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LOVE, JAMES,
farmer, Sec. 2, P. O. Chillicothe,
was born December 22, 1812, and is the son of George Love
and Mary Grabbs. His early years were passed in
Indiana, and in November, 1824, he came with his parents to
Peoria county, and after a stay of about a month at Fort
Clark, came on to what is now Medina township, and were the
first to settle within its bounds. Daniel
Prince, at Princeville, was the only settler between them
and Peoria, and he left the same county in Indiana (Parke
county), as they did, only about seven months ahead of them.
They settled at first on land near Mossville, and in 1829
removed to the farm in Sec. 23, now occupied by Moses
Neal, where they remained until 1839. In 1832 the
family was broken up, some going further West, and others
taking up farms of their own in the township. Mr.
James Love went to Galena, and worked at the mines and
at butchering for about twenty-six months, and then
returning to his township, started farming on Sec. 18 ,
living for ten years with Thos. B. Reed, and on Mar.
23, 1847, he married Amy Wilkinson, daughter of
William Wilkinson and Elizabeth Nichols. Her
father was a native of N. Carolina, and her mother of Green
Briar county, Va. She was born in Ross county, O.,
Feb. 15, 1827, and came to Medina township with her parents
in 1846. They have had thirteen children, seven of
whom are now alive : Henry, born in 1847; George,
born June 7, 1848; Charles, born Oct. 29, 1849, died
Aug. 11, 1859; William, born Mar. 23, 1851;
Elizabeth, born Feb. 19, 1856, died Jan. 19, 1859;
Alice, born May 14, 1858; Emma, born July 29,
1861; Clayton , born Apr. 24, 1863; Laura,
born May 1, 1865, died Mar. 25, 1867; Leonard, born
June 9, 1867, and three others who died in infancy. His
father died June 11 , 1831. Three of his sons and one
daughter reside with him. He owns 78 acres fine farming
land, all under good cultivation .
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