to Charles Clement's abolitionist Republican newspapers, his mail was intercepted and read, and soon a band of armed men showed up at his property. He was forced to flee the state in the weeks just before the Battle of Fort Sumter. Charles Clement married twice. His first wife was Judith Miranda Crosby. They married in 1841 and had seven children together before her death in 1864. A year after his first wife's death, Clement married Abbie Herrick Kimball, who survived him. The Joshua Glover saga is memorialized in Racine with a number of plaques at the locations of the various events; one of the plaques is located at the site of Clement's Advocate newspaper office on Racine's Main Street, and describes his initial role in the events: References 1815 births 1886 deaths People from Newbury, Massachusetts Politicians from Kenosha, Wisconsin Politicians from Racine, Wisconsin People from McMinnville, Tennessee Republican Party Wisconsin state senators American abolitionists Free Soil Party politicians 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Burials in Wisconsin Wisconsin pioneers