Biographical Sketch of J. W. Kline - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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J. W. Kline, a merchant at Rochester, Andrew County, MO., was born in
Madison County, IL., on June 28, 1860.  He is the son of Godlove and
Nancy (Byerly) Kline.  The father was born in Baltimore, MD., November
12, 1824, and is the son of Gottlieb Kline, a native of Wurtemburg,
Germany, who was born in 1792.  He was an early emigrant to America,
and settled in Baltimore, where he engaged in the cooper's trade.
Godlove was a farmer by occupation, and removed from Maryland to 
Vinton County, OH., in 1830, but in 1857 removed to Madison County, IL.
and later, in 1879, to Andrew County, MO.  He now resides in Rochester,
Andrew County.  The mother was born in Ohio, on February 20, 1827, of
German descent.  She has five sons and six daughters, and twenty-five
grandchildren.  Our subject was reared on a farm, and received a
common-school education in Madison County, IL.  He learned the
carpenter's trade, and his first pursuit in his own interest was
carpentering.  In October, 1882, he began business at Rochester with
a very limited capital, but by energy and frugality he has been 
successful in establishing a lucrative trade, and winning a good 
reputation as a business man.  He carries an average stock of $3,500,
and does an annual business of $9,000.  At the age of twenty-six years
he was elected justice for his township, which position he now fills.
He is an ardent Republican, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  On January 20, 1886, he wedded Dora E. Snowden, daughter of
Judge Jonathan Snowden, of Andrew County, and one daughter, Bessie
Mabel, born November 27, 1886, is the result of their union.