Eino was born in 1892. He was the son of Karl Lindqvist and Elisabeth Vik. He lived in Dalsbruk (Taalintehdas), Dragsfjärd (Kimito Island), Egentliga Finland, Finland.
Eino boarded the Titanic at Southampton. He was travelling to Monessen, Pennsylvania with his sister Helga Hirvonen and niece Hildur Hirvonen. On the Titanic, Eino had been placed in the forward parts of the ship. After the collision, he was told to rise but did not sense any danger. Upstairs he saw the ice laying on deck. When he returned to their cabins, the water was beginning to enter there and they quickly moved towards the stern compartments. Eino found his sister, and together they moved upwards to the deck. He placed her and his niece in lifeboat 15. He also survived by throwing himself into the water.
In 1915, he moved to Syracuse, New York, and in 1917 he worked for Hammond Steel. He petitioned to become a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1925 in Syracuse[1]. In 1930, he lived in Lysander, New York.[2]
He never married but had an out-of-wedlock son, also named Eino, in Finland with whom he later lost contact.
He died 31 October 1958 at Napa, California, aged 66, having led a transient, difficult life affected by vagrancy and mental illness. Eino is buried in an unmarked grave in Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, Califonia.[3]
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