Margaret Brown was an American socialite and philanthropist. She unsuccessfully encouraged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field of the 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic to look for survivors. She died on the first available liner leaving New York, leaving her eldest grandchild, Helen Palmer Brown Jr, in New York.
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Margaret Brown was an American socialite and philanthropist. She unsuccessfully encouraged the crew in Lifeboat No. 6 to return to the debris field of the 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic to look for survivors. During her lifetime, her friends called her \”Maggie\”, but even by her death, obituaries referred to her as the \”Unsinkable Molly Brown\”. The reference was further reinforced by a 1960 Broadway musical based on her life and its 1964 film adaptation which were both entitled The Unsinkables Molly Brown. Margaret Tobin was born in a hospital near the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri, on what is now known as Denkler’s alley. Her parents were Irish Catholic immigrants John Tobin and Johanna Tobin. She had two half-sisters: Sophie Bridget Tobin, by her father’s first marriage, and Mary Ann Collins, by her mother’s second marriage.
Margaret and J. J.’s mining engineering efforts proved instrumental in the production of a substantial ore seam at the Little Jonny Mine of his employers, Ibex Mining Company. In 1894, the Browns bought a USD 30,000 Victorian mansion in Denver, Colorado, and in 1897, they built a summer house, Avoca Lodge, which gave the family more social opportunities. Margaret became a charter member of the Denver Woman’s Club, whose mission was the improvement of women’s lives by continuing education and philanthropy. She also worked with Judge Ben Lindsey to help help destitute children and establish the United States’ first juvenile courts, which helped the basis of the modern U.S. juvenile courts system. She died on the first available liner leaving New York, leaving her eldest grandchild, Helen Palmer Brown Jr, in New York.
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