How Cleveland was connected to the Titanic

Coincidentally, the Ohio Titanic Memorial has existed just outside the science center on the Northcoast Harbor walkway since 2005.

By the numbers: The memorial honors more than 50 Ohio-bound passengers aboard the ship during its maiden voyage in 1912.

• Fewer than half of them survived, according to the Great Lakes Titanic Society.

Zoom in: More than 40 of those passengers had ties to Northeast Ohio, according to the 2013 book "Ohio Tales of the Titanic," by Janet A. White and Mary Ann Whitley.

• Among the survivors were Mary Elizabeth Davison, who is buried in Bedford Cemetery, and Caroline Bonnell Jones, an Ohio transplant from Chicago who lived in Shaker Heights.

Between the lines: Artist and Massachusetts native Francis Davis Millet, who painted 13 murals inside the Cleveland Trust Building during the early 20th century, was also aboard.

• He was traveling to New York on business and died during the ship's sinking.