A. Wallace Love and Nellie Carrier

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Husband A. Wallace Love ¹

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           Born: 5 Apr 1869 - Knox Twp, Jefferson Co, PA 2
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         Father: William S. Love (      -      ) 1 3
         Mother: Clementine Furman (1838-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 12 Jun 1901 4

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Wife Nellie Carrier ⁴

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         Father: Milton H. Carrier (      -      ) 4
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1 F Evelyn Love ⁴

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2 F Sarah Love ⁴

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3 F Winona Love ⁴

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4 F Winnifred Love ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - A. Wallace Love

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He was born on his father's farm, a few miles south of the village of Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and passed most of the years of his childhood and early youth there. He attended the local public schools and Belleville Academy, the latter institution being situated at Stanton, about four miles from his father's home. Here he gained his education, and during his spare hours worked on the home farm or assisted his father with his lumber business. In this way he himself gained large familiarity with the craft and used to accompany the elder man on his trips down the Red Bank creek and Allegheny river to Pittsburgh. At the age of eighteen, he took up for a time the profession of teaching and was thus engaged in the public schools of his native township, the same in which he himself had previously been a student. Finding this profession to his taste, he decided to take a course in the State Normal School at Clarion, Pennsylvania, and accordingly made his home in that thriving town for a time. He graduated from this institution in 1897, and at once received an appointment as principal of the Hazelhurst public schools in the town of that name, McKean County. He continued in this capacity for a period of some three years, but during that time had his attention forcibly drawn to the opportunity which awaited an energetic young man in that rapidly growing region in the mercantile line of business. Accordingly, he went to Vandergrift Heights, where he made his home, having been drawn to this place on the representation of several friends who believed in its rapid development. Mr. Love was the first to open a general store in that locality, and from the first success attended his efforts. The new establishment was situated on the corner of Bancroft and Longfellow streets, and here the business grew rapidly, keeping pace with the development of the town. In 1912, however, he sold it and transferred his attention to the real estate and insurance business.
It is not alone, however, in the realm of business that Mr. Love made himself a prominent figure in Vandergrift and the surrounding regions. For some years he was a member of the school board in Vandergrift and also served there as burgess. In the former capacity he exerted great efforts against the obstacles which stood in his way in the shape of prejudice and conservatism to provide adequate school advantages for the community, a task difficult enough in itself, owing to the rapid growth of the town. He was one of the organizers and became the secretary of the Vandergrift Business Men's Association and served in that office during the first five years of the existence of this active and efficient organization.
Mr. Love was a staunch supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and at the primaries held in 1914 was its choice for State Assemblyman to represent the Second Legislative District of Westmoreland County. He was chosen for this responsible position in the election that followed, making his campaign on his well-known attitude toward the liquor question. His strong temperance proclivities won him many friends in the community and insured his election. He was reelected for the next session and was particularly active during its continuance in urging educational reforms and good roads legislation.
Mr. Love was also a prominent figure in the social and fraternal circles of Vandergrift, and was a member of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Malta.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 242.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 243.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 863.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 244.