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Born 1844
From Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens (1915)
COL. THOMAS CALVIN LOVE.
A cheerful and hopeful disposition is a train of character much to be admired, much to be desired, and one that with most men needs to be cultivated and enlarged. It is absolutely necessary to success in any pursuit in life for man to be hopeful and resourceful. He must not only believe that "all things work together for good." but also have confidence in himself, that he has the ability to bring things to pass. It is easy to be good and cheerful when everything is running smoothly, when everything seems to be prosperous, when a man is flourishing and spreading himself like a green bay tree. How easy it is then to appear cheerful and happy, but it is often quite another story when the day of adversity comes, the hour of difficulty, failure and disappointed hopes. A man who has endeavored to remain cheerful, optimistic and courageous in both sunshine and storm as he has traversed the winding path of life during his three score and ten years is Thomas Calvin Love, during his active life a gallant soldier, successful farmer and stock raiser and faithful public servant, now living retired in Springfield.
Mr. Love has descended from a fine ancestry of military men and people of the right quality. He was born in what is now Webster county, Missouri, near the town of Seymour. May 17, 1844, and is a son of Thomas Bell and Elizabeth (Barnard) Love. The father was born in Hayward county. North Carolina, on December 27, 1798, and was a son of Gen. Thomas and Martha (Dillard) Love. The mother was born September 27, 1774. Gen. Thomas Love, born November 16, 1776, was a native of Ireland from which country he emigrated to America when a young man, and located in North Carolina, and while living there the Revolutionary war began. He unhesitatingly joined in the struggle of the colonists for independence. He was a brave and efficient soldier and for meritorious conduct was promoted until he received a colonel’s commission and was given command of a North
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Their biographies name Thomas Calvin Love: James N. Hilderbrand (b. 1852)
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