Richard Love
born July 6, 1832 in
Kilcar, County Donegal Ireland
died November 13, 1906
in San Francisco, California
Rosetta Hilsinger
born in about 1842
in Carlisle, New York
died September 29, 1918
in San Francisco, California
Richard Love was the 7th of Samuel and Nancy Anne Love's 10 children, born in Kilcar, County Donegal, Ireland. The 1860 U.S. Census places Richard living with several siblings in New York, New York and lists his occupation as "machinist."
Rosetta Hilsinger was the 4th of 8 children born to Jacob E. and Permelia Hilsinger, in Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York.
Richard and Rosetta are listed in the 1889, and 1890 city directories for San Francisco as living at 138 Gough Street and Richard is listed as a machinist for the Union Iron Works. The Union Iron Works was founded in San Francisco in 1849 by 3 Scots-Irish immigrants, the Donahue brothers.
Richard and Rosetta were married in about 1865 in New York where their children also were born.
Shift change at Union Iron Works. During the years Richard worked as a machinist for the Union Iron Works, the company employed over 1,200 workers.
Above: early photo of the Union Iron Works
The family left New York by 1880, as the U.S. Census for that year places Richard (still working as a machinist), and family living in San Francisco, California.
The 1900 U.S. Census shows Richard and Rosetta still residing in San Francisco, including their 3 children, son Samuel Hilsinger Love, (born June 14, 1865 in New York) daughter Marian R. (Rosetta?) Love (who was known as "Minnie" in all available records and born March 1868) and son Andrew Crawford Love (born December 1869).
Richard's 1860 U.S. Census Record
Richard Elmer Love was born July 26, 1896 in San Francisco, California. He served as a U.S. Army Sergeant in World War I from October 1, 1917 to June 24, 1919.
Richard married Bertha Hill on July 1, 1948 in Marin County, California. Bertha was born December 10, 1896 in California and died December 23, 1974 in Marin County. Richard Elmer Love died July 11, 1971 in Marin County, California and is buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, CA which is pictured below:
To the left is Richard's 1942 draft registration bearing his own signature.
The company referred to on the card, Smith, Lynden & Company, were "commission merchants and wholesale dealers in dairy, produce and provisions" located at 76-78 Clay Street in San Francisco.
Richard Elmer and Elvera G. Love
Succeeding Generations
Living Love (son)
Living Love (son)
Living Love (son)
Living Evans (daughter)
Living Evans (daughter)
Living Evans (daughter)
Living Love (son)
Living Love (son - twin)
Living Love (son - twin)
Richard married Elvera Gehrels Robinett (born February 7, 1896) in 1920. According to the 1930 U.S. Census for San Francisco, Richard worked as a buyer for a wholesale grocery company. At that time, Elvera's 68 year old mother, Anna Robinett, was living with the couple. Richard and Elvera divorced in the early 1930's, and Elvera died May 26, 1977 in Marin County, California.
The Decendants of Richard and Rosetta Hilsinger Love
Samuel Hilsinger Love was born June 14, 1865 in New York. Voter registration records from 1888-1898 describe him as being about 5'-10" tall, dark complected, with blue eyes and black hair.
Samuel spent most of his career as a successful designer and maker of patterns used by tailors in the garment trade, but by 1923, he became a public school teacher. He and Elise had two children, Richard Elmer Love, and Mildred E. Love.
Samuel Hilsinger Love died April 10, 1929 in San Francisco and Elise Holm Love died May 22, 1969 in San Rafael, Marin Co., California.
Samuel married Elise Holm on April 22, 1895 in San Francisco. According to her descendents, Elise was born in Sweden January 6, 1874 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1893. The 1920 U.S. Census shows that Elise's 85 year-old mother, Marie Gronvoll Holm, was living with the family.
Andrew Crawford Love was born in December 1869 in New York. The name "Andrew Crawford" may well have been given to him in honor of Andrew Crawford, husband of his aunt, Frances Walker Love Crawford.
Although the 1890 City Directory for San Francisco lists Andrew's occupation as "apprentice" at Union Iron Works, where his father was a machinist, Voter Registration records from 1890 - 1898 list him as a "pattern maker," his brother Samuel's occupation, and describe him as being 6'-1/2" tall, with a fair complexion, hazel eyes, and brown hair.
The 1900 U.S. Census for San Francisco shows him, at age 30, living with his parents and working as a "musician." The last public record found to date listing Andrew is the 1910 U.S. Census, at which time he was a patient in a male ward of City-County Hospital in San Francisco.
Andrew Crawford Love died March 24, 1913 in San Francisco. His death notice appears below as published in the San Francisco Call newspaper. According to a letter written by his sister, Minnie Love Haisch, and dated April 25, 1917, Andrew is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
Marian R. Love was born in New York August 14, 1872. Marion, who went by the name "Minnie," married John Jacob Haisch in 1902, who is pictured below. The photo to the right was taken June 11, 1914.
Minnie and John were the parents of Sherman Haisch who was born August 1, 1908 probably in Los Angeles, California. Sherman died just a few days after his birth.
John made good use of his army experience, as the 1910 census shows his occupation as "Roadmaster" for an electric railroad. By 1920, he owned a general merchandise store, and as of 1930 he worked as Postmaster for the U.S. Postal Service, all in Los Angeles County, California. John died September 18, 1934 in Los Angeles, California. Minnie Love Haisch died November 23, 1948 in Los Angeles. John and Minnie are buried at Inglewood Memorial Park, in Inglewood, California.
Below: a passenger list from the ship, "Virginia," which sailed from the Pacific Coast of the U.S. to New York in 1931. The list includes passengers, Mildred E. Pearson and her mother, Elise Holm Love. The Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
Thank you!
The biographical information about John J. Haisch and the photos above were furnished by the
great-grandson of his sister,
Emma Haisch Flowers,
Douglas Hart.
John J. Haisch was born Mar 28, 1868 in Miamitown, Hamilton Co., Ohio. On June 23, 1879, the day after his sister, Emma, married Thomas J. Flowers, the whole Haisch family moved to a farm in Kansas. John is shown in the 1880 census for Morris County, Kansas. In 1898 he enlisted in the army at Topeka and was sent to the Philippines in 1899 for the Insurrection, where he was assigned to the operation of a railroad. He returned to the US in 1900 and was discharged at the Presidio in San Francisco on March 16, 1901 where he more than likely met Minnie, married, then moved to Los Angeles sometime between 1902 and 1910.
Haisch family members included in above photo
Standing: Agnes (Haisch) Bausch, Minnie (Love) Haisch, John J. Haisch, Will Lifer, Alice M. (Haisch) Lifer, Walter Merritt, Sally T. (Haisch) Merritt
Seated: Jennie C. Haisch (widow of Charles C. Haisch), Betty G. (Lind) Haisch
On ground: Viola Merritt, unknown girl, John Merritt
Mildred E. Love was born April 13, 1900 in San Francisco, California. By age 18, Mildred was working for the Ingram-Rutledge Stationery Co. as a stenographer/cashier, according to the San Francisco City Directories
Swain born May 22, 1894 in Warm Springs, California of Swedish/German descent and worked as the proprietor of a food products company. Mildred returned to working as a stenographer in 1945 for Smith Lynden and Company, where her brother, Richard Love, worked as early as 1915. Mildred died January 2, 1978 and Swain died November 29, 1979, both in Marin County, California. The couple had no children.
from 1918-1921. Mildred married Swain Mathew Pearson on August 5, 1921.
Richard Love died November 13, 1906 in San Francisco, California and was buried November 16, 1906 at the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery in Colma, San Mateo County, California (this cemetery is now known as Greenlawn Memorial Park).
After Richard's death, Rosetta lived with her son, Samuel Hilsinger Love, and his family. She died September 29, 1918.
San Francisco voter registration records for 1890 - 1898 provide an interesting perspective on Richard at that time. He lived at 138 Gough St., 608 Grove St., and 2236 15th St. in San Francisco during those years. The records describe him as being of medium complexion, with blue eyes and gray hair and standing about 5'-7 1/2". He became a naturalized U.S. citizen on May 31, 1856 in the New York City Common Pleas Court. Richard's description in the 1892 record included this statement: "2 fingers of his right hand are partly off."
Above: Union Iron Works sign, 1893
Early photo of Irish Hill section of San Francisco, with Union Iron Works in the background. The address listed in the city directories of 1889 and 1890 for the Richard Love family is not in the Irish Hill section.
