Minahan, Dr. William Edward

1867 - 1912  (44 years)    Has 2 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.

• Name	Minahan, William Edward
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	20 Apr 1867	Chilton, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Minahan's TombOverlooking Riverside Drive … and the Fox River Trail is the tomb of Dr. William Edward Minahan, who died in the sinking of the Titanic. William had four brothers who were also doctors, and his oldest brother, Robert, was also a lawyer who served as mayor of Green Bay from 1904 through 1907. William Minahan was a native of Chilton, Wisconsin, where he graduated from high school. He briefly pursued teaching but decided to become a doctor instead. He attended medical school in Chicago and graduated with high honors. Minahan married Mary Digman in 1893 and they had a daughter, Maude Olive, before they divorced. He moved to Fond du Lac in 1899, where he established a very well-known and highly respected medical practice. In 1903 he married his second wife, Lillian. On April 14, 1912, Dr. Minahan, accompanied by his wife Lillian and sister Daisy, set sail on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. They were returning from an extensive tour of pleasure and study in Eurpoe, Asia and North Africa. Dr. Minahan, at the age of 45, was one of the approximately 1,500 people who perished when the ship, thought to be "unsinkable," hit an iceberg and sank. Lillian and Daisy were among the 704 survivors of approximately 2,200 total passengers. Dr. Minahan's body was brought to Green Bay and entombed in the Minahan crypt in Woodlawn Cemetery. Sources: Judith LuMaye, Minahan, Early Green Bay Family (Bay Area Geneological Society, 1998). "Milwaukeeans on Ill-Fated Titanic," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,April 21, 1998. "Survivors Tell Sotries of Horror," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 16, 1912. Supported by the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management under the Coastal Zone Management Act, Grant # NA06NOS4190183; Brown County Facility and Park Management; Baylake Bank; and Leadership Green Bay ------------------------- Eight persons from Wisconsin were aboad when the Titanic hit an iceberg. When the Titanic sank on the night of April 14-15, 1912, eight Wisconsin residents were on board. Capt. Edward Crosby was the president of a Milwaukee steamship line. He and his wife Catherine had picked up their daughter Harriet in Paris, where she'd spent the previous two years, and the three of them were returning home. Dr. William Minahan of Fond du Lac was concluding a vacation with his wife Lillian and their adult daughter Daisy, a Green Bay school teacher. Peter Hanson, a Racine barber, had taken his wife Jennie to Denmark to meet his family. While there, his brother Henrik decided to emigrate to America and the three of them were returning together to Wisconsin. After the Titanic hit an iceberg off Newfoundland shortly before midnight on April 14th, all nine of them went on deck. The ship only carried enough lifeboats for about a third of her passengers and crew, so a strict "women and children first" policy was instituted to fill them. Capt. Crosby, who was intimate with shipboard life, saw his family off and then helped dozens of other passengers into lifeboats. Jennie Hanson pleaded to be allowed to stay with her husband but was thrown bodily into a boat instead. When the Titanic finally split in half and sank, all five Wisconsin women were in lifeboats and survived. All four men drowned. The bodies of Capt. Crosby and Dr. Minahan were recovered but those of Peter and Henry Hanson were never found. Jennie Hanson gave a long interview to the Kenosha Telegraph-Courier on May 2, 1912 (p. 6, c. 5: "Mrs. Hanson is Home") describing her experience that night. This and other contemporary documents are online at http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/
  Death Record - Civil	15 Apr 1912
  Titanic Death Record No. 230
  	Minihan, Dr. William E. Titanic Death Record no. 230
  Reference Number	50
  Died	15 Apr 1912	At Sea
  Person ID	I328976	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Minahan, William B.,   b. 17 Nov 1833, North Inishkae Island, Mayo, Ireland ,   d. 31 Oct 1906, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Shaughnessy, Mary,   b. 18 Aug 1839, Adare, Limerick, Munster, Ireland ,   d. 5 Jul 1902, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F209685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Digman, Mary,   b. 20 May 1876, , Calumet County, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 19 Mar 1952, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Married	2 Aug 1893
  Marriage Record (Family)	2 Aug 1893
  Name:Dr William E Minahan Marriage Date:2 Aug 1893 County:Calumet Volume:02 Page:0099
  Divorced	Bef 1903
  Children	1. Minahan, Maude Olive,   b. 15 Oct 1894,   d. 26 Mar 1961  (Age 66 years)
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F209953	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Tharp, Lillian,   b. 7 Feb 1875, Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA ,   d. 13 Jan 1962, Laguna Beach, Orange, California, USA  (Age 86 years)
  Married	3 Feb 1903	, , Kansas, USA
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F209954	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Born - 20 Apr 1867 - Chilton, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA Married - 3 Feb 1903 - , , Kansas, USA Died - 15 Apr 1912 - At Sea  = Link to Google Earth
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  Minihan, William Edward Died at sea on the Titanic April 15, 1912