Princeton, Illinois. The Owen Lovejoy Homestead. 1905.
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Holly Hayes
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July 18, 2009
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Princeton, Illinois. The Owen Lovejoy Homestead. 1905.

Vintage Postcard - Princeton, Illinois. The Owen Lovejoy Homestead. 1905. C.J. Dunbar & Co., Jewelers. Printed in Germany.
Underground Railroad station house. Owen Lovejoy, preacher-statesman of Illinois, leader of the antislavery movement in the state before the Civil War, and younger brother of the Alton editor, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, whose writings against slavery brought about his assassination by a pro-slavery mob.
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