald Butt and the artist Francis Millet lived together in Washington a lot of the time. I know that Millet had a wife in some other place but did his co-habitation with Butt mean they had more than a friendly relationship?
  3. Encyclopedia Titanica

    Francis Davis Millet

    https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/francis-davis-millet.html
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    Bachelor

    In many places it is written that Millet lived with Archibald Butt and another man named (I believe) Blanton Winship, c. 1910-11. Accounts of this have given me the impression that all three were bachelors at the time. However, I know that in 1879 or so, Millet married Elizabeth Merrill and had...
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    Pronunciation of Millet

    In several of the threads about Millet, folks have asked how his name was pronounced. Each time, Shelley Dziedzic has advised that "it is pronounced like the cereal grain with the accent on the first syllable to rhyme with skillet!" Shelley is, of course, correct, and I've now come across a...
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    A ghost at Francis Millet's grave

    A couple years back I was down in Bridgewater MA, visiting the grave of Titanic victin francis Millet. When I developed the film, there was an odd cloud in front of his grave. Could this be his ghost? what do you all think? regards Tarn Stephanos
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    Francis Millet and the Cleveland Trust

    This past Wednesday a group of us from around Cleveland visited the Cleveland Trust building in downtown Cleveland. The building was built it 1908 and was shut down in the mid 1990s. In the center was a three story centerpiece crowned by a 65 foot glass dome. It is a beautiful building! They...
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    Major Butt & Frank Millet

    Hi, all! In 1908 in Washington D.C. Frank Millet painted a portrait of his friend Archie Butt. Does anyone happen to know if this portrait still exists and, if so, where it is presently located? Major Butt's friend Frank McCoy recorded a few humorous comments regarding the above portrait...
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    Frank D. Millet: His life and work

    Here are URLs for images of paintings and other works by Francis David Millet: painting, "The Window Seat" (1893)- painting, "Between Two Fires" (date ?)- photo, Frank Millet in 1893 photo, Panama Canal Completion Medal by Millet (1914)- photo, General Warren stained glass window at...
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    Frank Millet's House in Worcestershire

    This from "Vogue" magazine, October 1, 1915 _________________________________________________ BEAUTIFUL BROADWAY - IN WORCESTERSHIRE In Tudor Days a Road of Inns - Now the Setting of a Cosmopolitan Colony of Artists and Musicians Fringed by the purple Cotswold Hills in...
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    Witnesses to events Stead Millet Kent

    Hi Everyone, Three questions concerning the authority of apparant observations made on April 14th. 1. On page 24 of "A nignt to remember" Francis Millet was seen to briefly explain the accident to W.T. Stead, to which the he replied, "well I guess it's nothing serious. I'm going back to my...
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