Reviews, Notes and Comments 429 REV. NATHANIEL BARRETT COULSON LOVE Rev. Nathaniel Barrett Coulson Love was born in Rushville, Ohio, October 29, 1830. He died at his home in Perrysburg, Ohio, December 29, 1922. He had there- fore passed his ninety-second birthday. He was one of the pioneer ministers of Ohio. His father, William Love, was Scotch-Irish; his mother, Susannah Force, was of English and Scotch-Irish descent. Rev. Love was educated in the common schools, and privately taught by his father; he began his ministry in the Northern Ohio Annual Conference of the M. E. Church in 1853; in 1856 he was transferred to the Central Ohio Conference. He held pastorates in a number of cities in northern Ohio. He was for many years a lecturer in various Chautauqua assemblies in |
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Ohio and other states. He was a Lakeside pio- neer, having been in at- tendance at the meetings there since the founding of the camp grounds al- most fifty years ago. He was connected with the assemblies there from 1879 to 1883 in the ca- pacity of normal class teacher of adults, teacher of boys and girls and blackboard artist. He was an authority on Lakeside history as well as that of the Methodist |
Church in northwestern Ohio. He was author of a |