Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — John Brown’s Old Home. [ARTICLE]

John Brown’s Old Home.

Kate Field tells, in her Washington, about her* first visit to John Brown's old home, up in the North Woods, some time ago, and her scheme for buying it when she heard it was for sale. Hurrying to Boston, she mentioned the case to Wendell Phillips and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who sent her nice, sympathetic notes, but neither money nor advice. A male friend then volunteered to rush out on the street and collect it among his friends, but he failed. Only one person, a lady up there, actually contributed any cash, that is, aside from Kate Field’s own SIOO. But within forty-eight hours after she had stated the case to a New York gentleman he had picked up eighteen subscriptions, each of that amount. With this $2,000 the farm was bought and a good tenant secured, who still remains. “When I revisited the Adirondacks recently, ” says Miss Field, “I found our property worth three times what we had paid for it, the house in good repair, and John Brown’s grave the mecca of all tourists. ”