Loren Jessup was Doremus Jessup’s father. A Universalist pastor, he lived an austere life so that Doremus could afford to go to college. Loren’s only luxury was the complete illustrated set of Dickens’s novels that he bought himself. (The Minute Men destroy it while arresting Doremus.) Three years after Doremus’s graduation, Loren Jessup died, leaving the inheritance of about $3,000 that Doremus used to buy part of the Daily Informer. Loren Jessup’s belief in education, financial prudence, and hard work suggests that he taught Doremus the liberal values that he fights for during the Windrip dictatorship.
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Loren Jessup Character Timeline in It Can’t Happen Here
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Chapter 3
Doremus Jessup, whose father, Loren Jessup , was a pastor, grew up surrounded by literature in Fort Beulah. He attended the...
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Chapter 13
...the U.S. government gave Americans “the privilege of planning.” Jessup’s minister grandfather planned to give Jessup’s father a theological education and build a new family house. Then, Jessup’s father saved money so...
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Chapter 14
...Hour, Windrip writes that he wishes that all the Christian churches could unite together. Like Jessup’s pastor father , Doremus Jessup is a Universalist. There are few other Universalists left in Fort Beulah,...
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Chapter 22
...Doremus has already hidden his subversive ones, and Ledue doesn’t find them. Instead, he confiscates Jessup’s father ’s beloved 34-volume Dickens box set. Later, Doremus attends the book burning with the Rev....
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