Emily (née Borie) Ryerson Sherfesee (1863-1939) was an artist, philanthropist, and Titanic survivor. Born in Philadelphia, she married attorney Arthur Larned Ryerson of the famous steel family. While in Europe in 1912 with three of their children, the couple learned that their eldest son had died in a car crash. Attempting to quickly return home, the family boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France. When the ship sank she and the children survived, but Arthur Ryerson perished. Afterwards, Emily settled in Chicago and pursued her passion for jewelry-making. She spearheaded a group of socially prominent artists and architects who cooperatively built Georgian style row houses in 1915. During WWI, she allowed her row house at 2700 N. Lakeview Ave. to serve as a convalescent center for sick children. She received a a Croix de Guerre award for founding an American hospital in France and forming organizations to help wounded soldiers and fatherless children in France.She remarried in 1927.