BIO: Abram L. Line, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XLIV.

                           DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

461  DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

  ABRAM L. LINE, farmer, P. O. Mooredale, was born in Dickinson 
Township, this county, March 2, 1841.  George Line, great-grandfather 
of our subject, emigrated from Switzerland to America with his parents, 
about 1710, when a young boy; they settled in Pennsylvania, where he 
grew to manhood, and married, in Lancaster County, Salome Zimmerman; 
and in 1778 they came to Dickinson Township, this county, and purchased 
land.  Of their children, David remained in Lancaster County; John, 
William, Abraham, Elizabeth, Susanna and Salome settled in this county.  
John married Anna B. Le Fevre, and they remained on the family 
homestead until their death; their children were John, George L., Mrs. 
Catherine Tritt, Mrs. Mary Coulter and Salome.  George L. married Maria 
Line, and succeeded his parents on the family homestead, and to him and 
his wife were born four children:  Mrs. Elizabeth Hemminger, John A., 
Emanuel C., and Abram L.  George L. Line was a very prominent man in 
public affairs, and was colonel of a regiment in the old State militia; 
he died in 1885; his wife departed this life in 1869.  Their son Abram 
L. Line, the subject of this sketch, married, October 21, 1863, Sarah 
H. McMath, a native of Carlisle, and daughter of the well-known 
merchant, James McMath, of Scotch-Irish descent.  Since their marriage, 
Mr. and Mrs. Line have resided on their present farm, which descended 
to him from his mother's branch of the Line family, and has been in the 
possession of the family for the last fifty years; it is a fine 
property of 120 acres of fertile and well improved land, and includes 
one of the finest picnic grounds in the county.  To our subject and 
wife have been born two children:  George L. and Laura Augusta.  Mr. 
Line enlisted, in July, 1862, in Company A, One Hundred and Thirtieth 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  He was assigned to the Army 
of the Potomac, and served in the historic campaigns in Virginia and 
Maryland; he took part in the hard-fought battles of South Mountain, 
Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; he received a slight 
wound at Antietam, and was honorably discharged in May, 1863, after 
having risen, by promotion, to the rank of fourth sergeant.  Mr. Line 
was for many years a Republican in politics, but is now an earnest 
Nationalist.  He takes great interest in public affairs, especially in 
the cause of education, and has been called upon to serve his township 
as school director.  He is a man of genial, social disposition, an 
upright and worthy citizen, highly respected by the community in which 
he lives.