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Caption: Dedication - Editor's Hall of Fame
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r ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Elijah Parish Lovejoy was born at Albion, Maine, November 9, 1802, and died at Alton, Illinois, November 7, 1837. He was elected to the Hall of Fame October 12, 1928—Election 3. He was graduated at the head of his class from Waterville College, Waterville, Maine, in 1826. The following year he came west and taught school for a short time in St. Louis. He then became editor of a Whig paper but gave it up to return east and study theology at Princeton. He was licensed as a preacher in 1833. A year later his friends induced him to start a weekly paper in St. Louis. He undertook publication of The Observer, Due to his fearless and uncompromising stand against oppression of the slaves popular feeling against him was stirred up. His presses and types were destroyed. He moved to Alton, Illinois, and published the paper there for a time. He could not escape mob feeling, however, and he was shot to death trying to protect his fourth press from destruction. \Pogt 37
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