Thread by @ActorAaronBooth

That Titanic survivor went on to be elected to one term in the Minnesota State House in 1926. He would then lose reelection 2 years later by 102 votes. The district was based in Minneapolis, but I have not further specifics on that.

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Many years after his death, his wife gave this 1980 interview:

Of course, don't take everything she said as gospel, though based on one detail she gives here: her husband was in the inside bunk and she was against the hull, so the iceberg would have passed just inches away from the bed in which she was lying.

For the record, her room did have a heater. (Doesn't mean she wouldn't have been cold, but the interview suggests there wasn't a heater in the room)

Also came across a letter she wrote towards the end of her life to a researcher who was kind enough to share it. She gives an explanation for her husband being saved: "Captain Smith was frantic and finally asked us ten brides and grooms to set an example and get in the lifeboat."

This of course fits in with several other accounts of the crew trying to put men in early to convince the women that it was safe. Not sure there is much other evidence other than her statement though that the Captain himself was the one that gave that particular order.

Then her comment about the band is would probably not be an actual recollection. Through most of the sinking, the band would have been playing inside (they likely walked by them when they went up the GSC from B deck and out to boat 7.

And they weren't playing nearer my god to thee "all the time" nor would they have been playing by the time the final plunge was underway. We know this because Wallace Hartly had time to stow his violin in its case and strapped it to his back. (that's how his body was found)

That being said, her story about the German (his name was actually Alfred Nourney though he traveled under the pseudonym Baron Alfred von Drachstedt) was absolutely true b y all accounts. He was apparently a jerk including on the Carpathian after being rescued as well.

Bringing this back to John Snyder the politician: in his one term in the State House, he was on these committees: