Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist and newspaper editor who was murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois ...
Night had come to the to of Alton, Illinois and a crowd began to gather in the darkness. Some of the me. stooped to gather stones.
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