John Brown was born on May 9, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut. When Brown was just a small child, him and his family had moved to Ohio with another family.When they got there, Brown's life had changed a little. His mother died when he was only eight years old, and when Brown was 12 years old, he witnessed an enslaved African American boy being beaten. It haunted Brown for many years, driving him to create his own abolitionism, promising to eternal war with slavery. Brown gave up many other choices in life to take up his father's stand in life and continue his father's abolitionism.Brown had married Dianthe Lusk in 1820 and had several children before her death in the early 1830s. Then, in 1833 he remarried to Mary Ann Day and again they had more children. Brown had fathered twenty children but only twelve survived throughout the years. In 1839, Brown had finally concluded slavery could be destroyed only by atonement in blood, and that the South "Africa itself" should be invaded and the slaves freed at gunpoint.Brown had never really done anything with this plan of his, he kept it to himself for another time. Meanwhile, him and his family were in very deep debt and they decided to move 10 times until they settled on a farm in North Elba, N.Y., in 1849.
Mary Ann Day and her 2 daughters, Annie and Sarah http://sunnyfortuna.com/history/rohnerville/mary_brown.htm
John Brown http://skepticism.org/timeline/december-history/10513-militant-abolitionist-john-brown-executed-hanging-harpers-ferry-attack.html