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Show LONG ACM LIFE Veteran of Editorial Ranks Is Dr. George Brown. Founder of the First Free State News, paper Published in Kansas Remembers Re-members the Exciting Days of Border Warfare. There is living today in Illinois a man who played a large part in the making of Kansas history. He is Dr. George Brown, who came to Lawrence In 1854 and there established the Herald Her-ald of Freedom, the first free state newspaper ever published in Kansas, Today Dr. Brown is almost the last Df the men who fought for Kansas iq that bloody time before the war, risking risk-ing their lives to uphold a principle they believed sacred the principle o( human freedom, says the Kansas City . Star. '' Dr. Brown is ninety-two years old in the late evening of his life but he still remembers vividly the exciting events of the border warfare days, when he published the Herald of Free, flom from a log cabin in Lawrence, writing against slavery with a fear, lessness that made him the object ol deep hatred from the southerners, who were equally determined to make Kansas a slave state. So it happened, when Lawrence was raided in 1S56, that one 'of the first buildings to .which the to$h was applied was the iqffice of the Herald of Freedom. , "'In the fall of 1854 he removed to Lawrence, Kan., and erected a house, the timber of which was cut and ,hewed by his printers and sawed by . the New, England Emigrant Aid company's com-pany's mill.; It was the first lumber sawed by the company's mill, and when he hnl finished his building at once be began to publish the Herald qf . Freedom, which helped to make Kansas a free state. This paper, D. "W; Wilder said, was "the most perfect per-fect in character, typography and general gen-eral make-up of any paper I ever saw." Bovernor, Geary was present upon an occasion, when the stars and stripes were raised to the summit of the staff sver the Herald building and made a brief speech., to the assembled ruultl- ; -'--,- Dr. George. Brown, Who Established j the Herald of Freedom at -Law rence, Kan., in 1854. He Still Is ; Living at the Age of Ninety-Two. ! tude. Mrs. Sara T. D. Robinson, the widow of ex-Governor Robinson, says that Dr. Brown "wrote its editorials, tarefully reviewed whatever appeared In its columns, excluded from its advertising ad-vertising pages every offensive matter, mat-ter, declined, even for double compensation, com-pensation, to advertise the sale of intoxicants, in-toxicants, ever warred upon the wrong in all its forms and that his principal enemies were lawbreakers."-During lawbreakers."-During the turbulent days on the border he was. imprisoned for championing cham-pioning the cause of human freedom. He was not disturbed, but lived to see the principles he advocated triumph. |
