Charles Haseltine Lovejoy was born in Grafton County, New Hampshire in November 1811, the son of Phineas (1777-1872) and Annis (Blood) Lovejoy (1777-1865). He became a Methodist minister and married Julia Louisa Hardy (1812-1882).

The Lovejoys joined the New England Emigrant Aid Company and moved to Kansas in March 1855. On the trip one of their children contracted measles and died within a week of arriving in the territory. Lovejoy organized the first Methodist Episcopal churches in Lawrence, Topeka, and Manhattan. Their daughter Juliette (Lovejoy) Whitehorn died at the age of 21 in Manhattan, KS in August 1860 while Charles and Julia Lovejoy were visiting family back in New Hampshire.

Lovejoy enlisted in the 7th Kansas Volunteer Calvary in April 1863 and served as chaplain for Companies F and S during the Civil War. He was discharged in September 1865, and he and Julia temporarily moved to Lebanon, Illinois, where Lovejoy served as pastor for a church there. They were there for only a year before returning to Kansas in September 1866, residing in Baldwin City for the rest of their lives.

Julia Louisa Lovejoy died in February 1882. Charles H. Lovejoy remarried to Lucy H. Lovejoy (1829-1920). Charles H. Lovejoy died in November 1904 and was buried in Vinland Cemetery.

[Information retrieved from findagrave.com.]