Don Lathrop Love

Don Lathrop Love was mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska in two non-consecutive terms, 1909–11 and 1929-31.[1] He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, on March 7, 1863,[2] and died in Lincoln on September 12, 1940.

He married Julia Larrabee,[3] daughter of Iowa governor William Larrabee on August 18, 1891. Though childless, they adopted an orphan boy, Charles Burton Robbins whom they raised as their own son. He is buried with his wife in God's Acre Cemetery in Clermont, Iowa.

Love is now remembered in Lincoln for his gifts to higher education:

Preceded by
Francis W. Brown
Mayor of Lincoln
1909 - 1911
Succeeded by
Alvin H. Armstrong
Preceded by
Verne Hedge
Mayor of Lincoln
1929 - 1931
Succeeded by
Frank Connell Zehrung

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