Isaac Frauenthal
Isaac Gerald Frauenthal was born on October 7, 1868 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the last child of Bavarian-born shoe and boot salesman Samuel Frauenthal and Prussian Henrietta Gertrude Lowenstein. He had 8 siblings: Joseph (1851), Fanny (1853), Edward (1856), Isador (1858), Rosa (1860), Henry William Frauenthal (1862), Carrie (1864) and Herman Frauenthal (1866). His 1912 passport describes him as "a man of 5.10 inches, with light brown hair, brown eyes, a florid complexion, a prominent chin, a Roman nose, a high forehead, and clean shaven."
Isaac studied law at New York Law School and subsequently established a private practice in that city. He applied for a US passport on March 26, 1912, at the same time as his brother Henry William Frauenthal, and declared his intention to travel abroad for 2 months. His brother Henry William Frauenthal had married Clara Frauenthal in Nice, France and they both boarded the Titanic at Southampton on April 10, 1912, while Isaac boarded at Cherbourg. They travelled in First Class. Isaac stayed in stateroom D-40.
On the night of the sinking, April 14-15, 1912, Isaac, his brother, and his sister-in-law were rescued in lifeboat 5.
While returning to New York aboard the RMS Carpathia, Frederic Kimber Seward, a lawyer, organized a group of other survivors, including Isaac, to honor the bravery of Captain Arthur Henry Rostron and his crew. The Captain was presented with a silver cup with inscriptions and medals to honor one of the 320 crew members. The group that honored the captain was made up of: Karl Howell Behr, Margaret Brown, Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson, Frederic Oakley Spedden and George Achilles Harder.
After the disaster, Isaac continued to practice law for the rest of his life. In 1920, he lived in Manhattan with his siblings Joseph, Isidor, Edward, Rose, and Carrie. When his brother Henry William Frauenthal committed suicide in 1927, Isaac benefited from part of his estate. Isaac Gerald Frauenthal never married and, suffering from heart disease, he died at age 64 of heart failure in Manhattan on November 16, 1932.