Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1897 — Samuel Lover and His Mother. [ARTICLE]

Samuel Lover and His Mother.

Samuel Lover was born in Dublin, February 24, 1797. His father was a man of business, and, as the eldest son, Samuel was able, at 16 years of age, to fulfill the duties of head clerk (for he was as clever at correspondence and figures as he was at everything else), and so save much expense to the firm. It was natural to wish that he should remain in it. My father, however, possessed such strong artistic talents that business was distasteful to him, and he longed to follow another path in life. He had had the misfortune to lose his mother when he was a boy of 12. She would probably have understood and forwarded his aspirations; for the tendbrest affection had existed between them, and throughout life he revered the memory of his mother as the sweetest and best of women. His talents he probably inherited in part from her, as well as his amiable and lovable character.— Century.