Letter, February 15, 1878.

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Letter, February 15, 1878.

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Letter from Gilman to Henry Tanner commenting on Tanner's account of the Alton riot in 1837 during which both men were arrested and later tried for defending Elijah Lovejoy.

4 p.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7992797

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Gilman, Winthrop Sargent, 1808-1884

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Gilman, by 1878 a New York banker, had been a defender of Elijah Lovejoy in Alton, Illinois in 1837. From the description of Letter, February 15, 1878. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 690960179 ...

Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 1802-1837

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Alton, Ill. newspaper editor and abolitionist, he was also an ordained Presbyterian minister and had edited the St. Louis Observer. He left St. Louis after several printing presses had been destroyed by pro-slavery mobs and came to Alton. There too, the pro-slavery faction destroyed his presses. In just such an attempt, a member of the mob shot Lovejoy and he died trying to save his press. From the description of Papers, 1835-1837. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat rec...

Tanner, Henry, ca. 1813-fl. 1880.

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