Letter, March 2, 1860.

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Letter, March 2, 1860.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281324915

Writes to Thomas R. Winning, probably of Rossville, Vermilion County, Illinois, about Zorn's son who had settled in Ohio, and about John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859.

3 p.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Winning, Thomas R., ca. 1807-fl. 1880.

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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...

Zorn, John, ca. 1794-fl. 1870.

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Zorn was a farmer in Hedgesville, Berkeley County, Virginia, soon to be West Virginia. From the description of Letter, March 2, 1860. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 281324915 ...