Papers, 1826-1958.

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Papers, 1826-1958.

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Correspondence, speeches, articles, photos, business, and other papers relating to Brown's life in Crawford Co., Pa. (1826-35) and his farm and tannery. Includes minutes, treasurers' reports, and a membership list of the John Brown Memorial Association, New Richmond, Pa. (1924-58). Persons represented include Ernest Conrad Miller, Charles Wesley Olsen, and Boyd Blynn Stutler.

ca. 600 items.

Allegheny College, Lawrence Lee Pelletier Library

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Allegheny College, Lawrence Lee Pelletier Library

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Reynolds, John Earle.

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Miller, Ernest C. (Ernest Conrad), 1912-

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Ernest Conrad Miller (1912- ) was the president of West Penn Oil Company and an historian of the petroleum industry from its beginnings in Pennsylvania, through the rise of the Standard Oil Trust, to the development of western oil fields, such as the Salt Creek field of Wyoming. He authored several books on petroleum history, including "John Wilkes Booth - Oilman" and "Oil Mania: Sketches from the Early Pennsylvania Oil Fields" and "Oil Mining in Pennsylvania" (1946). He was a collector of petro...

Stutler, Boyd B. (Boyd Blynn), 1889-1970

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John Brown Memorial Association (New Richmond, Pa.)

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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...