It was October, 1854, before John Brown\'s three sons, Owen, Frederickand Salmon, left Ohio for their long journey to Kansas. In April, 1855,they crossed the Missouri river and entered the Territory.
John Brown decided to move his family once more to North Elba beforegoing West. It was June before his people reached this negro settlementin Northern New York. He placed his wife and children in an unplastered,four-roomed house. Through its rough weatherboarding the winds and snowsof winter would howl. It had been hurriedly thrown together by hisson-in-law, Henry Thompson. Brown had never stayed on one of his littlefarms long enough to bring order out of chaos.
His restless spirit left him no peace. He was now in Boston, now inSpringfield, Massachusetts, now in New York, again in Ohio, or Illinois.
He was giving up the work in Ohio to follow his sons into Kansas. He hadplanned to move there two years before and abandoned the idea. He had atlast fully determined to go.
On October the si............