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owner until 1882, when he removed to Somerset, Somerset county. Since removing to Somerset he has been made president of the Union Provision company, whose business is quite profitable and rapidly increasing.     Mr. Love is not only active in business, but is zealous and energetic in religious matters, being a working member of the Presbyterian church. He is a republican in politics, and his patriotism is such that in 1863, he enlisted and served as a drummer-boy until the close of the war, when he was honorable discharged from the Federal service at Washington, district of Columbia. He is a member of R.P. Cummins Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Somerset, Pennsylvania.     Mr. Love was born in 1844, and married Annie B. Logan, who is a Presbyterian, and now in the fifty-fourth year of her age. She is a native of Butler county and a daughter of Joseph Logan, who was of Irish descent, and a farmer by occupation.     Joseph K. Love was reared on the farm and at Saxonburg, where he passed part of his boyhood years in his father's store. He received his education in the common schools of Butler and Somerset counties and Westminster college of New Wilmington, this State, which institution of learning he attended for a year. Leaving college he accepted a position as salesman with the Somerset Dairy company, and traveled for them for nearly two years. At the end of that time he took a position with Allen Kirkpatrick & Co., wholesale grocers of Pittsburg, for whom he traveled for one year. He then, in March, 1890, went into business for himself, and formed his present partnership with William H. Sunshine, under the firm-name of Love, sunshine & Co. They engaged in the wholesale grocery business, on a limited scale, in a small, one-

story building on the corner of Main and Market streets, Johnstown, but their orders increased so rapidly that in little more than a year their place of business became too small, and they removed to their present large and well-arranged brick building at 615-617-619-621 Railroad street. From year to year their volume of business has increased until now they keep five traveling salesmen constantly on the road. They keep in stock substantial and fancy groceries of both domestic and foreign productions, and aim to supply fresh and pure goods in every line of articles which they handle. Mr. Love is among the active and enterprising men of Johnstown who has won a place for himself early in life by perseverance and well-developed calculations. He has confined himself in business strictly to the wholesale grocery business, with which he is perfectly familiar in all its details. Success has rewarded his efforts, as it has all others who have deserved and won it. He is a republican in politics, and a member of Johnstown Lodge, No. 175, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and attends and contributes to the Episcopal church of Johnstown.     On April 3, 1895, Mr. Love was united in marriage with Sarah E. Jennings, daughter of the late Richard Jennings, of Queenstown, Armstrong county. THOMAS J. ITELL, one of the young and rising lawyers of Johnstown and central Pennsylvania, is a son of John and Lucinda (Eckenrod) Itell, and was born July 4, 1862, in that part of Washington township which is now Portage township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania. Mr. Itell was reared on a farm, attended the common schools, and after teaching three terms entered the State

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