Love, James Lee, 1860-1950

Love received his doctorate from Harvard in 1890 and taught mathematics at Harvard.

James Lee Love was an educator and textile company executive of Burlington, N.C.

James Lee Love (1860-1950) was an educator and textile company executive, of Burlington, N.C. Love was born in Gaston County, N.C., the oldest child of Robert Calvin Grier Love (1841-1907) and his wife Susan Elizabeth Rhyne Love. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University. He married Julia June Spencer, daughter of James and Cornelia Phillips Spencer in 1885. He taught at the University of North Carolina from 1885 to 1889 when he joined the faculty at Harvard University. He taught mathematics at Harvard until 1911, also serving as assistant dean and later dean of the Lawrence Scientific School and director of the Harvard Summer School.

In 1909 James Lee Love became treasurer of the Gastonia (N.C.) Cotton Manufacturing Company, founded by his father in 1887, and in 1923 joined his son James Spencer Lover (1897-1962) in establishing Burlington Mills Corporation with which he was associated until 1935.

James Lee and June Spencer Love had two children: Cornelia Spencer Love (born 1892) and James Spencer Love. June Spencer Love died in 1920 and in 1923 James Lee Love married Mary Elizabeth Satterfield of Henderson, Ky., by whom he had two children: Mary Elizabeth and Jean Lee. He died in Burlington, N.C.