Bio of E. E. CLINE (b.1860), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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E.E. CLINE (1909)

E. E. Cline is the proprietor of the Canby Auto Company and a piano dealer
of that city.  He has been a resident of Yellow Medicine county only a few
years but has taken a prominent part in the affairs of the west end city.

Mr. Cline has devoted almost his entire life to agricultural pursuits.  He
was born in Butler county, Iowa, March 31, 1860, and that was his home for
the first forty-nine years of his life.  He was brought up on a farm and
educated in the district school.  After living at home until he reached his
majority, he engaged in farming in his native county and was so engaged
until 1909.  Then he bought a farm in Garfield township, Lac qui Parle
county, which he conducted a year and a half.  At the end of that time he
located in Canby.

Upon his arrival to Canby Mr. Cline organized the Canby Auto Company,
composed of himself, D. D. Merchant and William Franks.  The company erected
the two-story, 50 x 90 feet, cement block garage building and engaged in the
automobile and garage business.  The gentlemen named conducted the business
as partners until April, 1913, when Mr. Franks retired from the firm; and on
August 1, 1913, Mr. Cline became sole proprietor.  He now conducts the
repair shop and leases part of the building to Messrs. Franks and Nelson,
who sell automobiles.  Mr. Cline sells the Baldwin and Schumann pianos.  His
real estate possessions consist of a 400-acres farm in Lac qui Parle county
and a farm in Red Lake county.

The parents of our subject were homesteaders and pioneer residents of Butler
county, Iowa, having located there in 1857.  The Clines are of Dutch
extraction and were among the earliest of that nationality to settle in the
American colonies, locating in New Jersey and New York at a very early date.
The family located in Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War.  The father
of our subject, Alexander Cline, was born in Northumberland county,
Pennsylvania, and died at Lawton, Oklahoma in 1905.  The mother of E. E.
Cline was Elizabeth (McCollum) Cline, who was a native of Pennsylvania and
who died in 1901.

The subject of this biography was married in Butler county, Iowa, February
19, 1883, to Florence Clapper, who was born in Wisconsin in February, 1865.
Mr. and Mrs. Cline have the following named six children: Maud Elizabeth
(Mrs. Frank Goodsell), of Yellow Medicine County; Mae (Mrs. William
Anderson), of Butler county, Iowa; Ruth, Lucile, Thelma and Gladys.  The
four last named reside at home.  The Clines are members of the Methodist
Church.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914