Brown-Gee collection. Series II, [18--]-[19--]. [18---19--]

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Brown-Gee collection. Series II, [18--]-[19--]. [18---19--]

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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.

11 boxes.

Cleveland Public Library, Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7564423

Cleveland Public Library, Main Library

Related Entities

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Cotter, Edwin

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Izant, Grace Goulder, -1984

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Cleveland, Ohio journalist, writer and local historian. Izant's series, "Ohio scenes and citizens", appeared weekly in the Sunday Plain Dealer, 1944-69, and led to her book of the same title. She also wrote "This is Ohio", a collection of anecdotes for each of Ohio's counties, "John D. Rockefeller: the Cleveland years", and "Hudson's heritage", a history of Hudson, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1938-1973. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22652950 G...

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, Peter, -1633

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Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876

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American lawyer and politician; governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to President Buchanan, 1857 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588282 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Thomas Teackle in Baltimore, 1841 Jan. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588600 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Col. T.H. Ellis, 1859 Aug. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588...

Stearns, Henry L.

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Brown, Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884

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Costello, Michael, Father

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Brown family.

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Family of abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859); residents of New England, Hudson, Ohio, North Elba, N.Y., Kansas, California, and elsewhere. From the description of Brown-Gee collection. Series II, [18--]-[19--]. [18---19--] (Cleveland Public Library). WorldCat record id: 46387364 ...

Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865

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Agriculturalist and prominent Secessionist. From the description of Papers of Edmund Ruffin [manuscript], 1861. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647855369 Edmund Ruffin was a noted agriculturalist and publisher of Prince George and Hanover counties, Va. He was a strong defender of slavery and a secessionist. From the description of Edmund Ruffin papers, 1784-1893. WorldCat record id: 32040042 Edmund Ruffin was an agricultural experimenter an...

Gee, Clarence S.

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Cadbury, Warder H.

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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...

Brewster, Byron R.

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Fablinger, Ellen Brown, 1854-1916

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Hand, Marion Brown

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McGuire, Horace, 1842-

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Brown, Jason, 1823-1912

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Case, Lora

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Resident of Hudson, Ohio; boyhood friend of abolitionist John Brown. From the description of Historical notes, [18--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962334 ...

Brown, Salmon, 1836-1919

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Briggs, Ansel, 1806-1881

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First governor of Iowa (1846-1850). From the description of Ansel Briggs papers, 1839-1864. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 78795002 First governor of Iowa (1846-1850). Briggs was born in Vermont, moved to Ohio in 1830 and to Iowa in 1836. He settled first in Davenport, Iowa later moving north to Andrew (Jackson County). He operated stagecoach lines and was under contract with the federal government to deliver mail. He held the office of depu...

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

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Brown, Watson, 1835-1859

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Ohio Anti-slavery Society

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Brown, Owen

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Tanner; father of abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859). From the description of Owen Brown diary extract, circa 1820. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451970 Owen Brown was the great grandson of Tabitha Moffat Brown. From the description of Owen Brown letters [manuscript], 1896-1927. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 696965842 From the guide to the Owen Brown letters, 1896-1927, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) ...

Adams, Annie Brown, 1843-1926

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