Ohio History Journal
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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 |
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Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
work on "Object Teaching,"
many articles in papers
and contributions to magazines on
church and secular
history.
On February 18, 1900, he was appointed
by Gov-
ernor Nash on the Board of Trustees of
the Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society.
After serving
for a term of three years he was
reappointed and
served to the end of a second term in
1906. He made a
number of contributions to the
QUARTERLY of the
Society.
Rev. Love was married March 31, 1853.
North-
western Ohio was then a wilderness with
homes few
and far between. He began his ministry
and married
life as a circuit rider, traveling for
a time 200 miles
every four weeks on horse-back over mud
roads and
in all kinds of weather.
Rev. Love was an Odd Fellow and a
Mason, at the
time of his death probably the oldest
member of Ohio
in the former fraternity. He had been a
Mason for
almost half a century.
He is survived by his wife, now in her
eighty-ninth
year; two sons, Edwin G. Love of
Toledo, and S. J. Love
of Findlay; and two daughters, Mrs. F.
C. Eberly of
Perrysburg, and Mrs. Hessel Postma who
resides at
Zeist, Holland.
Rev. Love was a life member of the Ohio
State
Archaeological and Historical Society
and a very short
time before his death was still reading
with interest
the contributions to the QUARTERLY. He is
affection-
ately remembered by many of his fellow
members of the
Society who recall his interest in
history, his genial
character and his broadminded sympathy
for his
fellow man in all walks of life.