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Watson Brown (abolitionist)

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recover her son's decaying body (at that point it was not known which Brown it was), but she did not feel up to it, so they were reburied. Forty years later, in 1899, a scholar studying Brown located one of the two Black men who had been paid $ 5 each to bury the crates, and he led him to the spot; it was confirmed by "the memory of a number of older citizens who witnessed the burial". While the identities of those buried there were known, the remains could not be clearly distinguished. To avoid complications the bodies were surreptitiously spirited out of Virginia; the remains were put in an ordinary trunk, which was carried as luggage on a train. They were all reburied in a single handsome casket, donated by the town of North Elba, next to the graves of John and Watson Brown.
140:, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), sending letters to his wife Belle from the Kennedy farmhouse. He was killed during the fighting. The circumstances were that he emerged from the engine house at 10 AM on Monday the 17th, carrying a white flag, but was immediately shot, not by a soldier but by a townsperson. At 3 PM he was still able to fight. Lying on the ground and with no medical treatment, he lived on in great agony, his father preventing him from killing himself to end the pain, until about 3 AM on Wednesday the 19th, according to 365: 229: 357: 31: 186:, stained the arteries, drained of blood, with red dye, treated the muscles so they resembled wood, and preserved the nerves with varnish. The skin, half of the skull, and the brain were removed. It became a teaching exhibit in the College's one-room museum. This took place almost immediately after his death (there was no refrigeration). 182:. However, instead of using it for dissection and anatomy study, which was the fate of the other three bodies they also helped themselves to, it was prepared as a medical specimen or exhibit. Using techniques that were innovative at the time, a doctor at the College, presumably its head and anatomy professor 259:
entered Winchester in March 1862, Banks turned over management of the hospitals in the city to an Army doctor from Indiana, Jarvis J. Johnson. Johnson found the exhibited body, which he called "one of the most beautiful specimens he ever saw". "A number of prominent citizens of Winchester called upon
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One of the professors of the said college also called upon me in person, and demanded that I return the specimen. He then gave me all the details of the manner in which the body had been prepared, and said that he did it himself. He told me that after young Brown was killed at Harper's Ferry, that
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Twenty-three years later, in 1882, Johnson read in a newspaper that John Brown's widow was visiting Chicago. Through an intermediary he wrote her, saying that he had the body of one of her sons and that he wanted to turn it over to her for burial. He emphasized that he was not selling the body and
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The body of Oliver Brown, and those of 7 others who also died during the raid itself, were thrown in packing crates and buried in a pit in an obscure place (so it would be forgotten), without ceremony, clergy, or marker. They were briefly dug up at Governor Wise's request to permit Mary Brown to
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Oliver Brown was called "a strange character" by a man who knew him, "the most original perhaps of them all", who had burned a pulpit when a church would not allow an abolitionist meeting to be held there. A source says that he "was esteemed by his mother as the most promising of her children."
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The professor strongly appealed to me in the name of my profession, and in the interest of the same, and as a friend of science to return to him the said body. ...He cited the fact that the sons of John Brown had been killed while engaged with their father in the attempt to overthrow Virginia's
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What to do with the body, how to rescue it from this dishonor, was a problem for Johnson. If it had been buried in Virginia, which Virginians did not want, it would have been dug up immediately by the doctor or his agent. In theory the body could have been sent to Watson's mother at
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In answer to the demand and appeals of the professor I said that the memory of John Brown and his sons, and their heroic battle at Harper's Ferry for the freedom of the slave, were held in too high esteem for me to leave the body upon the slave soil of Virginia.
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he had the body sent to Winchester, and that upon consultation with the other professors of the college, it was decided to prepare the body of young Brown that it might be preserved in the museum of the college as a specimen, and
213:. Small pieces of the skin were held by doctors and others locally as souvenirs. Four of the finger joints on one hand and all the toes on one foot had also been taken by souvenir hunters. Teeth had been deliberately broken. 319:. (John Jr. traveled for a time as a lecturer on phrenology; this may be how they knew each other.) From the pictures and the bullet hole, they both concluded the body was Watson and not Oliver. The body was shipped to 315:, and was the guest of the governor of Indiana for dinner. He continued to Martinsville accompanied by Indiana State Geologist John Collett, "a recognized authority on ethnological subjects" and an expert in 721: 1680: 649: 300:
As reports on the Harpers Ferry raid began to appear, it was determined that this body had to be either Oliver or Watson Brown, John's two sons killed during the raid. But no one knew which.
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From papers found in a pocket they found that he was a son of John Brown, but they never learned which one. Nevertheless, the body was used as a means of showing the
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and College's attitude toward abolitionists. The exhibit was labelled "John Brown's son—thus always with Abolitionists", an allusion to Virginia's motto, "
1411: 892: 323:, to the home of John Jr., and was viewed with great curiosity. John Brown Jr. then had the remains shipped to North Elba for burial next to his father. 1452: 780: 2424: 452: 2125: 1983: 1438:"After years of waiting — The embalmed remains of Watson Brown buried— Restored to his mother after more than twenty years — Interred in this state" 639: 1153: 2429: 2152: 1557: 1113: 1062: 966: 818: 1014: 987: 2094: 2061: 2056: 1689: 1236: 569: 394: 389: 217: 195: 175: 169: 137: 82: 1852: 1727: 605: 335: 2084: 2434: 2243: 2079: 1942: 289: 114: 2293: 2183: 95: 685: 420: 2409: 248:.) The College was used as a hospital, although it was evacuated when Confederate troops withdrew in advance of the Union troops. 2419: 2368: 2348: 2260: 2013: 502: 2138: 532: 292:, but he said he felt this would just add to her many sorrows. So he shipped it to his home in Indiana, and kept it there. 2145: 2200: 2008: 1907: 62: 2131: 2051: 1993: 1978: 1722: 1309: 1222:"Watson Brown's body. The story re-told of how it was found at Martinsville. The Son of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry" 1137:"'The noble wife of the late champion of freedom': Mary Brown's 1882 Visit to Topeka and John Brown's Enduring Legacy" 596:"The Burial of John Brown. The passage of the body to North Elba. The funeral. Speeches of Mr. McKim and Mr. Phillips" 522: 2120: 2104: 1506: 2288: 1800: 1482: 918: 844: 252: 109:(today Kent, Ohio). He was married to Isabell "Belle" Thompson Brown, and they had a son Frederick W., who died of 1334: 1180: 2066: 1932: 1815: 1737: 1710: 1406: 1355: 886: 675: 518: 141: 98: 1262: 2399: 1643: 1401: 880: 623: 174:
His body, one of the many victims lying in the road in Harpers Ferry, was taken by students and faculty of the
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me at the hospital, and each and all declared that it was the remains of a son of John Brown."
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Burning of Winchester Medical College § What the Union soldiers found at the College
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Watson was the one Brown boy who did not go to Kansas in the 1850s, part of his father's
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In retaliation for this insult to the great Union icon and to their cause, Union forces
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the College closed, as both students and professors were occupied in the war effort. (
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would not accept any reward or other compensation. This added to his credibility.
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The following was written by Watson and found on the floor of the engine house:
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The Life and Letters of John Brown: Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia
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Original burial site of Oliver Brown and seven others killed at Harpers Ferry.
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Mrs. Brown took Watson's body to their former home and her husband's tomb in
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Virginia was entitled to the body as an object of warning and curiosity.
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Like Watson, Oliver Brown wrote his family from the Kennedy farm.
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A Skeleton's Odyssey: The Forensic Mystery of Watson Brown
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and biographies of many of the representative citizens
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efforts to prevent Kansas from becoming a slave state
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Franklin Mills, Ohio
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
abolitionist
John Brown
Mary Day Brown
Franklin Mills, Ohio
diphtheria
John Brown Farm State Historic Site
North Elba, New York
efforts to prevent Kansas from becoming a slave state
raid on Harpers Ferry
Edwin Coppock
Burning of Winchester Medical College § What the Union soldiers found at the College
Winchester Medical College
Winchester, Virginia
Hugh Holmes McGuire
pro-slavery, secessionist city
Sic semper tyrannis
tyrants
moccasins
burned the College

Civil War
Hunter McGuire
Stonewall Jackson
Union
Nathaniel Banks
cherished institution

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