Allies for Freedom, publishers
John Brown's Family in California essays. photos, documents
| Available for order! 40 pages, large format ISBN 0-9773638-2-1 $11.80 on Amazon |
| This is the true story of Mary Brown, the widow of John Brown, and her daughters, who journeyed by covered wagon across the United States to Red Bluff, California in 1864. Annie Brown became a schoolteacher for a colored (mainly children of African Americans) school, then married Samuel Adams, a carriage maker. Sarah Brown worked in the U.S. Mint in San Francisco until she lost her job when a Democrat came into office (Grover Cleveland) and learned that John Brown's daughter was sorting coins. She later developed a small prune orchard next to her sister, Ellen Brown Fablinger, in Saratoga California. In 1911 she protested the discrimination laws regarding Asian workers. Through the Congregational Church, Sarah taught her work crew and their families English, learning Japanese herself in order to do so. Ellen Brown, who was five years old when her father was hanged in Virginia, married a schoolteacher from Illinois, James Fablinger. Their orchard site is the location of the Civic Center of the City of Saratoga, California, today. |
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