Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Kline, James A. 1813 - 
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     JAMES A. KLINE, who has been engaged so successfully in carrying on farming and
stock-raising on his fine farm on section 22, Kingston township, is a native of
Amsterdam, Montgomery county, N. Y., born December 17, 1813. He remained in the
place of his nativity until some twenty-two years of age, when he emigrated to the
wilds of Michigan, settling in Genesee county, where he was engaged in farming and
lumbering. From there about 1855, he removed to Winnebago county, Ill., where he
made his home until 1867, when he came to Meeker county, and settled where he now
lives. He received in his youth the elements of a good common-school education and
by a diligent use of it has well-informed himself on all general subjects. While a
resident of Michigan he went to Tuolumne county, Cal., where” he engaged in mining
for two years and then returned home. Most of his life has been actively engaged in
agricultural pursuits, but having succeeded in achieving an easy competence, he is
spending his declining years in the enjoyment of home.

    Our subject is the son of Adam and Elizabeth (Cryslor) Kline, both of whom wore
natives of the Empire State, and who emigrated to Michigan in 1838, where the father
died at the age of fifty-two years. His wife, the mother of our subject, died after
attaining some eighty-three years. They had a family of twelve children—William A.,
born August 21, 1810, died April 15, 1840; A. C., born May 31,1812; James A., born
December 17, 1813; John, born January 21, 1851; Joseph, born August 20, 1823;
George, born November 10, 1827; Sarah Jane, born March 23, 1830; Henry, born May 15,
1832, enlisted in the Eighth Michigan Infantry, and was killed July 12, 1861; Maria,
born April 28, 1819, died August 1, 1822; Margaret, born November 17, 18S22, died
August 8, 1823; and Elizabethi J., born January, 1826, died November 8,1826.

  James A. Kline was first married on the 11thi of October, 18410, in Michigan, to
Mary Ann Perry. They had one son, who is living—George P. Kline, a resident of
Dakota.

  Mr. Kline’s second marriage occurred December 12, 1818, when he was wedded to Mrs.
Ann Talbott, nee Shimin, who was born in England, a daughter of John and Aim
(Corris) Shimin. The date of her birth was November 21, 1815. A sketch of the Shimin
family is given elsewhere in this Album. By this union Mr. and Mrs. Kline have had
two children— Anna, wife of Mr. Hiram Ramsey, and James E., a farmer of this
township, who married Miss Emma Baker. Mrs. Kline by her former marriage had two
children— Henry T., killed in the army November 25, 1863, at Lookout Mountain, a
member of the Seventy-Fourth Illinois Infantry, and William, born January 18, 1846,
married in 1868 to Miss Amelia Boom.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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