When John Love was born in July 1828, in North Sherbrooke, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert Henry Love, was 49 and his mother, Deborah Donnahue, was 38. He married Jannett Smith on 1 August 1856, in North Sherbrooke, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Dalhousie, Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 12 July 1901, in North Sherbrooke, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Dalhousie, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.