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A Dr. Arthur Bledsoe Cooke (1869-1948), professor of German and French, was US Consul at Patras, Greece, 1910-1919: politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cooke.html#015.79.10 books.google.com/books?id=GSwEAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA95&o... His wife as of 1899 was Stella Viola Crider. Survivors of the Athinai, a ship that was set on fire during WWI. They came home safely on the Tuscania, September 1915. This article: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60F13FA385B17... Mentions Mrs. Cooke and Miss Coffey: "Another survivor of the Athinai was Mrs. A. B. Cooke, wife of the United States Consul at Patras, who was accompanied by her three little children and a friend, Miss Frances Coffey of Richmond, Va. Mrs. Cooke said that her children had stood the exciting experience of the fire and leaving the ship well, but they had no clothes left except what they had on. Miss Coffey said she saved a hat, a collar, a toothbrush, and a box of pins." From the list of American passengers, the boys here must be Louis Cooke and Earle Cooke. From the passenger list of another trip, it looks like the slightly older sister of Louis and Earle was Mary Cooke. www.ellisisland.org/shipping/FormatTripPass.asp?sship=Pat....

glad to be alive - interesting story which makes the photograph so much more interesting

Looked him up on Google and he was a gentleman of the Jewish faith who emigrated from England to Australia and set up in business there. He was very successful and at some point joined the Free Masons where he rose through the ranks and had a distinguished career. I thought the name was a misspelling of the title baron but his name was Barron!

That's so interesting. We'll make some adjustments to our catalogue record to reflect this added information. Thanks so much!

Hélio Lobo (1883-1960), Brazilian Consul in New York pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9lio_Lobo He arrived on the French liner Paris, s. The New York herald. [volume], August 20, 1922, Page 14, col. 3 (misspelled as "Helio Bobo") chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1922-08-20/ed-...

Thank you B-59. We'll add additional information to the record.