Bios: Joseph P Love, 1844 - : Westmoreland Co 

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Quoted from the History of Westmoreland County,Pa.

                          JOSEPH P LOVE

A resident of Alverton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and a man prominent 
and active in community affairs was born in South Huntingdon Township August
23,1844, son of Benjamin and Mary (TINTSMAN) LOVE. Benjamin LOVE, father was
a native of Ireland who immigrated to this country in company with his father
Benjamin LOVE settling in Pennsylvania.  He was twelve years of age at the time
of his arrival in this country and spent the remainder of his life in South
Huntingdon Township being engaged in the butcher business and farming.  He and
his wife Mary TINTSMAN had sixteen children; Margaret deceased wife of 
Frederick SPIELMAN; Robert deceased; Elizabeth deceased; Nancy wife of James
HOUGH; Benjamin deceased; Abraham a farmer; Sarah; John deceased; Martha; James, a carpenter of Scottdale; Julia deceased; Jane died in infancy; David a farmer;
Joseph P of whom later; Catherine wife of Joseph RUTH; and Benjamin Deceased,
Benjamin LOVE the father of these children died in 1862.

Joseph P LOVE received a common school education and in early life learned 
the carpenter's trade at which he worked for some years.  When the cloud of war
overspread the country in 1862, he enlisted in Company B sixteenth Pennsylvania
Calvery and served for a term of three years.  Since his return to civil life
he has been engaged in various avocations giving most particular attention
however to the butcher business.  In his political relations Mr.LOVE is a strong
Republican and served as Justice of Peace for eleven years, Assessor,Collector
and in short in every township office with the single exception of school
director.Mr LOVE is deeply interested in all community affairs and in all
the positions of trust and responsibility to which he has been elected, he
has discharged his duties most acceptably.  He was appointed July 6,1904 a rural
mail carrier by the government, on NO 3 delivery from Mount Pleasant.  He is a
charter member of the Knights of Malta lodge in Scottdale.  He married October
31,1871, Emma TARR daughter of Daniel and Frances TELLER.  Their children were
Jessie Frances wife of Dr G. C. KNEEDLER of Allegheny City; Edwin M a resident
of Pittsburg and Maria Viola a graduate of the East Huntingdon High School,
The Mount Pleasant Institute and for three terms a teacher in the Alverton
public school.
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