John Brown was born in Connecticut in Torrington, on May 4, 1800. His parents were Ruth Mills Brown and Owen Brown. He was a very religious man who studied briefly for the ministry but then later relied he wanted to learn about the tanner’s trade. He went on and met his wife Dianthe Lusk in 1820. Throughout the years they had seven kids. She died in 1832, after her death he went on to marry Mary Ann Day and together they had thirteen children, so all together John Brown had twenty children but only twelve survived. Going back to John's great-great-great grandparents Peter and Mary Brown meet and had a son named John as well and he was born in 1668. He later married Elizabeth Loomis which now makes her a Brown. John and Elizabeth later on had