John Brown was "Isaac Smith," a cattle buyer from ... In the 1880s, Frederick Douglass raised money to place a granite memorial at the site. In 1892 it was dismantled brick by brick and ...

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...

During his memorial service, John Brown stood and made a vow to end slavery. 1842 September 28, 1842: A federal court decides John Brown's bankruptcy case. Creditors took all but the essentials on ...

John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and ...