San Diego County Biographies
 
JOHN A. LOVE

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agriculturist, was born at Dalhousie, New Brunswick, May 19. 1846.  He was the 
second of the seven children of Alexander Love, a native of Scotland, who came 
to the province of New Brunswick in 1835. The family came to San Diego city some 
twenty years ago. John A. Love, however, was the pioneer of the family in 
California, as he had lived in the northern part of the State about five years 
before the family came to the Pacific coast. The first years of his living in 
San Diego were spent in speculating in real estate and in agriculture. His 
health failing, he went into the stock-raising business at Palomar mountain, 
seventy five miles from San Diego. Not liking to live so far from the city, he 
purchased a small but choice ranch at Alpine, thirty miles from San Diego. In 
1881 he married Lucy R. Hoagland, a teacher who came from the East.
        Mr Love takes the delight peculiar to the old settlers in relating the 
trials and tribulations that fall to the lot of the pioneer. He shot cotton-tail 
rabbits and quail on the ground where now stands the city. Once, after leaving a 
ranch out in Tia Juana to stay in town a few days, upon returning to it he found 
house, barn and all farming implements missing. Taking a chum, he proceeded to 
Mexico, rescued some of his property, but of the buildings he could hear 
nothing. Many of his friends were cruelly murdered by the Indians and Mexicans, 
who completely terrorized the country in those early days. He gives great credit 
to Mr. Hunsaker, then the Sheriff, for the quiet that followed his term, and for 
the extermination of the leaders of the outrages. Mr. Love now lives on his 
Alpine ranch, which is being rapidly developed into a model farm. Having 
traveled over the State in search of health, he considers that at Alpine, in his 
own county, he has found an ideal climate, both for people and for fruits.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  250