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    Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After...
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    was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. After his brother Elijah Lovejoy was murdered in November 1837 by pro-slavery forces, Owen, a friend...
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    The Elijah P. Lovejoy Monument, also known as the Elijah Lovejoy Monument, Elijah Parrish Lovejoy Shaft, Lovejoy Monument, and Lovejoy State Memorial,...
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    responsible for restoring the Alton, Illinois, grave of free-press martyr Elijah Parish Lovejoy, who was shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob in 1837. Dimmock was...
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    without first writing them out on paper.: 57  Much like the martyred Elijah Lovejoy, a price was on Garrison's head; he was burned in effigy and gallows...
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  • involved in the debate over liquor laws. His siblings included Elijah Parish Lovejoy and Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864). He wrote Memoir of Charles T. Torrey about...
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    abolitionists condemned the events, including newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. Lovejoy ran the Presbyterian religious newspaper, St. Louis Observer. He...
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    Paul Simon (politician) (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    autobiography, and even a well-received book on martyred abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy. His final book, Our Culture of Pandering, was published in October...
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  • Virginia Lynda Lovejoy (born 1949), Navajo politician Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864), American congressman and abolitionist, brother of Elijah Owen Lovejoy (anthropologist)...
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    activist. While working on research for his dissertation about Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an editor and abolitionist, he lived and worked in Alton, Illinois...
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