| I was born in Massachusetts in 1942 to John and Ann (King)
Lovell, grew
up there in Hanover (on the South Shore, half-way between Boston and Cape Cod), and moved to Maine after graduating from high school. I attended the University of Southern Maine in Portland and subsequently worked for many years as a reporter for the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram while teaching journalism part-time at USM. |
| I am married to the former Susan Martin of Portland,
a former schoolteacher
who does nearly all of the genealogical research in our house, and we have two children in their twenties. |
| Recently I have been working as a magazine editor (two
small Maine magazines) and currently as communications director for the
Maine State Bar Association.
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| My mother spent her childhood in West Arichat, where
her parents were
Benjamin King, born in August 1874, and Sidoni Elizabeth LeBlanc, born in July 1880. My mother's grandfather was John Remi King, born in Arichat in November 1850. (He served as second officer aboard a ship named the Florizel until its wreck off Horn Head Point, Newfoundland, in February 1918; he was not among the survivors.) John Lovell |