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Smoloff Palace Love (Muhlenberg County, teacher, merchant, attorney; lt col & col 11th KY)

b. 1826-05-10 d. 1903

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, teacher, merchant, soldier, and attorney. Lincoln County, Kentucky, native. Married Jane McConnell Love in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, on July 15, 1850. Father of Nannie M. Love, John G. Love, Mary B. Love, Ann R. Love, Fannie Love, Buella Love, and Jennie Love. Attended Columbia Academy in Missouri. Served in the 1st Missouri Volunteers from 1846 to 1847. Teacher in Muhlenberg County from 1849 to 1857. Owned three enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1850. Merchant in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and colonel from 1861 to 1864. Attorney in Greenville, Kentucky, in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 249A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Subdivision 2, p. 133.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 663.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 1, p. 96B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Greenville, p. 447A.

"Col Smoloff Pallas Love (1826-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial #49427298, accessed August 30, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49427298.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 248.

James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appletons’ Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), 34.

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County Marriages, Film #000557316, p. 255.

Citation

Love, Smoloff Palace. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213288 (November 12, 2026).

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