Background
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.
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Career
Hamilton left school at the age of fifteen and worked as 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.
By 1899, he assumed charge of the Nashville office of the firm. Love was first president of the Nashville "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. He was called by some the "Daddy of the Nashville lumbermen." Love was also active in the Rotary Club.
Marriage He died on May 2, 1922 of a revolver wound to the chest, ruled a suicide.
Membership
Love"s father James was a coal merchant, a member of the firm of Love & Randle.
