Surprisingly the Transcendentalists loved him Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau thought he was “Jesus come to life,” such was the aura around John Brown abolitionist. Born on May 9th, 1800 in West Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, he was the third of six children to Owen and Ruth Brown. The first having died in infancy, the second was a girl named Anna, and then John was named for Owen’s father and grandfather.1 The Sword is mightier than the pen I have John Brown pegged to 18 Libra or the Hyperion symbol of a “Church in the Andes” because his…
