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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WESTERN M. CLINE owns and farms 400 acres of land in Summit Lake township. He

is a native of Butler county, Iowa, where he was born Jan. 23, 1864. He is one

of a family of eight children: Frank M., John C, Erwin E., Mattie J., Western

M., Milan S., Minnie A. and Lillie A. The father of this family was Alexander

Cline, who was born in Lycoming county, Pa., and who moved to Butler county,

Iowa, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of that part of the state. He spent

the greater part of his life: there, and died near Lawton, Oklahoma, July 24,

1903, aged 73 years and 7 months. Our subject's mother was Elizabeth (McCollum)

Cline, also a native of Pennsylvania. She died at Bristow, Iowa, Nov. 28, 1899,

aged 65 years.



  Our subject spent nearly his entire life in Butler county. He was educated in

the district schools and after growing. to manhood engaged in farming. He sold

out in the spring of 1900, and on March 6, of that year, arrived in Nobles

county. He located on his farm-the north half of section 9, Summit Lake-which he

had purchased in the fall of 1898. The farm was then raw prairie and unimproved

in any way. He has spent several thousand dollars in bringing it up to his

present condition. He added to his original farm in 1902 by the purchase of

eighty acres in section 4.



  Mr. Cline was married in Butler county, Iowa, May 24, 1887, to Miss Aita

Gatliff, a native of Kansas and a daughter of Reese B. and Harriette Gatliff.

Mr. and Mrs. Cline are the parents of three children: Parley L., Eola M. and

Zenas R.



  Our subject and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church of Reading. He

is a member of the M. W. A. and Royal Neighbors lodges, and a stockholder in the

Farmers Mutual Telephone company of Reading. During the last seven years he has

been a member of the Summit Lake township board, and during the last four years

has been treasurer of the school district.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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