Lovejoy, Owen,
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NATIVES OF MAINE
            WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE CONGRESS
                     OF THE UNITED STATES
                           (By John C. Stewart)
  printed in Sprague's Journal Vol 11 page 36-42


     Lovejoy, Owen, a      Representative from Illinois; born in
    Albion, January 6, 1811; graduated from Bowdoin College;
    studied theology; moved to Alton, Illinois, in 1836; pastor of
    the Congregational church in Princeton, Illinois, 1839-1856;
    member of the state house of representatives in 1854; elected
    as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth Thirty-sev-
 enth and Thirty-eighth Congresses (March 4, 1857, until his
    death, March 25, 1864)   died in Brooklyn, New      York.


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