The Love family had left Missouri in 1828, and had passed a year in Park County, Ind., before coming to this county. John Love, father of William Love was born near Yorksville, S. C., on the 29th of December 1776: served as a First Lieutenant in the war of 1812: was married, July 24, 1818, to Miss Sarah Galloway and in the fall of that year moved to Lincoln County, Mo. He departed this life in 1867 in his ninety-first year. John Love and his wife were of Scotch Irish descent.

William Love was married to Miss Deborah Cochran in the year 1842, on the 15th day of March, the ceremony occurring at the residence of her parents, Samuel M. Cochran (a soldier of 1812) and Sarah (Endsley) Cochran, natives of North Carolina, who emigrated to Carroll County, Ind., in the fall of 1836. William Love and his wife are both members of the Associate Presbyterian Church.

In politics, Mr. Love was originally a Whig, but, since its formation, he has been allied with the Republican party.

Mr. Love has never departed from the worthy occupation handed down from his fathers - that of farming and to-day resides on and manages an excellent farm immediately adjoining the Love Homestead. On this farm he has reared a large family of boys and girls, five of whom are living. John M. (married to Catherine Barnes), James C., Sarah A. (wife of William Gilkey), Mary I. (wife of B. F. Stewart) and Elizabeth M. Mr. Love also has two sisters, Margaret Cochran and Sarah E. Cochran and brother, James A., living.

In 1888, Mr. Love was elected a member of the Board of Commissioners of Carroll County, and in 1891 he was re-elected to the same position. In politics, he was originally a Whig, but, since its formation, he has been a member of the Republican party.