Julia Louisa Lovejoy
Julia Louise Lovejoy | |
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| Born | March 9, 1812 |
| Died | March 15, 1882 (aged 70) |
| Resting place | Vinland Cemetery, Douglas County, Kansas |
Julia Louisa Lovejoy was an abolitionist writer. She was a correspondent during the Bleeding Kansas era.
Lovejoy was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in 1812. Her husband, Charles Haseltine Lovejoy, was a Methodist minister. She moved to Kansas in 1855 with her family as part of a group sent by the New England Emigrant Aid Company to work towards making it free from slavery.[1]
Lovejoy began writing letters back to New Hampshire to the anti-slavery editor of the Independent Democrat in 1855 as her family began their journey west.[2]
Lovejoy died on March 15, 1882, at the age of 70 in Palmyra, Kansas (now Baldwin City).[3]
References
- ^ "Julia Louisa Lovejoy". PBS New Perspectives on The West. The West Film Project. 2001. Retrieved February 2, 2026.
- ^ Pierson, Michael D. (2004). "'In Our Own History': Julia Louisa Lovejoy and the Politics of Benevolence in Bleeding Kansas". Heritage of the Great Plains (2): 48–56, 48-.
- ^ "Lovejoy, Julia Louisa". civilwaronthewesternborder.org. Retrieved 2026-02-02.