Below is an advertisement for a St. Valentine’s Ball at the United States Hotel in Harper’s Ferry on February 14, 1856. One of the event’s managers, John Avis, would be John Brown’s jailor 3 years later.
He was also a childhood playmate of Martin Delany, of Charles Town.
pen name of Frances Anne Rollin (1845-1901)
Steam at Harper's Ferry 
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