Back in April and early this month, I was writing about what they ate and drank on the Titanic on that first and last voyage it made across the Atlantic. The article I used gave the name of "Popcorn Dan" Coxon and Adolphe Saalfeld.
He was born in Oranienbaum, Anholt, Germany, to Jewish parents around 1865. Trained as a chemist, he came to Britain in the mid-1880s and became a naturalized citizen in July 1896, living in Clarence Lodge, Victoria Park, Manchester. By 1901, he was described in the census as a chemical merchant and still living in Manchester.
A self-made businessman, Adolphe was chairman of the chemists and distillers at Sparks, White & Co. and oversaw his line of concentrated perfume fragrances and fine oils for distribution and sales.
Saalfeld boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a first-class passenger (ticket #19988 which cost30 pounds, 10 shillings. He was traveling with samples of his perfume products with the intention of opening up a new outlet for his floral fragrances in America.
--Cooter
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