n's history making moments didn't happen until he was fifty-six years old.
             Brown was born in 1800 amongst the wilderness of Ohio. He was married at the age of twenty but lost his wife eleven years later. He married again and fathered twenty children, nine of them died before they were adults. John left his father's tannery to start his own when he was seventeen. "I acknowledge no master in human form," he would say years later at Harpers Ferry, but Brown was known to be a failure. In 1830 John Brown invested in the speculation of real estate before the Panic of 1837. Brown invested thousands and lost thousands. He tried numerous other business and trades but failed at e
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