Allies for Freedom, publishers
John Brown's Family in California: essays. photos, documents
| Almost out of print! John Brown's Family in California 40 pages, large format, illus. bibliography ISBN 0-9773638-2-7 $15.00 |
Recommended John Brown Titles by current authors |
| 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 (children of African Americans) school, then married Samuel Adams, a carriage maker. Everyone moved to Rohnerville in 1869. 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, where they moved in 1881. 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. |
Read it online -- in pdf Mary Brown's Interview with the New York Tribune, December 1, 1859 and her journey to Virginia "Yankee Abolitionist" by Jean Libby |
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