Mr Charles Hallace Romaine was a First Class passenger of the Titanic. He survived the sinking. He was born in Georgetown, Kentucky on July 11th, 1866 the son of William H. Romaine (b. 15 March 1825; d. 20 January 1867) and Jailey Lydia Secrist (b. 5 May 1827; d. 13 April 1911). According to his obituary he spent his youth in Kentucky and Ohio and came to Anderson, Indiana in 1892, where he was associated with George Simmons in the Doxey hotel. From there he went to London, where he spent several years as the managing director of the Throg-Morton Trust company.