Anne Shymer

Shymer achieved her biggest success as a chemist and founded the United States Chemical Corporation.

On May 1, 1915, Shymer boarded the British luxury liner RMS Lusitania, which was supposed to travel from New York to Liverpool, England.

On the day of her departure, her mother, her sister Maibelle Justice and other relatives came to Pier 54 to say good bye.

Her second short-lived marriage was to Robert Delno Shimer (she preferred a variant spelling of the surname); they married and were separated in 1911.

Her mother's estate and her sister received some damages from the German government for her lost belongings.

[2] Shymer's husband, as well as her mother and sister, sued the Cunard Line for compensation, because of the loss of their relative.

Shymer achieved her biggest success as a chemist and founded the United States Chemical Corporation.