BIOGRAPHY: Joseph K. LOVE, Cambria County, PA
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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 327-8
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JOSEPH K. LOVE, a senior member of the large and well-known wholesale grocery
firm of Love, Sunshine & Co., of Johnstown, is a son of George H. and Annie B.
(Logan) Love, and was born near Saxonburg, Butler county, Pennsylvania, October
31, 1867. He is of Scotch and Irish lineage, and his paternal grandfather,
Samuel Love, was born and reared in Pennsylvania, from which he removed to a
part of Butler county, where he was an early settler and pioneer farmer. Of the
children born to him in his Butler county home, one was George H. Love, whose
early life was passed near Saxonburg, which came into existence after the
settlement of his parents. In 1869 he went to Allegheny county, which he left in
1877 to remove to Saxonburg Station, Butler county. He followed farming up to
1877, and then opened a mercantile establishment at Saxonburg Station, in his
native county, of which he was owner until 1882, when he removed to Somerset,
Somerset county. Since removing to Somerset he has been made president of the
Union Provision company, whose business is quite profitable and rapidly
increasing.
Mr. Love is not only active in business, but is zealous and energetic in
religious matters, being a working member of the Presbyterian church. He is a
republican in politics, and his patriotism is such that in 1863, he enlisted and
served as a drummer-boy until the close of the war, when he was honorable
discharged from the Federal service at Washington, District of Columbia. He is a
member of R.P. Cummins Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Somerset,
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Love was born in 1844, and married Annie B. Logan, who is a
Presbyterian, and now in the fifty-fourth year of her age. She is a native of
Butler county and a daughter of Joseph Logan, who was of Irish descent, and a
farmer by occupation.
Joseph K. Love was reared on the farm and at Saxonburg, where he passed
part of his boyhood years in his father's store. He received his education in
the common schools of Butler and Somerset counties and Westminster college of
New Wilmington, this State, which institution of learning he attended for a
year. Leaving college he accepted a position as salesman with the Somerset Dairy
company, and traveled for them for nearly two years. At the end of that time he
took a position with Allen Kirkpatrick & Co., wholesale grocers of Pittsburg,
for whom he traveled for one year. He then, in March, 1890, went into business
for himself, and formed his present partnership with William H. Sunshine, under
the firm-name of Love, sunshine & Co. They engaged in the wholesale grocery
business, on a limited scale, in a small, one-story building on the corner of
Main and Market streets, Johnstown, but their orders increased so rapidly that
in little more than a year their place of business became too small, and they
removed to their present large and well-arranged brick building at 615-617-619-
621 Railroad street. From year to year their volume of business has increased
until now they keep five traveling salesmen constantly on the road. They keep in
stock substantial and fancy groceries of both domestic and foreign productions,
and aim to supply fresh and pure goods in every line of articles which they
handle. Mr. Love is among the active and enterprising men of Johnstown who has
won a place for himself early in life by perseverance and well-developed
calculations. He has confined himself in business strictly to the wholesale
grocery business, with which he is perfectly familiar in all its details.
Success has rewarded his efforts, as it has all others who have deserved and won
it. He is a republican in politics, and a member of Johnstown Lodge, No. 175,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and attends and contributes to the
Episcopal church of Johnstown.
On April 3, 1895, Mr. Love was united in marriage with Sarah E. Jennings,
daughter of the late Richard Jennings, of Queenstown, Armstrong county.