BIO: Edwin N. Kline, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 356-357.
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  Kline, Edwin N., was born on January 14, 1873, at Liverpool, Perry 
County, Pa. At the age of twelve he was thrown upon his own resources 
by the death of his mother. His conversion occurred when he was 
fourteen years of age, from which time he felt called to preach, the 
conviction never leaving during school and working years. During 
several years he worked on a farm, in the lumber regions, in a sawmill, 
and in a gristmill. His hunger for an education and desire to enter the 
ministry prompted him to enter Susquehanna University, at Selinsgrove, 
Pa., in 1893, where he remained four years, sustaining himself by 
selling Bibles. He then went to Dickinson College, where he studied two 
years. The Selinsgrove Quarterly Conference gave him local preacher's 
license on April 30, 1896. During his stay at Dickinson he did 
considerable supply work, carried on his school studies, and the local 
preacher's course of study at the same time. On the death of James 
Schofield in 1899 he was sent to Camptown Circuit, where he filled out 
the year and joined Conference in 1900.
  On March 8, 1896, he married Miss Carlotta Mae Grissinger, daughter 
of Professor C. D. Grissinger. 
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1900, South Danby; 1901-02, 
Litchfield; 1903, Ash Street, Scranton.