A Haunting Meeting in the New City of Everett
A local dentist meets the man who helped capture his grandfather, the radical abolitionist John Brown, in an unexpected historical encounter.
Everett has attracted to it people from all parts of the Union, and some interesting meetings are occasionally brought to light. Dr. John Brown, who opened a dental office here a few months ago, is a son of Solomon Brown, of Red Bluff, Cal., and a grandson of old John Brown, of Harper's Ferry. Another resident of Everett is Maj. W. W. Goldsborough, one of the members of the school board and a former resident of Baltimore. He was present and assisted in the capture of John Brown and his associates. This incident resulted in a meeting between Dr. Brown and the major the other evening at the house of the latter, where the young doctor, who was born since the Harper's Ferry affair, met for the first time one of the men who had taken part in that historical tragedy.
“The young doctor... met for the first time one of the men who had taken part in that historical tragedy.”
Everett was a boomtown in 1892, drawing people from every corner of a nation still processing the wounds of the Civil War. This encounter highlights how Washington State, despite being on the frontier, became a theater for the personal reconciliations and historical echoes of the 19th century.
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