Bessie waldo allison biography of mahatma gandhi

Mrs Hudson J.C. Allison (Bess Waldo Daniels), 25, was born on 14 November 1886, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The youngest daughter of Arville Daniels and Sarah McCully.

She had an older sister, Mabel who had been born three years earlier in 1883. She also had another sister, Myrtle who had been born in 1873 and was a child from Arville's first marriage to Mary Bowden.

Bess met Hudson Allison, a wealthy Montreal stockbroker, on a train in 1907.

Bessie waldo allison biography of mahatma gandhi

They married later that year in her home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

On 5 June 1909 the couple's first daughter, Helen Loraine was born. She was soon followed by a brother, Hudson Trevor who was born on 7 May 1911.

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Allison was travelling with her husband Hudson and the two children.

Mrs Allison, her husband, son and daughter, boarded the Titanic at Southampton as first-class passengers.

When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Alice Cleaver took Trevor and left with him in lifeboat 11.

Bess Allison was put in a