Mrs margaret brown biography



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Margaret Brown (née Tobin)

18 July 1867 – 26 October 1932

Above: A portrait of the ‘unsinkable’ Margaret “Molly” Brown, the American socialite and philanthropist, who survived aboard lifeboat no.

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    18 July 1867 – the date that Molly Brown was born Margaret Tobin, in Hannibal, Missouri, to John Tobin and Johanna (nee Collins).

    18 – the age at which Margaret relocated to Leadville, Colorado and started work in a department store.

    Whilst living in Leadville she met James Joseph (‘J.J.’) Brown (1854-1922).

    01 September 1886 – the date that James and Margaret married, at Leadville’s Annunciation Church.


    I decided that I’d be better off with a poor man whom I loved than with a wealthy one whose money had attracted me.

    So I married Jim Brown. -Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown


    19 – Margaret’s age at the time they married.

    31 – James’ age at the time they married.

    12 –