Hamilton Love

Hamilton Love
Born Henry Hamilton Love
(1875-12-27)December 27, 1875
Nashville, Tennessee
Died May 2, 1922(1922-05-02) (aged 46)
Nashville, Tennessee
Known for Prominent lumberman, author of "The Hardwood Code", newswriter
Spouse(s) 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]

He was also chair of the Nashville board of censorship of moving pictures, and active in the Rotary Club.[3][4][5]

Early years

Hamilton Love was born on December 27, 1875 on his father's farm about three miles from Nashville, Tennessee,[6] the youngest child of James Benton Love and Mary Elizabeth Plummer, named for his grandfather. Love's father James was a coal merchant, a member of the firm of Love & Randle.[7]

News reporter

Love 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.[7]

Love contributed articles on sports in the South to The Sporting News and Sporting Life.[8][9][10] Love was chairman of the local baseball committee.[11]

Love, wearing top hat and tails c. 1898.

Lumberman

Love was called by some the "Daddy of the Nashville lumbermen."[12] He worked for his brother John Wheatley Love's firm Love, Boyd, & Co,[6] which avoided losing and in fact made money during the Panic of 1893.[7] Starting in 1895 or 1896,[7][6] Hamilton Love 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.[13][14]

Love was first president of the Nashville Lumberman's Club, in 1910.[15][16][17][3] That same year he penned the Hardwood Code,[18] a telegraphic code used extensively in the trade,[16][17] urged on by the Hardwood Manufacturer's Association of the United States.[19]

Marriage

On November 30, 1901 Love married Bessie May Davis.[6] 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

  1. ↑ All about Nashville: A Complete Historical Guide Book to the City. p. 142.
  2. ↑ "Hamilton Love". The Tennessean. January 15, 1912. p. 9. Retrieved September 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 "Obituary". The New York Lumber Trade Journal. 72: 35. May 15, 1922.
  4. ↑ Hamilton Love (December 1918). "Dual Membership". The Rotarian: 252; 275.
  5. ↑ S. W. McGill (October 1915). "A Cross Continent Rotary Stunt". The Rotarian: 387.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Tennessee, the Volunteer State, 1769-1923. 1923. pp. 670–672.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Hamilton Love". Hardwood Record. 32: 62.
  8. ↑ Hamilton Love (October 10, 1908). "South Sayings" (PDF). Sporting Life. 52 (5). p. 16.
  9. ↑ John A. Simpson (2007). The Greatest Game Ever Played In Dixie. McFarland. pp. 47, 111, 136, 145.
  10. ↑ John A. Simpson. Hub Perdue: Clown Prince of the Mound. p. 170.
  11. ↑ "Half Holiday On Opening Baseball Day For Wednesdy (sic)". The Tennessean. April 13, 1912. p. 10. Retrieved September 20, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Nashville, Tennessee". The Bulletin: 73.
  13. ↑ U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
  14. ↑ "Nashville". Hardwood Record. 45: 41–42. August 25, 1918.
  15. ↑ "Hamilton Love New Chief". The Tennessean. March 26, 1911. p. 26. Retrieved September 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. 1 2 "Obituary". The Southern Lumberman. 106: 42.
  17. 1 2 "Hamilton Love". Lumber World Review. 42: 47.
  18. ↑ Hamilton Love (1910). Hardwood Code. Nashville, TN: Brandon Printing Co.
  19. ↑ "Forest Products Laboratory". The Lumber Trade Journal. 59: 20.
  20. ↑ Elizabeth Mitchell Stephenson Fite (1907). The biographical and genealogical records of the Fite families in the United States. p. 83.
  21. ↑ "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.
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