History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 663, Farmers' Township
Prof. T. G. Love, of the Table Grove schools, was born in Mercer
Co., Pa., Dec. 2, 1849. He was reared on a farm, receiving a
common-school education, after which he attended the Westminster
College at New Wilmington, Pa., for 2 years in all, teaching at
intervals to procure money to finish his education. He has been
teaching for 15 years; is now entering upon his seventh year in the
schools of Table Grove, than which there is no better evidence of his
success as a disciplinarian and instructor. He governs without corporal
punishment. He was married June 29, 1871, to Miss Cassaline J. Wright,
daughter of Granville Wright, of Vermont tp. They have had 5 children,
of whom 3 are living, namely: Gabrielle, Rhea and Gladys. His father
was also a native of Pennsylvania, and a prosperous farmer there until
Sept., 1869, when he died.
