BIO: JAMES KLINE, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 506-507
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    JAMES KLINE is a highly respected representative of good English and Welsh
  stock.
    
    Jacob Kline, his paternal grandfather, was born in England, and upon his
  arrival in this country settled below Lisburn Forge, on the York county side,
  where he followed the occupation of shoemaking. All shoes at that time were
  hand made, and the old lap stone used by Jacob Kline is in the possession of
  his grandson at the present time, and it is regarded as one of the most
  valuable of the many relics in the family homestead. Edward Jones,
  grandfather of James Kline on the maternal side, was a veteran of the war of
  1812. He was a farmer, and lived at the foot of Round Top, York county, and
  there he died at a ripe old age.
    
    Jacob R. Kline, father of James, was born near Lisburn Forge, in York
  county, Dec. 23, 1799. Upon reaching manhood, he, for twenty-three years,
  taught school in that vicinity. In politics he was noted for being a strong
  Whig, and he was ready at all times to champion the principles of the Whig
  party. He died in 1841. His wife, Nancy Jones, was born in 1799, and died in
  1854.
    
    James Kline was born in Andersontown, York county. After a few years
  schooling, at an early age he started to work for Robert Bryson, making
  bricks and digging wells, at which he continued for three years, when he went
  to farming. For a period of about sixteen years he worked on various farms,
    
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  and then bought a farm of to acres near Siddonsburg, York county, which he
  cultivated for three years, and then sold it to John E. Kraybill. After the
  sale of his farm he moved to Lisburn, and engaged in the general merchandise
  business. At the end of one year he sold out, and moved to Bowmansdale, and
  engaged in the same business. In 1880 he bought a fine farm of 108 acres, a
  short distance from Bowmansdale, and in 1883 he moved from Bowmansdale, and
  located on his farm on which he still resides.
    
    In politics Mr. Kline is a strong Republican. He has been at various times
  a supervisor of the township in which he resides, but as a rule has steadily
  refused to accept any other offices. Although his maternal ancestors were
  Quakers, he did not follow in their footsteps, but is an earnest consistent
  Christian, and a member of the denomination known as the Church of God.
    
    In 1858 Mr. Kline was married to Mary Traver, who died in 1878. In 1882 he
  mar[ried] Sadie Fritz and she died in 1892. On August 19, 1903, he married
  Laura Shettel. He has five sons: John G., buyer and manager for Gabel & Co.,
  Altoona, Pa.; James A., head of the firm of Kline, Sickle & Co., Harrisburg;
  Herman E., engaged in farming; Jacob R., engaged in the stock yards in
  Mechanicsburg; and Andrew J., buyer for Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, of
  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.