HARDWOOD RECORD 



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'Builders of Lumber History. 



John Wheatley Love. 



(See Portrait ISiipitlcincnt.) 

 The city of Nashville, Tenii., numbers 

 ;iniong its industries some of the most im- 

 portant in the country today. The greatest 

 lit these is its hardwood lumber trade, which 

 is of such magnitude as to make the city 

 one of the foremost hardwood markets in the 

 United States. Its location in the heart of 

 the timber district of Tennessee, upon the 

 Cumberland river, which taps the magnificent 

 forests of that state and contiguous terri- 

 tory, makes it naturally a great operating 

 ;nid distributing point for lumber products, 

 hut in addition to this the prowess, public 

 spirit and energy of its lumbermen-citizens 

 liave largely contributed to making Nashville 

 tlie important factor it now is in the lumber 

 business. 



Notable among these ' ' captains of iudus- 

 try" is John Wheatley Love, whose portrait 

 his many associates and admirers in the 

 trade will be glad to receive at the hands of 

 the Hardwood Eecord. 



Mr. Love was born in Nashville, April 30, 

 1866, of Virginia and Kentucky ancestry, 

 being a lineal descendant of Col. James Love, 

 of Revolutionary fame. He was reared in 

 that city and received his education iu the 

 public schools there. His first acquaintance 

 with the lumber business came when he en- 

 tered the employ of his kinsman, Theodore 

 Plummer, who then operated at Nashville un- 

 der the style of Sutherland & Co. This first 

 position was a very humble one — that of 

 otKce boy. 



In 1886 Mr. Plummer organized the Nash- 

 ville Lumber Company, and gave young Love 

 a position with the new house under another 

 prominent Nashville man, M. F. Greene, of 

 the Davidson-Benedict Company, who was 

 then associated with this concern, as general 

 bookkeeper. Shortly after making this 

 change Mr. Love entered the office of the 

 Edgefield & Nashville Manufacturing Com- 

 pajiy, manufacturers of lumber and furni- 

 ture, as bookkeeper, but was obliged to give 

 up his work in 1888 on account of failing 

 health, which necessitated a change of cli- 

 n;ate. A year's sojourn in San Diego, Cal., 

 proved of great benefit to him, and in 1889 

 he returned to act as manager for the Edge- 

 field & Nashville concern. 



In 1890 Mr. Love decided to enter the 

 lumber trade on his own account, and ac- 

 cordingly organized the firm of J. W. Love 

 & Co., to do a general lumber jobbing busi- 

 ness. His next step was to buy out the Sootts- 

 ville Lumber Company, located at Scotts- 

 \illc, Ky., a concern which manufactured 

 large quantities of oak and poplar, and op- 

 erated several small mills. These interests 

 demanded that he move to Scottsville, where 

 he lived for five years, or until 1895, return- 

 ing at that time to Nashville, which he made 

 headquarters for the management of the 



operations and the job- 



NUMBEB XLIV. 



Scottsville district 

 bing business. 



In 1899 the house of Love, Boyd & Co. was 

 organized, with J. W. Love, his brother, Ham- 

 ilton Love, and John W. Boyd as principals; 

 some years later James D. Read was ad- 

 mitted to membership in the firm; all four 

 gentlemen are still connected with it, acting 

 as general manager, sales manager, timber 

 expert, and sawmill superintendent, respect- 

 ively. The company maintains a general of- 

 fice at Nashville, but operates largely in 

 Kentuck.y, having yards at Scottsville, Ky., 

 Westmoreland, Hartsville, Bon Aqua and 



LEAF AXD FKUIT OF TIN OAK. 



Nashville, and producing about 100,000 feet 

 of hardwood lumber every day. This output 

 consists of poplar, oak, chestnut, hickory, 

 ash, sycamore and red cedar, with quartered 

 oak the specialty. The main yards are lo- 

 cated at Scottsville, where the company car- 

 ries from .5,000,000 to 10,000,000 feet of 

 lumber in stock at all times, and a like quan- 

 tity distributed among the various mill yards. 

 Mr. Love is president of the Nashville Tie 

 & Cedar Company, large handlers of red ce- 

 dar poles, posts, piling and railroad ties. As- 

 sociated with him in this enterprise are the 

 other members of the firm of Love, Boyd 

 & Co., John B. Ransom & Co., and Walter 

 Keith ; the two first-named concerns handle 

 out about 3,000 cars annually. Mr. Love is 

 also president and principal owner of the 

 Green River Coal & Coke Company of Island, 

 Ky., which concern produces seven to eight 

 hundred tons of coal daily; he is interested 

 in other lumber enterprises, but the indus- 



tries above named require most of his atten- 

 tion and energy. 



A concern entirely outside the lumber field, 

 of which Mr. Love is president, is the Mark- 

 land Company, Limited, of Markland, Cape 

 Forchu, Nova Scotia, which owns some very 

 valuable property in that section, which it in- 

 tends to develop into a seaside resort that 

 will be second to none. A handsome hotel 

 or ' ' Summer Home ' ' will be maintained, and 

 the company operates a safe line of steam- 

 ers between Yarmouth and Markland; many 

 other advantages are offered for building cot- 

 tages on the property. The promoters in- 

 tend to beautify the laud until, with its nat- 

 ural scenery, it shall be the garden spot of 

 Nova Scotia. 



Mr. Love was married in 1891 to Miss 

 W^ade of Kentucky; they have three chil- 

 dren — Jack, Eleanor and Mary Hamilton. He 

 is exceedingly domestic in his tastes, and to 

 quote his own words, "can be found at home 

 most of the time," when business does not 

 absolutely demand his attention. 



On meeting Mr. Love one is impressed with 

 his bright and pleasing personality, and on 

 better acquaintance invariably finds him to 

 be the embodiment of energy and integrity. 

 These characteristics have justly brought him 

 to the high position he now occupies in the 

 affairs of his native city, and in the confi- 

 dence of his fellow lumbermen the country 



The Hoo-Hoo Annual. 



Cliaiimau .Terome 11. Sheip of Philadelphia, 

 exofflcio head o£ the various committees of east- 

 ern Hoo-Hoo, having in charge the reception and 

 entertainment ot the order at Atlantic City in 

 September next, has notllied all committees to 

 start active work in the matter o£ arrangements 

 for the annual, which will occur Sept. 9, 10 

 and 11. The time intervening between the Phil- 

 adelphia meeting in February, at which these 

 committees were appointed, has been spent by 

 Mr. Sheip and the various committee members 

 in formulating general plans so that all arrange- 

 ments can start off right foot. Mr. Sheip has 

 just concluded a week's visit at Atlantic City 

 and reports with much pleasure that he has 

 secured the use of the Steel Pier at that famous 

 watering resort for $150. This is a big 

 concession. The Bureau of Publicity & In- 

 formation will also furnish Mr. Sheip with 

 5,000 booklets descriptive of Atlantic City 

 — its various hotels and places of inter- 

 est — which he will immediately distrib- 

 ute among the members of each Hoo-Hoo 

 jurisdiction. Of course, Atlantic City requires 

 no formal introduction in any section of the 

 country, as its fame is world-wide and the an- 

 nual will afford them an opportunity to spend a 

 week or two at this popular resort. 



In the next thirty days the Committee on Ac- 

 commodations and Entertainment will meet and 

 pass on the Steel Pier proposition, but it prac- 

 tically goes without saying that the convention 

 will be held there. The finance and the other 

 general committees will proceed with their work 

 at once in order that plans may be pretty well 

 matured before the summer vacation time. 



Chairman Sheip will hold another big concate- 

 nation in Philadelphia about the middle of May. 

 The enthusiasm of the eastern members of the 

 order for the success of the forthcoming annual 

 is active and it is hoped that in view of the 

 opportunities afforded for a good time through 

 both the meeting and the resort at which it will 

 be held there will be a large attendance of mem- 

 bers of the order from all sections of the coun- 

 try. 



