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F. M. LOVE, Sewickley, was born in Cabell county, W. Va., and is descended from one of the oldest families. The ancestors were Scotch on the father’s side and English on the mother’s. The paternal great-grandfather, Daniel Love, was a native of Scotland, and a farmer. His son, Daniel, was a soldier in the revolutionary war. A son of Daniel was a soldier in the war of 1812, and subsequently became an extensive farmer. He was married to Cynthia Chadwick, whose grandfather, Hiram Chadwick, was a native of England, and his son, John, was a whig, and under Gen. Marion in South Carolina. F. M. Love was reared on a farm in West Virginia, and is principally self-educated. At the age of eighteen years, April 10, 1848, he came to Pittsburgh, where he clerked in his brother’s business, the firm being Young, Stevenson & Love. He left them in 1856, having been a member of the firm two years. He then traveled west, and returning east he located in Philadelphia, Pa., where he clerked in the dry-goods house of Lippincott, Coffin & Co. Eventually he moved to Pittsburgh, and became a member of the firm of Phelps, Park & Co., manufacturers of wagons. In 1862 Mr. Love entered the army as quarter master in the Pennsylvania volunteers, Humphrey’s division, 5th army corps; served nine months and then returned to Pittsburgh, where he remained a member of the old firm until 1864, when he sold his interest in the business to his partners. Until 1867 he was again engaged with his father in the dry-goods business, and subsequently for two years was general agent for the Federal Insurance company, of Allegheny. In 1872 the dry-goods firm of Love & Co. was formed, which continued for sixteen years, our subject furnishing the cash and being the main stay of the firm. Since 1861 he has been a resident of Edgeworth, and has materially aided in the prosperity of the place.