Sometimes a person appears in the historical record for only a moment. Lyman Bishop is one of the forgotten figures in the story of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy and the violence surrounding his printing press in Alton, Illinois. Bishop was a young carpenter who had recently come to Alton from the East. He hadn’tContinue reading “Who Was Lyman Bishop? The Forgotten Man in the Elijah Lovejoy Controversy”
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