Historic Marker: Elijah P. Lovejoy

Proposed Marker:

Elijah P. Lovejoy

County:

Madison

Proposed Text:

ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY WAS BORN NOVEMBER 9, 1802, IN ALBION, MAINE. HE ARRIVED IN ST. LOUIS IN 1827, AND IN 1828 BECAME EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE ST. LOUIS TIMES, A WHIG NEWSPAPER. IN 1832 LOVEJOY RETURNED TO THE EAST COAST AND ENTERED PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, A PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY. HE WAS LICENSED AS A PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR IN 1833 AND RETURNED TO ST. LOUIS, WHERE HE WAS ELECTED MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. AS EDITOR OF THE ST. LOUIS OBSERVER, A NEWSPAPER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS, LOVEJOY WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY, AND HIS EDITORIAL COMMENTS ANGERED MANY INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING ST. LOUIS AREA SLAVE HOLDERS.

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Proposed Marker:	Elijah P. Lovejoy

County:	Madison

Proposed Text:	ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY WAS BORN NOVEMBER 9, 1802, IN ALBION, MAINE. HE ARRIVED IN ST. LOUIS IN 1827, AND IN 1828 BECAME EDITOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE ST. LOUIS TIMES, A WHIG NEWSPAPER. IN 1832 LOVEJOY RETURNED TO THE EAST COAST AND ENTERED PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, A PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY. HE WAS LICENSED AS A PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR IN 1833 AND RETURNED TO ST. LOUIS, WHERE HE WAS ELECTED MODERATOR OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. AS EDITOR OF THE ST. LOUIS OBSERVER, A NEWSPAPER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS, LOVEJOY WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY, AND HIS EDITORIAL COMMENTS ANGERED MANY INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING ST. LOUIS AREA SLAVE HOLDERS.