The Sedalia Democrat
Sedalia, Missouri
7 May 1930
Robertus Love, poet author and critic, and a friend of Mark Twain, died in a hospital here today of arterio-sclerosis, after a brief illness. He was 63 years old and for the last two years had been literary editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He formerly was a poet-reporter on the staff of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and also the old St. Louis Republic.
Mr. Love was born in Irondale, Mo., the son of a clergyman. He was reared in Pike county. He attended McCune College at Louisiana going later to Lincoln, Ill., University.
From the age of 20 he was actively in newspaper work. He served with the press of Louisiana, Mo., then with daily papers in Wichita, Kan., Ashbury Park, N.J., and New London, Conn., before coming to St. Louis.
Mr. Love wrote much of Missouri and the Missouri Ozarks. When Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) made his final visit in 1902 to the Missouri scenes of his boyhood, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Missouri, then with the Post-Dispatch, accompanied him. The humorist showed a great liking for Love and facetiously introduced him at various places as "my son."
Sedalia, Missouri
7 May 1930
Robertus Love, poet author and critic, and a friend of Mark Twain, died in a hospital here today of arterio-sclerosis, after a brief illness. He was 63 years old and for the last two years had been literary editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He formerly was a poet-reporter on the staff of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and also the old St. Louis Republic.
Mr. Love was born in Irondale, Mo., the son of a clergyman. He was reared in Pike county. He attended McCune College at Louisiana going later to Lincoln, Ill., University.
From the age of 20 he was actively in newspaper work. He served with the press of Louisiana, Mo., then with daily papers in Wichita, Kan., Ashbury Park, N.J., and New London, Conn., before coming to St. Louis.
Mr. Love wrote much of Missouri and the Missouri Ozarks. When Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) made his final visit in 1902 to the Missouri scenes of his boyhood, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Missouri, then with the Post-Dispatch, accompanied him. The humorist showed a great liking for Love and facetiously introduced him at various places as "my son."
The Sedalia Democrat
Sedalia, Missouri
7 May 1930
Robertus Love, poet author and critic, and a friend of Mark Twain, died in a hospital here today of arterio-sclerosis, after a brief illness. He was 63 years old and for the last two years had been literary editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He formerly was a poet-reporter on the staff of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and also the old St. Louis Republic.
Mr. Love was born in Irondale, Mo., the son of a clergyman. He was reared in Pike county. He attended McCune College at Louisiana going later to Lincoln, Ill., University.
From the age of 20 he was actively in newspaper work. He served with the press of Louisiana, Mo., then with daily papers in Wichita, Kan., Ashbury Park, N.J., and New London, Conn., before coming to St. Louis.
Mr. Love wrote much of Missouri and the Missouri Ozarks. When Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) made his final visit in 1902 to the Missouri scenes of his boyhood, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Missouri, then with the Post-Dispatch, accompanied him. The humorist showed a great liking for Love and facetiously introduced him at various places as "my son."
Sedalia, Missouri
7 May 1930
Robertus Love, poet author and critic, and a friend of Mark Twain, died in a hospital here today of arterio-sclerosis, after a brief illness. He was 63 years old and for the last two years had been literary editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He formerly was a poet-reporter on the staff of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and also the old St. Louis Republic.
Mr. Love was born in Irondale, Mo., the son of a clergyman. He was reared in Pike county. He attended McCune College at Louisiana going later to Lincoln, Ill., University.
From the age of 20 he was actively in newspaper work. He served with the press of Louisiana, Mo., then with daily papers in Wichita, Kan., Ashbury Park, N.J., and New London, Conn., before coming to St. Louis.
Mr. Love wrote much of Missouri and the Missouri Ozarks. When Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) made his final visit in 1902 to the Missouri scenes of his boyhood, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws at the University of Missouri, then with the Post-Dispatch, accompanied him. The humorist showed a great liking for Love and facetiously introduced him at various places as "my son."
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