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 […]
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 […]
Knoxville Marble Company
I have always wanted to know how Annie and Will met. How does a young woman from Knoxville, who went to school in Philadelphia, meet a young man from St. Louis? What if they met in Washington, D.C. in 1874 when Will was there to interview for a position on the Newton-Jenney Expedition and Annie […]
Bowman vs. Patrick
With mining comes lawsuits. That’s just the way it is. Will was a party to several lawsuits in his mining career. Sometimes he brought the suit and sometimes he was the defendant. But the one lawsuit that lasted the longest and had the most effect on his life was Bowman vs. Patrick. The story starts […]
