Titanic Articles: The Saga Of The Gibson Women
BY PHILLIP GOWAN AND BRIAN MEISTER During the boyhood years of James Peter Boesen in Copenhagen, Denmark, a dazed, plain Hausfrau in a remote area of Austria gave birth to an illegitimate son, Alois. Maria Schicklgruber was an ungainly creature of 42 when her only child arrived in the summer of 1837, and those that knew her …