Edgar Love Killed When Train Struck His Car, Oct. 8, 1920

Mr. Edgar Love of Lincolnton, prominent cotton manufacturer and Democratic chairman of the ninth district executive committee, was killed near Charlotte yesterday morning when his automobile was struck by a Southern passenger train. The funeral will be held at Lincolnton tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. Love was an unusually able man and his death is a loss to the state. (From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 9, 1920)