Finding Aid to the John Marion Love Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
JOHN MARION LOVE (1878-1952) PAPERS, 1922-1948
The collection consists of official personnel records for John M. Love, 19221948, records released by Carol E. Porter, Workforce Records Management Division,
Personnel Systems and Oversight Group, U.S. Office of Personnel Management,
Washington, DC. These files include the official personnel and employee medical folder
of Dr. Love, with additional folders of temporary and duplicate records: promotion
requests, transfer requests, applications, miscellaneous letters and notes, as well as
articles written for publication by Dr. Love.
Folder 1-1

Medical and service records 1922-1948

Folder 1-2

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1922-1933

Folder 1-3

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1934-1946

Folder 1-4

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1946-1948
JOHN MARION LOVE, 1878-1952

John Marion LOVE son of John Marion and Anna Catharine (ROPER) LOVE
was born May 24, 1878, in Amherst County, Virginia. A 1904 graduate of Johns
Hopkins Medical School, Dr. LOVE established his practice in ophthalmology and
otolaryngology in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1917, he was commissioned a Captain in the
Medical Reserve Corps and was called into active duty in 1918, serving as surgeon and
medical examiner with the American Expeditionary Force in France. After returning to
private practice for a few years, Dr. LOVE entered the U.S. Public Health Service
hospital system. These hospitals were taken over by the Veteran’s Bureau (later
Veteran’s Administration) in 1924. Following a career in several veterans’ hospitals
across the United States, Dr. LOVE retired in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1948, and with his
wife, Grace (EVANS) LOVE, moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where he continued to
practice medicine until his death on December 6, 1952.
[Additional information can be found in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 36, no. 3, July-September 1992,
pp. 201-206]

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