Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Love, John E. 1854 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN E. LOVE.

    John E. Love, cashier of the State National Bank at Lowell, has also been
identified with farming interests, with educational work and with hay and grain
dealing in this place, and is a successful business man of marked enterprise and
energy, whose ready recognition of opportunity has been one of the salient
features in his successful career. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, April 16,
1854, and is a son of Samuel and Ellen J. (Mundall) Love, both of whom were
natives of Belfast, Ireland. The father was reared in the place of his birth and
became a weaver. In 1852, however, attracted by the business possibilities of
the new world, he crossed the Atlantic to America and located at Washington
Island, Wisconsin. He came to Lake county in 1870, and his last days were spent
in Leroy, Indiana, where he died in 1902, when about seventy-one years of age,
his birth having occurred in 1831. His widow still survives him and now resides
in Leroy, Winfield township.

    John E. Love was the second child and eldest son in their family of eight
children. He was born in April, 1854, and in 1854 his parents removed to
Washington Island, Wisconsin, where he was reared, pursuing his education in the
public schools. He remained at home until twenty-four years of age, and at the
age of nineteen years he began teaching school, which profession he followed
through the winter months, while in the summer seasons he assisted his father in
the work of the home farm. In 1870 he came to Lake county, Indiana, and here
engaged in farming and in teaching school for about ten years. In 1880 he built
a hay barn and elevator at Creston, Lake county, which he still operates. In
1893, however, he removed to Lowell and was engaged in dealing in hay alone in
this place until 1900, when he admitted A. S. Hull to a partnership under the
firm style of Love & Hull, a relation that is still maintained. The firm does an
excellent business, making large purchases and sales and their enterprise has
become a profitable one. In February, 1903, Mr. Love was elected cashier of the
State National Bank and is thus actively connected with financial interests of
the county. He also has valuable real estate in Lake county, Indiana, and
Fayette and Clayton counties, Iowa. His business interests and his property
holdings are the visible evidence of his life of thrift and industry.

    On the 19th of June, 1878, Mr. Love was united in marriage to Miss Martha E.
Jones, a daughter of Perry and Mary (Gilson) Jones, who were early settlers of
Lake county, prominent and influential here. Mrs. Love was born in Cedar Creek
township, February 22, 1862, attended the public schools of the county, and also
continued her studies in a private school at Crown Point under the management of
Miss Martha Knight. Five daughters have been born of this marriage, but the
eldest, Rosa, is now deceased. The others are: Mollie, Ina, Grace, Mabel, Bessie
May and Alice Edith.

    In his political views Mr. Love is an earnest Republican, keeping well
informed on the questions and issues of the day and giving unfaltering support
to the principles of the party. He served as township trustee from 1895 until
1900 in Cedar Creek township. He is also well known in Masonic circles,
belonging to Colfax Lodge No. 378, F. & A. M., of which he has been secretary
for twenty years. He is likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge No.
300, at Lowell, Indiana, of which he is one of the trustees, and he holds
membership relation with the Independent Order of Foresters of America. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has filled various
offices. His nature is kindly, his temperament jovial and genial, and his manner
courteous. He has steadily advanced in those walks of life demanding
intellectuality, business ability and fidelity, and to-day he commands the
respect and esteem of all of those with whom he has been associated in business
or social relations.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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