Philipp Mock

Philipp Edmund Mock (born August 16, 1881 in New York, New York; died June 16, 1951 in Daytona Beach, Florida) was an artist, solder, banker, and survivor of the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic.

Mock was born to Richard and Emma Mock, both immigrants to the United States from Germany. He studied art in Europe and attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He served in the Spanish American War. In 1912 Mock and his sister, Mrs Emma Schabert, traveled together as first class passengers on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. When the ship wrecked on icebergs in the North Atlantic, Emma was rescued on lifeboat 11 and insisted on making room for her brother. Philipp Mock was credited with having saved the lives of several children who were brought onto that lifeboat which was intercepted by the 'R.M.S. Carpathia several hours later.

Mock later married Alvis Ehrman of Clanton and engaged in a career in banking and piano manufacture in New York. The couple, who were childless, moved to Florida in 1935. Within a few years Mock began working as an art instructor at "The Casements", the former Ormond Beach mansion owned by John D. Rockefeller which had been converted into a girls' school after his death in 1937.

Mock died in June 1951 in a Daytona Beach hospital. His remains were cremated. After his death, his widow, Alvis, returned to Birmingham. After her death in 1963 Mock's ashes were interred with her in the Ehrman's family plot at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Philipp Mock passed away on 16 June 1951, at the Halifax District Hospital, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida. His body was forwarded to the Carey Hand Crematory.

References

• "Philipp Edmund Mock" (2016) Encyclopedia Titanica - accessed September 23, 2016