Brown was born on May 9, 1800, inTorrington, Connecticut, the son of Owen and Ruth Mills Brown. His father, who was in the tannery business, relocated the family toOhio, where the abolitionist spent most of his childhood. The Brown family’s new home ofHudson, Ohio, happened to be a...
Brown studied for the Congregational ministry in Connecticut but changed his mind and returned to work with his father in Hudson, Ohio. He had a variety of different jobs including work as a tanner, wool merchant, land surveyor and farmer. Married twice, he was the father of twenty children....
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Brown’s raiders captured a number of prisoners, including George Washington’s great-grand-nephew, Lewis Washington. Local militia trapped Brown and his men inside the arsenal’s firehouse. During the short siege, three citizens of Harpers Ferry, including Mayor Fontaine Beckham. were killed. The...
John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. His family was descended from New England Puritans, and he had a deeply religious upbringing. John was the third of six children in the family. When Brown was five, the family moved to Ohio. During his childhood, Brown's ...
1) John Brown lives with his parents. ( )Choose the best answer.2) John Brown's mother does not work. ( )1)You sit everywhere you want in a western restaur3) John Brown likes sports and English. ( ) A. can B. can' t C. are supposed to D. may4) John Brown doesn' t like...
Richard Cavendish| Published inHistory TodayVolume 50 Issue 5 May 2000 Early in 1799 a young tanner named Owen Brown arrived to start a new life in a farmhouse he had bought at Torrington in Connecticut with his wife Ruth and two small children. Craven, who had been working as an itinerant...
John Brown had been fighting against slavery and for the empowerment of Black Americans all his life. He was born in 1800 in Connecticut but his family soon moved to Ohio where his parents sheltered enslaved people seeking their freedom. When he built his own tannery in Richmond, P...
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