BIO:  EDGAR L. KLINEDINST, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 576-577
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    EDGAR L. KLINEDINST, one of the honorable and highly esteemed citizens of
  Mechanicsburg, Pa., and one of the leading magistrates, was born Dec. 29,
  1855, in this city, son of William and Harriet (Weibley) Klinedinst.

    The Klinedinst family is of German origin and one of the oldest settled
  families of York county, while the Weibley family is one of the old ones of
  Cumberland county. Our subject's great-grandfather, Jacob Weibley, was an
  early settler at Carlisle Springs, and in 1820 was proprietor of that justly
  celebrated health resort.

    William Klinedinst was born in 1819, in the city of York, Pa., and died at
  Mechanicsburg, in 1901, after living a long and useful life. By trade he was
  a machinist and a skilled workman. He was married, in 1848, to Harriet
  Weibley, born at Carlisle, in 1825, who still resides in Mechanicsburg,
  daughter of John and granddaughter of Jacob Weibley. After their marriage
  they settled about 1850, in Me-

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  chanicsburg. They had these children: Charles W., who died and left one son,
  Joseph; John, deceased, who left four children, Bertha, Romaine, Weibley and
  Howard; David, of Mechanicsburg, who married Ida Mohler, daughter of David
  Mohler, and has one son, Rex; Edgar L.; and Mary, who died in childhood.

    Edgar L. Klinedinst was born and reared in Mechanicsburg, and attended the
  public schools and academy there. Later he attended school for two years in
  Harrisburg, and then entered the State book bindery where he learned the
  business during a four years' apprenticeship. Upon his return to
  Mechanicsburg he went into the grocery business with his brother David, and
  continued for the succeeding twenty years. In 1893 he was elected justice of
  the peace on the Republican ticket, and was re-appointed by Govs. Hastings
  and Stone. He is well equipped legally for this position, and has made a
  reputation for incorruptible integrity which reaches all over Cumberland
  county. He takes an active interest in politics, and zealously supports the
  Republican party.