TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIO: KLINE, Robert (published 1887) 
***********************************************************************
OHGENWEB NOTICE:  All distribution rights to this electronic data are
reserved by the submitter.  Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted
material will require the permission of the copyright owner.  The submitter 
has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently 
for free access.
***********************************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Submitted by: MRS GINA M REASONER
Email: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com
Date: August 5, 1999
***********************************************************************


BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887

        ROBERT KLINE, farmer, resides on section 14, Root Township, where
he owns 120 acres of land. He was born February 20, 1836, in Tuscarawas
County, Ohio, and in the fall of 1838 was brought to this county by his
parents, who settled upon the farm now owned and occupied by himself. His
father resides with him. No improvements had been made upon the place. A
log cabin had been erected, in the usual primitive style, puncheon floors
and doors, clapboard roof, etc. In this cabin the father lived about two
years, when he built a hewed log house, which is still standing and is used
as a summer kitchen. The Piqua road and the Wayne trail were all the roads
in the neighborhood. Robert was only two and a half years old when brought
to this county, and here he has been reared to manhood, and here he was
married. His father, Jacob Kline, was born in Somerset County,
Pennsylvania, January 12, 1809, and when he was eleven years of age his
parents removed to Wayne Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he was
reared to manhood. In 1833 he went to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where
he married Barbara Robinson, who was born in that county in 1807. Mrs.
Kline died in Adams County, this State, June 30, 1873, and is buried in
Alpha cemetery. She was a noble Christian woman, and in her death the
community suffered a great loss. Her kind and affectionate disposition won
for her the love and esteem of all who were so fortunate as to make her
acquaintance. There were seven children in the father's family, five of
whom are living. Two daughters died in childhood. The father is living on
the old homestead. He says the first winter he came here he could not lose
sight of his cabin without getting lost. The second year he killed a good
many deer and wild game. The family were never without corn bread, but they
had no wheat bread until the second year, when he raised six acres of
wheat. The father entered 120 acres of land from the Government, but he had
only money enough to pay for eighty acres; Joseph Lewis, an old neighbor,
lent him money to pay for the additional forty. Although the Piqua Road was
the only road in the county at that time, it was so cut by ruts as to be
almost impassable. Mr. Kline, Sr., helped to cut most of the roads in the
vicinity. The family endured all the hardships and privations incident to
pioneer life, and have witnessed all the changes that have taken place in
this now prosperous country. The children were -Catherine, who died at an
early age; Robert, John, William, George, Jonas and Sarah, twins; Sarah
died when but a few weeks old. March 9, 1856, Robert was united in marriage
with Miss Eliza J. Mumma, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, October
4, 1835, and came to this county with her parents, John and Catherine
(Snyder) Mumma, after she reached maturity. Her father was born in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and died in Adams County in 1878, at the
age of sixty-eight years, eight months and nine days. He is buried in
Pleasant Valley cemetery. The mother still survives, at the age of
seventy-six years, and lives with her son, Solomon Mumma. Mr. and Mrs.
Kline have two children. The eldest died at a very early age. Sarah Ellen,
born June 10, 1859, is now the wife of Franklin Brokaw, and has one child
-Vesta Albert, born December 26, 1884. They are living with Mr. Kline. Mr.
Kline's grandfather, Jonas Kline, was born in Pennsylvania, and was nearly
one hundred years old at his death. He was a solider in the Revolutionary
war. His grandmother Kline weighed over 300 pounds, and died at the age of
one hundred years.




*************OH-FOOTSEPS Mailing List***************************