Margaret Brown

Margaret Tobin Brown (July 18th 1867, Hannibal, Missouri - October 26th 1932, New York City) is an activist and American Philanthrope become famous like an survivor of the shipwreck of the Titanic. She is called after her death Insubmersible Molly Brown although she was never called in this manner of alive sound.

Youth and family

Margaret Tobin is born with Hannibal, Missouri, one of the six children of Irish immigrants. She settles with Leadville, Colorado, with her sister and becomes commercial. She meets there and there marries James Joseph Brown (J.J.), a contractor, in 1886.

It is in Leadville that it is implied for the first time for the Women's right as a Suffragette and works in the soup kitchens for the families of minors. Her husband manages to grow rich thanks to an invention in the field by gold.

In 1894, Browns settle with Denver, Colorado, where it makes the most social actions. Margaret is impassioned for arts and the French, German and Russian culture. Therefore between 1909 and 1914, it undertakes voyages in Europe.

Margaret and J.J separate physically in 1909 but remain in good terms until the death of the second in 1922.

Browns have two children: Lawrence Brown Micrometer caliper the August 30th 1887 with Hannibal, Missouri and Catherine Ellen Brown, called Helen, on July 1st 1889 with Leadville, Colorado.

On Titanic

Margaret is on a journey in France with his/her Helen daughter in April 1912, when she learns that his/her other daughter is sick. She immediately takes a ticket on the first boat bound for the the United States, the Titanic. At the time of the shipwreck, it helps the other women to evacuate the building before it itself is forced to embark in one of them. Once with water, it and the other women of the boat n°6 take the command of the boat in front of the incapacity of the leading seaman Robert Hichens to which the footbridge allotted the command.

After helpbeing helped by the Carpathia, Molly Brown helps to carry out the lists survivors as interprets - it was French-speaking and German-speaking - and carries out a collection of the richest survivors and passengers of Carpathia to the profit of poorest where it joins together 10000 $. She is acclaimed on her return on the dry land like a heroin.

She attends the construction of the memorial to the victims of the Titanic to Washington.

After Titanic

She takes due the social rights and of the women, the education and the elimination of illiteracy of the children and the safeguarding of the inheritance. After the First World War in France, it works with the American Committee for France devastated to rebuild the areas located close to the face. It is decorated for these actions with the Légion with honor little before its death.

Margaret Tobin Brown dies of a cerebral Tumeur the October 26th 1932 with New York City (or of an attack of apoplexy).

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