Personality
Engineer · Civil engineer
📍 Birthplace Cap-Haïtien
May 26, 1886 – April 15, 1912
Haiti
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Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was a Haitian engineer and one of three black passengers on the ill-fated voyage of the Titanic. He put his pregnant French wife and their two daughters onto a lifeboat; they survived, but he did not. Joseph's daughter Louise Laroche was one of the last remaining Titanic survivors at the time of her death.
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- Birthplace
- Cap-Haïtien
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