Charles Herndon Love, Allen Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Charles Herndon Love is a lawyer by profession. has been a member of the Louisiana Legislature, and is one of the prominent citizens of Oakdale Allen Parish. Mr. Love inherited a fine endowment of intellectual powers and character, but during his youth had to work for all his attainments leading up to qualifications for his chosen profession. He was born at Grenada, Mississippi, on a farm in that state, December 29, 1876, son of Col. David Eskridge and Emily Frances (Wayne) Love. His father died in 1888 and his mother in 1914. Colonel Love had a long military record, being a private in the Mexican war, serving also in an Indian war and was colonel of a Mississippi infantry regiment in the Con federate army. He was a planter, an educator and a lawyer, and at one time held the office of commissioner of education in the State of Mississippi. In 1880 he removed his family to Louisiana, and during the latter years of his life was engaged in educational work in St. Landry Parish. His home was at Beaver, Louisiana, when he died. Charles Herndon Love was twelve years of age when his father died, and shortly afterwards he had to go to work and make his own living. His early advantages were confined to the common schools. As a youth he removed to Calcasieu Parish and for ten years was employed by the Lock Moore Lumber Company in railroad work. At the same time he was studying at night and in leisure intervals, finally passing examination and securing a teacher's certificate. Mr. Love taught school in over thirty different schools in Calcasieu and Vernon parishes, mostly in rural districts, but was also principal of schools at Kinder, Covington and Good Hope. While teaching, he was diligently reading law and in 1912 was admitted and began practice at Kinder. Mr. Love was representative of Allen Parish in the Legislature from 1916 to 1920. His chief interest while in the Legislature was promoting laws and measures of particular benefit to his parish, especially such measures as would foster colonization projects and the sale of cutover timber lands. He served on the committee on judiciary "C," capital and labor, railroads, constitution and laws and parochial affairs. Since 1918 Mr. Love has been engaged in a general Civil and commercial practice at Oakdale. He has always been interested in democratic party politics, is a member of the Baptist Church, and served as a private in Company G of the First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American war. He married August 3, 1909, Miss Beatrice Reed, who was born and reared in Calcasieu Parish. Her father was Rene Reed, a farmer and stockman and at one time deputy sheriff. The six living children of Mr. and Mrs. Love are: Florence, Bernice, George Wayne, David Eskridge, Audrey Beatrice and Friend Ouide Love. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 275, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.