Horace Warren Love was born around 1839 in Greece to Horace and Catherine Love. His father was a Baptist minister and missionary. The family lived in Corfu until December 1842. They returned to the United States in April 1843 and settled in Adams, Massachusetts. They moved to Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1850s. He enrolled at Brown University in 1860.
He enlisted in the Union army on January 7, 1862, and he mustered in as a private in Battery I of the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant in July 1862, and he resigned on June 12, 1863.
He settled in Brooklyn, New York, after leaving the army, and he married a woman named Emily. He edited the Brooklyn Monthly and the Long Island Farmer. He moved to Jamaica, New York, in 1869, and by 1880, he was living in Rutland, Vermont. His wife probably died in the 1870s, and he married Kate Walton. His son Horace was born around 1875. He applied for a federal pension in June 1880 and eventually received one.
He became a lawyer in the late 1800s, and he earned admission to the Vermont bar after several rejections. According to a local writer, he “closed every liquor saloon and hotel bar in Rutland, and kept them closed for some time. He died of consumption on Lake Bomoseen, Vermont, on August 15, 1899.