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 Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:38 pm
Titanic Stories Here is where I'll be posting stories of the Titanic these are all rue,but some info may be different from yours.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:46 pm
The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Daughter of a ditchdigger, Molly Tobin received little formal education and went to work in her early teens. About 1884 she followed her brother to the mining town of Leadville, Colo., met a silver-mine manager, James J. Brown (1849?-1922), and married him in 1886. (A popular story that their first fortune was accidentally burned in a stove was a later exaggeration of an event in which a mere $75 in coin was scorched.) In 1894 he struck it moderately rich in a gold find, and the two moved to Denver, where she sought rather garishly and unsuccessfully to enter Denver society. After her husband left her (while continuing to support her), she began visiting New York and Newport, R.I., and then Europe and succeeded in becoming a raconteur and life of the party among the rich and famous, including the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys. During the sinking of the Titanic she helped command a lifeboat, oaring and directing the oars, and afterward on the rescue ship Carpathia nursed ill survivors through long hours. The American press celebrated her as the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown. After her husband's death her finances slowly diminished in the 1920s, and she died in genteel poverty at New York's Barbizon-Club Hotel.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:58 pm
Mr.and Mrs. John Jacob Astor.John Jacob Astor (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was a businessman, inventor, writer and a member of the prominent Astor family. Serving as a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, Astor mainly dealt in real estate which included the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. A divorce and marriage to the much younger Madeleine Talmadge Force caused a scandal and he and his new wife took an extended honeymoon abroad to wait out the controversy. Madeleine Astor's pregnancy cut short the trip and they booked passage on board the RMS Titanic which struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. John Jacob Astor IV was among the more than 1,500 victims of the sinking. Madeleine Astor Madeleine Astor was born in Brooklyn, New York City and became famous in 1911 when She,then 18 married 47 yearold millionaire John Jacob Astor IV. While traveling abroad to avoid the gossip generated by her marriage, Madeleine Astor became pregnant. Wanting to have the baby born in the United States, the Astors booked passage on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. The ship sank on April 15, 1912 and, while Madeleine was rescued, her husband died in the disaster. A few years after the sinking she gave up the Astor fortune to marry William K. d**k. That marriage ended in divorce seventeen years later and shortly after she again remarried, this time to boxer Enzo Fiermonte, which also ended in divorce.
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Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:44 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:01 am
~Camouflaged_Angel~ The Unsinkable Molly Brown.Daughter of a ditchdigger, Molly Tobin received little formal education and went to work in her early teens. About 1884 she followed her brother to the mining town of Leadville, Colo., met a silver-mine manager, James J. Brown (1849?-1922), and married him in 1886. (A popular story that their first fortune was accidentally burned in a stove was a later exaggeration of an event in which a mere $75 in coin was scorched.) In 1894 he struck it moderately rich in a gold find, and the two moved to Denver, where she sought rather garishly and unsuccessfully to enter Denver society. After her husband left her (while continuing to support her), she began visiting New York and Newport, R.I., and then Europe and succeeded in becoming a raconteur and life of the party among the rich and famous, including the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys. During the sinking of the Titanic she helped command a lifeboat, oaring and directing the oars, and afterward on the rescue ship Carpathia nursed ill survivors through long hours. The American press celebrated her as the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown. After her husband's death her finances slowly diminished in the 1920s, and she died in genteel poverty at New York's Barbizon-Club Hotel. Wasn't Molly in the deleted scene paddling a boat? And her name was Molly Brown? Wasnt it!?
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:17 pm
rabbit23girl ~Camouflaged_Angel~ The Unsinkable Molly Brown.Daughter of a ditchdigger, Molly Tobin received little formal education and went to work in her early teens. About 1884 she followed her brother to the mining town of Leadville, Colo., met a silver-mine manager, James J. Brown (1849?-1922), and married him in 1886. (A popular story that their first fortune was accidentally burned in a stove was a later exaggeration of an event in which a mere $75 in coin was scorched.) In 1894 he struck it moderately rich in a gold find, and the two moved to Denver, where she sought rather garishly and unsuccessfully to enter Denver society. After her husband left her (while continuing to support her), she began visiting New York and Newport, R.I., and then Europe and succeeded in becoming a raconteur and life of the party among the rich and famous, including the Astors, Vanderbilts, and Whitneys. During the sinking of the Titanic she helped command a lifeboat, oaring and directing the oars, and afterward on the rescue ship Carpathia nursed ill survivors through long hours. The American press celebrated her as the Unsinkable Mrs. Brown. After her husband's death her finances slowly diminished in the 1920s, and she died in genteel poverty at New York's Barbizon-Club Hotel. Wasn't Molly in the deleted scene paddling a boat? And her name was Molly Brown? Wasnt it!?
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