BIO: Jacob Zitzer 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.

462  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  JACOB ZITZER LINE, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born in Dickinson 
Township, this county, September 22, 1854.  His father, George Line, a 
son of Abraham and grandson of George, was born March 5, 1801, and 
married Miss Rebecca Myers, daughter of Jacob and Susan Myers, and to 
them were born, Abram (deceased), George (deceased), Mrs. Rebecca Long 
(Rebecca's twin sister died in infancy), Jacob Zitzer, Mrs. Anne 
Lindsey, William, Mrs. Agnes Allen, and Mollie (deceased).  The father 
of these children died September 9, 1877, and the mother now resides in 
Carlisle, Penn.  Jacob Zitzer Line married, December 28, 1876, Jane 
Margaret Lindsey, a native of West Pennsborough Township, this county, 
and a daughter of John F. and Rachel (Woodburn) Lindsey, and after 
their marriage they settled on their present farm, where they have 108 
acres of fertile and well improved land.  To them have been born the 
following children:  Mervin Lindsey, George Valentine and Leroy Zitzer.  
Mr. Line is a member of the Evangelical Association, his wife being a 
member of the First Presbyterian Church at Carlisle.  He is earnestly 
devoted to the cause of literature and education, and is a member of 
the "Pansy" class of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.  In 
politics he is a Republican, with strong temperance principles.