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Titanic Passenger Summary

Name: Mr August Wennerström
Titanic Survivor
Born: Thursday 24th April 1884 in
Age: 27 years 11 months and 21 days (Male)
Nationality: Swedish
Last Residence: in Ystad, Sweden
3rd Class Passengers
Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 350043, £7 15s 11d
Destination: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Rescued (boat A)
Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
Died: Wednesday 22nd November 1950 aged 66 years
Buried: Masonic Cemetery, Culver, Indiana, United States

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August Edward "Leo" Wennerström (Andersson) (Andersson) MP

August var typogra f och mycket aktiv journalist.

Fadern August:

August och Selma var inte gifta när hon blev gravid. För att undgå skam lämnade hon deras son Knut till en änglamakerska. När August fick reda på detta rusade han i sista stund till sin sons räddning. Knut blev sedemera uppfostrad av sin faster.

Vänsteräventyraren August:

August hette ursprungligen Andersson och som sådan var han känd i det radikala socialistiska Sverige. Han var god vän med Kata Dahlström, aktiv bland ungsocialisterna. År 1905 var han med att utge en tidskrift som fick namnet "Gula faran" och fick därefter öknamnet Gula faran. Denna tidskrift kallade bl.a. Oscar II flr "tjyvarnas konung". Detta misshagade myndigheterna och tidskriften beslagtogs med åtal som följd men blev inte själv åtalad. Han blev ovän med "Pamparna" för hans åsikters skull vilket gjorde att han emigrerade. Han köpte biljetten i Köpenhamn och för att dölja sin identitet tog han sin gode vän och sedemera försvarsministern Ivar Vennerströms namn, men med stavelsen Wennerström. Ett faryg skulle avgå 10 April 1912 från Southampton och köpte så biljett.

Emigranten och Titanic överlevaren August

August blev kvar intill slutet på Titanic. En livbåt kom som ett mirakel ifrån ovan till deras undsättning i sista stund. En återskildring av hans berättelse i Nordstjernan den 23 April 1912.

" Titanic sjönk alltmera och till slut då ovänsendet, bönerna, gråtandet och nödropen voro som värst upptäcktes ännu en livbåt hopfällbar ovan kommandobryggan. Några ur besättningen drog ner den i första klass däck. i samma andetag brusade vattnet i ohejdbar styrka in i första klass hytter och inom en minut slog en väldig bölja över Titanics öfversta däck och c:a 1600 personer spolades över bord. Jag och några kamrater kastades upp på den nyss nedtagna lifbåten som jag nu då vattnet i detsamma sköljde över däck lösgjorde fören, strax efter blef den även lösgjord i aktern och nästa bölja förde oss bland fartygets fyra skorstenar. Titanic fortsatte att sjunka, skorstenarna fylldes av vatten och pannorna exploderade och med en kraft slungades vi ut i vida havet. Utan att kunna fatta situationer ser vi Titanic resa sig rakt upp med fören djupt ner i vattnet och aktern med sina 5 -ton propellrar rakt upp i vädret"

August Edvard anlände till Ellis Island 1912. Han var då 28 år gammal.

Han ankom till Ellis Island den 18 juni.

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August barn i USA Culver och Ann beskriver hans upplevelser på Titanic och livet i USA

"This is the Chicago paper in 1912,” said Culver Wennerstrom.

Ninety five years to the day after an iceberg sliced through the dreams of more than 1,500 souls, the memories are flooding back in Mishawaka for Culver Wennerstrom and his sister, Ann.

Their father, August, stood proud on the docks at Southampton that day, ready to begin a new life.

"He'd been a newspaper reporter,” Culver said.

"He was promised a job in Chicago on the newspaper. That's the reason he come over," Ann Gibbons, August’s daughter, said.

"She was the greatest of all ships," the wide-eyed 28-year-old wrote in his diary on April 10, 1912, "with all modern comforts and every pleasure of a large city.”

"At midnight, she begins descending to her ocean grave," he wrote on April 14.

Despite the fact that he spoke no English, August sprang into action, helping women and children into lifeboats.

On April 15 at 2:20 a.m., he wrote, "The ship's keel hits the icy water."

Six hours later, August awoke. Numb, but alive.

"When he came to, he was floating on three bodies — dead bodies," Ann said.

"He said his feet were so cold, he couldn't even tell he had any," Culver said.

Still, he refused to give up hope. He began helping others into nearby lifeboats. Sadly, many of his struggles were in vain.

"It was just so cold that her hand slipped out of his and as they did, her ring come off and landed in the boat. Well, that ring is now in Germany on display," Ann said.

But August Wennerstrom's true legacy was just beginning.

Little did August know that stop in Indiana would shape the rest of his life.

At the Culver Public Library, Jeff Kenney is watching the pages grow. Some tell of a ship — the RMS Carpathia, refuge from certain death to 705 passengers, now once again bound for New York.

Others tell of the train August boarded at Grand Central Station headed for Chicago with one stop along the way that would change his life forever.

"He went to Culver to tell some people that their family had drowned. When he went to get off the train, the academy people were there waiting on a man named Leo. Well, this guy that was supposed to come never showed up, and they thought my dad was Leo," Ann said.

Of course, he wasn't. But he soon would be.

Ten years later, "Leo" Wennerstrom had become the superintendent of all buildings and grounds at Culver Military Academy — a post he held proudly for nearly 30 years.

Each year, he spoke to vast crowds of eager students, recounting the voices of those he helped save — and those who rest forever — in a watery grave.

Ninety-five years after those voices were quieted, there's now nothing but peace and quiet at the Culver Masonic Cemetery where August and his wife now rest. No more stories, no more talks. But there is still a piece of Titanic history alive in Culver.

Just down the road from where Culver and Gibbons grew up, Rosemary Weaver still stands guard over a secret 60 years in the making.

"Here's the story of Nils Paulson," Kenney said.

In 1945, Rosemary watched as the man August Wennerstrom had sought to find in Culver 33 years before wept as he planted four seedlings in her yard. Their branches today reaching up to heaven to touch his wife and three children, 95 years after they left Sweden to follow him to America.

They died just yards from August Wennerstrom in the icy North Atlantic. Five lives, once intertwined by heritage, now forever bonded by tragedy. Five lives out of 1,500 who couldn't be saved.

"To make a life worth living," August once wrote, "all it takes is hard work. If you do your duty, God will help you. This is a truth that no one should forget."

Today, that truth lives on in the proud legacy Culver and Gibbons now carry. A legacy once etched in an unknown chapter in Michiana history, now closed, but not forgotten.

"It's more than just a list of names," Kenney said.

"He helped her, held her hand," Ann said.

Ironically, August Wennerstrom was declared dead in the original newspaper article his son now safeguards in Mishawaka.

Despite that one mistake, he remains one of the most documented survivors of the Titanic disaster, and has been featured in dozens of books and TV shows around the world.

Born August Edvard Andersson, a son of Knut Andersson and Elna Månsdotter. He was a journalist, typographer and socialist activist living in Malmö, Sweden. He was charged with crimes aginst the state but was acquitted. He purchased a ticket to Copenhagen, and to conceal his identity, changed his name to Wennerström (borrowed from a friend, Ivar Vennerström). He traveled then to Southampton, where he boarded the Titanic for America. He was one of the survivors of that tragic voyage and was taken to New York where he was quartered at the Salvation Army. From there he went to Chicago where he met his future wife, Naome Johnson. The couple moved to Culver where August secured employment at Culver Military Academy as superintendent of buildings and grounds. They raised 6 boys and a daughter. At least 2 of their boys, Leo and Clarence, attended Culver Summer Schools. They named their youngest boy "Culver".

[per his death notice in the November 22, 1950 Culver Citizen, August died November 21, 1950]

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 10 2019, 18:35:44 UTC
• Reference: Full text- https://archive.org/details/truthabouttitani00grac/page/n6 "The Truth About the Titanic" by Colonel Archibald Gracie, IV 1913 pp. 311-323

ENGELHARDT BOAT "A".

Floated off the ship.

Passengers: T. Beattie,* P. D. Daly,{ G. Rheims, R. N. Williams, Jr., first-class; O. Abelseth,t W. J. Mellers, second-class; and Mrs. Rosa Abbott, { Edward Lindley,t third-class.

Crew: Steward: E. Brown. Firemen: J. Thompson, one unidentified body,* Seaman: one unidentified body.*

An extraordinary story pertains to this boat. At the outset of my research it was called a "boat of mystery/' occasioned by the statements of the Titanic' s officers. In his conversations with me, as well as in his testimony, Officer Lightoller stated that he was unable to loosen this boat from the ship in time and that he and his men were compelled to abandon their efforts to get it away. The statement in consequence was that this boat "A" was not utilized but went down with the ship. My recent research has disabused his mind of this supposition. There were only four Engelhardt boats in all as we have already learned, and we have fully accounted for *'the upset boat B," and "D,'* the last to leave the ship in the tackles, and boat "C, containing Mr. Ismay, which reached the Carpathians side and was unloaded there. After all the mystery we have reached the conclusion that boat A" did not go down with the ship, but was the one whose occupants were rescued by Officer Lowe in the early morning, and then abandoned with three dead bodies in it. This also was the boat picked up nearly one month later by the Oceanic nearly 200 miles from the scene of the wreck.

I have made an exhaustive research up to date for the purpose of discovering how Boat A left the ship. Information in regard thereto is ob- tained from the testimony before the British Court of Inquiry of Steward Edward Brown, from first-class passenger R. N. Williams, Jr., and from an account of William J. Mellers, a second cabin passenger as related by him to Dr. Washington Dodge. Steward Brown, it will be observed, testified that he was washed out of the boat and yet "did not know whether he went down In the water." As he could not swim, an analysis of his testimony forces me to believe that he held on to the boat and did not have to swim and that boat "A" was the same one that he was in when he left the ship. I am forced to the same conclusion in young Williams' case after an analysis of his statement that he took off his big fur overcoat in the water and cast it adrift while he swam twenty yards to the boat, and in some unaccountable way the fur coat swam after him and also got into the boat. At any rate it was found in the boat when it was recovered later as shown in the evidence.

I also have a letter from Mr. George Rheims, of Paris, indicating his presence on this same boat with Messrs. Williams and Mellers and Mrs. Abbott and others.

INCIDENTS Edward Brown, steward (Br. Inq.) : Witness helped with boats 5, 3, 1 and C, and then helped with another collapsible; tried to get it up to the davits when the ship gave a list to port. The falls were slackened but the boat could not be hauled away any further. There were four or five women waiting to get into the boat. The boat referred to was the collapsible boat "A" which they got off the officers' house. They got it down by the planks, but witness does not know where the planks came from. He thinks they were with the bars which came from the other boats; yet he had no difficulty in getting the boat oft the house. The ship was then up to the bridge under water, well down by the head. He jumped into the boat then and called out to cut the falls. He cut them at the aft end, but cannot say what happened to the forward fall. He was washed out of the boat but does not know whether he went down in the water." He had his lifebelt on and came to the top. People were all around him. They tore his clothes away struggling in the water. He could not swim, but got into the collapsible boat "A." Only men were in it, but they picked up a woman and some men afterwards, consisting of passengers, stewards and crew. There were sixteen men. Fifth Officer Lowe in boat No. 14 picked them up.

O. Abelseth (Am. Inq.) :

Witness describes the period just before the ship sank when an effort was made to get out the collapsible boats on the roof of the officers' house. The officer wanted help and called out: "Are there any sailors here?" It was only about five feet to the water when witness jumped off. It was not much of a jump. Before that he could see the people were jumping over. He went under and swallowed some water. A rope was tangled around him. He came on top again and tried to swim. There were lots of men floating around. One of them got him on the neck and pressed him under the water and tried to get on top, but he got loose from him. Then another man hung on to him for a while and let go. Then he swam for about fifteen or twenty minutes. Saw some- thing dark ahead of him; swam towards it and it was one of the Engelhardt boats ("A"). He had a life-preserver on when he jumped from the ship. There was no suction at all. "I will try and see," he thought, "if I can float on the lifebelt without help from swimming," and he floated easily on the lifebelt. When he got on the boat no one assisted him, but they said when he got on:"Don't capsize the boat" so he hung on for a little while before he got on.

Some were trying to get on their feet who were sitting or lying down; others fell into the water again. Some were frozen and there were two dead thrown overboard. On the boat he raised up and continuously moved his arms and swung them around to keep warm. There was one lady aboard this raft and she (Mrs. Abbott) was saved. There were also two Swedes and a first- class passenger. He said he had a wife and child. There was a fireman also named Thompson who had burned one of his hands; also a young boy whose name sounded like Volunteer." He and Thompson were afterwards at St. Vincent's Hospital. In the morning he saw a boat with a sail up, and in unison they screamed together for help. Boat A was not capsized and the canvas was not raised up, and they could not get it up. They stood all night in about twelve or fourteen inches of water* — their feet in water all the time. Boat No. 14 sailed down and took them aboard and transferred them to the Carpathia, he helping to row. There must have been ten or twelve saved from boat A; one man was from New Jersey, with whom he came in company from London.

At daybreak he seemed unconscious. He took him by the shoulder and shook him. *'Who are you?" he said; "let me be; who are you?" About half an hour or so later he died.

In a recent letter from Dr. Washington Dodge he refers to a young man whom he met on the Carpathia, very much exhausted, whom he took to his stateroom and gave him medicine and medical attention. This young man was a gentleman's valet and a second cabin passenger. This answers to the description of William J. Mellers, to whom I have written, but as yet have received no response. Dr. Dodge says he believes this young man's story implicitly: He, Mellers, *'was standing by this boat when one of the crew was endeavoring to cut the fastenings that bound it to the vessel just as the onrush of waters came up which tore It loose. It was by clinging to this boat that he was saved."

R. N. Williams, Jr., in his letter writes me as follows :

"I was not under water very long, and as soon as I came to the top I threw off the big fur coat I had on. I had put my lifebelt on under the coat. I also threw off my shoes. About twenty yards away I saw something floating. I swam to it and found it to be a collapsible boat. I hung on to it and after a while got aboard and stood up in the middle of it. The water was tip to my waist." About thirty of us clung to it. When Officer Lowe's boat picked us up eleven of us were alive; all the rest were dead from cold. My fur coat was found attached to this Engelhardt boat *A' by the Oceanic and also a cane marked 'C Williams! This gave rise to the story that my father's body was in this boat, but this, as you see, is not so. How the cane got there I do not know.*'

Through the courtesy of Mr. Harold Wingate of the White Star Line in letters to me I have the following information pertaining to boat "A" :

"One of the bodies found in this boat was that of Mr. Thompson Beattie. We got his watch and labels from his clothes showing his name and that of the dealer, which we sent to the executor. Two others were a fireman and a sailor, both unidentified. The overcoat belonging to Mr. Williams I sent to a furrier to be re-conditioned, but nothing could be done with it except to dry it out, so I sent it to him as it was. There was no cane in the boat. The message from the Oceanic and the words 'R. N. Williams, care of Duane P Williams/ were twisted by the receiver of the message to "RIchard N. Williams, care of Duane Williams" which got into the press, and thus perpetuated the error.

"There was also a ring found in the boat whose owner we eventually traced in Sweden and restored the property to her. We cannot account for its being in the boat, but we know that her husband was a passenger on the Titanic — Edward P. Lindell, a third-class passenger. The widow's address is, care of Nels Persson, Helsingborg, Sweden."

Rescue of the occupants of boat "A" at daylight Monday morning is recorded in the testimony of Officer Lowe and members of the crew of his boat No. 14 and the other boats 12, 10, 4 and *'D" which were tied together. No. 14 we recall was emptied of passengers and a crew taken from all the boats referred to went back to the wreck. The substance of the testimony of all of them agrees and I need only cite that of Quartermaster Bright, in charge of boat "D," as follows:

A. Bright, Q. M. (in charge) (Am. Inq., 834) : Just at daylight witness saw from his place in boat D one of the other collapsible boats, A," that was awash just flush with the water. Ofiicer Lowe came and towed witness's boat to the other collapsible one that was just awash and took from it thirteen men and one woman who were in the water up to their ankles. They had been singing out in the dark. As soon as daylight came they could be seen. They were rescued and the boat turned adrift with two dead bodies in it, covered with a lifebelt over their faces.

Admiral Mahan on Ismay's duty:

Rear Admiral A. T. Mahan, retired, in a letter which the Evening Post publishes, has this to say of J. Bruce Ismay's duty:

In the Evening Post of April 24 Admiral Chadwick passes a distinct approval upon the conduct of Mr. Ismay in the wreck of the Titanic by characterizing the criticisms passed upon it as the "acme of emotionalism.

Both censure and approval had best wait upon the results of the investigations being made in Great Britain. Tongues will wag, but if men like Admiral Chadwick see fit to publish anticipatory opinions those opinions must receive anticipatory comment.

Certain facts are so notorious that they need no Inquiry to ascertain. These are ( i ) that before the collision the captain of the Titanic was solely responsible for the management of the ship; (2) after the collision there were not boats enough to embark more than one-third of those on board, and, (3) for that circumstance the White Star Company is solely responsible, not legally, for the legal requirements were met, but morally. Of this company, Mr. Ismay is a prominent if not the most prominent member.

For all the loss of life the company is responsible, individually and collectively: Mr. Ismay personally, not only as one of the members. He believed the Titanic unsinkable; the belief relieves of moral guilt, but not of responsibility. Men bear the consequences of their mistakes as well as of their faults. He — and Admiral Chadwick — justify his leaving over fifteen hundred persons, the death of each one of whom lay on the company, on the ground that it was the last boat half filled; and Mr. Ismay has said, no one else to be seen.

No one to be seen; but was there none to be reached? Mr. Ismay knew there must be many, because he knew the boats could take only a third. The Titanic was 882 feet long; 92 broad; say, from Thirty-fourth street to a little north of Thirty-seventh. Within this space were congregated over 1,500 souls, on several decks. True, to find any one person at such a moment in the intricacies of a vessel were a vain hope; but to encounter some stragglers would not seem to be. Read in the Sun and Times of April 25 Col. Gracie's account of the "mass of humanity, men and women" that suddenly appeared before him after the boats were launched.

In an interview reported in the New York Times April 25 Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, a very distinguished officer, holds that Mr. Ismay was but a passenger, as other passengers. True, up to a certain point. He is in no sense responsible for the collision; but when the collision had occurred he confronted a wholly new condition for which he was responsible and not the captain, viz., a sinking vessel without adequate provision for saving life. Did no obligation to particularity of conduct rest upon him under such a condition?

I hold that under the conditions, so long as there was a soul that could be saved, the obligation lay upon Mr. Ismay that that one person and not he should have been in the boat. More than 1,500 perished. Circumstances yet to be developed may justify Mr. Ismay's actions completely, but such justification is imperatively required. If this be "the acme of emotionalism" I must be content to bear the imputation.

Admiral Chadwick urges the "preservlng a life so valuable to the great organization to which Mr. Ismay belongs." This bestows upon Mr. Ismay's escape a kind of halo of self-sacrifice. No man is indispensable. There are surely brains enough and business capacity enough in the White Star company to run without him. The reports say that of the rescued women thirty-seven were widowed by the accident and the lack of boats. Their husbands were quite as indispensable to them as Mr. Ismay to the company. His duty to the ship's company was clear and primary; that to the White Star company so secondary as to be at the moment inoperative.

We should be careful not to pervert standards. Witness the talk that the result is due to the system. What is a system, except that which individuals have made it and keep it? Whatever thus weakens the sense of individual responsibility is harmful, and so likewise is all condonation of failure of the individual to meet his responsibility.

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Mr August Wennerström 

• Titanic Survivor
• Born: Thursday 24th April 1884
• Age: 27 years
• Nationality: Swedish
• Last Residence: in Ystad Sweden
• 3rd Class passenger
• First Embarked: Southampton on Wednesday 10th April 1912
• Ticket No. 350043 , £7 15s 11d
• Destination: Chicago Illinois United States
• Rescued (boat A)
• Disembarked Carpathia: New York City on Thursday 18th April 1912
• Died: Wednesday 22nd November 1950
• Reference: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-lifeboat-a/ (Collapsible) A
• Reference: https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-deckplans/ R.M.S. Titanic deck plan

He was a journalist, typographer and socialist activist living in Malmö, Sweden.

Born August Edvard Andersson, a son of Knut Andersson and Elna Månsdotter. He was a journalist, typographer and socialist activist living in Malmö, Sweden.

His socialist activities included the publication, in 1905, of "Gula Faran" (the yellow danger) and thereafter he was known under that nickname. The paper, which described the King Oscar II as "King of thieves" was not appreciated by the authorities. Confiscation and charges followed.

He was charged with crimes aginst the state but was acquitted but he decided to emigrate in 1912.

He purchased a ticket to Copenhagen, and to conceal his identity, changed his name to Wennerström (borrowed from a friend, Ivar Vennerström).

He traveled via train to Copenhagen then by boat and ferry train to England and traveled then to Southampton, where he boarded the Titanic for America, as a 3rd class passenger. He received $25 and a train ticket from the Salvation Army committee and $100 from the Red Cross.

Others tell of the train August boarded at Grand Central Station headed for Chicago with one stop along the way that would change his life forever.

"He went to Culver to tell some people that their family had drowned. When he went to get off the train, the academy people were there waiting on a man named Leo. Well, this guy that was supposed to come never showed up, and they thought my dad was Leo," Ann said.
Of course, he wasn't. But he soon would be.
Ten years later, "Leo" Wennerström had become the superintendent of all buildings and grounds at Culver Military Academy — a post he held proudly for nearly 30 years.

At the Salvation Army in Chicago he where he met his future wife, Naome Johnson of Swedish origin

The couple moved to Culver where August he bacame a gardner and secured employment at Culver Military Academy as superintendent of buildings and grounds.

Ironically, August Wennerström was declared dead in the original newspaper article his son now safeguards in Mishawaka.

Despite that one mistake, he remains one of the most documented survivors of the Titanic disaster, and has been featured in dozens of books and TV shows around the world.

Each year, he spoke to vast crowds of eager students, recounting the voices of those he helped save — and those who rest forever — in a watery grave

1950 - Nov. 22 - Bulletin - August Wennerstrom age 66 former Superintendent of Building and Grounds at Culver Military Academy, died Yesterday evening at Fort Wayne, Ind. The body was brought to the Easterday Funeral home. Funeral Arangements were not known this morning.

Sweden, Indexed Birth Records, 1859-1947

• Name: August Edvard [August Edvard Andersson] [August Edvard Knutsson]
• Birth Date: 27 apr 1884
• Birth Place: Sankt Maria, Malmöhus (Skåne), Sverige (Sweden)
• Father: Knut Andersson
• Mother: Elna Månsdotter
• Page Number: 0/0
• Volume: 803

Sweden, Selected Indexed Household Clerical Surveys, 1880-1893

• Name: August Edvard [August Edvard Andersson] [August Edvard Knutsson]
• Gender: Man (Male)
• Relationship or Occupation: Son
• Birth Date: 24 apr 1884
• Birth Place: Ystad Sankta Maria
• Year Range: 1887 - 1893
• Residence : Ystads stadsförsamling, Malmöhus (Skåne), Sverige (Sweden)
• GID Number: 2140.2.9100
• Household Members:
• Name Relationship
• Knut Andersson Head
• Elna Månsdotter Hustru (Wife)
• August Edvard Andersson Son

Sweden, Selected Indexed Household Clerical Surveys, 1880-1893

• Name: August Edvard [August Edvard Andersson] [August Edvard Knutsson]
• Gender: Man (Male)
• Relationship or Occupation: Son
• Birth Date: 1884
• Birth Place: Ystads stadsförsamling
• Year Range: 1890
• Residence : Ystads stadsförsamling, Malmöhus (Skåne), Sverige (Sweden)
• Village, Farm, or Croft: Ystads stadsförsamling
• GID Number: 100012.149.37900
• Household Members:
• Name Relationship
• Knut Andersson Head
• Elna Månsdotter Hustru (Wife)
• August Edvard Andersson Son
• Bertha Andersson Dotter (Daughter)

RMS Titanic, Outward Passenger List, 1912

• Name: August Wennerström
• Estimated birth year: abt 1884
• Age: 28
• Class: 3rd
• Departure Port: Southampton

New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957

• Name: August Edw Wennerstrom
• Arrival Date: 18 Jun 1912
• Birth Date: abt 1884
• Birth Location: Sweden
• Age: 28
• Gender: Male
• Ethnicity/ Nationality: Scandinavian
• Port of Arrival: New York, New York
• Ship Name: Carpathia

Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920

• Name: August E. Wennerstrom
• Age: 31
• Gender: Male
• Birth Year: abt 1884
• Marriage Type: Marriage
• Marriage Date: 26 Jun 1915
• Marriage Place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Spouse Name: Naome Johnson
• Spouse Age: 21
• Spouse Gender: Female
• FHL Film Number: 1030599

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

• Name: August Edward Wennerstrom [August Edward Wenncestrom]
• Race: White
• Birth Date: 24 Apr 1884
• Street address: No 1
• Residence Place: Marshall, Indiana, USA
• Relative: Nama Wennerstrom

Year: 1920; Census Place: Union, Marshall, Indiana;

• Roll: T625_456; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 182
• Name: August E Wennerstrom
• Age: 36
• Birth Year: abt 1884
• Birthplace: Sweden
• Home in 1920: Union, Marshall, Indiana
• House Number: Farm
• Residence Date: 1920
• Race: White
• Gender: Male
• Immigration Year: 1912
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Marital status: Married
• Spouse's name: Naomi Wennerstrom
• Father's Birthplace: Sweden
• Mother's Birthplace: Sweden
• Native Tongue: Swedish
• Able to Speak English: Yes
• Occupation: Foreman
• Industry: Military School
• Employment Field: Wage or Salary
• Home Owned or Rented: Rented
• Naturalization Status: Papers Submitted
• Able to Read: Yes
• Able to Write: Yes
• Neighbors: View others on page
• Household Members:
• Name Age
• August E Wennerstrom 36
• Naomi Wennerstrom 26
• Leo E Wennerstrom 3
• Clarence W Wennerstrom 1

Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992

• Name: August Edward Wennerstrom
• Birth Date: 24 Apr 1884
• Birth Place: Sweden
• Age at event: 38
• Court District: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa
• Date of Action: 3 Mar 1923

Year: 1930; Census Place: Culver, Marshall, Indiana; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 0016; FHL microfilm: 2340352

• Name: August E Wernerstour [August E Wennerstrom]
• Birth Year: abt 1884
• Gender: Male
• Race: White
• Birthplace: Sweden
• Marital status: Married
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Home in 1930: Culver, Marshall, Indiana, USA
• Map of Home: View Map
• Street address: Culver Military Academy Apartment Building
• Institution: Culver Military AcademyAll Lines
• House Number: 805
• Dwelling Number: 1
• Family Number: 1
• Home Owned or Rented: Rented
• Radio Set: Yes
• Lives on Farm: No
• Age at first Marriage: 31
• Attended School: No
• Able to Read and Write: Yes
• Father's Birthplace: Sweden
• Mother's Birthplace: Sweden
• Language Spoken: Swedish
• Immigration Year: 1912
• Naturalization: Naturalized
• Able to Speak English: Yes
• Occupation: Supervisor
• Industry: Private School
• Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker
• Employment: Yes
• Household Members:
• Name Age
• August E Wernerstour 46
• Norma Wennerstrom 36
• Leo E Wennerstrom 14
• Clarence W Wennerstrom 12
• August E Wennerstrom 10
• Knight L Wennerstrom 8
• Billy R Wennerstrom 7
• E A Lenora Wennerstrom 4

Year: 1940; Census Place: Union, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: m-t0627-01077; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 50-18

• Name: August Wennerstrom
• Age: 56
• Estimated birth year: abt 1884
• Gender: Male
• Race: White
• Birthplace: Sweden
• Marital status: Married
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Home in 1940: Union, Marshall, Indiana
• Map of Home in 1940: View Map
• Farm: No
• Inferred Residence in 1935: Union, Marshall, Indiana
• Residence in 1935: Same House
• Resident on farm in 1935: No
• Citizenship: 4
• Sheet Number: 16A
• Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 320
• Father's Birthplace: Sweden
• Mother's Birthplace: Sweden
• Occupation: Superintendent
• House Owned or Rented: Rented
• Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 24.00
• Attended School or College: No
• Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 8th grade
• Hours Worked Week Prior to Census: 70
• Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
• Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
• Income: 3500
• Income Other Sources: No
• Native Language: Swedish
• Social Security Number: No
• Usual Occupation: Ground Superintend
• Usual Industry: Public School
• Usual Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work
• Neighbors: View others on page
• Household Members:
• Name Age
• August Wennerstrom 56
• Naome Wennerstrom 46
• Leo Wennerstrom 24
• Clarence Wennerstrom 22
• August Wennerstrom 20
• Knight Wennerstrom 18
• Billie Wennerstrom 16
• Lenora Wennerstrom 14
• Leonard Wennerstrom 8

World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 e Name: August Edward Wennerstrom

• Gender: Male
• Race: White
• Residence Age: 58
• Birth Date: 24 Apr 1884
• Birth Place: Sweden
• Residence Date: 1942
• Residence Place: Marshall, Indiana, USA
• Relationship to Draftee: Head
• Military Draft Date: 1942

Sources:

Titanic 1912

Ancestry

encyclopedia-titanica .org Titanic Survivors

Find-A-Grave - August Edward Wennerstrom

Born August Edvard Andersson, a son of Knut Andersson and Elna Månsdotter. He was a journalist, typographer and socialist activist living in Malmö, Sweden. He was charged with crimes aginst the state but was acquitted. He purchased a ticket to Copenhagen, and to conceal his identity, changed his name to Wennerström (borrowed from a friend, Ivar Vennerström). He traveled then to Southampton, where he boarded the Titanic for America. He was one of the survivors of that tragic voyage and was taken to New York where he was quartered at the Salvation Army. From there he went to Chicago where he met his future wife, Naome Johnson. The couple moved to Culver where August secured employment at Culver Military Academy as superintendent of buildings and grounds. They raised 6 boys and a daughter. At least 2 of their boys, Leo and Clarence, attended Culver Summer Schools. They named their youngest boy "Culver".

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Culver's Titanic Connection : The Story of August Wennerström, Culver's Titanic Survivor. Kehoe, Troy.

"The strange and unlikely story of one survivor of the Titanic tragedy and his journey to Culver and Culver Academies, the man whose family's death he came to share, and the impact of his legacy on his children and the Culver community." "Originally aired as part of a newscast on WSBT-TV Channel 22, South Bend, Indiana. Written and produced by Troy Kehoe and broadcast originally on May 29, 2007."

• WIkipedia August Wennerström