Nov 22, 2023
The Ville de Havre struck a British clipper, the Loch Earn, halfway in it its journey across the Atlantic. Hamilton Murray, Class of 1872, and his sister, Martha, died along with 224 others in the crash and subsequent sinking of the ship. He left $20,000--more than half a million dollars in today's currency--to Princeton's Philadelphian Society for their use in constructing Murray Hall.
Princeton Alumni Weekly Photograph Collection (AC126), Box 23.