First class passenger list, 1896

passenger list

A list of "saloon" passengers from the CEPHALONIA's voyage from Boston to Liverpool departing August 1, 1896. This first class list is short, but it includes some fascinating personalities. Dr. Susan E. Crocker, traveling with her daughter Annie, was a physician in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She graduated from medical college and began practicing medicine in 1874, going on to help found the Lawrence General Hospital. Horatio W. Colony was a textile mill owner from Keene, New Hampshire. Professor Edwin A. Grosvenor was on the history faculty at Amherst College and had just published a two-volume book called "Constantinople," while Dr. William J. Rolfe was a Shakespeare scholar who also published two books on the Bard in 1896. Elizabeth Swan McKay, traveling with an infant and a maid, was the wife of a Cunard captain, Captain Horatio McKay of the LUCANIA. In May of that year, she had traveled to Boston to meet him for a vacation, and now in August, both he and she were headed back to Liverpool, but on separate ships. In addition to this small group of first class passengers, the ship reportedly had 80 second class and 200 steerage passengers aboard for this voyage. The cover has a drawing of a two-funnel steamer ship, not the CEPHALONIA which had one funnel as well as sails.