Quoted from the History of Westmoreland County,Pa. JOSEPH P LOVE A resident of Alverton,Westmoreland County Pennsylvania and a man prominent and active in community affairs was born in South Huntingdon Township August 23,1844 son of Benjamin and Mary (TINTSMAN) LOVE.

Benjamin LOVE, father was a native of Ireland who immigrated to this country in company with his father Benjamin LOVE settling in Pennsylvania.He was twelve years of age at the time of his arrival in this country and spent the remainder of his life in South Huntingdon Township being engaged in the butcher business and farming.

He and his wife Mary TINTSMAN had sixteen children;

1. Margaret deceased wife of Frederick SPIELMAN
2. Robert deceased
3. Elizabeth deceased
4. Nancy wife of James HOUGH
5. Benjamin deceased
6. Abraham a farmer
7. Sarah
8. John deceased
9. Martha
10. James a carpenter of Scottdale
11. Julia deceased
12. Jane died in infancy
13. David a farmer
14. Joseph P
15. Catherine wife of Joseph RUTH
16. Benjamin Deceased

Benjamin LOVE the father of these children died in 1862.

Joseph P LOVE received a common school education and in early life learned the carpenter's trade at which he worked for some years.When the cloud of war overspread the country in 1862,he enlisted in Company B sixteenth Pennsylvania Calvery and served for a term of three years.

Since his return to civil life he has been engaged in various avocations giving most particular attention however to the butcher business.In his political relations Mr.LOVE is a strong Republican and served as Justice of Peace for eleven years,Assessor,Collector and in short in every township office with the single exception of school director.

Mr LOVE is deeply interested in all community affairs and in all the positions of trust and responsibility to which he has been elected,he has discharged his duties most acceptably.He was appointed July 6,1904 a rural mail carrier by the government,on NO 3 delivery from Mount Pleasant.He is a charter member of the Knights of Malta lodge in Scottdale.

He married October 31,1871, Emma TARR daughter of Daniel and Frances TELLER.

Their children were Jessie Frances wife of Dr G.C.KNEEDLER of Allegheny City;Edwin M a resident of Pittsburg and Maria Viola a graduate of the East Huntingdon High School, The Mount Pleasant Institute and for three terms a teacher in the Alverton public school.

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