Mary Ann Day Brown (Reynolds, 2005)

Scholarship
David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, rev. ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 49-50.
Unlike the erratic Dianthe [Lusk Brown], Mary would prove to be a rock of stability for John Brown. Staunch and stoical, she set a tone of quiet courage that would influence the whole family. At the time of her marriage she was only half Brown's age and four years older than his oldest son, but her stepchildren would always call her "Mother." She would endure the deaths of nine of the thirteen children she had with John Brown, including four in one terrible week in 1842. Only four of her children outlived her.
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Mary Brown arrives at James Miller McKim's home in Philadelphia

Mary Brown arrived at James Miller McKim's home in Philadelphia on her way to Virginia.  McKim, an alumnus of Dickinson College was a well-known abolitionist and a member of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee. He and his wife traveled with Mary Brown to visit her husband in the Charles Town Jail before his execution and helped arrange the passage of his body to his final burial place in North Elba, New York.  (By John Osborne)
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James Buchanan (Curtis, 1883)

Reference
George Ticknor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan Fifteenth President of the United States (New York: Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883): 1-8.

LIFE OF JAMES BUCHANAN,

CHAPTER I.

1791—1820.

BIRTH AND PARENTAGE—EARLY EDUCATION AND COLLEGE LIFE—STUDY OF THE LAW—ADMISSION TO THE BAR—SETTLES IN LANCASTER—A VOLUXTEER IN THE WAR OP 1813—ENTERS THE LEGISLATURE OF PENNSYLVANIA—EARLY DISTINCTION—PROFESSIONAL INCOME—RETIRES FROM PUBLIC LIFE—DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE—RE-ENTERS PUBLIC LIFE—ELECTED TO CONGRESS.

The Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States
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