The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-03-22
Biographical.
Wristen bythe Editor for the Herald Of freedom
Sketch of the MartYred Brown.

memoir, was the son of Moses Brown,
rho was a native of North Carolina, and
from that State to Mississippi.
where he resided till 1888. He moved
rom thence to Louisiana. and in 1894,
With the view of escaping from The op-
oressive influences of slavery, located
in Logan county, Ohio, where REEs 1.
was born, on the Sd of July,
1926. He had four sisters and two
brothers, FIVE of whom were born in the
South.
Mr.. Brown enjoyed the advantages OF
a good common school education during
his younger days. and spent some time
at the Universityat at South Bend. Indiana.
His father died in 1897. In i845 he
located in Cass county, Michigan, where
he remained until l849. when he went
to Mississippi to visit his brother and
sisters, who were Shareholders. He took
a school in the vicinity, and continued
teaching until the Fall of 1851 when he
became SO thoroughly disguised with the
workings of the institution of Slavery,
that he resolved Son returning to the
North. He was present at the burning
of slave in Liberty, Mississippi, while
remaining there, and the horrors of thai
aceursed outrage was vivid in hi; mem.
DRY on all occasions. It probably gave
bent to his political feeling and action. fol
after his return to Michigan, he immedi'
ately identified himself with the Free
Democratic party. and continued his con
nection with it down to the period of bis
death.
In May, 1852, he was married to Miss
MARTHA A. LUKENs, who resided in his
native county in Ohio, and who had en-
grated to that State from Virginia severa
years previous, with her parents. He
continued resident of Michigan, en-.
gagged in teaching, until his removal tc
| Kansas, where he arrived in October
last. with his wife and daughter, which
lis now about three years of age. His
mother is still living in Michigan.
He has brother, DR.. AARON BRowN
who resides at Westfeld, Lafayette
county, Iowa, who saw notice OF the
murder of his brother, in the New Yorl
Tribune, and who repaired at once to ths
scene of the tragedy, and furnished u
with the Substance of this notice. FL,
learned at Leavenworth of many import
ant particulars in regard to his brother
connection with the Free State party
his sacrifices to advance the cause 0
Freedom; his repairing to Lawrence
and standing on duty during the late in
yasion, when the town was beleagueret
by an armed band of mercenaries iron
Missouri, who were bent on It's destrut
ton, and of his death at Easton by vic
lence, which We have previously record
ed at length.
The Doctor summoned to his aid thre
practising physicians G. J. PARK
JAMES DAVIS, and SAMUEL +. Few
residents of Leayenworth city,. and o.
the 18th inst, exhumed the body, an,
gave it post-mortem examination
They found the deceased considerable
lacerated, but came readily to the con
clusion that the MOI tai injury was cause,
by blow on the left side of his hea,
4 with some sharp instrument. The woun,
commenced near the central and forwar,
part of the ear, and extended forwar,
and upward, passing the outer corner Q
the eyebrow, some TWO aud three -fourtl
inches in length, and penetrating th
BRAIN. The temporal bone was opene,
so as to admit the passage OF the finge
to the brain, without obstruction. Th
brain was SO injured, that parts of
came out through the wound. His smur
derers have attempted to quiet their con
: sciences by representing that after bein
| disabled, he froze SO as to deprive him O
Z life, while riding in the bottom of tn
wagon to his house. Another story, 90
up by them, represented that he bled 3
; death. The physicians were unauimous
f ly of the opinion that the wound on tn
head was sufficient, of itself, to produc
death, by the injury to the brain: an
the great surprise to all was that h
: should survive so long after the iniur,
The wound appeared to have been mal
with hatcher, or some similar instru
ment, and from the sloping direction {
the blow. it was evidently given by som
person standing partly behind and at tE
: side of the deceased. 0
!. Mr. Browns mother is living. and re
sides at Cassapolis, Cass County, Mich
gan. A meeting was called there o
. Earning the incidents of the murdeI
and the excitement was intense. Ii
State is conyulsed to its center.
Mrs. BRowN, the widow OF the ds
ceased, who is in feeble health. dispose
of her property, and started back
! Ohio, on the 18th inst, few hours pr
: vious to the arrival of her husband
brother. -sai,.1 PIG - -
We cannot close this article more az
: propriately than by annexing the follow
ing resolutions, which were reported
our State Legislature, throuph the Chai
man--JoHS BRowN. ESQ.,, of 0ssawo
tomie-of a committee to take the sal
ject into consideration. The resolution
, we're read and unanimously adopted, an
, have been spread upon the journals
g the House
: Whsreos. r. p. BRowE, Esq, amen
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