Life span: 11/04/1824 to 01/08/1889TabsLife SummaryFull name: Owen BrownPlace of Birth: Hudson, OHBurial Place: Altadena, CABirth Date Certainty: ExactDeath Date Certainty: ExactGender: MaleRace: WhiteSectional choice: NorthOrigins: Free StateNo. of Siblings: 19No. of Spouses: 0Family: John Brown (father), Dianthe Lusk Brown (mother), Mary Ann Day Brown (stepmother) Relation to Slavery: White non-slaveholderOther Affiliations: Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society) Note Cards Owen Brown (Villard, 1910) ScholarshipOwen Brown, born November 4, 1824, at Hudson, Ohio, was John Brown’s third son, and his stalwart, reliable lieutenant both in Kansas and at Harper’s Ferry. It was due largely to his unfaltering determination and great physical strength that the little group of survivors of which he was the leader reached safe havens. After the war he was for some time a grape-grower in Ohio, in association with two of his brothers. Thence he removed to California, where he died, January 9, 1891, in his mountain home, “Brown’s Peak,” near Pasadena, poor in worldly goods, but with the respect and regard of his neighbors. A marble monument marks his mountain-side grave. He never married. He was, like all Browns, original in expression and in thought, and not without considerable humor. He was the only one of five men who escaped from the raid who did not enter the union army, and he was t he last of the raiders to die. Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), 686. Events Date span begin Life span End Event 05/23/1856 05/24/1856 John Brown attacks a proslavery community close to the Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas 03/05/1860 03/05/1860 Governor of Virginia requests Ohio for the extradition of two Harpers Ferry Raiders 03/08/1860 03/08/1860 Governor of Ohio refuses the extradition of two Harpers Ferry Raiders to Virginia Major TopicsHarpers Ferry RaidBleeding Kansas Documents Subject Docs Date Title 11/17/1859 Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, "Reward for Fugitive Insurgents," November 17, 1859 03/10/1860 Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Gov. Dennison Refuses to Surrender Them,” March 10, 1860 03/15/1860 Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “The Harper’s Ferry Insurgents,” March 15, 1860 03/16/1860 Robert Toombs to Alexander H. Stephens, March 16, 1860 Images Owen Brown, photograph, circa 1858, detail Bibliography
Owen Brown (Villard, 1910) ScholarshipOwen Brown, born November 4, 1824, at Hudson, Ohio, was John Brown’s third son, and his stalwart, reliable lieutenant both in Kansas and at Harper’s Ferry. It was due largely to his unfaltering determination and great physical strength that the little group of survivors of which he was the leader reached safe havens. After the war he was for some time a grape-grower in Ohio, in association with two of his brothers. Thence he removed to California, where he died, January 9, 1891, in his mountain home, “Brown’s Peak,” near Pasadena, poor in worldly goods, but with the respect and regard of his neighbors. A marble monument marks his mountain-side grave. He never married. He was, like all Browns, original in expression and in thought, and not without considerable humor. He was the only one of five men who escaped from the raid who did not enter the union army, and he was t he last of the raiders to die. Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), 686.
