In 1885, the story of Little Lord Fauntleroy was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine, a popular children’s magazine in the US. The author was Frances Hodgson Burnett, who later wrote The Little Princess and A Secret Garden. Burnett lived for a short time near Eliza Brownlow in Knoxville before she and her […]
Annie Brownlow Patrick’s Wedding Dress
Annie Brownlow Patrick’s wedding dress was donated to the Healy House museum in Leadville, CO, in the early 1960s by my grandmother, Dorothy (Annie’s daughter-in-law). Since then, the Healy House collection was transferred to the general collection of History Colorado (formerly the Colorado Historical Society). By the time the dress got to Denver, they had […]
James Brownlow Leads Naked Men to Victory!
James Patten Brownlow was youngest son and the third of seven children of William G. Brownlow and his wife, Eliza O’Brien Brownlow. When the Civil War broke out, James and his elder brother, John Bell Brownlow, joined the northern forces to fight against the Confederacy. As you will read, James was an outstanding leader and […]
Annie Brownlow and Her Friends
Here is a picture of my great-grandmother, Annie Brownlow with some friends in 1867, when Annie was about 12 and her friends were 11. Annie is the one in the middle. I had trouble reading the name of the girl on the left, but the girl on the right is Anne Mary Maynard. When I […]
Educating Anne Brownlow
Annie was the only one of her sisters to attend a Female Seminary which I describe in this post. Her obituaries all mention how educated she was and Leadville newspapers listed her among the attendees of the many intellectual gatherings in town during 1881-1892. I have discovered that her education was not only from the […]
