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Revision as of 02:22, 27 August 2009
Owen Brown, born November 4, 1824 in Hudson, Ohio; died January 8, 1889 was the third son of abolitionist John Brown. Owen fought with his father in Kansas and who was part of the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, escaping capture and later serving as an officer in the Union Army in the Civil War.
He narrates Russell Banks' novel about John Brown, Cloudsplitter.
Owen died of pneumonia in Pasadena, CA at the age of 64. Repotedly 2,000 mourners marched in the funeral procession up to Little Roundtop Hill. Ten years later, a marker was placed at the grave site. It read: "Owen Brown, Son of John Brown, the Liberator, died Jan. 9, 1889." The marker mysteriously disappeared from the grave site in 2002, along with the concrete base and surrounding rail fencing, after the property on which it site was sold. No legal action was taken. Photos of the now-missing monument are available on the web.
Historical fiction
- Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter (1998).