BIO: Albert Allan 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 XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

383  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  ALBERT ALLAN LINE, residence Carlisle, was born in Dickinson 
Township, this county, about five miles west of Carlisle, January 20, 
1850, a son of Emanuel and Catherine (Myers) Line, the former born in 
Dickinson Township, this county, and the latter at Rossville, York 
County, Penn.  Emanuel Line was a son of Emanuel, Sr., and Elizabeth 
(Myers) Line, both natives of Cumberland County. Our subject is the 
youngest of three children, and the only surviving one.  He married 
October 12, 1876, Miss Mary L. Johnson, a daughter of Samuel A. Johnson 
of Philadelphia, Penn.  Mrs. Line died December 25, 1877.  Mr. Line's 
family is of Swiss origin, having immigrated to America and settled in 
Lancaster County, Penn., at a very early date.  He is superintendent of 
the First Lutheran Church Sunday-school at Carlisle, secretary of the 
Cumberland County Sunday-school Association, secretary of the 
Cumberland County Temperance Alliance, director of the Farmers' Bank, 
Carlisle and a member of the directors of the Carlisle School Board, 
instructor at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland Summer School Amateur 
Photography.  He is also a member of the board of managers for the 
Y.M.C.A., Carlisle, and chairman of committee on boys' work, Y.M.C.A.