SS Kroonland Passenger List - 21 June 1923

Front Cover of a Cabin Class Passenger List from the SS Kroonland of the American Line, Departing 21 June 1923 from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg

Front Cover of a Cabin Class Passenger List from the SS Kroonland of the American Line, Departing 21 June 1923 from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg, Commanded by Captain William J. Munro, LCDR, USNRF. GGA Image ID # 16312a52f1

Senior Officers and Staff

Commander: William J. Munro, Lt. Cmdr., U. S. N. R. F.
Chief Engineer: William Joyce, Lt. Cmdr., U. S. N. R. F.
Purser: William MacIntyre
Asst. Purser: Joseph G. Holland
Surgeon: Arthur Delacroix
Chief Steward: L. Daughtrey

Cabin Class Passengers

Adams, Miss J. L.
Adams, Miss M.
Agnesy, Mr. Carl
Agnesy, Mrs.
Allen, Mrs. Wilmeth D.
Allen, Miss Artie
Arden, Miss Cecil
Arnedt, Mr. Bernard C.
Arnedt, Miss Norma
Atwell, Mr. Robert King
Axline, Miss Eleanor
Bache, Miss Louise J.
Baldwin, Miss Esther E.
Banfield, Miss H. S.
Bauer, Mr. L.
Bauer, Mrs.
Beavers, Mrs. G. W.
Beavers, Master Frank W.
Bell, Rev. B. I.
Bell, Mrs.
Bell, Master Bernard L.
Bell, Mr. Richard B.
Benedict, Miss Nina
Bennett, Miss Katherine B.
Bennett, Miss Rosemary
Benton, Mrs. J. L.
Benton, Miss Caroline
Benton, Miss Elizabeth
Binney, Mrs. Charles
Blakey, Miss Elizabeth
Bloom, Miss Alice
Bosence, Mrs. D. Y. and infant
Bosence, Miss D. P.
Bowler, Mr. Robert B., Jr.
Bowler, Miss Katherine W.
Bowler, Mrs. Everett
Bradley, Miss Alice
Browne, Hon. E. E.
Browne, Mr. E. L., Jr.
Burr, Mrs. Lewis H.
Burr, Miss Molly
Carroll, Miss C.
Carter, Miss Margaret
Chickering, Miss Sarah
Child, Miss Katherine B.
Christopher, Miss Mary
Chwiliwitsky, Mr. Leo L.
Cleveland, Miss Nora
Cobb, Miss Ruth B.
Cochran, Rev. Dr. Joseph W.
Cochran, Mrs.
Cochran, Miss Louise
Cochran, Master Joseph W., III
Cohen, Miss Y.
Connard, Mr. G. B.
Connolly, Miss Margaret
Coolidge, Miss Louise
Cotton, Miss Jean
Covington, Miss Dorothy
Covington, Miss Frances
Crigler, Miss Mary E.
Cummings, Miss Mary G.
Currie, Miss Edith
Curtis, Mr. Lewis P.
Curtis, Mrs. R. P.
Curtis, Miss Louise
Cuthbertson, Mr. Charles H.
Davenport, Miss Frances E.
Davis, Mrs. H. I. W.
Davis, Miss Mary C.
Day, Miss Katherine B.
Decker, Miss Margaret
de Corona, Miss Susanne Martin
de Martin, Miss Ester Tornel
Devaux, Mr. Paul
Dickerson, Miss Elizabeth
Diffenbaugh, Miss Mary
Doubrazska, Miss A.
Dowd, Miss Marjorie
Durst, Miss Margaret
Edmondson, Mrs. E. R.
Edmondson, Miss Frances
Edmondson, Master Van Trice
Edmondson, Master G. Raymer
Ellmore, Mrs. C. H.
Ely, Miss Mary L.
Eppinger, Miss Jeanette
Esnard, Rev. Father A.
Espinosa, Miss Gertrude
Estabrook, Mrs. Gretchen
Evans, Mr. Montgomery, 2nd
Faber, Mrs. R. C.
Farmer, Mrs. A. B.
Farmer, Miss Natalie P.
Fesler, Miss Rachel
Fesler, Miss Ruth
Field, Mr. Jesse B.
Fisher, Mrs. Anna M.
Fitzgerald, Mrs. T. N.
Fitzgerald, Miss
Fogle, Prof. D. E.
Forbush, Mr. Frank M.
Forbush, Mrs.
Foster, Mrs. R. A.
Foster, Miss Lorraine
Foster, Miss Jennie
Foster, Miss Elizabeth N.
Foster, Miss J. E.
Gardiner, Mrs. Charles H.
Garuder, Mr. George
Gibbs, Miss Mary K.
Gollner, Mr. John
Goodale, Mr. R. L.
Graesse, Mr. Theodore B.
Grant, Mr. A. B.
Grant, Mrs.
Grant, Miss Jean
Grant, Miss Barbara
Grant, Miss Catherine
Gray, Miss Mary
Grubb, Mr. Paul D.
Grubb, Mrs.
Gruhn, Mrs. Flora
Grüner, Miss Lucy B.
Gutman, Miss Thekla
Hahn, Mrs. Emma
Halsey, Mrs. W. F.
Hart, Mrs. M. R.
Hawkins, Mrs. E. R.
Hawkins, Mr. L.
Hawkins, Master K.
Hebden, Miss Mary
Heitmeyer, Miss Adda
Held, Mr. A.
Herzog, Mr. Sigmund
Herzog, Mrs.
Hess, Miss Dorothea C.
Hewlett, Miss Gertrude
Hill, Mrs. A. S.
Hill, Miss Bertina
Hirshfield, Mr.
Hoeser, Miss Helen D.
Holland, Mrs. Amy C.
Holmes, Mr. Donald
Holms, Miss K.
Holstein, Mrs. Sara C.
Holstein, Miss Anne
Hosford, Mrs. H. L.
Howland, Miss Lucy
Hubbard, Miss Hannah
Ibbotson, Mr. Joseph D.
Jackson, Mr. W. G.
James, Mr. Frederick E.
James, Mrs.
James, Mr. George C.
James, Mrs.
James, Miss Inez
Jensen, Mrs. J. C.
Jensen, Miss E. O.
Kane, Miss Florence B.
Kaufman, Miss Rosalie
King, Mr. George A.
King, Major A.
Kirkland, Miss L. S.
Kirkland, Miss M. P.
Koehler, Mr. Augustine J.
Koehler, Mrs.
Koerting, Mr. J.
Koerting, Mrs.
Kopperl, Mr. Moritz
Kopperl, Mrs.
Lane, Mrs. Charles F.
Lane, Miss Hazel
Lane, Miss Mary T.
Lang, Director Franz
Lansdale, Miss M. H.
Lansdale, Miss E. M.
Lavery, Miss Mary
Lawford, Mrs. Janet
Lawford, Miss Bettie
Lawford, Master Edward
Levy, Miss Bertha M.
Libaine, Mr. George
Lionberger, Miss Anne S.
Litchfield, Miss Virginia
Litorin, Rev. Herman
Long, Mr. O. W.
Look, Mr. Carl A.
Look, Mrs.
Loughlin, Miss Agnes C.
Lowenstein, Mr. Felix B.
Ludlum, Mrs. O. K.
Lyne, Mr. Daniel J.
Lyne, Mrs.
McCarter, Miss Helen I.
McConnell, Miss Clara E.
McDonald, Mr. Henry
McIntyre, Miss Lucile
McKesson, Mr. Robert
McKesson, Mr. Malcolm F.
McKesson, Mr. John
McKesson, Mrs. Irving
McKesson, Miss Mary
McLaughlin, Mr. W. A.
Madill, Miss Georgette
Martin, Mr. Frederick C.
Martin, Mrs.
Martin, Master Frederick T.
Martin, Miss Helene T.
Martin, Mr. W. C.
Master, Mr. Joseph
Master, Mrs.
Mathee, Miss H.
Mathieu, Miss Augusta
Metivier, Mr. James
Metivier, Miss Margaret
Metivier, Miss Renee
Miller, Mr. Craig C.
Miller, Mr. Crighton S.
Miles, Miss Dorothy
Morse, Miss Eleanor
Morse, Miss Elizabeth
Murdoch, Miss Helen K.
Murphy, Miss Hazel
Natorp, Mr.
Natorp, Mrs.
Newcombe, Mr. F. C.
Newcombe, Mrs.
Newman, Mr. V. Winthrop
Nichols, Mr. George
Nichols, Miss Edith
Nicolson, Mrs. John O.
Nightingale, Miss Florence
O'Brien, Mr. Denis R.
O'Brien, Mr. Denis
Olson, Miss Martha G.
Opebaum, Mrs. Caroline
Opebaum, Master Stanley
Orgill, Mrs. J. P.
Packard, Miss Evelyn
Palmer, Mr. Waldo E.
Pancoast, Dr. Henry S.
Pancoast, Mrs. Henry S.
Pancoast, Miss M. L.
Parsons, Mr. Theodore, Jr.
Parsons, Mr. Paul
Perfield, Mr. Thomas H.
Perfield, Mrs.
Prest, Miss Marion
Pierce, Mr. Roger
Pollock, Mrs. Bertha
Reid, Miss Sarah
Reynolds, Mr. Robert
Robinton, Mr. John
Robinton, Mr. Heim
Robinson, Mr. Edward
Roentgen, Mr. E.
Roentgen, Mrs.
Rogers, Mrs. George
Rohn, Mrs. Laura
Romig, Rev. Edgar F.
Romig. Mrs.
Romig, Master Edgar D., Jr.
Rosenfelder, Miss Fannie
Schantz, Mrs. Adam
Schantz, Miss Gertrude
Schantz, Miss Harriet
Schilling, Mr. W. H.
Schilling, Mrs.
Schilling, Master Wilber H.
Schilling, Mrs. E. H.
Schlaeflin, Mr. Ernest
Schroeder, Mr. H.
Schroeder, Miss Elizabeth
Schufeldt, Miss A. J. 'Schwab, Mr. Charles F. Schwab, Mrs.
Seifridge, Miss B.
Senz, Miss M.
Shaw, Miss Elizabeth B.
Shields, Miss Elizabtth C.
Shippen, Mrs. William
Shrier. Mr. S. B.
Shroyer, Mrs. G. W.
Shroyer, Miss Thelma
Shverubovitch, Mr. Vadin S.
Shverubovitch-Litovtzeva, Mme. Nina
Sill, Miss Marie
Skinner, Miss Margaret M.
Smith, Mr. Eugene R.
Smith, Mrs.
Smott, Mr. A. A.
Soule, Mr. Arthur H.
Sponsel, Mr. John
Sponsel, Mrs.
Sponsel, Miss Anna
Stadie, Mr. Robert
Stege, Miss E. Babette
Stevens. Miss Mary
Stock, Mr. Robert
Stryker, Miss Margaret
Stuart, Mrs. Mary Kirk
Stuart, Mr. David Kirk
Stuart, Miss Mary Jean
Stuart, Miss Helen
Stuart, Mr. Robert D.
Stuart, Mrs.
Swearingen, Dr. H. C.
Swearingen, Mrs.
Swearingen, Miss Isabelle
Tegtmeyer, Mr. C. W.
Tegtmeyer, Mrs.
Tegtmeyer, Miss H. Dorothy
Tegtmeyer, Miss Charlotte
Teichert, Mr. A.
Teichert, Mrs.
Thompson, Mr. James
Thompson, Mrs.
Thorson, Miss Cecile
Trescot, Mrs. Elizabeth
Trounstine, Mr. L. J., Jr.
Trounstine, Mr. John
Truesdell, Mr. Winfred P.
Tuller, Mrs. C. S.
Tucker, Mrs. Elizabeth
Van Gilder, Miss Pearl
Viving, Miss Mabel E.
Viney, Mrs. W. E.
Wagener, Mrs. E. M.
Wall, Mrs. Louise H.
Walter, Mr. Frederick Walter, Mrs.
Walton, Mrs. R. R.
Warburg, Prof.
Wayman, Mrs. E.
Wayman, Miss M.
Wayman, Miss H.
Wells, Miss Mary P.
Whitney, Miss Hazel
Wielich, Dr. Gothard
Williams, Mrs. E. J.
Windate, Miss Ida M.
Wolfner, Miss Bessie J.
Wolter, Miss Mabel
Wood, Miss Catherine R.
Woodward, Miss Gertrude
Wortham, Miss C. C.

Information for Passengers

BREAKFAST at 8.00 a. m. and 9.00 a. m.
LUNCHEON at 12 noon and 1.00 p. m.
DINNER at 6.00 p. m. and 7.00 p. m.

The Bar opens at 8 a. m., and closes at 11 p. m.

Lights are extinguished in the Saloon at 11 p. m., Lounge and Library at 11.30 p. m. and Smoke Room at 11.30 p. m.

Divine Service in the Saloon on Sunday at 10.30 a. m.

VALUABLES. The particular attention of passengers is drawn to the ticket conditions regarding the carriage and custody of articles specified in Section 4281 of the revised Statutes of the United States, but passengers can, and are accordingly advised to, protect themselves by insurance. The Line has provided a safe in the office of the Purser in which passengers may deposit money, jewels, ornaments, documents or other valuables for safe keeping and a deposit receipt will be issued by the Purser.

SEATS AT TABLE. Passengers who have not previously arranged for seats at table to be reserved should apply for same to the Second Steward.

SMOKING. Passengers are kindly requested not to smoke in the Dining Saloon or Staterooms.

ALL INQUIRIES for information of a general character should be made at the Purser's Office.

LETTERS, CABLES AND TELEGRAMS for dispatch should be handed to the Saloon Steward only, from whom also Postage Stamps can be obtained. Mail for passengers will also be distributed by the Saloon Steward. Passengers are requested to obtain a receipt from the Saloon Steward when making payment for the dispatching of cablegrams or wireless messages. No adjustment can be made unless such a receipt is obtained.

LETTERS, ETC., FOR PASSENGERS will be brought on board before the passengers land. Passengers should personally ascertain whether there is any mail for them before disembarking, and they are invited to leave their addresses at the Purser's Office for later dispatches to be re-directed.

DECK CHAIRS AND STEAMER RUGS. Can be hired upon application to the Purser, at $1.50 each for the voyage.

THE SURGEON is authorized to make customary charges, subject in each case to the approval of the Commander, for treating passengers at their request for any illness not originating on the voyage. In the case of sickness developed on the voyage no charge will be made, and medicine will be provided free in all circumstances.

BAGGAGE. On disembarking passengers are specially requested to claim their baggage before leaving the Customs shed.

PASSENGERS are requested to ask for a receipt on the Comany's Form for any additional Passage Money, Chair Hire, or freight paid on board.

TRAVELERS CHECKS, payable in all parts of Europe, can be purchased at all the principal offices of the American Line. These Checks are accepted on board American Line steamers in payment of accounts, but the Pursers do not carry funds to enable them to cash same.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PASSENGERS

Passengers are warned not to offer gratuities of any kind to German Custom Inspectors, which will be considered a bribe by the German Authorities and passengers are liable to severe punishment on account of corruption.

WIRELESS TELEGRAM

This Steamer is equipped with the Independent Wireless Telegraph Company's system of Wireless Telegraphy and also with Submarine Signaling Apparatus.

The cable system of counting will be observed, and all words in the address, text and signature are counted and charged for. All radiograms must be prepaid.

PASSENGER CLASSES CARRIED

Manchuria, Mongolia, Finland and Kroonland carry Cabin and Third-Class Passengers.

Minnekahda carries Third Class Passengers only.

1923 Proposed Sailings for the American Line.

1923 Proposed Sailings for the American Line, Included with 21 June 1923 SS Kroonland Passenger List. GGA Image ID # 163142707e

Passenger List Information

Item Description

GGA is honored to present an exquisite and historically significant artifact from the golden age of ocean liner travel: the Cabin Class Passenger List from the SS Kroonland, detailing its transatlantic voyage departing 21 June 1923 from New York to Hamburg via Plymouth and Cherbourg. Commanded by the illustrious Captain William J. Munro, Lt. Cmdr., U.S.N.R.F., this artifact captures the allure of early 20th-century luxury travel and the diverse, distinguished society aboard.

This meticulously preserved passenger list offers collectors, maritime enthusiasts, and historians an intimate glimpse into the cultural and social dynamics of a post-war world where transoceanic voyages signified sophistication, exploration, and global connectivity.

Key Features

The Vessel – SS Kroonland:
- A celebrated member of the American Line, the SS Kroonland was renowned for its modern amenities and superior service.
- Its role in connecting continents reflects the pinnacle of maritime innovation and elegance in the 1920s.
Prominent Senior Officers:
- Captain William J. Munro: A revered figure in maritime history, blending naval discipline with commercial expertise.
- Chief Engineer William Joyce: Ensuring the smooth and safe operation of the ship’s cutting-edge machinery.
- Surgeon Arthur Delacroix: Providing care and maintaining passenger well-being, a critical role on long voyages.
Passenger Manifest:
- Featuring over 300 names, the passenger list encompasses society elites, professionals, artists, clergy, and prominent families, making it a time capsule of the era’s cosmopolitanism.
Cultural Significance:
- The passenger list is a rich resource for tracing genealogies, exploring migratory trends, and understanding the interwar period’s social dynamics.

Notable VIP Travelers

1. Hon. E. E. Browne

Significance: A dignitary whose title suggests ties to diplomacy or governance, reflecting the high-profile nature of the passenger cohort.

2. Prof. D. E. Fogle

Significance: Likely a respected academic or scientific professional, symbolizing the intellectual breadth of travelers aboard.

3. Rev. Dr. Joseph W. Cochran

Significance: A clergyman of note, traveling with his family, representing the spiritual leadership of the era.

4. Mr. Montgomery Evans, 2nd

Significance: A member of a prominent American family, potentially connected to commerce or philanthropy.

5. Director Franz Lang

Significance: A figure from the arts or entertainment industry, illustrating the cultural sophistication of the passenger list.

6. Miss Louise Coolidge

Significance: A potential member of the Coolidge family, symbolizing elite American society.

Conclusion

The Cabin Class Passenger List from the SS Kroonland voyage of 21 June 1923 is a masterpiece of maritime ephemera, embodying the elegance, sophistication, and global interconnectedness of its time. Its impeccable preservation and remarkable historical significance make it an unparalleled addition to any collection of ocean liner artifacts or 20th-century historical documents.