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The PS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off the fledgling town of Port Clinton, Illinois, whose geography is now divided between Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860.
The Elgin National Watch Company, commonly known as Elgin Watch Company, was a major US watch maker from 1864 to 1968. The company sold watches under the names Elgin, Lord Elgin, and Lady Elgin. For nearly 100 years, the company's manufacturing complex in Elgin, Illinois, was the world's largest site dedicated to watchmaking. [1]
The only child of wealthy banker Thomas Whyte, Esq. of Kirkcaldy, Martha Whyte married Charles Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, at Edinburgh on 1 June 1759. [1] Their eight children were Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), known for the removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens; [2] Lady Martha Bruce (1760–1767); Lady Janet Bruce (1761–1767); William Bruce ...
Lady Elgin may refer to: Lady Elgin, the wife of the Earl of Elgin. Mary Louisa Lambton, the second wife of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin; PS Lady Elgin, a steamship named in honour of Mary Louisa Lambton
Lady Elgin United States: 8 September 1860 A steamship wrecked in Lake Michigan near Chicago following a collision with the schooner Augusta. The greatest loss of life (300) on open water in the Great Lakes. Lakeland United States: 3 December 1924
Portrait of Mary Nisbet by François Gérard, 1803. Mary Hamilton Bruce, Countess of Elgin (née Nisbet; 18 April 1778 – 9 July 1855) was the first wife of British diplomat Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin during his term as Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire and one of the most influential and wealthiest heiresses of the late 18th and early 19th century.
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Hubbard was the owner of the Lady Elgin, a steamship which was rammed by a schooner and sank in 1860 off of the coast of present-day Winnetka, Illinois. Although Hubbard accepted insurance money for the loss, he never abandoned ownership of the ship, which was discovered in 1989. 1860 also saw Hubbard elected alderman of Chicago's 7th Ward. [24]