Boarded at Cherbourg as a 1st class passenger. Ismay allowed him and others to board the lifeboats....Lifeboat 5
Later went into banking, he was Vice President of Dillon, Read & Co. Also on the board of the Fisk Rubber Co, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the National Cash Register, Co.
Karl H. Behr was also a well known lawn tennis player, playing on the United States Davis Cup team in 1907. Behr, with Beals Wright, was also runner up in the men's doubles at the 1907 Wimbledon Championships, losing to Norman Brookes and Tony Wilding in three sets, 4–6, 4–6, 2–6.
Behr reached the No. 3 U.S. ranking in both 1907 and 1914.
Behr continued his tennis career after the sinking of Titanic, and was named to the 1914 U.S. Davis Cup team along with fellow survivor Richard Norris Williams. However, Behr, who played on the 1907 U.S. Davis Cup, did not play in the 1914 Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australasia at Forest Hills. In 1915 he defeated Maurice McLoughlin, the world's No. 1 ranked player at the time, in straight sets, 8–6, 7–5, 7–5 to win the tournament in Sea Bright, New Jersey.∼Cremation: 1949-10-18
Case #90932
Remains interred: Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown, NJ
Boarded at Cherbourg as a 1st class passenger. Ismay allowed him and others to board the lifeboats....Lifeboat 5
Later went into banking, he was Vice President of Dillon, Read & Co. Also on the board of the Fisk Rubber Co, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the National Cash Register, Co.
Karl H. Behr was also a well known lawn tennis player, playing on the United States Davis Cup team in 1907. Behr, with Beals Wright, was also runner up in the men's doubles at the 1907 Wimbledon Championships, losing to Norman Brookes and Tony Wilding in three sets, 4–6, 4–6, 2–6.
Behr reached the No. 3 U.S. ranking in both 1907 and 1914.
Behr continued his tennis career after the sinking of Titanic, and was named to the 1914 U.S. Davis Cup team along with fellow survivor Richard Norris Williams. However, Behr, who played on the 1907 U.S. Davis Cup, did not play in the 1914 Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australasia at Forest Hills. In 1915 he defeated Maurice McLoughlin, the world's No. 1 ranked player at the time, in straight sets, 8–6, 7–5, 7–5 to win the tournament in Sea Bright, New Jersey.∼Cremation: 1949-10-18
Case #90932
Remains interred: Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown, NJ
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