Spouse(s) Bessie May Davis | Name Hamilton Love | |
Full Name Henry Hamilton Love Known for Prominent lumberman, author of "The Hardwood Code", newswriter Children Henry Hamilton Love, Jr.Robert Hamilton Love | ||
Henry Hamilton Love (December 27, 1875 – May 2, 1922) was a prominent Nashville lumberman and sportswriter.
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He was also chair of the Nashville board of censorship of moving pictures, and active in the Rotary Club.
Early years
Hamilton Love was born on December 27, 1875 on his father's farm about three miles from Nashville, Tennessee, the youngest child of James Benton Love and Mary Elizabeth Plummer, named for his grandfather. Love's father James was a coal merchant, a member of the firm of Love & Randle.
News reporter
Love left school at the age of fifteen and worked as a reporter and newswriter for the Nashville Evening Herald. He later wrote for the Nashville American.
Love contributed articles on sports in the South to The Sporting News and Sporting Life. Love was chairman of the local baseball committee.
Lumberman
Love was called by some the "Daddy of the Nashville lumbermen." He worked for his brother John Wheatley Love's firm Love, Boyd, & Co, which avoided losing and in fact made money during the Panic of 1893. Starting in 1895 or 1896, Hamilton Love initially worked in a minor capacity, but was given every opportunity for advancement and learned the trade. By 1899, he assumed charge of the Nashville office of the firm.
Love was first president of the Nashville Lumberman's Club, in 1910. That same year he penned the Hardwood Code, a telegraphic code used extensively in the trade, urged on by the Hardwood Manufacturer's Association of the United States.
Marriage
On November 30, 1901 Love married Bessie May Davis. Her father Leonard Fite Davis was a relative of the Fite sisters married by Vanderbilt coach Dan McGugin and Michigan coach Fielding Yost.
Death
He died on May 2, 1922 of a revolver wound to the chest, ruled a suicide.