Brown family collection, 1838-1943.

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Brown family collection, 1838-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122332627

Collection of letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera pertaining to the famous abolitionist John Brown and his family. The collection was compiled by Mrs. Ella Towne of Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Towne was daughter Ruth Brown Thompson, the eldest daughter of John Brown, who moved to Southern California in 1885. Letters written by John Brown's sons -- John, Jr., Jason, Oliver, Frederick, and Owen Brown from Kansas in 1855-1856 to the family back in North Elba, N.Y., chiefly addressed to Ruth Brown Thompson. The letters discuss family matters, business pursuits, the move to Kansas Territory, and political situation in Kansas in 1855-1856. Also included are typescript copies of letters of Samuel Adair from Osawatomie July 29, 1855- Feb. 1859 to T.H. Hand and Stephen Davis. There are also letters dealing with honoring John Brown's memory, including a letter from Gerrit Smith to Ruth Brown Thompson (1874). Ephemera, typescript articles, and photographs, addresses, etc.. Included are: a scrapbook made by Ella J. Towne for her daughter Adeline Clausen in December 1945), a sound recordings of the address by Dr. J. W. Shirley on John Brown delivered on May 9, 1943 and of a radio program at John Brown's grave on July 4th, 1943, views of the Jason and Owen Brown's Las Casitas homestead, and photographs of the ceremony of re-internment of John Brown's body in Lake Placid, N.Y. (1899).

82 pieces, also ephemera.1 box.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6683076

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Towne, Ella Thompson,

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Brown, Owen, 1824-1889

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Thompson, Ruth Brown

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Adair, Samuel

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Adair was twenty-three years old as of March 2000. He was a student at Brigham Young University and was preparing to study immigration law at the University of Arizona's law school. From the description of Land of opportunity : living illegally in America, 2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367670893 ...

Brown, Oliver 1839-1859

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Son of abolitionist John Brown, killed at Harper's Ferry. From the description of Letter : Rockford, Ill., to [Mary Anne Day] Brown, Akron, Ohio, [1855?] April 9. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27731729 ...

Brown family.

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Brown, John, 1821-1895

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Farmer and soldier; son of John Brown, the abolitionist; b. at Hudson, Ohio; moved with brother Owen Brown to Osawatomie, Kan., 1855 where was elected a member of the legislature; led group of militia to the relief of Lawrence, Kan., after it had been "sacked" by a pro-slavery force; served with the Kansas Brigade during the Civil War but was forced to resign because of illness; did not participate in the Harper's Ferry raid; in 1862 purchased a ten-acre plot on the south shore of South Bass Isl...

Brown, Frederick, 1830-1856.

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Brown, Jason, 1823-1912

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Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

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Congressman, philanthropist, reformer. From the description of Letter, 1840 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122379141 Gerrit Smith resided in Peterboro (N.H.?) at the time of these writings and was a strong supporter of emancipation and African American rights. Upon his death the African American citizens of Buffalo paid him a formal tribute. From the description of Letters and broadsides, 1868-1871. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34178334 ...