. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER, No. 448. Vol. XIX. SO.] JANUARY 22, 1891. [ Published Weekly. OUR PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 30.—MR. JOHN LOVE. We have much pleasure in giving this week the portrait and a biographical sketch of the veteran bee-keeper, Mr. John Love. Born in the village of Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, on 10th April, 1800, bred a hand-loom weaver, as were his father and grandfather, three Johns in line, he may be said to have been a born bee- keeper, as he re- members a saying of his father's, that in the old garden the h
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER, No. 448. Vol. XIX. SO.] JANUARY 22, 1891. [ Published Weekly. OUR PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 30.—MR. JOHN LOVE. We have much pleasure in giving this week the portrait and a biographical sketch of the veteran bee-keeper, Mr. John Love. Born in the village of Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, on 10th April, 1800, bred a hand-loom weaver, as were his father and grandfather, three Johns in line, he may be said to have been a born bee- keeper, as he re- members a saying of his father's, that in the old garden the hum of the bee had been heard without a break for sixty years. Of middle height, fair complexion, with high colour, the fringe of pretty, •fair, silky hair be- low his wide-awake behind, this ' yel- low-haired laddie' of eighty-five sum- mers is frequently taken by the stran- ger as wearing on to seventy. Still remarkably nimble and fleet of foot, •of a very amiable disposition, his laugh is as happy and jubilant now as I believe it to have been when, a boy of nine, he remembers lis- tening to accounts read from the papers of the glorious victory of Waterloo. For many years an exemplary Presbyterian elder, growing deaf- ness (his only infirmity) prevents him now from performing all the duties of the office. So healthy has he been that only once during his ME. JOHN" LOVE. long life, for a fever, has he required medical advice. He married, 12th August, 1833, Mary Cliinie, daughter of a weaver's agent in his own village, and has been blessed by a numerous offspring. A few years after his marriage the subject of our sketch moved to Mount Pleasant, beautifully situated on rising ground above the village, and occupied jointly with his brother-in-law, the upper flat as their dwelling - house — workshops below, a g'oodgarden behind. Thejpasse r-by could not but be attracted by the bee-house, a neat model of a two-storied dwell- ing-house, complete to the sweep on the chimne
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