BIO: Harrison KLINE, Centre County, Pennsylvania

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including the 
Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing Biographical 
Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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HARRISON KLINE, the efficient and popular treasurer of Centre county, is a 
native of Snyder County, Penn., born May 12, 1841, a son of George and Elizabeth 
(Fetterolf) Kline, who brought their family to Centre county in 1851, locating 
first in Penn's Valley, and are still honored residents of College Township, 
where the father engaged in agricultural pursuits. Both are of German lineage, 
and are prominent and highly respected people. The mother is a daughter of 
Andrew Fetterolf of Snyder County, a blacksmith by trade, also owning and 
operating a farm.
  Ten children were born to the parents of our subject, of whom one son and one 
daughter died in infancy. The others are as follows: Harrison is the subject of 
this sketch; Robert, a minister of the Episcopal Church, now located in 
Allentown, Lehigh Co., Penn., married Anna Erdman and has four children; 
Margaret is the wife of William Ishler, ex-sheriff of Centre county, by whom she 
had nine children, three of whom are yet living, and they now reside in 
Bellefonte; John, an attorney of that city, married Kate Olwine, whose father 
was a prominent farmer of Centre County, and they have two children; William 
married Adaline Myer, of Boalsburg, Centre County, died in 1890, leaving a wife 
and four children, and was buried in Shiloh cemetery; Sarah is the wife of 
Harvey Meese, a carpenter of Benner township, Centre County, and they had ten 
children; Wesley, a practicing physician of Centre county, married a Miss Boal, 
of Centre Hall, and died several years ago, and Alice lives with her parents in 
College Township. 
  The boyhood and youth of our subject were passed upon the home farm, where he 
assisted his father in the labors of the fields, attending at the same time the 
public schools of the neighborhood, where he acquired a good practical education 
which would fit him for the responsible duties of life. As his vocation he chose 
agriculture, and has become one of the most prosperous, energetic and 
progressive farmers of Spring Township. On November 12, 1863, he was married to 
Miss Annetta Gentzel, who died in 1869, leaving four children, namely: 
Elizabeth, wife of Elmer Showers, an engineer living in Buffalo, N. Y.; D. M., a 
farmer of Spring Township, Centre County, who married Alka Keller, and has one 
child; Henry, a miner, having charge of the men at Washau Banks, in Spring 
Township, who mar-

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ried Bertha Miller, and has three children, and Robert, a resident of 
Bellefonte, who married Margaret Swartz, and has one child. Mr. Kline was again 
married April 7, 1872, this time to Miss Sarah Gephart, of Zion, and to them 
were born two children: Anna C., at home with her parents, and Orian, who is 
attending school in Bellefonte.
  In politics Mr. Kline is a steadfast adherent of the principles formulated by 
the Republican party, and on November 3, 1896, he was elected (on that ticket) 
treasurer of Centre County by the handsome majority of 326 votes. Methodical and 
systematic in business, he will undoubtedly prove a most capable official, and 
serve with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. He has 
been very successful in his life work, and being endowed with many virtues and a 
genial, hospitable manner, he receives the respect and confidence of the entire 
community. He is a worthy member of the Evangelical Church, and is an active and 
prominent member of the Grange, at present serving as steward of that 
organization, also of the Royal Arcanum at Bellefonte, being one of the charter 
members of the lodge there.