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- NAME: Helen Churchill Candee
- OCCUPATION: Journalist, Author
- BIRTH DATE: October 05, 1859
- DEATH DATE: August 23, 1949
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
- PLACE OF DEATH: York Harbor, Maine
- Originally: Helen Churchill Hungerford
- AKA: Helen Churchill Candee
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Helen Churchill Candee was a writer and a survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster.
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Final Years
Despite her first-hand experience with tragedy at sea, Candee continued to be an avid traveler. She wrote two books based on her travels in the Far East: Angkor the Magnificent: the Wonder City of Ancient Cambodia (1924) and New Journeys in Old Asia: Indo-China, Siam, Java, Bali (1927).
Helen Churchill Candee died in York, Maine, in 1949.
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