Evening star., 1921-01-23

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scapes and relics associated with
John Brown Of Osawatomie, the
militant abolitionist who created
such q sensation in the years just be-
fore the civil war, you should go to the
John Brown farm" in Maryland. six
miles north Of Harpers Ferry, to the
old city Of Harpers Ferry and to
Charles Town, which is about seven miles
up the Shenandoah valley from the
ferry" At the John Brown farm" a
place Brown rented. he gathered his
followers and planned his attack on the
United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry /;
at Harpers Ferry he captured the arsenal
and held it until the arrival Of troops
from Washington under command ,of
Capt. Robert E. Lee, and taking up a
Of the arsenal held off the troops until
he and his small body Of men were over
powered. The attack on the arsenal was
made during the night of October II,
1859. At Charles Town Brown was
hanged from scaffold set up in a field
men, Cook and Coppoc. white. and Cope
land and Green, colored, were hanged
from the same scaffold. December Is.
1859. Stevens and Hazlett. white. two
more of John Browns raiders. were
hanged from that scaffold March 16,
1860. A number of men were killed in
the capture and the recapture Of the
arsenal.
When the body of John Brown was
cut down it was placed in a casket
which George Saddler, undertaken. Of
Charles Town. had made from walnut.
The casket was then inclosed in q rough
outer case and taken to the Jail. Thence
the remains were taken to Harpers Fer
~ and turned over to Browns widow.
Elba, Essex codnty. N. Y. which had
been his home before he and his sons
went to Kansas. The remains OF
Browns men killed in the fighting at the
arsenal. and two Of those hanged at
Harpers Ferry. were also buried at
North Elba- The monument at the
graves is a bowlder bearing copper
plate which gives the names of twelve
men buried with Brown there. These
are two of his sons. Watson and Oliver
Brown; William and Daupffin Osgood
Thompson. John H. Kagi Albert
s. Leary. Dangerfield Newby. Seward
Taylor. Aaron D. Stevens and William
H. Leeman.
The house which Brown rented In
MARYLAND near Harpers Ferry Is stiii
standing. Children of some OF the old
settlers in that neighborhood remember
him: the brick fire engine house which
came to be called John Browns Fort.
after being taken down and re-
built at other places. has been rebuilt
in the grounds of Storer College at Har-
ners Ferry. The scaffold was brought
to Washington and stored in a big ware
house on 18th street. and IN 1877 the
hot vUoQ q
the world fair at Chicago for public ex-
hibition. Its timbers are probably Still
There are several John Brown relics
in the National Museum. and every
day groups of men and women, most
ly strangers in washington gamer
about them and STUDY them. although
deeply interested. One Of the relics
is a John Brown pike. 1t is a knife
like spearhead about ten inches long
and three inches wide at. it's base. IT
points a wooden shaft about six feet
long. The descriptive card attached
to the relic says that it is one OF LOU
pixies made by Blair of Collinsville,
Conn. for the use of John Brown IN
his raid into Virginia in 1859. and
that this pike was picked up at the
engine house after it had been cap
tured by Capt. r. E. Lee and his COM
mand of United States Marines. Octo-
ber II. 1859. There also is q walking
stick. or wooden cane" which be-
longed to John Brown. and which the
descriptive card says was found in
Harpers Ferry after the raid.
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John Brown had family Of twenty
children. Two sons. Watson and
Oliver, were hanged at Harpers Ferry.
A few years ago eastern newspapers
printed a dispatch from Topeka. Kan,
which said that crippled and desti-
tute, nearly eighty years old, the last
surviving son of John Brown of Osa-
watomie, has appealed to Gov. Cap
per for aid"
THAT SON was s salmon Brown. who
went to Kansas when he was eighteen
years old and fought in the border
was shattered hy N bullet in the bat.