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Salmon Brown

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hudson, Summit, Ohio, United States
Death: May 10, 1919 (82)
Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States (suicide)
Place of Burial: Greenwood Hill, Portland, Oregon
Immediate Family:

Son of John Brown (Abolitionist) and Mary Ann Brown
Husband of Abby C. Hinckley
Father of Inez Scott; Agnes Brown; Cora Brown; Minni Brown; John Brown and 3 others
Brother of Watson Brown; Oliver Brown; Anne "Annie" Brown Adams; Ellen Brown; Sarah Brown and 7 others
Half brother of John Brown, Jr.; Ruth Thompson; Frederick Brown; Jason Brown; Owen Brown and 2 others

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About Salmon Brown

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24538593

The son of abolitionist John Brown, Salmon took an active part in the Pottawatomie Massacre in which five pro-slavery settlers were hacked to death in Kansas in 1856.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottawatomie_Massacre

Salmon was not present at the raid on Harper's Ferry where his father was captured and later hanged. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Salmon enlisted in the Union army and served in the 96th New York Infantry. After the war he headed West and lived in California and Oregon. He married Abbie Hinckley and they had ten children. Late in life he was thrown from a horse and paralyzed from the waist down. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart.

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Salmon Brown's Timeline

1836
October 2, 1836
Hudson, Summit, Ohio, United States
1861
1861
1863
1863
1865
November 22, 1865
Tehama county, California
1867
December 19, 1867
1869
November 24, 1869
1871
December 29, 1871
1874
January 17, 1874
1878
June 17, 1878