Biographical Sketch of William Loving, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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William Loving, for many years a representative business man of St.
Joseph, was born in Russelville, Logan County, Kentucky, April 8,
1830.  His father, Willis Loving, was a merchant and his great grand-
father, William Loving, was the founder of Lovingston, Nelson County,
Virginia.  The subject of this sketch was reared and educated in his
native county.  He first engaged in the drug business in Springfield,
Washington County, Kentucky, and afterwards in Hopkinsville.  In 1855,
he moved to Missouri and settled in the town of Lexington, where he
was engaged in business about the period of a year.  In the winter of
1856-57 he moved to St. Joseph, where he established himself in the
wholesale and retail drug business.  Not withstanding the want of 
facilities, such as now exist, for canvassing wide extents of territory
and of transporting goods over the same, Mr. Loving early succeeded in
building up a lucrative wholesale trade, in addition to his well sus-
tained retail business.  During the long period of his residence in St.
Joseph, he has steadily advanced with the progress of the city, and has
always manifested a lively and liberal interest in the prosperity of
St. Joseph.  He married in 1853, Miss Susan E. Wharton, of Springfield,
Kentucky.  They have, by this marriage, a family of three children:
Phoebe, William and Arthur.

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