Jefferson-Shelby County KyArchives Biographies.....Love, G. Thomas (Sr.) 1875 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com February 22, 2007, 12:40 am Author: Frederick A. Wallis (1945) G. THOMAS LOVE, SR. G. THOMAS LOVE, SR., retired wholesale chemical company executive, is taking the rest earned many times over by a business man who has put his whole life and soul into his business and insured its success. He was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, on September 11, 1875, the son of J. T. and Emma Victoria (Brauner) Love. J. T. Love was of Scotch descent and was a well known Shelby County merchant and later accepted a position with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. He was accidentally killed in 1881. His wife was of Dutch descent. She survived him for many years, passing away in 1912. G. Thomas Love, Sr., grew up in Louisville and attended the Louisville public schools. Starting to work at an early age, he was first employed as a cash boy by the old Golden Rule store in Louisville. After a few years in this situation, he obtained employment with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company as a messenger. In recognition of the young man's industry, intelligence and ambition, the company promoted him to the accounting department where he worked for twenty-one years. In 1915, he established the Southern Chemical Company, which was organized to handle industrial acids and heavy chemicals on a wholesale basis. This business, under the able guidance of G. Thomas Love, Sr., prospered from the start and grew rapidly. In ten years, the name of the firm was changed to the Love Chemical Company and operates as such at the present time. The offices and warehouses of the firm are located at 1427 West Breckinridge where they have been for the past fifteen years. In addition to his chemical business, Mr. Love has dealt extensively in real estate. He has now relinquishd [sic] control of the business to his son and has practically retired. G. Thomas Love, Sr., was married on October 19, 1910, to Miss Mary Finzer Vogt, daughter of Charles C. Vogt, a prominent Louisville tobacco man. Mr. Vogt was well known as a fraternalist, being high in Kentucky Masonic and Knight Templar circles. Mr. and Mrs. Love are the parents of three children, all of whom are now grown and reflect credit upon their parents. They are: G. Thomas Love, Jr., who was educated at Louisville Male High School and the University of Louisville, where he majored in economics. He married Miss Margaret Marvin and entered the chemical business with his father, and, since his father's retirement, is at the helm of the company. A second son, Dr. Selby Vogt Love, is a practicing pediatrician in Louisville with offices in the Heyburn Building. Doctor Love attended the Louisville Male High School, where he was an outstanding track athlete. He won a scholarship to the University of Virginia, which he attended for one year. Returning to Louisville, he studied medicine at the University of Louisville, where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree. He took a postgraduate course in pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and then became assistant Resident Pediatrician at Vanderbilt University Hospital, soon receiving a promotion to Resident Pediatrician in the same institution. In 1943, he came to Louisville to practice and bids fair to become one of Louisville's leading child specialists. He entered the Army Medical Corps as a First Lieutenant in December, 1943 and advanced to Captain December, 1944. The third child, a daughter, Mary Virginia, was educated at Miss Sales School, the Louisville Collegiate School and the University of Louisville. She is now active in charity and war work as is Mrs. Love, who is a member of the Woman's Club. G. Thomas Love, Sr., is well known in Masonic circles, holding membership in the Chapter, Council, Knight Templar and Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Louisville Country Club and formerly belonged to several other clubs. He is an ardent sports fan and is an interested spectator at all the major sports events in Louisville. Mr. Love subscribes to the principles and supports the policies and candidates of the Republican Party. The Love family home is at 1215 Cherokee Road in Louisville. It is here that G. Thomas Love, Sr., hopes to spend his years of retirement as a reward for the energy expended in establishing and operating for so many years a business which met an urgent need of local industry. His business initiative and his ability to recognize and grasp opportunity may well be emulated by all younger business men. Additional Comments: Extracted from: A Sesqui-Centennial History of Kentucky Published 1945 A Narrative Historical Edition, Commemorating One Hundred and Fifty Years of Statehood, Preserving the Record of the Growth and Development of the Commonwealth, and Chronicling the Genealogical and Memorial Records of its Prominent Families and Personages. FREDERICK A. WALLIS Supervising Editor GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HAMBLETON TAPP, A. B. M. A. Author and Editor HISTORICAL THE HISTORICAL RECORD ASSOCIATION HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/jefferson/bios/love65nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/kyfiles/