Hamilton Love
Hamilton Love | |
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| Born | Henry Hamilton Love December 27, 1875 |
| Died | May 2, 1922 (aged 46) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Known for | Prominent lumberman, author of "The Hardwood Code", newswriter |
| Spouse | Bessie May Davis |
| Children | Henry Hamilton Love, Jr. Robert Hamilton Love |
Henry Hamilton Love (December 27, 1875 – May 2, 1922) was a prominent Nashville lumberman and sportswriter.[1][2]
Early years
Hamilton Love was born on December 27, 1875 on his father's farm about three miles from Nashville, Tennessee,[3] the youngest child of James Benton Love and Mary Elizabeth Plummer . Love's father James was a coal merchant, a member of the firm of Love & Randle.[4] His great grandfather also had the name of Henry Hamilton Love.
News reporter
Hamilton left school at the age of fifteen and worked as a reporter and newswriter for the Nashville Evening Herald. He later wrote for the Nashville American.[4]
Love contributed articles on sports in the South to The Sporting News and Sporting Life.[5][6][7] Love was chairman of the local baseball committee.[8]
Lumberman
He worked for his brother John Wheatley Love's firm Love, Boyd, & Co.[3] Starting in 1896,[3] he initially worked in a minor capacity, but was given every opportunity for advancement and learned the trade. By 1899, he assumed charge of the Nashville office of the firm.[9][10] Love was first president of the Nashville Lumberman's Club, in 1910.[11][12][13][14] That same year he penned the Hardwood Code,[15] a telegraphic code used extensively in the trade,[12][13] urged on by the Hardwood Manufacturer's Association of the United States.[16] He was called by some the "Daddy of the Nashville lumbermen."[17] Love was also active in the Rotary Club.[14][18][19]
Marriage
On November 30, 1901 Love married Bessie May Davis.[3] Her father Leonard Fite Davis was a relative of the Fite sisters married by Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin and Michigan coach Fielding Yost.[20]
Death
He died on May 2, 1922 of a revolver wound to the chest, ruled a suicide.[21]
References
- ^ All about Nashville: A Complete Historical Guide Book to the City. p. 142.
- ^ "Hamilton Love". The Tennessean. January 15, 1912. p. 9. Retrieved September 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Tennessee, the Volunteer State, 1769-1923. 1923. pp. 670–672.
- ^ a b "Hamilton Love". Hardwood Record. 32: 62.
- ^ Hamilton Love (October 10, 1908). "South Sayings" (PDF). Sporting Life. Vol. 52, no. 5. p. 16.
- ^ John A. Simpson (2007). The Greatest Game Ever Played In Dixie. McFarland. pp. 47, 111, 136, 145.
- ^ John A. Simpson. Hub Perdue: Clown Prince of the Mound. p. 170.
- ^ "Half Holiday On Opening Baseball Day For Wednesdy (sic)". The Tennessean. April 13, 1912. p. 10. Retrieved September 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- ^ "Nashville". Hardwood Record. 45: 41–42. August 25, 1918.
- ^ "Hamilton Love New Chief". The Tennessean. March 26, 1911. p. 26. Retrieved September 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Obituary". The Southern Lumberman. 106: 42.
- ^ a b "Hamilton Love". Lumber World Review. 42: 47.
- ^ a b "Obituary". The New York Lumber Trade Journal. 72: 35. May 15, 1922.
- ^ Hamilton Love (1910). Hardwood Code. Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing Co.
- ^ "Forest Products Laboratory". The Lumber Trade Journal. 59: 20.
- ^ "Nashville, Tennessee". The Bulletin: 73.
- ^ Hamilton Love (December 1918). "Dual Membership". The Rotarian: 252, 275.
- ^ S. W. McGill (October 1915). "A Cross Continent Rotary Stunt". The Rotarian: 387.
- ^ Elizabeth Mitchell Stephenson Fite (1907). The biographical and genealogical records of the Fite families in the United States. p. 83.
- ^ "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N959-V5P : accessed 5 July 2015), Henry Hamilton Love, 02 May 1922; citing Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, v 9 cn 202, State Library and Archives, Nashville; FHL microfilm 1,299,741.
