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Samuel Dare Love
b. April 26, 1856
in Glasgow, Iowa
d. January 20, 1937
in Skagit, Washington
Anna Louisa Thompson
b. September 1858
in Des Moines Co., Iowa
d. December 12, 1923
in Everett, Washington
Samuel Dare and Anna Louisa Love were married
January 15, 1878 in Albia, Iowa
Anna was the daughter of John (born June 1832 in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania) and Elvira Eleanor "Vie" Patterson (born May 4, 1837 in Ohio) Thompson. Anna and Samuel's Marriage Record appears below:
Harry Dare Love
b. November 12, 1880 in
Harlan, Shelby Co., Iowa
m. Pearl A. John
(b. 1887 in South Dakota
d. July 22, 1958 in
Everett, Washington)
May 23, 1909
in Seattle, Washington
d. April 29, 1960 in
King Co., Washington
Samuel Dare Love was one of the three children born to James Hamilton and Susan Love while living in Glasgow, Iowa. The family relocated to Albia, some 50 miles west of Glasgow, in early 1862 where James Hamilton opened his first dry goods store later that same year, when Samuel would have been about 20 years old.
Interesting information about Anna's younger brother,
James Kaster Thompson
According to the 1920 U.S. Census, Alva Johnson lived with her family at 2019 Wetmore in Everett, while James Thompson Love lived nearby with his parents at 2708 Baker Ave.
James Thompson Love and Alva Katherine Johnson were married in 1922, probably in Everett, Washington. Their daughter, Marilyn Love, was born in 1924 and their son, James Torrence Love, was born June 18, 1925, both in Everett, Washington.
The 1944 Everett, Washington City Directory shows James and Alva living at 815 Grand with James employed in the grocery business. Daughter Marilynn (new spelling), employed by FWWco. (Woolworths?) and son James T. employed by USN, were living with their parents.
The 1955 Everett, Washington City Directory lists James and Alva still residing at 815 Grand Avenue, but James was, by that time, in the realty business, a partner with
Arthur W. Greene operating as Love-Greene Realty at 2905 Wetmore Avenue. James also volunteered as Chairman of the Everett City Planning Commission. Daughter Marilynn was still living with her parents, but no occupation was shown.
Samuel and Anna became the parents of 3 children while living in Iowa; Harry Dare was born in Harlan, Iowa, Daphne Marjory and James Thompson in Albia. Daphne Love stated in a letter dated December 14, 1946 that the family and Anna's parents left Albia in 1898, the year her brother Harry Dare Love graduated from Albia High School, and moved to Ransom, North Dakota, where they appear in the June 16, 1900 US Census.
According to Samuel's great-nephew, Delbert Love, Samuel's father, James Hamilton Love, owned land in both Missouri and North Dakota, as a hedge against the ups and downs of retail sales and it is thought that Samuel may have been given farmland in North Dakota by his father.
According to Daphne's 1946 letter, the Loves lived in North Dakota for 7 years, then relocated to Everett, Snohomish County, Washington (where Samuel's sister, Eliza Anne Love McDonald and family were already living) in 1905. The 1910 U.S. Census shows Samuel Dare, Anna, their son James Thompson, and Anna's mother, Elvira, living in Everett. (John Thompson died December 6, 1907.) Samuel is shown as the owner of his own home and a grocer by trade. James Thompson is listed as a clerk in a grocery store. By 1920, the census shows Samuel working as a "sawyer" in a sawmill and James Thompson, still living at home, working as a produce company salesman.
According to family history, Jim King graduated from the University of Washington, was an aeronautical engineer, worked for Boeing, was in the Navy during WWII and later was a career Naval officer. He was married to Helen Moore King (birth, death, and marriage dates unknown) and lived in the San Francisco area while working for the Science and Research Dept. at Stanford University. Jim and Helen adopted a son in 1956. Jim died January 4, 1971 in San Mateo Co, CA
James Thompson Love
b. April 29, 1891
in Albia, Iowa
d. October 24, 1957 in
Seattle, Washington
Alva Katherine Johnson
b. June 10, 1899 in
Keokuk, Iowa
d. February 10, 1989 in
San Mateo, California
James and Alva Love were married in Everett, WA in 1922
Alva Katherine Johnson was born June 10, 1899 in Keokuk, Iowa, the daughter of Albin F. Johnson, a carpenter (born in March 1864 in Sweden) and Helga Gladd Johnson (born in September 1867 in Sweden). The family relocated to Everett, Washington at some time before 1906, as her younger brother, Gordon was born there in 1906.
Daphne Marjory Love
b. May 13, 1889
in Albia, Iowa
m. Lewis Moses King
(b. September 7, 1883 in Island Lake, Minnesota)
(d. March 21, 1949 in Everett, Washington)
June 19, 1909 in
Everett, Washington
d. February 8, 1977
in Everett, Washington
Washington State National Guard record showing Harry Dare's registration:
Harry Dare and Pearl A. Love are shown as newlyweds living in Everett, WA in the 1910 U.S. Census. Harry was a bookkeeper for a bank. Harry Dare Love's 1918 Draft registration indicates he was assistant cashier at the Pine Street branch of the Bank of Commerce in Everett and that he and his wife, Pearl A. Love, were living at 1308 Rockefeller in Everett. The 1930 U.S. Census shows the couple still living in Everett and Harry as bookkeeper for a "stage company." Harry and Pearl Love had no children.
Daphne and her husband, Lewis King, are shown in the 1910 U.S. Census with Lewis working as a bookkeeper in a shingle mill.
The Kings' only child, James Robert King, was born in Everett October 18, 1911.
Lewis' 1918 Draft registration shows the family living at 2708 Baker Street in Everett. The 1930
U.S. Census shows the family still living in Everett with Lewis working as assistant secretary for a land company and James working as a truck driver for a grocery store. By 1940, Jim King was employed as a material control clerk in an airplane factory. Lewis was still working in real estate.
Photograph of Daphne Love King
courtesy of Bruce & Linda Ollinger
After the family left Albia, Iowa in 1898 and relocated to North Dakota, Harry Dare Love moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to attend the University of Minnesota where he earned both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees.
April 1952 photo of James Thompson Love in the yard of his Everett WA home with his daughter-in-law, Donna June Rankin Love.
After James Thompson Love's death, Alva Johnson Love and her daughter, Marilynn, relocated to San Mateo, California where son, James Torrence Love, lived as of 1957 according to his father's obituary. Alva died in San Mateo, California in 1989.
He and his cousin, Gerald Dean Love, had a telephone conversation in 1992, when Gerald lived in San Francisco. James was retired by that time, but had been a member of the San Francisco Stock Exchange, and lived in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco.
James Torrence Love married Donna June Rankin (born September 21, 1928 in San Francisco, California) on August 16, 1949 in Coos County, Oregon. James and Donna Love were the parents of 4 sons.
