Elijah Parish LOVEJOY
8th Nov 18021 - 7th Nov 1837
Life History
8th Nov 1802 |
Born in Albion, ME.1 |
4th Mar 1835 |
Married Celia Ann FRENCH in St. Charles, St. Charles Co., Missouri.1 |
7th Nov 1837 |
Died in Alton, Madison, Illinois. |
Other facts
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Buried in Alton Cem., Alton, Illinois.2 |
Notes
- Graduage of Colby College, 1826 and later studied theology at Princeton. In 1833 he became editor of the Observer, a Presbyterian weekly in St. Louis. His antislavery views became extremely unpopular, and in 1836 he moved to Alton, Illinois. There he advocated abolition in his Alton Observer. Mobs destroyed 3 of his presses and on Nov 7, 1837, while guarding another press, he was killed. Lovejoy's martyrdom helped advance the cause of the abolitionists.
Sources
- 1. IGI
- 2. Letter to his mother Elizabeth Lovejoy posted online at www.state.il.us/hpa/lovejoy/letter10t.html