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  John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a militant American abolitionist, and one of the first white abolitionists to advocate, and to practice, guerilla warfare as a means to the abolition of slavery.
Brown was charged with murdering four whites and a fl, with conspiring with slaves to rebel, and with treason against Virginia.
John Brown is buried on the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York, south of Lake Placid, near Saranac Lake.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)   (4915 words)

  
 John Brown: They Had a Concern
Brown must have realized that this would be the case, and should have foreseen that his precarious position in the town could be maintained but briefly.
John Brown in prison, on trial, on the scaffold, and in the grave, was to be far more effective than John Brown alive and free.
Brown had been quite seriously wounded by sabre and bayonet when his group was captured, and, although his wounds healed surprisingly rapidly, rather than delay the trial until he was capable of attending on his own he had been brought to court on a pallet on which he lay throughout the proceedings.
www.wvculture.org /history/jb4.html   (7324 words)

  
 John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Brown's Army was the meager band of twenty one abolitionists who flocked to the Kennedy House to follow John Brown in his raid on Harper's Ferry.
Brown's army traveled to the Ferry's Armory, where they captured the men on guard and took over the building which would later be referred to as "John Brown's Fort".
John Brown was hung on December 2, 1859, with none present at his execution except a group of militia men securing the site.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/3992/Lesson2/index2.html   (2329 words)

  
 Colonel John Brown
John, his youngest son, is described as tall and powerful, an athlete able to kick a football over the elm-tree on the college green at New Haven when he entered at twenty-three years of age, older in years than most college students of the year 1767.
Brown's sister Elizabeth had married Oliver Arnold, attorney-general of Rhode Island, a cousin of Benedict, and it is reasonable to suppose that he was well informed of Arnold's misdeeds, which thus became known to John Brown.
Brown was chosen judge of the Common Pleas by the General Court of Massachusetts for 1779, but never held court, probably because his fellow-citizens were not submissive to the existing authority of the General Court as exercised before the adoption of the new Constitution of Massachusetts.
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 Brown
This is to certify that we Joseph, William and Robert Brown, sons of William and Mary, Planter* of Bonavista in the Island of Newfoundland.
This is to certify that I George Brown and James Brown and Rebecca Tilly, son and daughters of William and Mary Brown, Planters of Bonavista in the Island of Newfoundland.
A Margaret Brown was living in Portsea, Hampshire in 1851 and she was born 1784 in Nfld- brothers were James and Francis.
ca.geocities.com /colestips/Brown.htm   (5451 words)

  
 Licking County, Ohio History
She was married to John Brown, and is the mother of one child, Joseph, born April 9.
Browne was born in Philadelphia November 5, 1809, the sixth of a family of ten children, and is a patternmaker by trade.
John Cooperider emigrated to Licking county from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1815.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Licking/LickingFile9a-e.htm   (20081 words)

  
 Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As an incompetent businessman who frequently defaulted on his debts, John Brown would likely not have been remembered by History had it not been for his abolitionist zeal, which peaked just as the nation was on the brink of a civil war.
Brown once again made headlines in October of 1859 as he led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown was, and now we will look back at his actions in late 1859 and how they helped push the United States into a civil war less than eighteen months later.
www.nwlsd.org /polljo/jbweb   (1400 words)

  
 John Brown
BROWN, John, clergyman, born in New York City, 19 May, 1791; died in Newburg, New York, 15 August, 1884.
Brown succeeded in forming his own congregation into a strong parish, and largely aided feebler churches in neighboring counties.
He was believed to be the oldest Episcopal clergyman, in point of service, in the United States, and was also one of the oldest masons in the country, having been initiated on 16 June, 1817, in Hiram lodge, Newburg.
www.famousamericans.net /johnbrown4   (374 words)

  
 John Brown at Harpers Ferry: A Contemporary Analysis
According to the testimony of one of Brown's own men, and to the judgement made in the "Mason Report" to the Senate, Brown confided the details of his plan to no one.
Brown refused the conditions, demanding to be allowed to cross into Maryland carrying the prisoners with him as assurance
When Thomas Brigham Bishop was later to write that although John Brown's body was "a-mouldering in the grave, his soul goes marching on," he was recording an historical fact.
www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh22-1.html   (6483 words)

  
 A Lecture on John Brown
Brown listened with respectful attention, becoming more earnest as the reading went on, and finally quivering with nervous impatience, as the charges against him were recited in the awful and high sounding language of the law.
John Brown alone, seemed to be recognized as the prepresent of the Great idea, and in him all the sentiments, moral and political interest centered.
Brown lifting his pinioned arm directed him to get one from the collar of his old coat, in which half a dozen odd pins and needles were visible.
www.libraries.wvu.edu /theses/Attfield/HTML/abc.html   (12793 words)

  
 Original Proprietors - Update VII
John Easton, Benjamin Hazard, and Walter Rodman married sisters of Abraham Redwood, and Joseph Sylvester was married to one of Redwood's nieces.
The mother of the Wards was a first cousin of John Tillinghast, one of at least four of the founders who never married (the others were Collins, Thomas Moffatt, and Edward Scott).
John Gardner's wife was a niece of John Brown's wife; James Honeyman's wife was a niece of Edward and Joseph Scott (her sister was married to a son of Samuel Wickham); and Jahleel Brenton's first wife was a niece of James Honyman's second wife.
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 Thompson Brown House
During the Civil War, Brown lived in north Georgia where he ministered to wounded and dying soldiers and their families on both sides of the conflict.
John Brown and his wife, Sarah, brought up nine children on the farm.
By 1934, some of the older Browns having died and the younger ones having moved on, the place was transferred to Maryville College.
www.blountweb.com /thompsonbrownhouse/photos01.htm   (490 words)

  
 An Example of a Genealogy Search
John McIntyre is shown as being a journeyman, not a master butcher.
In an attempt to narrow the period of search for John Brown's death a search was made of the Ayrshire name index for the 1891 Census in the hope that he, or simply, Margaret would be found.
It is interesting to note, in the census returns, John is described as a "colliery clerk, even at the age of 63, however, on his son's marriage certificate (1894) and on both his, and his wife's death certificates, he is described as a "colliery manager".
www.electricscotland.com /WEBCLANS/gen_search.htm   (3824 words)

  
 Geary and Kansas - Chapter 16.
Brown was in command at the time, and, having only between thirty and forty men, he retreated to the timber on the river or creek known as the Marais Des Cygnes.
White's own account of this transaction, is, that sometime previous, Captain Brown had stolen some of his horses, and on the morning of his death, Frederick was seen by him, riding one of these stolen horses and leading another; that he ordered young Brown not to approach or he would shoot him.
His arms were so firmly bound with cords as to cut into the flesh, in which condition he was compelled to travel in front of the horses for a number of miles under a burning sun, and often forced to run to keep from under the horses' feet.
www.kancoll.org /books/gihon/g_chap16.htm   (2043 words)

  
 Battle Hymn of the Republic: Julia Ward Howe
John Brown led his men to capture arms that were stored at Harper’s Ferry.
Brown was defeated and hung for his act of treason.
Freeman Clarke, a clergyman who had read Julia’s published poems encouraged her to write a new song for the war effort.
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 Significant Scots - Hugh Binning
BINNING, HUGH, an extraordinary instance of precocious learning and genius, was the son of John Binning of Dalvennan, a landed gentleman of Ayrshire.
While fulfilling the duties of his chair in the most satisfactory manner, he continued his study of theology, and a vacancy occurring in the church of Govan, near Glasgow, he received a call to be its minister.
As a preacher, Mr Binning’s fame was very great: his knowledge was extensive, and there was a fervour in his eloquence which bore away the hearts of his congregation, as it were, to heaven.
www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/binning_hugh.htm   (379 words)

  
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Since Charley's death John Brown had never seen Billy: he had left the town one woful day an hour after Billy had told him of the discovery Charley had made.
He felt his veins beating with desire, with anger, disgust, and shame; for there was John Brown, to the applause of the crowd, imitating his old manner, his voice, his very look.
Then John Brown stretched out his hand and said, in a hoarse whisper: "It was his voice--Charley's voice, and he's been dead a year!" Within half-an-hour, in utter collapse and fright, he was being driven to the next parish by two young habitants whom he paid to accompany him.
library.beau.org /gutenberg/etext04/gp72w10.txt   (18645 words)

  
 Oneida County Biographies - B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
daughter of a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and of which he and his wife are both valued members.
Thomas S. Brown was born in the town of Vienna December 8, 1838, son of John and Jane Brown.
Brown engaged in farming which he still follows.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/oneida/bios/biob.html   (616 words)

  
 Charles Alexander, b. 1868. Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. ...
John Brown and His Men--The Story of Kansas--What was Thought of John Brown 112-120
This plantation was managed by Pat Smith, the brother of John J. who had a "reputation." So in the spring of 1854, Old Lady Talbot said to the boy one morning, "Allen, your Miss Bett has a new home for you.
John Smith was on his way to Henderson, Kentucky, where he was going to visit his brother, Pat Smith.
docsouth.unc.edu /neh/alexander/alexander.html   (16070 words)

  
 Ex Nihilo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Today, as Radley and Alvaro Vargas Llosa point out, Che has become a brand, much of his bloody legacy forgotten or lionized as idealistic purity.
Pastor Warren is now working with his global network to turn genocide-ravaged Rwanda into the world's first "Purpose-Driven Nation".
For months the clergyman has alluded in general terms to an immense volunteer effort called the PEACE plan, aimed at transforming 400,000 churches in 47 nations into centers to nurse, feed and educate the poor and even turn them into entrepreneurs.
johncoleman.typepad.com   (2697 words)

  
 Incunabula Books [REFERENCE: AUTHORS: B]
John Codrington Bampfylde, English poet (1754 - 1796)
John Brown, English clergyman and miscellaneous writer (1715 - 1766)
Dean John William Burgon, English clergyman, poet and dean of Chichester (1819 - 1888)
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