Group seeking donations to buy historic house. From: Telegraph (Alton, IL) | Date: August 14, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Telegraph. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Linda N. Weller

Aug. 14--ALTON -- A house once owned by a U.S. senator from Alton continues to be the target of a man wanting to establish a research facility dedicated to newspaper martyr Elijah P. Lovejoy, but he faces difficult financial and zoning hurdles to make it a reality.

History enthusiast Richard Baird says such a center could be focused not only on Lovejoy, but on Abraham Lincoln and the senator, Lyman Trumbull.

Trumbull, a friend of Lincoln, wrote the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning slavery. Baird, of Alton, said Trumbull and ...

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