Margaret Tobin Brown page 25

 Margaret Tobin Brown page 25 by ric gustafson

So what happened to Margaret Tobin Brown after the disaster?.

Margaret arrived in Denver April 29 1912. She came back with nothing except a good luck charm from Egypt. Three officers from Lifeboat 6 testified at the official hearing. Margaret made sure the world heard her story. Her account of the tragedy ran in 3 parts in May 1912. 

A gossip columnist named Polly Pry gave Margaret the nickname ' the Unsinkable Molly Brown'. Helen Brown married George Benziger in April 1913. Margaret took up residence in Newport Rhode Island as early as 1909. In Newport, Margaret became friends with socialite Alva Vanderbilt Belmont. 

JJ Brown died on Sept 5 1922. He was 68. Margaret became the chair of the Titanic Survivors Committee. In 1922, Margaret had to give up her house in Newport for not paying rent. She rented a room there instead. In October of 1932, Margaret Tobin Brown died from a brain tumor. She died at the Barbizon Hotel in New York City.

The End

research help: ' Molly Brown unraveling the myth' by Kristen Iversen

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