Loveless, J. R.

Flourished: Vermilion County, Illinois

Loveless fought in the Black Hawk War alongside Abraham Lincoln before becoming co-editor of a Democratic newspaper in Danville, Illinois.

Muster Roll of Captain Jacob M. Early’s Company of Mounted Volunteers; Lottie E. Jones, History of Vermilion County, Illinois (Chicago: Pioneer, 1911), 1:359.