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Owen Brown was born November 8, 1824, in Hudson, Ohio, to John Brown and Dianthe Lusk, their fourth child. He was named after John Brown\u2019s father, an early abolitionist and pioneer of Ohio. Owen\u2019s mother later died while giving birth to a seventh sibling. John Brown remarried and fathered thirteen more children with his second wife, Mary Ann Brown.<\/p>\n
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Owen grew up in his family\u2019s tannery, located in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, which camouflaged facilities to help people escape from slavery. Although tall and strapping, a childhood accident left him with a withered right arm. The family moved to Ohio, where John Brown became more militant and outspoken in opposition to slavery after the notorious November 1837 lynching of Elijah Parish Lovejoy for publishing an abolitionist newspaper. John Brown stated publicly, \u201cHere, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Brown family relocated to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1846, the heart of abolitionist activism, where he became involved with William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator<\/em>, and former slaves Frederic Douglass and Sojourner Truth.\u00a0 Douglass would later write, \u201cFrom this night spent with John Brown in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1847, while I continued to write and speak against slavery, I became all the same less hopeful for its peaceful abolition.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”18px||25px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1846-47_John_Brown_by_Augustus_Washington_without_frame.jpg” title_text=”1846-47_John_Brown_by_Augustus_Washington_(without_frame)” show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” width=”79%” module_alignment=”center” custom_padding=”||11px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||14px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n John Brown at 47 by Agustus Washington<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”93137c7c-8384-463f-bc82-8b1fd8d6a31e” header_2_font_size=”51px” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||26px|||” header_2_font_size_tablet=”51px” header_2_font_size_phone=”34px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In 1848 Brown took his family to North Elba, New York, where they could support themselves while continuing to assist with escapes on the \u201cunderground railroad.\u201d<\/p>\n Enraged by the reactionary Kansas-Nebraska Act that would allow new slave states north of the 36th parallel, however, in 1855 John Brown followed his sons John, Jr., Jason, Owen, Frederick, Salmon and Oliver, along with his daughter Ruth\u2019s husband Henry Thompson to the Kansas territory, to oppose Southern mercenaries intent on bringing Kansas into the Union as a slave state. Owen was then widely viewed as the son most like his father in temperament, politics and appearance, and would become his father\u2019s loyal lieutenant.<\/p>\n Fighting broke out in Spring of 1856, leading to a national debate over \u201cBleeding Kansas,\u201d a trigger for the development of the anti-slavery (but not abolitionist) Republican Party. After denouncing southern slave owners for backing \u201cborder ruffians\u201d who sacked Lawrence, Kansas, the center of anti-slavery activity, destroying both its abolitionist newspapers, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was beaten nearly to death on the Senate floor by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks.<\/p>\n To retaliate for Lawrence and the \u201ccaning of Sumner,\u201d on the evening of May 24, John Brown\u2019s band of abolitionists killed five \u201cprofessional slave hunters and militant pro-slavery\u201d men in Potawattomie, Kansas. Owen is said to have put one to death personally.\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Owen-Brown-middle-age.jpg” title_text=”Owwn Brown Son of John Brown the Liberator” show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||11px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||14px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Owen Brown Harpers Ferry Last Survivor<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”93137c7c-8384-463f-bc82-8b1fd8d6a31e” header_2_font_size=”51px” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||26px|||” header_2_font_size_tablet=”51px” header_2_font_size_phone=”34px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Fighting continued through the summer, leading to the death of Frederick on August 30 before a truce was arranged. Largely due to the determination and sacrifices of Brown\u2019s \u201carmy,\u201d Kansas established itself as a free territory in 1858.<\/p>\n The lesson that John Brown took from Kansas, however, was that only an armed slave insurrection in the heart of the South could put an end to slavery. He and Owen returned to Massachusetts to raise money covertly from wealthy supporters, including those who later became known as \u201cthe Secret Six.\u201d Some abolitionists, including Garrison and Douglass, were ambivalent or opposed to Brown\u2019s proposed violence, while others, including Harriet Tubman, whom John Brown always addressed as \u201cGeneral,\u201d actively supported him.<\/p>\n To implement the plan in the fall of 1859, John Brown\u2019s group stocked the Kennedy Farmhouse, located in Sharpsburg, Maryland, with weapons and ammunition. Their target was the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. There, 100,000 rifles were stored along with ammunition.<\/p>\n On October 16, John Brown led 21 men, including sons Oliver and Watson, across the bridge into Harpers Ferry, while Owen and four others remained on the other side with supplies and animals. After initial success in taking over the armory, the raid quickly degenerated into a fiasco, and John Brown was trapped. Realizing their failure, Owen led a daring escape through the backwoods of Maryland and Pennsylvania, unable to show his head.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/John-Brown-gravemarker.jpg” title_text=”John-Brown-gravemarker” show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||20px||false|false” border_radii=”on|14px|14px|14px|14px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||14px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Gravemarker – North Elba, New York<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_toggle title=”Written on the Plaque” open_toggle_text_color=”#FFFFFF” open_toggle_background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” closed_toggle_text_color=”#FFFFFF” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” title_text_color=”#FFFFFF” body_text_color=”#FFFFFF” background_color=”RGBA(255,255,255,0)” border_width_all=”0px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n John Brown of Osawatomie<\/p>\n Here Lies Buried<\/p>\n JOHN BROWN<\/p>\n BORN AT TORRINGTON CONNECTICUT ON MAY 9TH 1800<\/p>\n He emigrated to Kansas in 1855 where he he took an active part in the context against the pro-slavery party. He gained in august 1856 a victory at Osawatomie over a superior number of Missourians who had invaded Kansas (Whence his surname \u201cOsawatomie\u201d)<\/p>\n He conceived the idea of becoming the liberator of the negro slaves in the south and on the night of October 16, 1859 at the head of a devoted band of 22 followers he seized the United States Arsenal at Harper\u2019s Ferry, Virginia with the view of arming the negroes who might come to his fortified camp. In the fight with the United States Troops and Civilians which followed he was overpowered and taken prisoner October 18, 1859 was trialed by the commonwealth of Virginia. At Charlestown, Virginia and was executed December 2, 1859.<\/p>\n HERE LIE BURIED WITH HIM TWELVE OF HIS FOLLOWERS<\/p>\n Watson Brown (Son of John Bow) of North Elba, NY Aaron D. Stevens. Captain [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”93137c7c-8384-463f-bc82-8b1fd8d6a31e” header_2_font_size=”51px” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”||40px|||” header_2_font_size_tablet=”51px” header_2_font_size_phone=”34px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n On October 18, John Brown surrendered to military forces that included U.S. Army Colonel Robert E. Lee. Sons Oliver and Watson had been killed in action. Brown and his surviving comrades were tried and convicted of treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859, the first person executed for treason in the history of the United States.<\/p>\n Before he died, John Brown declared, \u201cIf it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments\u2014I submit; so let it be done!\u201d<\/p>\n Owen avoided capture and found refuge with his oldest brother, John Brown, Jr., in Ohio, eventually settling on Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie, near Put-In-Bay outside of Cleveland. Owen Brown\u2019s harrowing tale of his escape was published in The Atlantic Monthly<\/em> of March 1874. Mark Twain himself commented, \u201cThree different times I tried to read it but was frightened off each time before I could finish. 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Owen and Jason homesteaded a parcel in the foothills above, in what is now the unincorporated community of Altadena\u2019s \u201cMeadows\u201d neighborhood. They cut trails and roads, establishing rights of way that are still in use today, and built a cabin that became a magnet for visitors anxious to pay homage to these two sons of \u201cThe Liberator,\u201d John Brown, and particularly to Owen as the last survivor of the raid on Harpers Ferry.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”33px|33px|33px|33px|false|false” border_color_all=”rgba(255,255,255,0.29)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Brown-boys-with-older-brother-and-other-visitors-at-cabin.jpg” title_text=”Brown boys with older brother and other visitors at cabin” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” border_radii=”on|2px|2px|2px|2px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” background_layout=”dark” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n On one occasion their older brother, John Brown, Jr., and more than a dozen others, joined them at their cabin for this remarkable group photograph.<\/p>\n Owen never gave up his struggle for human equality. He supported the labor struggles back east, including the demand for the eight-hour day. In response to the despicable Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Owen and Jason hired Chinese workers in defiance of the bigotry then sweeping Los Angeles. There is a photo of the Brown Boys, as everybody called them, sitting proudly on their mules outside their mountain cabin, with a Chinese hired hand standing nearby.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”33px|33px|33px|33px|false|false” border_color_all=”rgba(255,255,255,0.29)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/on-donkeys-with-Chinese-guy-scaled.jpg” title_text=”On Donkeys with Chinese Man” show_in_lightbox=”on” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” border_radii=”on|4px|4px|4px|4px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” background_layout=”dark” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Owen, although not conventionally religious like his father, embraced the temperance movement. On January 8, 1889, while staying at Ruth\u2019s after a temperance meeting, he succumbed to a sudden case of pneumonia. The Pasadena Standard<\/em> reported that 2,000 people\u2014approximately half the population of Pasadena\u2014attended his January 10 funeral at the Methodist Episcopal Tabernacle on Marengo Avenue, adding, \u201cit is quite remarkable that there should be found in Pasadena so many men who were associated with John Brown in his mighty work, which up-heaved the nation and proved the entering wedge for the overthrow of slavery, thirty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”33px|33px|33px|33px|false|false” border_color_all=”rgba(255,255,255,0.29)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/altadenaheritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Owen-Brown-Grave-1-29-1898-2.jpg” title_text=”Owen Brown Grave 1-29-1898″ show_in_lightbox=”on” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||11px||false|false” border_radii=”on|4px|4px|4px|4px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.3″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”right” background_layout=”dark” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Dedication of the Owen Brown Granite Headstone, Saturday, January 29, 1898, with photo of Owen Brown (Insert)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_layout=”dark” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Owen\u2019s casket was transported eight miles to the knoll near the Brown Boys cabin they had named \u201cLittle Round Top\u201d after the pivotal action on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Owen was interred on the summit with a simple wood marker and a cedar tree.<\/p>\n Nine years later, Major Rust commissioned a granite headstone meant to last for centuries as a monument to abolitionism. On January 29, 1898, 200 gathered on Little Round Top to commemorate the life of Owen Brown and his father.<\/p>\n Among the sermons, prayers and hymns offered that day, Rust concluded: \u201cI am very thankful that so many have come up under the shadow of the Mother Mountains to mark in this most simple manner the grave of my old friend, Owen Brown. 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Oliver Brown (Son of John Bow) of North Elba, NY
William Thompson of North Elba, NY
Dauphin Adolphus Thompson of North Elba, NY
John Hernai Kagi. Adjutant
William H. Leeman. Leutnant
Jeremiah D. Anderson. Lieutenant
Steward Taylor
Dangerfield Newby. Negro
Lewis S. Leary. Negro
The above ten were killed at the Harpers Ferry Fight<\/p>\n
Albert Hazlett. Lieutenant
The above two were taken prisoner and hanged march 15, 1866<\/p>\n
John Brown’s eldest daughter<\/p>\nOwen and Jason Move to Pasadena<\/span><\/h1>\n