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Benjamin Lundy, 1789-1839 (missing)
CITY:
small park across from the Vermilion River
COUNTY:
LaSalle
DEDICATED BY:
State of Illinois
DEDICATION DATE:
July 11, 1954 at 5:00:00 AM
The marker was located on IL 178, eight miles south of I-80, in a small park across from the Vermilion River. It is currently missing.
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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