Benjamin Lundy, 1789-1839


County: LaSalle
Location: IL Route 178, eight miles south of I-80, in small park across from the Vermilion River (missing)

Erected: 07/11/1954 Erected by: State of Illinois


Quaker newspaper editor of the abolitionist 'Genius of Universal Emancipation' printed at Hennepin then Lowell, four miles south, November 8, 1838 to August 22, 1839. He had published it since 1821 in Ohio, Tennessee, Baltimore, Washington, D. C. and Philadelphia. Lundy is buried in Friends Cemetery near McNabb.


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