Ammunition smuggler during the Wakarusa War.
Brown, Lois Houghton Gleason (1820-1894)- Lois Houghton Gleason, was the daughter of Salem Gleason and Polly Houghton Gleason and the wife of George Washington Brown, the editor of the Herald of Freedom. She was born Feb. 20, 1820 in Elizabethtown, New York and died in Leavenworth, Kansas, Feb. 29, 1894. She was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kansas.
In 1855, at the time of the Wakarusa War when Lawrence was without ammunition and was threatened by the pro-slavery party who were encamped at Franklin, Mrs. Sam Wood and Lois H. G. Brown drove out to the farm of Salem Gleason, which was south of Lawrence, where he hed some ammunition stored away. This they secreted about their clothing, in their work baskets and in other misleading ways, and at considerable risk to themselves, brought it back to Lawrence where their friends there were anxiously waiting their return.
This picture was given to the Lawrence Room by Charles J. Clifton and his sister, Alice Gleason Bowman.
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