American abolitionist, and a brother of Elijah Parish Lovejoy; born in Albion, ME, on the 6th of January 1811; died in Brooklyn, NY, on the 25th of March 1864. He emigrated to Alton, IL, before completing his studies at Bowdoin, and soon entered the ministry. He was present at his brother’s murder. In 1838 he became pastor of the Congregational church at Princeton, IL, and, in violation of the law then in force, held anti-slavery meetings in all parts of the state until 1854, when he was elected to the legislature. In 1856 he was sent to Congress, and re-elected in 1858, 1860 and 1862. In one of his fiery anti-slavery speeches delivered in Congress at the beginning of the Civil War, he related the circumstances of his martyred brother’s death.
