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Dear Answer Man, on the "Today Show" aftermost week, there was a adventure about the Titanic that fabricated advertence to addition in Rushford. Can you acquisition out what that was? -- Sarah
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Of advance I can! Am I or am I not the Answer Man?
That allotment aired on Oct. 18 and it was about a long-lost letter that was begin in the pocketbook of a commuter who died in the bones of the Titanic in April 1912. The letter was to be auctioned aftermost Saturday and was accepted to aback $80,000 to $100,000. I did some blockage and it awash for 126,000 British pounds, which by my calculation is about $167,000.
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The victim's name was Alexander Oskar Holverson. He was the son of Norwegian immigrants and was built-in in Rushford, afterwards affective to Alexandria, Minn.
Among added curve in Holverson's letter, addressed to his mother, he says, "If all goes well, we will access in New York Wednesday A.M."
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All did not go well. He was one of added than 1,500 bodies who died in the wreck. According to a account adventure this anniversary in the Guardian, "His anatomy was recovered from the Atlantic canicule afterwards and his claimed furnishings were beatific aback to his brother in Minnesota, U.S. These included a abridged anthology in which was bankrupt the letter, which was heavily water-stained."
According to the Guardian, he was a salesman and had lived in Boston and New York. He and his wife had enjoyed a dream vacation to South America and Europe and were abiding home to New York back the address hit the iceberg. His wife survived but died six years afterwards at age 41. His mother died in Alexandria beneath than six months afterwards the Titanic went down.
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Minnesota has abounding access to that ballsy tragedy, as you apparently know, but I wasn't acquainted of this one from our area. If you apperceive of others, acquaint me and I'll add it to the record.
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