Brown family. Brown-Gee collection. Series II, [18--]-[19--].
Title:
Brown-Gee collection. Series II, [18--]-[19--]. [18---19--]
Owen Brown (1771-1856, father of John Brown) family papers, including will, letters to John Brown, Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, etc., marriage certificate of Owen and Sally (Root) Brown, autobiographical letter (1847) to Marion (Brown) Hand, and family genealogy; Peter Brown files; John Brown family histories and biographies, containing brief profiles on each of Brown's children as well as separate files on sons John, Jr., Jason, Watson, and Salmon and daughters, Annie (Brown) Adams and Ellen (Brown) Fablinger; John Brown miscellany, and autobiographical letter written by Brown to Henry L. Stearns; and John Brown in literature files, including poems, plays, book reviews, articles, and copies of Reminiscences of Brown by Byron R. Brewster and Horace McGuire's interview between Brown and Frederick Douglass. Also includes files on John Brown and his connection to Harpers Ferry, the Adirondack Mountains, North Elba, Kansas, Canada, and Ohio, as well as memorials to Brown in New York, Kansas, and Oberlin, Cleveland, and Akron, Ohio, extract of Edmund Ruffin's diary relating to the Harpers Ferry Raid, copy of Father Michael Costello's eyewitness account, and copy of Brown's Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States (1858); Boyd B. Stutler files, containing articles and photos of Sutler at the Harpers Ferry Centennial (1959) and elsewhere; John Brown artifacts, including various souvenirs (spoons, buttons, medals, etc.), and box of slides on Brown family grave sites; and files relating to Mary Ann (Day) Brown, second wife of John Brown, containing correspondence, photos, and other papers, including information concerning her trip across the U.S., history of the California Brown family, correspondence with her children, and an account of her activities as patient at a water-cure establishment in Northampton, Mass. Also includes letters from Gov. Ansel Briggs (1854) and Gov. Henry Wise (1872); copy of what is believed to be last letter of John Brown, written to boyhood friend and Hudson, Ohio resident Lora Case; affidavits on John Brown's insanity; correspondence of donor Clarence S. Gee written to Warder H. Cadbury, Edwin Cotter, and others; postcards, pamphlets, and other materials concerning Harpers Ferry; Brown family genealogical materials; John Brown portraits (postcards, photographs, etc.); and Gee materials pertaining to the collection, including correspondence with Grace Goulder Izant.
ArchivalResource:
11 boxes.
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