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conditions at the time," he said,
"I am not surprised at
the action of the United States
government. Slavery
is now recognized as morally and
economically wrong,
but at the time of the Harper's Ferry
raid it was legal-
ized by the United States and the State
of Virginia. It
is generally admitted now that the blow
at Harper's
Ferry hastened the outbreak of the
Civil War, which
brought slavery to an end in the United
States. John
Brown's contribution to this
achievement will not be for-
gotten. Of course there has been and
will be criticism
of the means that he employed. His sincerity and
singleness of purpose, however, are
seldom questioned."
Charles Brown had lived in Summit
County all his
life, except a few months of his
childhood in Kansas
before the Civil War. For about twenty
years he worked
as an engineer in the old Schumacher
Milling Company
Mills, then one of Akron's foremost
industries. Later
he operated a berry farm. In recent
years he has lived
a retired life in his comfortable home
at 152 N. Portage
Path, Akron. He leaves a widow, Mrs.
Alice M.
Brown, formerly Miss Alice Pettit, a
son by a former
marriage, Gerald H. Brown, a veteran of
the War with
Spain, who lives at 182 Maplecliff
Drive, Lakewood,
Ohio, and three grandchildren.
JOHN BROWN HOME IN AKRON
The house in which John Brown lived for
some time
when he was a citizen of Akron, Ohio,
we learn from
an exchange is about to be sold and
razed to make way
for another building. There is a
disposition on the part
of some citizens of Akron to regret the
removal of this