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Devonshire (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5
rom it a wiser and a better man. From the family we learn that: 1851 John Brown and his family returned to Akron, Ohio, where he managed Mr. Perkins's farm, and carried on the wool business. In 1855, on starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to North Elba, where they still reside, and where his body lies buried. At the Agricultural Fair of Essex County, for 1850, a great sensation was created by the unlooked — for appearance on the grounds of a beautiful herd of Devon cattle. They were the first that had been exhibited at the county festival, and every one was surprised and delighted at the incident. The inquiry was universal, Whose are these cattle, and from whence do they come? The surprise and excitement were not diminished when it was understood that a certain John Brown was the owner, and that he resided in the town of North Elba. The report of the society for that year contains the following reference to that event: The appearance upon the groun
Charles Town (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
It is hardly necessary for me to say that the internal evidences of its perfect fidelity are overwhelming: for we see throughout it the same grand traits in the barefooted, bareheaded boy, clad in buckskin breeches, suspended often with one leather strap and sometimes with two; who idolized the bobtail squirrel, and had a mourning season at its death; and who, at the age of twelve, swore eternal war against slavery; which, when in the jail and the Court room and on the gallows of Charlestown, Virginia, astonished and delighted the world. This is the letter: Red Rock, Iowa, 15th July, 1857. Mr Henry L. Stearns My Dear Young Friend, I have not forgotten my promise to write you; but my constant care, & anxiety have obliged me put it off a long time. I do not flatter myself that I can write any thing that will very much interest you: but have concluded to send you a short story of a certain boy of my acquaintance: & for convenience and shortness of name, I will call him Joh
Franklin, Warren County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
arried at Meadville, Pennsylvania, (while he was living at Richmond, in Crawford County,) he had thirteen children: Sarah Brown, born May 11, 1834, at Richmond, Pennsylvania; died, September 23, 1843. Watson Brown, October 7, 1835, Franklin, Ohio; married Isabella M. Thompson, September, 1856;--wounded at Harper's Ferry, October 17, while bearing a flag of truce; died October 19, 1859. Salmon Brown, October 2, 1836, Hudson, Ohio; married Abbie C. Hinckley, October 15, 1856; lives at North Elba. Charles Brown, November 3, 1837, Hudson, Ohio; died September 11, 1843. Oliver Brown, March 9, 1839, Franklin, Ohio; married Martha E. Brewster, April 17, 1858; killed at Harper's Ferry, October 17, 1859. Peter Brown, December 7, 1840, Hudson, Ohio; died September 22, 1843. Austin Brown, September 14, 1842, Richfield, Ohio; died September 27, 1843. Anne Brown, December 23, 1843, Richfield, Ohio. Amelia Brown, June 22, 1845, Akron, Ohio; died October 30, 1846. Sarah Bro
Plymouth Rock (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ice to the hero of their hearts, is a far more important, and a still more embarrassing task. For an immediate publication is demanded; and it is impossible, at once, to collate all the facts that should be told of him. But one alternative remains — to do the best that is possible for the present day, and, if a still more extended biography be demanded, to endeavor, at another time, to supply that want. Paternal ancestry of John Brown. Among the group of godly exiles who knelt at Plymouth Rock, on the 22d of December, 1620, and returned thanks to the Almighty for His goodness to them in preserving them from the dangers of the Deep, was an unmarried English Puritan, a carpenter by trade, of whose personal history all that now can be known is, that his name was Peter Brown. That he came over in the Mayflower, is evidence enough that he feared his God, respected himself, and strove prayerfully to obey the divine commands; choosing rather to sacrifice the comforts of English civi
Ilva (Italy) (search for this): chapter 5
bbie C. Hinckley, October 15, 1856; lives at North Elba. Charles Brown, November 3, 1837, Hudson, pter was stereotyped, I have found among the North Elba manuscripts the following Phrenological Desc1850 or 1851, and removed with his family to North Elba, Essex County, New York. This person says Gresolute in all that he did. Chapter 5: North Elba. John Brown and his family removed to NorNorth Elba, in Essex County, New York, in 1849. It was about this time that Mr. Gerritt Smith, the emiwho can do so--God pity him. The route to North Elba. The traveller into the enchanted land of All these young men went deliberately from North Elba for no other purpose than to join in this enmplicity) have been worthy the pilgrimage to North Elba to see. This Bible, presented to my plications left out. Since they had lived in North Elba, his wife said but twice had the slave been he owner, and that he resided in the town of North Elba. The report of the society for that year co[8 more...]
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
grandfather of Captain John Brown, the hero of Kansas and Harper's Ferry. John Brown, the third, atnated when we find the old man and his sons in Kansas and Virginia. One of his favorite verses wpearance. When first I saw him in his camp at Kansas, although his clothing was patched and old, ann the Missourians, and keep them from going to Kansas to disturb the people, and that he was success adding that he had acted on this principle in Kansas, and never suffered from it. He ascribed his wtifications. Many of them still exist in Southern Kansas. He thought no American could visit Europll the whole truth now-that John Brown's whole Kansas life was the result of this self-imposed missirprise. I never saw such men. It was so in Kansas I never saw such men outside of John Brown's ce head of the family made his visits home from Kansas, he commonly held a Sunday meeting in the littt themselves that the men might continue their Kansas work. But when the father came upon his visit[12 more...]
Western Reserve (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ved in the family & stole them. In this he was detected by his Mother; & after having a full day to think of the wrong: received from her a thorough whipping. When he was Five years old his Father A correspondent thus writes of John Brown's father: My recollections of John Brown begin in the winter of 1826-7. I was then five years old. My father's family lived that winter at Hudson, Ohio, which was then one of the remotest of the settlements made by Connecticut people on their Western Reserve. One of our nearest neighbors there was Mr. Owen Brown, who had removed to Hudson, not long before, from Connecticut. I remember him very distinctly, and that he was very much respected and esteemed by my father. He was an earnestly devout and religious man, of the old Connecticut fashion; and one peculiarity of his impressed his name and person indelibly upon my memory. He was an inveterate and most painful stammerer — the first specimen of that infirmity that I had ever seen, and,
Essex County (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
on commission; most of it was for farmers living in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Brown left here in 1850 or 1851, and removed with his family to North Elba, Essex County, New York. This person says Gerritt Smith gave him a large tract of land there. He says he knows it because he saw the deed. ... Mir. Brown's integrity was never t old gentleman. He was, however, notably resolute in all that he did. Chapter 5: North Elba. John Brown and his family removed to North Elba, in Essex County, New York, in 1849. It was about this time that Mr. Gerritt Smith, the eminent philanthropist, offered to colored settlers his wild lands in that district of the An starting for Kansas, he again moved his household to North Elba, where they still reside, and where his body lies buried. At the Agricultural Fair of Essex County, for 1850, a great sensation was created by the unlooked — for appearance on the grounds of a beautiful herd of Devon cattle. They were the first that had bee
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 5
ndence --we will see how it was incarnated when we find the old man and his sons in Kansas and Virginia. One of his favorite verses was, says a daughter, Count that day lost whose low-descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. Here, although in advance of the time, two incidents may be related, which show how the ideas of the Bible interpenetrated his whole being. I asked him, says a child, how he felt when he left the eleven slaves, taken from Missouri, safe in Canada? His answer was, Lord, permit now thy servant to die in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. I could not brook the idea that any ill should befall them, or they be taken back to slavery. The arm of Jehovah protected us. The next anecdote, related since the old man's captivity, by a distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania, is no less characteristic: He has elements of character, which, under circumstances favorable to their proper development and right direction, would hav
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
courts of Ohio. One of the daughters had the honor of giving to one of our most flourishing New England colleges a president for twenty years, in the person of her son. My authority is William Ho landed at Plymouth 1620. His mother was decended from a man who came at an early period to New England from Amsterdam, in Holland. Both his Father's & his Mother's Fathers served in the war of thon, Ohio, and came East, with the design of acquiring a liberal education through some of our New England colleges. His ultimate design was the gospel ministry. In pursuance of this object he consuf grading wools — a system at this day universally adopted, and with perfect success; but the New England manufacturers combined against him. He had at Springfield, Massachusetts, a large deposit of graded Western wools, and he warred against the combination of New England manufacturers, who, having had the wool buying all their own way, did not fancy that a party should step in between them an
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