BIO:  Lewis Cline, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Fairview Township, Pg 97

LEWIS CLINE was born in Newberry Township, York Co., Penn., March 10, 1836, and 
is the fourth of ten children born to Andrew and Margaret (Foster) Cline, natives 
of York County, Penn., and of German and Irish descent, respectively.  Andrew 
Cline was a hatter by trade, but gave that up and began farming, which he 
followed until his death.  Lewis was reared a farmer, and at the age of twenty-
one began teaching school, which he followed for two terms.  He continued farming 
until he was thirty-one years old, when he took charge of his father’s mill, on 
shares, and since his father’s death has operated the mill in his own name.  He 
enlisted August 4, 1862, in Company K, One Hundred and Thirtieth Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Infantry, and took part in the battle of Antietam, where he was wounded 
in the left arm.  He was with his regiment at Chancellorsville where he took no 
part in the battle, but carried water to the wounded.  He was discharged May 21, 
1863, on the expiration of his term of enlistment.  He is now a pensioner and 
receives $64 yearly.  In 1871 he married Elmira Mordorf, and they have three 
children:  Clara, Rosaline and Edith.  Mrs. Cline is a daughter of Levi and 
Susanna (Leiby) Mordorf, natives of Cumberland County, Penn.  Mr. Cline is doing 
a good business in his mills, which have three runoff buhrs, one on wheat and two 
on feed.  On the date stone of these the Lewisberry mills is carved in antique 
letters the following:  “Samuel Kniselley, Mason Iohn Harmn & Eliz his Wife, 
October ye 11, and 1785, in the 10th year of Amrn. Independcy.”   Mr. Cline is a 
Republican.