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* 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
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1837 and Alton
On November 2, 1837, five days before his death, he gave the following speech in Alton on the abolition question:
Elijah P. Lovejoy: Who was Murdered in Defence of the Liberty of the Press at Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837
Fell also founded Bloomington's first newspaper, The Bloomington Observer and McLean County Advocate in 1837 and, after several years running a fruit orchard in Adams County, returned to McLean County and work as an agent for the former Alton & Springfield Railroad to secure the right of way through McLean County.
1837 and Illinois
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This problem was solved in 1837 by an Illinois blacksmith named John Deere who developed a steel moldboard plow that was stronger and cut the roots, making the fertile soils ready for farming.
The Deerfield, Illinois # Historic village | Caspar Ott Cabin, built in 1837, is the oldest structure in Lake County.
File: Kane County Illinois 1836. png | Kane County from the time of its creation to 1837, when DeKalb County was split off
< gallery > File: DeKalb County Illinois 1837. png | DeKalb County at the time of its creation in 1837 </ gallery >
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