George Lovelock

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Saturday, 30 Mar 1906 Daily Nevada State Journal Pioneer Of Two States and Hero Of Many Thrilling Adventures Is Dead

Death Of A Man Who Had Two Towns In His Name

Once Shipwrecked on Hawaii Island

George Lovelock Succumbs To Over-exertion And Dies In His Home In This State

"George Lovelock, eighty three years old, a pioneer of two states and the hero of many adventures, died at the home of his daughter in Lovelock Thursday morning of pneumonia, contracted by exposure. When Mr. Lovelock returned a week ago from California, where he had spent the winter, he insisted on going first to Cottonwood Canyon, fifty miles away, where he had mines, and then to Trinity, half as far in the other direction. The cold weather coupled with the infirmity of old age, was too much for him and he died after three days illness. W.C. Ruddle, county commissioner of Humboldt, is his son in law, and came in for a casket. He gave the following account of the old man's life.

Wrecked In Hawaii George Lovelock was born in England, March 11, 1824. He married early in his life, Miss Mary Forest, and soon afterwards took ship to Austrilia. His son Fred, now in Lovelock, was born on the ship. Mr. Lovelock worked in the copper mines for two years and then started for the Sandwich Islands with his family. They were wrecked on a reef seven miles from port and their little daughter died. Leaving Fred and his mother at the islands he came to San Francisco on the schooner Starlin, arriving April 3, 1850. On the voyage he overheard some desperadoes planning to capture the ship and turn pirates, and in the night revealed the plot to the captain, who battered down the hatchways when the robbers were asleep. When the ship arrived at port, the captain let them up ine by one and surrendered then to the authorities, but later they escaped.

Two Towns Of Lovelock Lovelock built the secons house in Oroville and his son Thomas was the first child born in the town. In 1852 he built a little store on Butte Creek and a town sprung up which is still named Lovelock for the founder. In 1855 he built the Honey Lake wagon road and in 1866 mived to Lovelock, Nevada, the second town named for him. He was the father of eight children, four of them living, Fred, Tom, Mrs. L.M. Carpenter and Mrs. W.C. Ruddle, with many grandchildren and great grandchildren. One son was killed in the tragedy of 1894 (the story is quite hard to read at this point)

A Great Prospector The first Mrs. Lovelock died in 1882, Mrs. Evans, the second wife, was drowned while fishing in the river a few years after their marriage. George Lovelock developed more mines and did more real prospecting than almost any man that ever lived in Nevada."