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Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States. He was also hailed as a defender of free speech and freedom of the press.
Elijah P. Lovejoy (born November 9, 1802, Albion, Maine, U.S.—died November 7, 1837, Alton, Illinois) was an American newspaper editor and martyred abolitionist who died in defense of his right to print antislavery material in the period leading up to the American Civil War (1861–65).
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837), a native of Albion, Maine, was murdered in Alton, Illinois by a pro-slavery mob on November 7, 1837 while defending his right to promote the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802-November 7, 1837) was a Presbyterian minister, journalist, and devout abolitionist. He was born near Albion, Maine, to Elizabeth and Daniel Lovejoy and was the eldest of nine children.
“Elijah Parish Lovejoy died in Alton, Illinois, on November 7, 1837. He died, so far as is known, as the only martyr in the United States of America to the cause of the Freedom of the Press.”
Lovejoy became a national symbol for the abolitionist movement and is remembered today not only in the history books but with a large monument in Alton that overlooks the city. He is also honored in the name of the current Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy, formed from the merger of Elijah Parish Lovejoy Presbytery and the Presbytery of Southeast ...
May 18, 2018 · Elijah Parish Lovejoy. The death of the American newspaper editor and abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837) at the hands of a mob in Illinois gave the antislavery cause its first martyr. Elijah P. Lovejoy was born at Albion, Maine, on Nov. 9, 1802, the son of a Presbyterian minister.
Lovejoy was America’s first martyr to freedom of the press. On September 29, 2000, he was inducted into the Maine Press Hall of Fame. The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award of Colby College honors a member of the newspaper profession who continues the Lovejoy heritage of fearlessness and freedom.
Dec 3, 2021 · Journalist Ken Ellingwood has written a new book, First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (Pegasus Books, 2021), about America’s first martyr to freedom of the press, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a member of Colby’s (then Waterville College) Class of 1826.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy. Perhaps no activist to emerge from Colby has been more widely recognized than Elijah Parish Lovejoy, abolitionist and the first martyr to the freedom of the press. Lovejoy was born on November 8, 1802, in Albion, Maine.
