Margaret Tobin Brown was 44 years old in April 1912. Born in Hannibal, Missouri, to poor Irish immigrants, she went west to Leadville, Colorado, married mining man J.J. Brown, and became suddenly rich in 1893 when his Little Jonny Mine hit gold. She taught herself languages, worked for women’s suffrage, juvenile courts, and miners’ families, and was separated — but not divorced — from J.J. In April 1912 she was touring Egypt and Europe with John Jacob Astor IV and his young wife when a cable said her grandson was sick. She booked passage home on the new White Star liner Titanic, boarding at Cherbourg on April 10 with her friend Emma Bucknell...
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