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Archibald Gracie IV
Colonel Archibald Gracie IV (January 15, 1858 – December 4, 1912) was an American writer, amateur historian, real estate investor, and survivor of the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic''. He was the last survivor to leave the ship; and, the first adult survivor to die after rescue. He survived the sinking by climbing aboard an overturned collapsible lifeboat, and wrote a popular book about the disaster which is still in print today.〔
==Early life==
Gracie was born in Mobile, Alabama, a member of the wealthy Scottish-American Gracie family of New York. He was a namesake and direct descendant of the Archibald Gracie who had built Gracie Mansion, the current official residence of the mayor of New York City, in 1799. His father, Archibald Gracie III, had been an officer with the Washington Light Infantry of the Confederate army during the American Civil War, serving at the Battle of Chickamauga before dying at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864. Young Archibald attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and the United States Military Academy (though he did not graduate), eventually becoming a colonel of the 7th New York Militia.
Gracie was a keen amateur historian and was especially fascinated by the Battle of Chickamauga at which his father had served. He spent a number of years collecting facts about the battle and eventually wrote a book called ''The Truth about Chickamauga''. He found the experience rewarding but exhausting; in early 1912 he decided to visit Europe without his wife Constance (née Schack) and their daughter for a brief respite. He traveled to Europe on RMS ''Oceanic'' and eventually decided to return to the United States aboard RMS ''Titanic''. He was a first class passenger.
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