Don Lathrop Love


Don Lathrop Love was mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska in two non-consecutive terms, 1909–11 and 1929-31. He was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, on March 7, 1863, and died in Lincoln on September 12, 1940.
He married Julia Larrabee, daughter of Iowa governor William Larrabee on August 18, 1891. Though childless, they adopted an orphan boy, Charles Burton Robbins whom they raised as their own son. Charles Burton Robbins was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in 1943 with full military honors.
Love is now remembered in Lincoln for his gifts to higher education: