BIO: George 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 LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

582  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  GEORGE LINE, farmer, P. O. Greason, was born July 6, 1826, in 
Dickinson Township, this county, son of David Line and grandson of 
William and great-grandson of George Line, which William Line served as 
a minute man in the Revolutionary war.  He was in the service at the 
time of the Trenton and Princeton battles, and to his lot it fell to 
take some of the Hessian prisoners as laborers on the farm.  His sword 
is still held as a relic of the family.  William Line married Maria 
Bear, and their children were Emanuel, George, David, Mrs. Mary 
Spangler, Mrs. Catherine Eby, Mrs. Nancy Musselman, Mrs. Sarah Tritt, 
Mrs. Susan Myers, Mrs. Rebecca Givler, Mrs. Lydia Myers and Mrs. Rachel 
Snyder.  David, son of William Line, married Miss Sarah Myers, who bore 
him the following children:  John (deceased), Dr. William Line (of 
Nebraska City, Neb.), George, David, Samuel C., Mrs. Mary A. Greason 
(deceased), Mrs. Matilda Huston, Mrs. Sarah Jane Huston and Frances 
(deceased).  David Line died January 31, 1864; his widow followed him 
June 1, 1882, aged eighty-one years.  George, the son of David and 
Sarah (Myers) Line, married, November, 1851, Mrs. Isabella W., daughter 
of Jonathan and Amy (Spear) Huston, the former of whom, a native of 
this county, was a son of John and Margaret (Huston) Huston; the 
latter, a native of Maine, came here with her mother and step-father, 
Mr. Wheeler, who went the next year to Morgan County, Ohio.  After 
living in South Middleton Township, this county, until 1872, Mr. and 
Mrs. George Line settled permanently in West Pennsborough Township, 
this county, where they now reside and have a fine farm of 136 acres, 
besides 100 acres in South Middleton Township, which 100 acres is a 
part of the tract purchased from Gen. Jon Armstrong in 1778.  Their 
living children are Arthur Wing and Dionysius Page; four died of 
diphtheria within two weeks, in October 1862.  Mr. Line has lived a 
long and useful life in this county; is a Republican in politics with 
strong temperance principles; is an upright, useful citizen.