Biographical Sketch of Joseph LINE, Union Co., New Jersey

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Joseph Line Biography

Joseph Line was born March 4th, 1804, near Plain­field, New Jersey, where his 
father, Amos Line, lived until Joseph was five years of age, and then removed to 
Plainfield, living there eight years. The fami­ly came to Chester county, 
Pennsylvania and remained one year in the fall of 1818, with a yoke of oxen and 
a span of horses, they started across the country to Crawford county. After a 
month’s jour­ney they landed where Linesville now stands, then a wilderness. 
Taking 400 acres, on which was an old mill built by a land agent named Colt, 
they began to clear away the forest; the mill was rebuilt and it gradually 
became the center of all that section of country, so that, in 1830, a town was 
laid out and given the name of Linesville. Here Amos Line lived to see a 
flourishing village grow. He died August 20th, 1853. Joseph lived with his 
father until 1837, when, August 16th, he married Mary Van Winkle, daughter of 
Thomas Van Winkle, of Old Conneaut now Union township. After marriage he took 
one hundred acres of the original farm and worked at farming, clearing and 
tending the grist mill, and afterward teaching. In all he has taught twenty-four 
terms. Though now quite too old for active life, he has been always promi­nent 
in the affairs of his town, having fulfilled at various times the duties of 
Auditor, School Director, Town Clerk and other offices of importance and trust

 

Directory of Crawford County, PA, 1879-1880, page 303

 

Submitted by Teri Brown