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Loveville
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, John B Linn, 1883, p316
"The hamlet known as Loveville, lying west from Half-Moon Run, was founded in 1855 by James Love. Mr. Love was a tailor in Philadelphia in 1832, and in that year set out for New Orleans, where he thought to find a more fruitful field of labor than the one in the Quaker City. En route, however, he was persuaded to tarry in Huntingdon County, Pa., where, in July, 1836, he met Gilbert L. Lloyd, then carrying on Hannah Furnace, in Centre County, as well as a store at Stormstown. Mr. Lloyd wanted a tailor at Stormstown, and pressed Love strongly to go over and establish himself as an adjunct to the Lloyd store. In 1839 he married one of the daughters of John Gray.
Mr. Love purchased the Hastings tract, now occupied in part by the site of Loveville. The Hastings tract joined Thomas Wilson's property, upon which the Moores had built, years before, a grist- and sawmill. Mr. Love cleared up a farm, and having in 1855 built a store and purchased the old Moore mills, the foundation for a village was satisfactorily laid.
Loveville post-office was established in 1867 as the successor of Centre Line post-office, and Ira Fisher appointed postmaster. Love carried on the store until 1867, when he sold out to Ira Fisher, but became repossessed of it in 1870, in which year he was also commissioned postmaster. In April, 1881, Mr. Love removed to Huntingdon County. Rhoades & Smith bought the store business. S. Smith was commissioned postmaster in 1881. Centre Line post-office was established on the valley road about 1850, when Thomas McCulloch was commissioned postmaster. His successor was Thomas Wasson, and upon his resignation the office was transferred to Joseph B. Shugert, in Huntingdon County. Shugert's term ended, H. Bowman, of Half-Moon, was appointed, and in 1860, Cyrus Cronister became his successor. From Cronister the office passed to Loveville."
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