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DR. WESLEY LOVE, physician, Higginsport, grandson of Alexander Love, whose history appears in this township, and son of Charles Love, was born in 1837, in Lewis Township, and raised a farmer’s boy. He improved the opportunities afforded him in the common schools, and at the age of eighteen took up the study of his favorite profession, medicine, under Dr. Hugh McCasky, of Felicity, Clermont Co., Ohio, and entered the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, in the winter of 1857, from which he graduated in 1859. In April of the same year, he located at Sardinia, Brown County, where he entered upon the duties of his professional career, continuing very successful until October 12, 1861, when he enlisted in the First Independent Battalion Ohio Volunteer Infantry, eighteen months later designated as the Eleventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. When the battalion was fully organized, he was commissioned, December 9, 1861, as First Lieutenant. While thus engaged, he served ten months as Aid-de-Camp on Gen. James Craig’s staff. The Doctor’s second commission was as Captain, on February 17, 1863. Subsequently, December 7, 1864, he rose to Major of the Eleventh Regiment, and was mustered out of service April 1, 1865, and returned home. He, with his regiment, served during 1861 and 1862, in Missouri thence ordered as far west as the Rocky Mountains, where they served two years and eight months, and while thus guarding the frontier, had several engagements with the Indians. They guarded the party while surveying the Pacific Railroad, and protecting the United States mail route. While in service, he voluntarily acted as Surgeon in connection with his command; this, however, was done in consequence of the company being on detached service. Among the many hardships endured was the march from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Laramie, a distance of 600 miles, in twenty-eight days. After serving between three and four years, he was fortunate enough to return home uninjured, and in 1865 located in Higginsport, and has continuously been engaged in the practice of his profession since, and has had fair success, which is the result of his knowledge of medicine and surgery. In 1877, he was appointed Deputy Revenue Collector of the Sixth District of Ohio, and held the position until 1882. His marriage was celebrated May 17, 1860, with Miss Amanda M. Marshall, by whom he had four children, three now living. Her death occurred February 3, 1874. He married for his second companion Miss Elizabeth Elliott, who is a native of Brown County, Ohio. The issue of this union is one child.