Love, Alfred Henry (1830–1913)

US radical pacifist and merchant. A pioneering pacifist of highest principles, he was a wool merchant who resisted the Civil War by refusing to sell his goods for army use. When he was drafted in 1863, he refused to serve or procure a substitute. Founder of the Universal Peace Society in 1866 (later renamed the Universal Peace Union), he and its members worked for a reconciliation between North and South and other human rights issues. He pioneered the concept of arbitration and served as a strike mediator in the 1880s. An uncompromising opponent of militarism, he fought for an international court, but by the eve of the Spanish-American war was considered impractical by fellow pacifists and he was even burned in effigy. Love was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.