Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of James Francis LOVING

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 437


BIO: JAMES FRANCIS LOVING,  Wheeling,  Ohio County


JAMES FRANCIS LOVING,  president of the Loving Furniture Company, 
Incorporated at Morgantown, was for thirteen years in the railway 
train service, and left that to establish his present successful business.

He represents two prominent family names of old Virginia, Loving and 
Lamford.  His great-grandfather, William Loving,  was a native of Fluvanna
County, Virginia, where ancestors of this name settled in Colonial times.  
He married Polly Williams, of Welsh decent.  Their son, Richard Loving, was 
born in Fluvanna County and married Isabella Fisher.  A son of Richard and 
Isabella was Richard Sidney Loving, who was born in Louisa County, Virginia, 
in 1839, and except for the time he was a Confederate soldier his life was
devoted to the farm.  He died March 6, 1874.  He was in the fighting from 
the beginning to the end of the war between the states, his chief service being 
in General Mosby's command. He married Pattie H. Lamford, who was born in 
Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1839 and died March 11, 1910.  Her parents
were Nimrod and Sally (Williams) Lamford.  Her grandfather was Nimrod 
Lamford. Lamford is an old and prominent name in Virginia family annals.

James Francis Loving was born on the farm of his parents in Louisa County, 
Virginia, October 1,1871.  He was only three years old when his father died,
and he lived on the farm during schooldays and had charge of it for several 
years.  In `898 he took up railroading, and for three years was a brakeman
with the Chesapeake & Ohio and then for ten years did service as a railway 
conductor.  Mr. Loving located at Morgantown in 1911, and in the same year
organized the Loving Furniture Company, his two business associates being 
S. P. Jones and C. S. Reams.  Later he and George W. Davis bought the entire
business and are the active officials in the present incorporated company.

Mr. Loving is a member of the Morgantown Chamber of Commerce and the 
Baptist Church. September 26, 1907, he married Nela B. Omohundro, who was born in 
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, daughter of Charles Fitzroy and Katie (Hudson) 
Omohundro.  Mr. and Mrs. Loving have a daughter, Frances S., who was born June 11, 1911.