Who Was the Unsinkable Molly Brown? Titanic’s Forgotten Heroine
The mythical “Unsinkable Molly Brown” was a real woman. Her true name was Margaret Tobin Brown, and friends called her Maggie. She was born in Hannibal, Missouri, in July 1867. As a teenager, she moved west to the rough mining town of Leadville, Colorado. There, she married a mining engineer, raised two children, and helped…