Remember This? How Adolf came to the Sault and died on the Titanic

Remember This? How Adolf came to the Sault and died on the Titanic

He invented not only the Sjöstedt Sulpher Roaster but the Sjöstedt Electric smelting furnace as well, but in the end he is probably most well known by Saultites for the way he died.

Adolf Sjöstedt, a Swedish immigrant who worked as an engineer and lived with his family at 1077 Queen Street East, was on his way back from a business trip to his home country when he was among the more than 1,500 souls lost when the Titanic went down on April 15, 1912.

The Sault Ste. Marie Museum gives us the particulars below:

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Titanic Claims a Local Man

Mr Ernst Adolf Sjöstedt was born Sept. 9, 1852 in Sweden.

He worked as a mountain engineer in Sault Ste. Marie.

He moved to Canada in 1890 to join the Nova Scotia Steel Company in Bridgeville, Nova Scotia.

There he met and married Kathleen Winslow, and they had two daughters.

He was hired by the Lake Superior Steel Company in 1904 and moved to the Sault.

He was the inventor of the Sjöstedt Sulpher Roaster and the Sjöstedt Electric smelting furnace.

He had been in Sweden on commission from the Canadian government mining department to study methods to extract copper-sulphite ore and electric iron melting.

He travelled from Gothenburg and boarded the Titanic at Southampton as a second class passenger (ticket number 237442, £13 10s).

He lived with his wife and daughters at 1077 Queen St. E.

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