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Aboard the Noordam, leaving New York for the peace conference.

Art Siegel Impressive! Sleuthing, or first hand knowledge?

sleuthing.. check out:

I think it's this fellow: "The Right Reverend George Henry Somerset Walpole (9 November 1854 – 4 March 1929) was an Anglican priest, teacher and author. After early service in the west of England he moved first to Auckland, New Zealand, and then to New York, before returning to England. After educational work in Durham and pastoral work in London he was elected Bishop of Edinburgh in 1910, and held the post until his death." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Walpole Dorothea Elizabeth Walpole (2/20/1887-11/16/1959) became a medical doctor in 1925 at the age of 38. Here is a detailed obituary: europepmc.org/articles/PMC1991424/pdf/brmedj02948-0094a.pdf and see: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19620611&... This account has Bishop Walpole and his daughter (identified as Elise) arriving in New York aboard the Holland-America Line's SS Noordam on December 18, 1915. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1915-12-19/ed-... More on the Noordam: cruise.bwatts.org/HAL22808/Noordamhistory.htm Her brother was the novelist Sir Hugh Walpole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Walpole

Thank you for your excellent research and citations, artolog. We will add some of this information to the record the next time we update.

Women's Peace Party: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Peace_Party Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence(1867-1954), English feminist and peace activist: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wpethick.htm Jane Addams (1860-1935), first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams Alice Thacher Post (1853-1947), editor, active with the Women's Peace Party, second wife of Louis Freeland Post (his papers are in the LOC): memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awmss5/ed_pub.html

Leaving New York aboard the Noordam in April, 1915.

Thanks for the full names and additional information. We will update the record.

A picture very similar to this is on page one of the New York Evening World, April 13, 1915. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1915-04-13/ed-...