Steamship Ticket for Passage for Mr. Nicholas Fish on the Packet Ship Yorkshire, 1859
London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Hamburgh, Bremen and Southampton Office,
146 Liberty Street, New York
Where passages can at all times be engaged on reasonable terms, either to or from the above ports, in Sailing Packets or Steamships.
Berth No. ___ New York, March 16, 1859
This Entitles the Bearer, Nicholas Fish to a Fb passage, this present voyage, (the dangers of the seas excepted,) henct to Bremen in the Packet Ship Yorkshire.
To be Exchanged at 146 Liberty Street
/s/ M. P. Phillips
Note: Nicholas Fish would have been 13 Years Old at the time of this voyage.
About the Passenger: Nicholas Fish:
Nicholas Fish II (1846-1902) was the father of the late Hamilton Fish of Roosevelt's rough riders, brother of Stuyvesant Fish, President of the Illinois Central Railraod, grandson of American Revolutionary War soldier Nicholas Fiash and son of Sercretary of State Hamilton Fish. Nicholas Fish II was a U.S. diplomat, who was appointed second secretary of legation at Berlin in 1871, became secretary in 1874, and was charge d'affaires at Berne in 1877-1881, and minister to Belgium in 1882-1886, after which he engaged in banking in New York City.
His death as reported by the New York Times was after being assulted by a man selling jewelry at a Saloon. Mr. Fish was at the saloon in the company of two women. Two men entered the saloon and began to quarrel with Mr. Fish. After some minutes, Mr. Fish started toward the door, the other man pursuing him. On reaching the street door, it is said that the younger man struck the banker, but not hard enough to fell him.
But in an instant, he struck him again, this time causing him to fall to the pavement on his head. He was taken to Roosevelt Hspital and regained consciousness long enough to agree to have an operation performed (trephining his skull). He died a half hour after the operation started at 2:45 am 16 September 1902 with Mrs. Fish at his side. Mr. Fish was 56 years old.
Brief History of the Packet Ship Yorksire
Built in New York by William H. Webb in 1843, it was listed at 996 tons, 167 feet in length 36 1/2 feet wide. She was lost at sea in February 1862 - less than three years after this voyage. It took almost a month to make the voyage from New York to Bremen at that time.
Information about this Ticket
- Date: 16 March 1859
- Dimensions: 12.8 x 19.5 cm
