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    Margaret Brown

    Survivor of the sinking of the Titanic , women's rights activist, philanthropist

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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · Molly Brown died on October 26, 1932, in her sleep at the Barbizon Hotel in New York City.

  2. Passenger on the Titanic. Later life and death. Legacy. Portrayals. Notes. References. Further reading. External links. Margaret Brown (née Tobin; July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932), posthumously known as the " Unsinkable Molly Brown ", was an American socialite and philanthropist.

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    • She wasn’t actually called Molly. One of the biggest misconceptions about Brown is her name; she was born Margaret, not Molly. While it’s sometimes said she didn’t earn the Molly moniker until after her death in 1932, historians found instances of her being called Mollie (with an -ie) in 1929, though the reasons for that new nickname are unknown.
    • She started working at a tobacco company at age 13. Born in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1867 to Irish immigrants, Margaret Brown (née Tobin) did not come into the world wealthy.
    • She married for love. In 1886 at the age of 18, Margaret moved to Leadville, Colorado, and began working at a local department store. It was in Leadville, circa spring 1886, that she met James Joseph “J.J.”
    • The Browns were “new money.” Soon after marrying, the Browns moved into a two-room cabin in Stumpftown, Colorado, which was closer to the mines where J.J.
  3. July 18, 1867, Hannibal, Missouri, U.S. Died: October 26, 1932, New York, New York (aged 65) Molly Brown (born July 18, 1867, Hannibal, Missouri, U.S.—died October 26, 1932, New York, New York) was an American human-rights activist, philanthropist, and actress who survived the sinking of the Titanic.

  4. J.J. Brown died 5 September 1922 in New York. Margaret Tobin Brown died of a brain tumour on 26 October 1932, at the Barbizon Hotel in New York where she had been working with young actresses. After a simple funeral service, Maggie was buried, next to J.J., in Long Island's Holy Rood Cemetery.

    • Female
    • American
    • Denver, Colorado, United States
    • Socialite
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  6. Meet Margaret "Molly" Brown Birth in a Mississippi River Town Margaret Tobin Brown was born to Irish immigrants John and Johanna Tobin in 1867 in Hannibal, Missouri. The Tobins were part of a wave of immigration following the first period of industrialization in America. Hannibal was a diverse community where

  7. Dec 6, 2021 · Margaret Brown — “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” as she came to be posthumously called — died of a brain tumor on October 26, 1932, at the Barbizon Hotel in New York City. In her 65 years, Brown had seen poverty, wealth, joy, and great tragedy. But she lived each day like it was her last.

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