BIO: Samuel C. 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.

  SAMUEL C. LINE, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born in Dickinson 
Township, this county, October 2, 1840.  His great-grandfather, George 
Line, a native of Switzerland, came to this county from Lancaster 
County, Penn., in 1778, and purchased 540 acres of land from Gen. John 
Armstrong, and resided here until his death.  His sons and daughters 
were:  William, David, Abraham, John, Mrs. Elizabeth McFeely, Mrs. 
Sarah Houk and Mrs. Susanna Smith.  William, a soldier in the 
Revolutionary war, married a Miss. Bear, and they ended their lives in 
Dickinson Township, this county; their children were:  George, Nancy 
Musselman, Catherine Eby, Mary Spangler, Emanuel, Sally Tritt, Rachel 
Snyder, Susanna Myers, David, Rebecca Givler, and Lydia Myers.  David 
was born 

463  DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

August 30, 1792; he married Miss Sarah Myers, and they located on the 
family homestead, where they erected the present commodious mansion, 
and reared a family of eight children:  Mrs. Mary Ann Greason 
(deceased), Dr. William Line, George, Mrs. Matilda Huston (deceased), 
David, Mrs. Sarah Jane Huston, Frances R. (deceased), and Samuel C.  
The subject of this sketch, after attending the district school, 
completed his education at Burns Academy, Good Hope, this county.  He 
married, February 23, 1871, Miss Emma Myers, who was born in Carlisle, 
Penn., while her father, John Myers, was holding the office of sheriff 
of this county.  John Myers came from Lancaster County, Penn., to 
Dickinson Township, this county, with his parents, when he was four 
years of age; married Miss Elizabeth Fishburn, and to them were born 
thirteen children, eleven of whom grew to maturity, Emma (wife of our 
subject) being the youngest.  Mr. Myers located, with his family, in 
McCutchenville, Wyandot County, Ohio, in 1845; there purchased the 
hotel-stand, and remained during the remainder of his life; many of his 
descendants now reside in that locality.  Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Line 
are now residing on the mansion farm, which has been in the possession 
of the family for four generations.  He has here a fine place of 140 
acres of fertile and well improved land.  He is a life-long Republican 
in politics.  His wife is a member of the First Presbyterian Church at 
Carlisle.