New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-18

ouarter Of an acre of land about II is
t'V, IN This is the burial place Of the Har-
Ferry family and raiders.
f ,od,es Of John Brown and his son Watson
lain there several years. one since Deem
p'oi 1859. and the other since 1888 on the
" ond historic gravestone brought from
t',,eton. Conn. are inscribed the name OF
i~ lin Browns grandfather. a victim in 17IJ
Iap w. british prison ship at Warabout ana
,ne name Of Frederick Brown a son Of
Wv prown. killed at that Kansas battle of Os-
pD" ,o,rie whose name is linked inseparably
1obn Browns of which August 30 was the
...,vthird anniversary.
W. Aronze tablet is To be inserted In the gray
=. that shadows this little resting place Of
W. ..,eful dead 1t will bear the names Of the
allowing men
~n,ver Brown. the captains youngest son.
". Of uarper's Ferry; William and Adolphus
snhin Thompson. Of North Elba young men
80 N the Browns by two marriages. John
- Kagi. Browns adjutant and second in
nand. William Henry Leeman. Steward
rsyIor and jeremiah G. Anderson. white men.
MA with Dangerneld Newly freeman of col
all kiued in the lighting at Harper's Ferry,
"..oher Il and Is. 1880 with those of Aaron
nuight stevens ana AlpeTt ftaHlett WHITES,
Ia as prisoners tried condemned and exc
.r,ed March IA, 1850
THE AGES OF THE RAIDERS
-, me tell as succinctly as I can Of the
IAN who followed John Brown. The ages Of
-. men engaged in the raid are worth noticing.
,,s commander John Brown. at the time
:, the blow he struck ffty-nine years FIVE
,onths and eight days old. The youngest mem
bsr william Henry Leeman was three days
.ss than twenty years and seven months old
absn he was slain on the afternoon Of October
g 1879 Oliver Brown was but ten days older
ahsn he died on the 1Sth Barclay Coppoc.
splsa in the Union Army two years later. was
,ro months and sixteen days older when he
..,sned fro.u IT,, Ferry. Dauphin Thompson.
,ned in the marines attack on the engine
,,rse on October Is was Just twenty-one years
,,d six months old when he died Albert Haz-
a., and Francis Jackson Merriam were within
,vo months ,f the same age, being in their
,usnry-secoud years. ila2lett was the younger.
,obn Henri Kaei. Edwin CoppoC and Watson
p,ovn wer. n their tWenty-ffth years. Kagi
ling the oldcs, and Brown the youngest. Will
an THOMPSON and jeremiah G. Anderson were
10 ,bsr tv,ntv-sixth years and in the order
,,med Charles Plirl'ler Tidd was born in
rone 1872 and was therefore several months
his tvcntv-eishth year. Stevenss birthday
ras March H. 1891. and as he hanged on
March IT, 1850 he was then one day over his
,venty-ninth birthday. John Edwin Cook was
Ave months in his thirtieth year, while Owen
Brown when he escaped from Harper's Ferry,
Vas two weeks less than thirty-six years old
The FIVE colored men are not definitely placed
ito age Newly. the oldest, being reported as
,birty.iour or thirty-fve years old. o. p An
dsrson had passed his tWertyfourth year when
he escaped John Copeland when executed was
little less than twenty-five. Learv when
killed vas about six months older, and Shields
Green was in MS twenty-fifth year. That
makes the tally a to the wears Of those present.
The remaining men whose names were known
IN connection with the Harpers Ferry party
and movement. but who for one another
reason were not in az the finish, were young In
Years -Four Of them practically retired from
The plan Luke Parson dill so definitely; Rich
id Realf the poet went away and was lost
SHIT Of for over a year; Charles Il. Moffet also
ga out Of touch as to time, while the Colored
nan Richard Richardson, took a wife unto HIM
STAND remained behind in Canada. George B.
Gil named as Secretary of State in the So
dIsi provisional government organized al the
Chatham Canada convention, was violently
sk with rheumatic fever in Iowa, and could
It move Richard J. Hinton reported tor du'y
arect TO Captain Brown and Kagi, but was
an, ~ Cbambersburg and Philadelphia to look
lter stores. etc. short time before the
Anu was struck and 50 was unable 10 get into
he fighting Frank g. Sanborn. John Brown
NOS, trusted adviser and confidant, was not eX-
peeted t. participate in the actual CONNECT HIS
Efforts being Of more value in affecting puphc
opinion Martha Evelyn 'BreWster) Brown 'He
Young wife Of Oliver Brown, and Annie Brown
both of them under seventeen. were at the
Kennedy farm till within Few DAYS OF the
attack and are 10 be regarded as OF lhe toICe
quite as much as those VINO feil III tlle eIVIe.
Wgrtha with her baby. died during the ensuing
vInier a; North Flba. or those thus named as
Of the movement but not actually, no one was
over thirty. | believe, and most of them were
several years less.
ALMOST ALL OF COUNTRY STOCK.
Nearly all Of them were country born and bred
Francis Jackson Merriam vas the only one
who could he counted as Of what is now termed
the leisure class" His grandfather francis
Jackson. the president Of the American Anti
Slavery Society. was a wealthy merchant His
father had been a man Of means, and ne hllseII
vas educated 10y private tutors ana traNeIied
widely in Europe, inheriting also smaH Tor
tune John Edwin Cook was OF Well-to-d0
Connecticut family received good academic
education and studied law. kagl was OF d
farmer and mechanic family, but by his own
exertions secured an education through teach-
Ing and by severe study. He was stenograph-
e., lawyer excellent newspaper writer anu d
fae linguist as we'll as a fair classical scholar,
Stevens was Of Connecticut stock, village ana
town workers small store keepers ana music
teachers He himself at fifteen went to the Mex,
lean War and was a runaway SoIdler OF the "a
DAgoons when he Joined the Free state move
H. cod t-n~
gent Tidd was OF a mercantile family ana
eleyer workman himself. j. c. Anderson was III
tended for the Univt rsalist pulpit, but became d
nAwTight and stock raiser Leeman worked as
az operative in "A New England shoe factory
all the others. except the colOred man Anderson
printer. were reared on farms. SIX or them
we're from North Elba--the four browns anu
The two Thompsons. These two famliles al nau
Engaged directly in the conh!ct agalhSt tie
sggressions Of slavery-eight men, OF whom SIX
we're killed one wounded in Kansas ana VINO
ever since has been more or less OF an lnVahd,
while of the women and children affected TWO
died from grief and shock and score more sur