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  1. www.nps.gov › wives-and-children-of-john-brownThe Wives and Children of John Brown - U.S. National Park Service

    Article. The Wives and Children of John Brown. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Mary Ann Brown with Annie (left) and Sarah (right) about 1851. Library of Congress. John Brown's Wives. John Brown married twice and had a total of twenty children, nine of whom died in childhood.

  2. www.historynet.com › john-browns-family-a-livingJohn Brown’s Family: A Living Legacy - HistoryNet

    Jun 12, 2006 · He left behind a total of eight children, four by his widow Mary Ann Day Brown: Salmon, Annie, Sarah and Ellen; and four by his first wife, Dianthe Lusk: John Jr., Jason, Owen and Ruth. Three of his sons–Watson, Oliver and Owen–had participated directly in the assault, and only Owen escaped with his life.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_Brown_(abolitionist)John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia

    Five of Brown's sons — John Jr., Jason, Owen, Frederick, and Salmon — moved to Kansas Territory in the spring of 1855. Brown, his son Oliver, and his son-in-law Henry Thompson followed later that year [102] with a wagon loaded with weapons and ammunition.

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  5. www.notablebiographies.com › Br-Ca › Brown-JohnJohn Brown Biography - life, family, children, name, death ...

    He married Dianthe Lusk in 1820, and the couple had seven children before her death in 1832. In 1833 he married Mary Ann Day, with whom he had thirteen children in the next twenty-one years. Of Brown's twenty children, twelve survived.

  6. www.battlefields.org › learn › articlesJohn Brown's Raiders - American Battlefield Trust

    Sep 30, 2009 · Oliver Brown, 21, was the youngest of John Brown’s three sons to participate in the action. He was mortally wounded on the 17th, dying the next day. Owen Brown, 34, was the only one of Brown’s sons to survive the raid. He later moved to California with the remaining members of the family.

  7. www2.iath.virginia.edu › jbrown › familyJohn Brown and his Family - University of Virginia

    John Brown was born in Torrington, CT, on May 9, 1800. In 1820 he married Dianthe Lusk, who died in 1832, during childbirth. Their marriage produced seven children: John Jr. (b. July 25, 1821); Jason (b. January 19, 1823); Owen (b. November 4, 1824); Frederick I (b. January 9, 1827, d. March 31, 1831); Ruth (b. February 18, 1829); Frederick II (b.

  8. www.britannica.com › biography › John-Brown-AmericanJohn Brown | Biography, Harpers Ferry, & Pottawatomie Massacre

    Sep 11, 2024 · John Brown, militant American abolitionist and veteran of Bleeding Kansas whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 and subsequent execution made him an antislavery martyr and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War.

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