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Elijah P. Lovejoy Bibliography - Genealogy & Local History Library
Alton Observer Newspaper 1836 - 1838
NewspaperArchive database
Beecher, Edward. Narrative of Riots at Alton in Connection with the Death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy. Alton, Illinois: G. Holton, 1838.
IR 977.3 BEE
http://archive.org/details/narrativeofriot00beec
Dedication of the Lovejoy Monument, Alton, Illinois, November 8th, 1897: in gratitude to God and in the love of liberty, the State of Illinois and citizens of Alton erect this monument, 1896-7. Alton, Ill.: Chas. Holden, [1897?].
IR 977.38 LOV
https://archive.org/details/dedication-of-the-lovejoy-monument-alton-illinois
Dillon, Merton Lynn. Elijah P. Lovejoy: Abolitionist Editor. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1961.
IR B LOVEJOY
Dimmock, Thomas. Addresses &c. St. Louis, Missouri?: publisher not identified, 1894.
IR LOCKED CASES 808.85 DIM
https://archive.org/details/addresses-by-thomas-dimmock
Dunphy, John, J. It happened at the River Bend. Alton, Ill.: Second Reading Publications, c2007.
IR 977.386 DUN
Elijah P. Lovejoy Memorial Annual Dinner: Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Legacy of Elijah P. Lovejoy and Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Elijah P. Lovejoy Memorial, Friday November 2, 2012. Alton, Ill: Elijah P. Lovejoy Memorial, 2012.
IR LOCKED CASES 977.386 ELI
Ellingwood, Ken. First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery. New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
IR B LOVEJOY
Gill, John. Tide Without Turning: Elijah P. Lovejoy and Freedom of the Press. Boston: Starr King Press, 1958.
IR B LOVEJOY
Heikes, Nelson Miles. Sketch of the life of Rev. Elijah Parish Lovejoy. Albion, Me.: Ladies of the G.A.R., 1923.
IR B LOVEJOY
History of the Elijah P. Lovejoy Printing Press. Alton, Ill: Hayner Public Library District Genealogy & Local History Library, 2018.
IR 681.62 HIS
Jameson, Melvin. Elijah Parish Lovejoy as a Christian. Rochester, N.Y.: Scranton, Wetmore & co., [1910?]
IR B LOVEJOY
http://archive.org/details/elijahparishlove00jameuoft
Knox, Regina. Elijah Parish Lovejoy: A Remembrance. Waterville, Me: Colby College, 1987.
IR B LOVEJOY
Lovejoy, Joseph Cammet and Owen Lovejoy. Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy. New York: J.S. Taylor, 1838.
IR B LOVEJOY
http://archive.org/details/memoirofrevelijalov00love
Meisenheimer, Harold. Elijah Parrish [sic] Lovejoy: Articles and Photos. Alton, Ill.: H. Meisenheimer, 2003.
IR B LOVEJOY
Phillips, Jennifer. Elijah Lovejoy’s Fight for Freedom. [Shoreline, WA]: Nose in a Book Publishing, c2009.
IR B LOVEJOY
Preservation, Beautification and Rededication of the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Monument: 5:30 p.m., Thursday, September 25, 1969. Alton, Ill., Pride, Inc., 1969.
IR 977.38 PRE
Proceedings of the Ill. Anti-slavery Convention: Held at Upper Alton on the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, and Twenty-eighth October, 1837. Alton [Ill.]: Parks and Breath, 1838.
IR 973.7114 ILL
http://archive.org/details/proceedingsofill00inilli
Remarks of Richard B. Ogilvie, Governor of Illinois: Elijah Lovejoy Monument Rededication, Alton, Illinois, Sept. 25, 1969. Alton, Ill: Pride, Inc., 1969.
IR 977.386 REM
Remembering Elijah Parish Lovejoy. Alton, Ill.: Hayner Public Library District Genealogy and Local History Library, 2015.
IR B LOVEJOY v. 1 and v.2
Shifflett, Kizzie H. The Fifth Seal: Rev. 6 Chap., 9 Verse. Springfield, Ill.: Printed by the Edward F. Hartmann Co., 1922
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https://archive.org/details/fifthsealrev6cha00shif
Simon, Paul. Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom. St. Louis: Concordia, c1964.
IR B LOVEJOY
Simon, Paul. Freedom's Champion--Elijah Lovejoy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
IR B LOVEJOY
Tanner, Henry. The Martyrdom of Lovejoy: An Account of The Life, Trials, and Perils of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy. Chicago : Fergus Print. Co., 1881.
IR B LOVEJOY
http://archive.org/details/martyrdomoflovej00tann
Thompson, George, D. Prison Life and Reflections, Or, A Narrative of The Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, And Deliverance of Work, Burr, And Thompson, Who Suffered an Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary, For Attempting to Aid Some Slaves to Liberty. Hartford : A. Work, 1850.
IR 306.362 THO
http://www.archive.org/details/prisonlifereflec7216thom
Trow, John Fowler & Lincoln, William Sever. Alton Trials: Of Winthrop S. Gilman, Who Was Indicted with Enoch Long, Amos B. Roff, George H. Walworth, George H. Whitney, William Harned, John S. Noble, James Morss, Jr., Henry Tanner, Royal Weller, Reuban Gerry, and Thaddeus B. Hurlbut; For the Crime of Riot, Committed on The Night of The 7th Of November, 1837, While Engaged in Defending A Printing Press, From an Attack Made on It at That Time, By an Armed Mob. New York : J.F. Trow, 1838.
IR LOCKED CASES 977.3 ALT
http://archive.org/details/altontrialsofwin00introw
Resources only available online:
Elijah P. Lovejoy Papers: 1804-1891, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library The collection includes correspondence, sermons, lectures, newspapers, news clippings, and family memorabilia created by, or related to, Lovejoy and his family. The collection bulks with correspondence (1824-1853) and concerns abolition, temperance, religion, and theology. (Digitized) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00063/tsw-00063.html
Green, Beriah. The martyr: a discourse, in commemoration of the martyrdom of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, delivered in Broadway Tabernacle, New York, and in the Bleecker Street Church, Utica. [New York]: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838
http://archive.org/details/martyrdiscoursei00gree
Keep, John. An Address Delivered December 22, 1837: In the village of Lockport, N.Y., Commemorative of the Martyrdom of Rev. E.P. Lovejoy, Who Was Killed by the Mob, in the City of Alton, Ill., On the Night of November 7, 1837. Lockport, N.Y. : Printed by George Reese, 1838
http://archive.org/details/addressdelivered00keep
Stone, Thomas T. The Martyr of Freedom: a discourse delivered at East Machias, November 30, and at Machias, December 7, 1837. Boston: I. Knapp, 1838.
http://archive.org/details/martyrfreedomad00conggoog
Worchester, Leonard. A Discourse on the Alton Outrage, delivered at Peacham, Vermont, December 14, 1837. Concord, N.H.: Printed by Asa McFarland, 1838.
http://archive.org/details/discourseonalton00worc
Compiled by Lacy S. McDonald, Genealogy & Local History Manager. List complete as of November 2021.
USEFUL WEBSITES
http://www.altonweb.com/history/lovejoy/
http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lovejoy/bio.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2427
http://www.illinoishistory.gov/hs/elijah_lovejoy.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/349544/Elijah-P-Lovejoy
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HOW DID OUR IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS GET HERE?
Family historians look for an immigrant’s arrival record to establish when they put down roots in North America. But some immigrants are tougher to trace than others.
Here are three strategies to help:
1. Search multiple ports.
Many of us think of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. But that is not the only port to which immigrants came. If you can’t find your ancestor in the search section of the Ellis Island website, check the records of other ports. The free website Castlegarden.org has passenger lists of ships that came to the Castle Garden port in New York before Ellis Island opened. Ancestry.com (through a personal subscription), Ancestry Library Edition (log in with your Hayner library card), and Familysearch.org have databases of passenger lists at many other ports in the United States.
2. Check for companions.
Try searching for another family member—sibling, spouse, child—who may prove easier to trace. Then expand to cousins, coworkers, or neighbors within your ancestor's cluster community. This "back door" approach may lead to information about your own ancestor.
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In some cases, your ancestor’s passenger list might not exist at all. Other records that may document immigration include church records, newspaper articles, town or county histories, naturalization papers, passport applications, alien registrations, border crossing records, and the 1900–1930 U.S. censuses. Search databases of these records on genealogy websites and on newspaper archive websites. Some books are compilations of old records, such as colonial Town Clerk and church records. We may spot immigrants in town and county histories, old settlers’ books, published family histories, church histories, and centennial books. We may be able to read digitized genealogical books on Archive.org, Google, or in the Catalog on Familysearch.org.
Staff at the Hayner Genealogy & Local History library can help you determine a search strategy for your immigrant ancestors.

Naturalization ceremonies, in McLean County courthouse, 1938, Rosea Kurta takes citizenship
Bowman, John S.; Naturalization ceremonies, Pantagraph Negatives Collection (Illinois Digital Archives), 2021-09-23, http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/p16614coll35/id/13531