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- MARRIAGE: Never married. Mother of his son was Mildred R. ----, who later married Lloyd WHITE. She died 19 Feb 1969 in Swedish Hospital, Seattle, and buried by Greenlake Funeral Home of Seattle. Their son was killed early in life.
MILITARY: WWI in England.
CENSUS: 1920 NEW YORK, Kings County, Brooklyn. Mates aboard SS West Eldora. L. A. Lovejoy 28 KS KS KS.
OCCUPATION: Early in life, he was a wireless operator; he flew airplanes about 1910, and is considered a spark plug ancestor; later he was a constable (sheriff) in Seattle.
DEATH: Ashes scattered off the Olympic Coast, but a headstone was placed next to his father at Acacia Cemetery, Seattle.
RELIGION: Raised a Protestant.
POPULAR MECHANICS, April 1929, page 651 (Google Books on Internet)
.....ARTICLE: “SIGNING OFF – HEROES OF SOS”
.....It was Adolph J. Swenson who, with his chief Loren A. Lovejoy, rigged up an auxiliary set as soon as the water ran off the storage batteries at another lurch of the sinking "Hanalei." When the wireless cabin was swept overboard, he assisted the chief in sending signals to the nearby Pacific shore with a flashlight. In spite of the fact that men on land could see the signals, it was almost impossible, due to the storm and terrain, for them to effect a rescue. When only wreckage remained of the "Hanalei," Loren Lovejoy was picked up from the piece of driftwood to which lie was clinging by a passing ship. Adolph Svenson was added to that band who died on duty.
.....MY NOTE: Sailing from Eureka, California, with 62 persons on board and a cargo of lumber, live cattle, sheep and hogs, Hanalei was lost on November 23, 1914, as she neared the Golden Gate, San Francisco. The schooner ran aground on Duxbury Reef opposite of the Marconi Wireless Station in Bolinas around noon on Monday, November 23. Thick fog obscured the water, and the steamer struck the rocks without warning, tearing off the rudder. Stuck on the rocks, Hanalei remained in the surf for 18 hours as rescuers, alerted by the ship's wireless SOS, gathered on shore. Efforts to rig a breeches buoy failed, and as night fell, would-be rescuers lit bonfires on the beach to wait for morning. When Hanalei disintegrated, passengers and crew were thrown into the surf. The battering of wreckage and the loose lumber cargo, as well as the choking effect of the ship's diesel fuel on the water took a deadly toll; 23 passengers and crew members died as they struggled to reach the shore. A number persons were saved when the lifesaving steamer McCulloch's crew plucked them from the water; others washed alive to the beach after several hours in the water, buoyed by floating wreckage.
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1891 - 1977 (86 years)
