- ISRAEL S. LOVE, born in Washington Co., N.Y.; he came to
Michigan in spring of 1832 and
- lived there till fall of 1844, when he came to Rockton, Ill.,
and engaged in manufacturing fanning mills, which he carried
on with fair success till 1847; he then came to Beloit and bought
one-third interest in a foundry and machine-shop, owned by GARDNER
& BARKER; after a little time Mr. GARDNER sold out his interest;
Mr. Charles WALKER, of Chicago, who owned the whole water-power
on the river, bought his interest, one-third of the foundry and
machine-shop business, taking it as part pay for two-thirds interest
in the water-power; in 1850, they were engaged in manufacturing
reapers, the first ever made in Wisconsin; in 1851, a heavy freshet-the
heaviest ever known -swept away the dam; they built another dam
and continued in the business; Mr. BARKER, the second partner,
died at the time, and Mr. WALKER took his one-third interest,
making him the owner of two-thirds; in 1856, Mr. LOVE also sold
out his interest to Mr. WALKER, retired from that business and
again began the manufacture of reapers, which he continued till
1860 and then suspended, and since that time he has not been
engaged in active business; he held the position of route agent
from 1861 till 1865, and then resigned his position and retired
from business altogether and has done nothing since; he owns
four lots in the city with tenement houses, and has an annual
income from them sufficient to live on. He was married in York
State, in 1830, to Nancy SMITH, and they had one child, now dead;
his wife died in Beloit, December 25, 1870; he was married again
in Erie Co., N.Y., in 1871, to Mrs. Catherine E. THURBER, a widow,
and brought her to Beloit in May, 1874, where she died March
21, 1876; then married again, in September, 1876, in Chicago,
to Mrs. Elizabeth HOSEMAN, a resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa,
and they now reside in Beloit City.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 756-757.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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