John Brown's sons Owen and Jason in front of a cabin on Brown's Trail

Photograph showing two of abolitionist John Brown's sons, Owen and Jason, posing in front of one of the cabins along Brown's Trail, named after their father. The trail is located in what is now Altadena. In 1885, Owen moved from Ohio to Pasadena, joining his brother Jason, who emigrated in 1881, and his sister Ruth and her husband Henry Thompson, who moved there with their family in 1884. The Browns were treated as celebrities due to their relation to John Brown, but Owen was the only son who participated in the raid on Harpers Ferry. Owen and Jason Brown built their first cabin in an area called "Las Casitas" near Altadena, before building another cabin in a more remote area higher up the mountain. In addition to homesteading, the Browns focused on their charities and on helping anyone who was persecuted. Owen died of pneumonia on January 8, 1889, at the home of his sister in Pasadena. Jason left Altadena after Owen died, and eventually moved back to Ohio. Owen & Jason Brown and "Mrs. R.B. Waterman, La Cañada" in pencil on reverse.