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Encyclopedia > John Brown (Pennsylvania)

John Brown (17721845) was an American mill owner and statesman from Lewistown, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Congress from 1821 to 1825. He moved to North Carolina in 1827, and died in Buncombe County on October 12, 1845. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Asheville, North Carolina.


External link

  • Brown's Congressional biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000926)


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John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4099 words)
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was a militant American abolitionist, and one of the first white abolitionists to advocate, and to practice, guerilla warfare as a means to the abolition of slavery.
Brown was charged with murdering four whites and a fl, with conspiring with slaves to rebel, and with treason against Virginia.
John Brown is buried on the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York, south of Lake Placid.
John Brown (640 words)
John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery.
John Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800.
John Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859.
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