Source for JP Morgan's Involvement in the Titanic Disaster

[Jason Mc]

Looking for a source, preferably a human, who can provide factual, detailed information on J. Pierpont Morgan's "last-moment" decisions to pull his collection of fine art from the RMS Titanic's cargo and nix his reservation to join her for her maiden voyage.

Please contact me via email if you have goods. Thanks for your consideration.

Respectfully,

Jason Mc.
jason [dot] mccormick [at] cbsinteractive [dot] com

 

[Mark Baber]

As to Morgan's art, I haven't given that a whole lot of attention, but I do know that some of Morgan's art was being sent from England to the U.S. as early as February; whether any of it was ever intended to go on Titanic, I don't know.

As to Morgan himself, I'm fairly confident that a trip on Titanic's maiden voyage was not in the cards, for reasons explained in this thread:

Prominent Non-Passengers Morgan and Hershey

Someone told me that ther were some of the Hershey family on Titanic but I can't find them on the list. Does anybody know if that is true.

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

 

[Shel Cooper]

That thread seems to have died. I read he was ill and ended up dying early the next year in Rome.

 

[Shel Cooper]

Correction, found it.