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Access Genealogy Library: Some Data, Letters, and Memoranda Collected by FRANKLIN D. LOVE, Relating to the LOVE FAMILY, by Dennis N. Partridge, Volume I, first series.
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only had some of his kind now! I recall no incident of his life worth relating in this connection. I suggest that Judge Ingersoll of Knoxville who went with him several trips to the outlying counties, in the early years succeeding the late war, could give you some facts worth keeping.
Very truly,
S. J. Kirkpartrick
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Knoxville, Tenn. April 13th, 1903.
Mr. Franklin D. Love,
Georgetown, Texas.
Dear Sir:
I have yours of the 9th, inst., and time fails me to comply with your request to tell you all I know about my dear departed friend-your Father, both as a man and as a lawyer. I regret this because you naturally desire to know about my dear departed friend-your Father, both as a man and as a lawyer. I regret this because you naturally desire to know what you can about your parental ancestor, one of the noblest gentlemen of the Watauga country, and because I have nothing but pleasant recollections of a decade of disinterested friendship when I was a young and ambitious lawyer in the old first circuit and he a genial gentleman in the enjoyment of his matured faculties and his wide circle of friends.
I came to East Tennessee in 1865, a boy 21 years of age, when the embers of the fires of civil strife were still alive and Washington and Carter Counties were filled with the bitter feuds of those days. My service in the Federal Army gave me liberty of speech and immunity from attack, not enjoyed by many, and my warmest friends soon became to be the Southern gentlemen of this section including your father, Judge Deaderick, Alfred Taylor's family and associates and Maj. Folsom. My circuit included both these countries and Johnson likewise, and I often met with your father at Johnson City, Jonesboro and Elizabethton and we were companions in one famous ride from Taylorsville, now Mountain City, to Elizabethton, which I shall never forget because of the perils to which we were exposed and the dangers that we escaped; but the story is too long for narration now.
I knew him in connection with that remarkable man, David Haynes, whose association would furnish pages of anecdotes. My acquaintance with your father, though somewhat professional, was more social and personal. I was often at his house and sometime entrusted with business which the disturbed social conditions made tolerable and dangerous to him, the perils of which were a pleasure to me. I delighted in our companionship, whether at his home or at my rooms at the hotel, where he was always a welcome visitor. He was a genial, joyous, wholesouled, kindly man, who seemed most happy when he was giving delight to others; and his power as a conversationalist, his hearty laughter, his fund of anecdotes and his noble person made him a welcome guest at any company.
He rather avoided the strenuous side of professional life. His preference was for chancery practice, while my practice in those days led me into contests, some times hot and fiery in the circuit and criminal courts.
I do not recollect being opposed to him but in a single case, and that was an equity suit in which his old partner, Nat. M. Taylor, another one of Nature's noblemen, did most
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