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Col Walter Jeffreys Carlin

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Col Walter Jeffreys Carlin

Birth
New York, USA
Death
24 Apr 1958 (aged 77)
New York County, New York, USA
Burial
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Survivor of the sinking of the Andrea Doria

A prominent attorney and Democratic leader in Manhattan. Carlin had been born Walter Jeffreys but, when his father died at an early age his mother turned him over to her sister to be raised and they gave him their family name of Carlin. He and his wife Jeanette were passengers on the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria when the ship collided with the Swedish liner Stockholm on July 25, 1956 and sank the next day. Mrs. Carlin was killed.
Survivor of the sinking of the Andrea Doria

A prominent attorney and Democratic leader in Manhattan. Carlin had been born Walter Jeffreys but, when his father died at an early age his mother turned him over to her sister to be raised and they gave him their family name of Carlin. He and his wife Jeanette were passengers on the Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria when the ship collided with the Swedish liner Stockholm on July 25, 1956 and sank the next day. Mrs. Carlin was killed.


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